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What food item won't get eaten (light pls)

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Polkadotpjs · 18/03/2020 17:46

I’ve just been going through my cupboards and found this beauty - cannot see anyone eating it and nobody knows its origins??!
Where did it come from? Who bought it? Sounds vile

What food item won't get eaten (light pls)
What food item won't get eaten (light pls)
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PenguinsOnParade · 18/03/2020 20:39

Extra protein for you in any beasties you eat. Grin

Bessiebigpants · 18/03/2020 20:42

These bad boys

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mrsBtheparker · 18/03/2020 20:43

We have a large number of jars of capers

What is it with jars of capers? I found four opened jars in varying stages of rusty tops, OH gets fads, buys stuff, never uses it and it gets shoved to the back of the cupboard.
Why are we all clearing cupboards now there are shortages and we're hoarding. or being a prepper, depending on the colour of your hat?
Stop mentioning chick peas please, they take me back to Gib and it's truly awful calentita, think wall-paper paste baked into an inch thick omlette. Wretching as I write.

Lucked · 18/03/2020 20:45

Poached pars in amaretto sound like the food of the Gods.

DH has informed me he thinks there is an old sachet of breast milk lurking in the back of the freezer -DD is 6!

We have an out of date Christmas pudding which probably has a weeks worth of calories in it, I was eyeing it today wondering if it will come to that. It’s not that we don’t like it but we were dieting and then it was past best (although we didn’t bin it)

We also have old lasagne sheets somewhere but they may become a necessity unless Tesco get some pasta in soon.

motherheroic · 18/03/2020 20:48

Crunchy peanut butter. It tears up my bread when I try to use it but I won't throw it away.

RickOShay · 18/03/2020 20:50

Duck confit in a tin offloaded from Mil.
I’m not even sure what it is Grin

isthistoonosy · 18/03/2020 20:53

Liver - went through the freezers today and we have around 5kgs - I eat it on occasion but not that blinking much, and I've no onions anyway.

Blingismything · 18/03/2020 20:55

A Commerative tin of 'Royal Wedding' teabags from William and Catherine's wedding. So only a few years old. Some space ice cream.

pastaparadise · 18/03/2020 20:57

Most out of date thing found so far is some dried black eyed beans, best before 2008. Have moved house twice after that date! But best before isnt use by, so if needs must...

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WitchQueenofDarkness · 18/03/2020 20:59

@pastaparadise They'll be fine. You may need to soak and cook them for a bit longer than usual that's all.

Eckhart · 18/03/2020 21:00

@motherheroic It's nice in porridge.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 18/03/2020 21:01

I'll take the chickpeas you can have my tinned tomatoes. Fucking hate tinned tomatoes, I swear they are sitting in my cupboard since the Millennium bug.

glueandstick · 18/03/2020 21:01

My mother has a jar of homemade jam from 1991.

I had to remind her that it was 2020 now.

Polkadotpjs · 18/03/2020 21:05

Porridge with that marmalade might work?!

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ChardonnaysPetDragon · 18/03/2020 21:06

Duck confit in a tin offloaded from Mil.

Horrid stuff, trust me, you don't want it. Just send it over, I'll dispose of it for you, so you don't have to worry about it.

Mumdiva99 · 18/03/2020 21:07

@ScrimpshawTheSecond I thought spam was the devil's food after an incident of choosing spam fritter once at school dinner - back in the days when you had to eat the food on your plate. (With tinned tomatoes and pink blamange.) That was the hardest meal I have ever eaten. I was scarred for 38 years. Until my husband told me in Hong Kong it's a staple in egg fried rice. I've now learnt to love it.

I have half a 10 year old jar of tahini I will donate to the hoummus making people.

I have a chicken curry soup that no one ever wants to eat .....

Mumdiva99 · 18/03/2020 21:08

@Lucked lol at the breast milk!! The Xmas pudding is good for a few years past the date anyway.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 18/03/2020 21:10

You can make shortbread with tahini instead of butter.

Brunelofbrio · 18/03/2020 21:14

A packet of dehydrated vests curry. It used to come on holiday with us in the 80’s and as far as I know it still lurks at the back of my parents cupboard.

longtompot · 18/03/2020 21:15

@Katinski you can make Bigos (Polish hunter stew) with the sauerkraut. I make it for our annual Easter breakfast and it's scrummy! Well, I think it is but might be due to being brought up on it Grin

I think the only thing we have that won't be touched is jars of horrible coffee bought when feeling too poor to buy our usual.

Oh, and a few frozen pheasant breasts.

AintNobodyHereButUsKittens · 18/03/2020 21:17

Pickled walnuts are rather nice in beef stew.
Marmalade is also delicious in porridge or can be made into Nigellas Chocolate Orange Store Cupboard Cake which is very easy and comforting in times of trouble and doesn’t taste of marmalade, just oranges.

We also have a comedy packet of Cock Soup, and a random jar of marshmallow fluff.

AintNobodyHereButUsKittens · 18/03/2020 21:19

Am not Polish but can vouch for the tastiness of Bigos as a way of using up sauerkraut and any random smoked sausages that the local polish deli might have in stock.

Mumdiva99 · 18/03/2020 21:25

@SanFrancisco49er what do you want for the wasabi peas? We love them. I've probably got some interesting Schwartz stew mix I bought once on a 3 for 2....

EggysMom · 18/03/2020 21:29

I'm surprised nobody has suggested that you can use the lasagne sheets to roll your own cannelloni (if you are looking for an alternative). Does anybody eat cannelloni any more? I never see it mentioned.

I'll take the sliced mushrooms (used in casserole) and any tinned marrowfat peas people can get (only veg DH will eat). But I don't know if I've got anything to offer in return, we tend to eat all we have. There might be some old chicken drumsticks in the bottom of the freezer ...

RideaCockHorseOfCourse · 18/03/2020 21:36

Dh was 'gifted' this on a business trip to S.Korea!Confused Don't know what to do with it except stash it in the back of the cupboard! Think it's ginseng. Bessiebigpants Dh has fond memories of compo rations and says yes, they are just that - bad! - says the marge tasted vile!!!! And is sure it will taste even viler now!!!

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