Whats the last thing in your food stash you will eat ?

We just ate some canned beef & shredded cheese that expired in January...hopefully whatever it is will be fresher than that.

Some of SWMBO's soup that she cooks outside and stares back at you when you look at it. Fish head stew. SWMBO is Korean. There's a lot of her seafood that our deal is she cooks it when I'm not home. She's set up a cooking place on the back deck she uses for cooking that stew.

The dog food. I get that far she is going to have to fend for herself. 

Why is the local alley cat looking at me funny now and keeping a distance ?

Did it read this thread ?

Or  #tastesjustlikechicken

I have a large tin of sardines in hot sauce.  I have no clue where it came from, or how old they are.  If it comes to having to open that tin, I will know the end is here.

Datsun310Guy said:

Coconut flakes (for baking)

I made some great coconut shrimp the other night

Found a turkey in the bottom of the deep freeze from 2011.

SaltyDog said:

Found a turkey in the bottom of the deep freeze from 2011.

 

Was/is it still good?  I have one from about a year ago and was wondering if mine was still edible.  I suspect it is, but that is about the longest I have had something in the deep freeze before eating it

Duke said:

Mr_Asa said:

Cousin died two or three years before we started to clear out the house.  No clue how long he had the sardines before he died.  No clue why we haven't thrown them out 

When my great aunt died in 1983 she had canned water chestnuts in her pantry from 1954. 
 

Those technically qualify as "Historic".

I don't know about food, but I have a bottle of absinthe Mrs VCH got me as a gift once. It's missing exactly one sip.  Once I start drinking -that-,  you know E36 M3'll've gotten real.

einy said:

SaltyDog said:

Found a turkey in the bottom of the deep freeze from 2011.

 

Was/is it still good?  I have one from about a year ago and was wondering if mine was still edible.  I suspect it is, but that is about the longest I have had something in the deep freeze before eating it

It's currently thawing in the garbage can.

I also found some corn from 2015 that actually tasted as fresh as could be.

I have a duck that's been frozen for at least a year on the Weber right now. It smelled as fresh as could be. 

I wouldn't worry about a year old turkey, it should be fine.

MREs.  I bought 5 cases a coupke years ago for natural disasters as i have both my parents and in laws close by as well as the 3 of us here

Spam, i buy a can of that and Vienna sausage 8 packs every now and then as emergency supplies 

dropstep said:

Potted meat. I love the stuff but no one else in my family does and it's part of the emergency stash hidden in my house. 

Potted meat and saltines yes. Or on a sammich with mayo. The best. 

Ill never forget the time my Mom asked my girlfriend (now wife) if she wanted a potted meat sandwich. She said yes to be polite. Ate one bite and nearly turned green. She couldn't understand how I could eat such a a subject. 

Then, two months later we went to New Jersey and the host served Pâté. I said yum, this tastes just like potted meat! My wife adamantly disagreed. 

I know it’s not considered a food, but I think I’ve got at least one or two packs of unopened baseball cards when they came with a small stick of gum. Probably close to 30 years old and would crumble into dust now lol.

I do recall on one of the survival shows several years ago they said chewing gun can be beneficial in the short term if you run out of food.

SaltyDog said:

einy said:

SaltyDog said:

Found a turkey in the bottom of the deep freeze from 2011.

 

Was/is it still good?  I have one from about a year ago and was wondering if mine was still edible.  I suspect it is, but that is about the longest I have had something in the deep freeze before eating it

It's currently thawing in the garbage can.

I also found some corn from 2015 that actually tasted as fresh as could be.

I have a duck that's been frozen for at least a year on the Weber right now. It smelled as fresh as could be. 

I wouldn't worry about a year old turkey, it should be fine.

The 10 year old turkey was probably no good. The 1 year old? That's fine. Around probably 2-3 years old, it is soup fodder only. At 3-4, I'm tossing it, personally (although I probably would have held onto it through this, wasn't hurting anything down there)

volvoclearinghouse said:

Duke said:

Mr_Asa said:

Cousin died two or three years before we started to clear out the house.  No clue how long he had the sardines before he died.  No clue why we haven't thrown them out 

When my great aunt died in 1983 she had canned water chestnuts in her pantry from 1954. 
 

Those technically qualify as "Historic".

In 2010, we moved my great aunt into a retirement home. I threw away beer that was old enough that the can was rusty and a 20 year old wasn't even going to try, canned corned beef from the Carter administration, canned green beans that we think were from the 60's...

stanger_missle said:

If circumstances were dire enough, there isn't anything that I wouldn't eat.

 

Outside of that though, sweet potatoes and their evil cousins, yams. Also squash.

I'd rather eat pine cones.

Clearly you have never had sweet potato fries.

Having read a number of memoirs over the years, including stories from Stalingrad, probably my leather boots. 

stanger_missle said:

If circumstances were dire enough, there isn't anything that I wouldn't eat.

 

Outside of that though, sweet potatoes and their evil cousins, yams. Also squash.

I'd rather eat pine cones.

I love sweet potatoes. Squash is great. Squash seeds, roasted with oil and salt, are incredible. I'm really interested to try pine cones now. Apparently they're edible!

Broccoli

Pretty much anything (that isn't actually toxic to humans) is edible, given enough salt, fat, acid, and heat.  

So we keep several pounds of sea salt, a few litres of olive oil, a gallon of balsamic vinegar, and a 100 lb tank of propane on hand at all times.

Various flavored tuna packets.

I bought Walmart spam and I'm looking forward to eating that more than the tuna.

Fried spam on bread w/ mustard brings back childhood memories.

mtn said:

volvoclearinghouse said:

Duke said:

Mr_Asa said:

Cousin died two or three years before we started to clear out the house.  No clue how long he had the sardines before he died.  No clue why we haven't thrown them out 

When my great aunt died in 1983 she had canned water chestnuts in her pantry from 1954. 
 

Those technically qualify as "Historic".

In 2010, we moved my great aunt into a retirement home. I threw away beer that was old enough that the can was rusty and a 20 year old wasn't even going to try, canned corned beef from the Carter administration, canned green beans that we think were from the 60's...

In 1994, I was 7 years old and at my grandfather's house. I complained the soup he made me tasted funny when my parents came to get me. My dad pulled the can put of the trash to look and his mother had bought it. She died in 1977. 

Okay. NOBODY'S gonna say "YOUR MOM?"

I don't even know you guys anymore.