The Poultry Keeper

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1208 Location: Midlands

Came home the other night and son had cooked himself a curry, well that's what it smelt like. . . . he came down from his room and said "I made a curry. . . . it wasn't very good" then he got a tub of Swartz Tikka Masala Marinading spices out of the cupboard and said "I used this, I think it wasn't very good because it's for marinading" We had a discussion on what I use for a curry and he went back to his room. I looked at the tub, the use by date was June 1996 Shocked

I called him back down having remembered the one and only time I used it (when fresh) I didn't think it was very good then either, we had a good laugh about it and I put the tub in the bin.

Itsybitsy

NannyP · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject:

Sounds like he survived then Wink

Czech_chick · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 9 Location: wiltshire

i have an embarrassing story! Having a large family,I often make soups and stews in the winter months and I often make dumplings to go with them, and buy suet and veg suet very often. Anyway, the last stew I made, had dumplings and I thought they smelt "different" but not really unpleasant... anyway to cut a long story short, every one ate them but complained that they weren't up to my usual standard. Anyway I checked the sell-by date and it was dec 2002!!! Well, no one was rushed to hospital but they havent stopped talking about how i tried to poison them since January! I just dont understand how it had been in my larder since 2002 as I Buy it so frequently! Embarassed

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 1972 Location: South Cumbria

I try to check my cupboards regularly but not thought about spices and herbs and they should be changed every few months Sad

CP · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:34 am Post subject:

I've brought items out of cupboards well past their sell by dates! Embarassed

EGirl · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 468 Location: Dublin, Ireland

I would have thought dried stuff would be ok! I love indian cooking and if I had to replace everything every couple of months it would cost me a fortune. Not to mention the stuff I get abroad! Will have to have a look though!

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1208 Location: Midlands

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 1972 Location: South Cumbria

I have googled and whole spices are ok it is just the ground stuff that loses flavour and colour a lot of mine are whole so not as expensive as I thought Very Happy

stephen · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 10:38 am Post subject:

I must confess that whole spices are things I shop for when in the middle east. On my last trip we saved a fortune on our most commonly used spices, and we regularly save a bomb on saffron by buying the good Iranian stuff in the middle east, rather than the Spanish in Europe.

bronskibeat · Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 1115 Location: Clawddnewydd

That sounds like my mum, we moved and brought the contents of the pantry with us, I'm still finding stuff that we had at the old place................... we moved 13 years ago Rolling Eyes

I'm still here so it hasnt done me any harm Laughing

On the flip side, mum went away and left dad and I to fend for ourselves. dad went through the freezer and was chucking loads of stuff out as it had passed its sell by date........... thats what freezers are for I said........... Rolling Eyes

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EGirl · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 468 Location: Dublin, Ireland

I love to shop for spices, Stephen. On our holiday in Morocco I got lots of stuff. We now have asian supermarkets dotted about which sell stuff for a fraction of the supermarket price, though in massive quantities! I bought a sack (not a bag, a SACK!) of star anise recently for €8, I'll be using it to decorate the house at Christmas at this rate. Laughing