Usually, when I visit my parents, I invariably spend some time looking for food. When I was younger, this wouldn’t usually be much of a task, as I’d be living there and my parents would keep the pantry well stocked. These days though, the pantry isn’t refilled quite so often. In fact, without my brother, sister or myself there anymore, there’s some stuff there which has been there quite a while. Before reading this article, I would’ve pushed it aside in search of something which hadn’t passed its ‘best before’ date. However, the article reckons some foods are fine many years past their manufacturers expiration date! Allegedly, even though the taste of the food might be affected, simple foods like sugar, salt, wheat kernels and even rolled oats are edible for decades! Next time I’m at my parents and I find a some decades old porridge, I might just eat it. I might pass on the mayonaise though.