want to feel good about your homekeeping skills?

[Emmy]

We had my parents over for dinner friday night. I made a mexican casserole and corn bread and had my mom bring a bag of salad because I know how much my Dad likes it. We were getting ready to sit down to eat and I realized I needed salad dressing....so I went to the fridge and started calling out options to my Dad - do you want caesar, french, thousand island, etc. As I'm calling them out I realize oops that one is expired, oh wait, that one is expired too.....yeah, you know where this is going right? I had 5 bottles of expired salad dressing in my fridge. The really fun part? They all expired in early 2007.

Go me!

I'm sure it was a proud moment in my mother's life.....:p

[ditzyscrap]

LMAO...that's funny! I haven't looked at the expiry dates of my salad dressings...but I found some stuff in my pantry with oooold expiry dates. Oops!

[Leila]

LOL! Emmy, we just had the same thing happen a few weeks ago! I wound up buying about 10 brand new bottles of salad dressing that weekend. I picked expiry dates at least a year out, lol!

[LeeAndra]

Sounds like you need to eat salad at your house more often, E! :p

[LeeAndra]

P.S. Evidently, my mother was 'horrified' when I served cake out of a brownie pan the last time she was at my house (for T's bday, I guess) so she made sure to buy me a cake stand for my bday and made sure to tell me how compelled she felt to get me one! *lol*

Too bad I don't have any round cake pans. You suppose if I make a sheet cake again and then dump the whole rectangle on my round cake stand that she will get the point?!

[Nonna2Dreja]

Salad dressing never lasts that long here so no need for me to worry about expiration dates....The thing that I do find that I buy and then it expires before I ever remember to use it is "evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk"....I buy them for my holiday baking, then forget that I have them and buy some more....Believe me, when they say use by a certain date, they mean it....Both get a nasty color when they expire....LOL

[ColleenSwerb]

P.S. Evidently, my mother was 'horrified' when I served cake out of a brownie pan the last time she was at my house (for T's bday, I guess) so she made sure to buy me a cake stand for my bday and made sure to tell me how compelled she felt to get me one! *lol*

Too bad I don't have any round cake pans. You suppose if I make a sheet cake again and then dump the whole rectangle on my round cake stand that she will get the point?!

LOLOL!! That's the funniest thing EVER LA!!! Sounds like you need to register for some round cake pans :p

[Emmy]

No, apparently we don't eat a lot of salad. :p

Dibs on cake pans for LeeAndra! L - that totally cracks me up that your mom was so freaked, I didn't realize you came from such fancy folk! :p

[LeeAndra]

Oh, BTW, this is the same mom who thinks having bread & oil to dip it in on the table at the restaurant is 'almost too fancy' for her!! *lol*

She is a nut and a half.

[juliemarie]

I think every member of the family likes a different kind of salad dressing here, plus I will often have honey mustard dressing for dipping breaded chicken in, and italian dressing for subs or pasta salad. So it wouldn't be uncommon for 6 different bottles in my refrigerator, at varying stages of expiration!

Plus the small size of my local grocery store doesn't help (we're in a rural area) - I remember one time last summer I bought some and it was already past the date on the label :(

[Chels85]

LOL, i just recently cleaned out a fridge and threw away alot of things that expired. two weeks later, i get "Hey, where's my mayo??" IT EXPIRED!

[Stacey42]

We never use whole jars of things, like tomato sauce, so I put the opened jars in the fridge. Then I forget about them. My parents came to visit and there were 5 half empty jars of different types of Ragu spaghetti sauce in the fridge. Mom is going through them "When did you open this? How long has this been in here?" and I honestly can't tell her. I know I had opened one 'recently' but I wasn't sure which one or that it had been in the past 14 days. The equivelent of 2.5 jars of spaghetti sauce expired & wasted in my fridge.

Now I write use by dates in permanent marker on the jar lids.