New forum member with a storage question

[lvdave]

Hello everybody!

I just discovered this forum and hope to be a regular here. I'm doing my "howdy" post in the Preparedness forum as I have a question about food storage.. I'm a member of the Vegas Manor Ward in the Las Vegas NV East Stake. I've been a member of the Church all my life, however, until about 6 months ago, I had been totally inactive since my 20s. Guess you could call me the "prodigal son". During my "inactivity", I got pretty far away from the Church, but everytime I heard the Tabernacle Choir, I got a lump in my throat... By chance. the missionaries came to see us, and my wife of 25 years, who was a Catholic has recently been baptised, and we're working really hard to get worthy to go the Temple.. Anyway, why I posted here, is because when my parents passed away, they left me their food storage. They purchased it during the late 60s-early 70s. This would make it as old as my falling away from the Church, which happened when I got drafted into the Army in 1969. My question is simple: Is this stuff any good still? We have our own storage, bought for the Y2K non-event.. I know most specialized storage is good for 10-20years, but are we pushing it with the old stuff?? I *hate* to throw it out.

LVDave

[NeuroTypical]

when my parents passed away, they left me their food storage. They purchased it during the late 60s-early 70s.

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Is this stuff any good still?

The honey is still good, everything else is not. At best, it still looks like food but has lost it's nutritional value. At worst, it's become toxic.

I know how hard it can be - when my dad died, I chucked his year's supply of triticale bought in the '70's. But yeah - chuck it.

[yorkiebeebs]

The wheat and grain should be good shouldn't it?

[Iggy]

The wheat and grain should be good shouldn't it?

What have they been stored in? and where? Garage, basement, damp, cool & dry?

[lvdave]

I'm the original poster.. Everything was stored in a closed cabinet in San Diego when my parents began accumulating the storage back in the late 60s-early 70s, and was stored like that until about 1994, when my mother moved in with us and we moved to Las Vegas. We stored everything in our garage, which, if you know Las Vegas, it gets VERY hot in the summertime. The storage took up too much room to put it in the house, so we had to store in the garage. My question is now kind of a moot point now, since last week we rented a large dumpster to allow us to clean out our garage, and we threw out the storage based on the reply we got earlier to the question... Thanks for your replies...

LVDave

[cj06]

DONT JUST TROW IT OUT , THE WHEAT SHOULD STILL BE GOOD , IF YOU HAVE ANY DRY BEANS THEY WILL NOT COOK UP BUT SAVE THEM AS OLD BEANS CAN BE GROUND INTO BEAN FLOUR TO USE IN BAKING And SUCH ! couple of years ago we threw out lots of old beans and then last month or so we had a food prep class at church and the beans came up and was told to keep them and grind them into flour ! they even had some black bean fudge , wife had to pull me away from it so others could sample it !