Tinfoil Chef

I was looking for something in the kitchen cabinet and ran across a jar of dijon style mustard that had gotten buried under and behind several other things. Looking at the expiration date was something of a shock….. it was some time in 2005.

Of course I wasted no time in getting rid of that sucker. It’s actually pretty rare to find something THAT far past it’s use by date but it happens to everyone. You get something with the intent of using it and it gets put away and forgotten about. Then over time as other things in the same area are used, replaced, moved around and searched through. After enough of this something will end up in a place that nobody ever looks and then a year or two later it shows up looking like a can of fresh mesothelioma…. guaranteed to inspire whoever finds it to set new records in getting rid of it. Especially if they’re unfortunate enough to open it first. … (That’s never a good idea with really old stuff like that.)

The moral of the story is that it’s a good idea to take one day every month or two and go through cupboards, refrigerators, cabinets, etc and see what’s in there that might have been forgotten about. Who knows, even if you’re blessed and don’t find any ugly surprises, what you do find could inspire a meal idea that you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.