V8, circa 1999
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.
If you follow me on instagram, you know I tackled the job of organizing my laundry room shelves (which operate as a pantry, since my kitchen has none) this past week.
And on the bottom shelf in the back, I found this:
Which I distinctly remember buying when I was pregnant with Joshua (salty pregnancy craving!).
You may recall that Joshua now looks like this:
Which means the V8 is, uh, ancient.
I'm not quite sure why I didn't crack open the can when I bought it, or why I never did in the 15 years since, but at this point, I decided it was kind of beyond saving (it officially expired in 2005.)
I'm not sure if it counts toward my food waste total, since it significantly predates my blog, but hey, I figured it couldn't hurt to publicly confess to it. 😉
(I also found some salad dressing that predates my blog, and posted photos of it on instagram. In case you're that interested in keeping up with my food waste.)
It happens. When we moved to our current apartment in a downsizing effort 5 years ago, we cleaned out big-time. I found a spice jar with Japanese writing on the label. We left Japan in 1977! I think it is normal for frugals to try to keep and finish consumables. It just doesn't bide well with our decluttering natures.
Thanks you again for your blog.
Ohh, nice! You've got me beat, then. 😉
Oh my gosh, look how beautiful your family looks!
Joshua looks so grown up.
Where does the time go?
I know...in some ways, it doesn't even seem that long ago that I bought the juice!
and thank you. 🙂
oh my.......
Somehow I feel better about some of my epic food losses knowing that you have some failures too. I should tell you that you have made quite a difference in my food waste consciousness. Thank you for sharing the good and the bad!
I don't have you beat but there is a large can of green beans in my cupboard that I plan on using up "someday" My husband bought it 10 years ago when I sent him to the store for a can of green beans to satisfy a craving I was having while pregnant with our (9year old) son. The unit price was cheaper and he thought I'd be able to use it up. I am the only person in our family who likes green beans and I can't eat a can that size. Every time I do a clean out the pantry challenge they get skipped over. I know I should toss them but it feels so wasteful...
If they're not expired you could donate 'em....
My food bank will accept canned goods one year past the expiration date, but it sounds like these might have celebrated a few too many pantry birthday parties. I'd give up faster than Kristen! Could they be composted??
Oh, and canned green beans are one of my least favorite foods on the planet, so if I was staring down a huge can of them, I'd give up every time too!
I once was making garlic lime chicken or something like that and found that our bottle of lime juice had expired about 7 years earlier . . . which meant that it had been expired when we MOVED into our current house. Seems like moving would be a good time to toss expired foods, but not here! I was so embarrassed!
Don't feel bad...I still have you beat. That V8 came with me through TWO moves! (granted, during the first move, it wasn't expired, and during the second move, I was so sick (pregnant with Zoe) that I had lots of help with packing, and so I wasn't as thorough with purging as I might have been otherwise.