Food Rotation

This is not our food storage, nor our most recent charitable donation to the local food bank.

It is the food in our pantry that is WAY expired. We didn't consider 2007 dates as actually expired. Some of these obviously were purchased while we still lived in MINNESOTA!!!

Here are some highlights:

• -Packaged taco shells expired in 2005 (those are usually stale right off the shelf)
• -Supper Bake expired in 2006
• -frosting expired in 2007 (tasted like plastic and sunken to 1/2 the container)
• -solidified garlic salt (no need for expiration date there)
• -boxes of beef broth expired in 2006
• -thanksgiving cranberry cylinder with no date
• -El Pato hot sauce expired in 2004
  

This is a can of Cream of Chicken Soup, Finast brand. I'm not sure if these have long shelf lives. In order for it to expire August 2003, it would probably had been purchased before we moved to Pennsylvania in 2001.
This is from a can of evaporated milk, Finast brand. This was a brand that we bought at Cub Foods in Minnesota. This one expired 09 Dec 02!!! Can you say SIX years past expiration?!?

That can't be good.

We had obviously discovered that the boxed brownie mixes were easier, cheaper and tastier around that time.
This one didn't have a date, but it was a can of Libby's Corn and was dented.
Now this one didn't have a date either, but judging by the condition of the can, it must have been past its prime. And it is a can of sliced new potatoes, which are interesting even before it they are past due.

We didn't judge the macaroni and cheese that expired this February or the cream soups that were good into 2007. We even used two of them for dinner last night. Mmmm chicken and rice using dry cream of spinach soup mix since we didn't have any onion. Much better because no one complained about the onion pieces that never really stop being crisp.

Sorry, I got side tracked.

I felt really bad about having all this expired food (that we don't dare give away) in our pantry when there are so many people starving. I decided to let everyone (or at least the four people who read my blog, you know who you are) know how sorry I am so you can help me remember that if I hoard food instead of using it, it will not do anyone any good.

We will not be in this kind trouble for a while, though, since we will not be moving random pantry food with us again.

Unless it is an unopened bag of Krusteaz pancake mix or #10 can of potato pearls.