Oldest item in you larder

Whole nutmegs which I picked up from the ground in Grenada about thirty years ago. I still use it and it tastes just fine.

Bottle of sloe gin made in 1977.
Tastes Delicious
Definitely well aged !!!

I did have a very very old tin of Golden Syrup once that could have belonged to Scott of the Antarctic!! But I did bin that mainly because it was solid and the lid was rusty.
Often when I find something old I distinctly remember buying it. Time flies.
I must have another sort soon. I think I bought lots of cans of tomatoes in Lockdown mainly as I had deliveries each week and had to push the price up to 40.00 I think so they were a useful extra.

Glad to know that I am not the only one with out of date things in my cupboards!
Having said that, it can't be 12 months yet since I went through them and got rid of a shameful number of out of date jars, bottles and tins.
However, I recently decided to repeat the exercise, expecting to get rid of almost empty items and was shocked to discover a dozen or so items years out of date. My grandson remembers helping me with the task last year so we have concluded that maybe the stock rotation at certain stores is not being done very efficiently. Coul it be that?
Well I have decided to make sure I take my specs shopping with me, so that I can check everything for dates from now on.

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A whole nutmeg inherited from my mum who’s been gone nearly 20 years.

I have tins of food so old that they pre-date use-by dates. And a cupboard chock-full of bottles of alcohol, some of which must date back at least 40 years. Groan.

Have a Christmas pudding from 2022. Well wrapped and sealed. Lots of brandy in it from what I recall so could be ok. Will find out one day 😂

Nothing past its sellby date. I'm paranoid about eating something bad.

I still have tub of double cream unopened with 26th December use by date. Shall I put it up for auction to see who'll do the smell test?

We moved house in September 2024 so got rid of old stuff. However, my Dad died in January 2000. He’d moved into his flat in 1993. When I was sorting out his kitchen I found a jar (I think it was something like baking powder) with a use by date of 1972!! So he brought a 20 year old jar with him when he moved.

I keep most of my herbs and spices in one of the drawers of my freezer as I was fed up with buying things that I only needed once in a while, and then having it go stale. I've not found the need to throw anything out since then.

I have a bottle of Calvados given to me by my friend Marie-Therese and made by her father in 1948. I used some of it in the Christmas pudding!
Do I win?

I found some Garam Masala dated 2015! Some spices get forgotten about!

Bazza

Whole nutmegs which I picked up from the ground in Grenada about thirty years ago. I still use it and it tastes just fine.

Ah, I have a whole nutmeg and miniature grater that my ex-husband brought back from a “work” trip to the Dominican Republic in 1998 (with a certain female colleague…)!

Mamie

I have a bottle of Calvados given to me by my friend Marie-Therese and made by her father in 1948. I used some of it in the Christmas pudding!
Do I win?

That’s incredible!