Originally Posted by BamaVol

As an aside - we went through my father in laws cabinets today and threw out anything that had a use by date earlier than mid 2019. His wife died 3 years ago and he didn’t buy or use any of this stuff. I employed out of date flour and brown sugar in the Swiss steak and don’t think anyone was harmed. But who knows the next time any of this will be used. I was sad to throw out 4 year old barley as I cannot find it on store shelves currently and wanted to make beef barley soup.