Last week while cooking chicken, I decided to add some fines herbes for flavor. Much as I like the flavor, I apparently don’t use them much. The bottle was almost empty, but when I turned it over, I saw a Shop-Rite price tag on the bottom.
There are no Shop-Rites in Kentucky. I last shopped at there in 1990 when we still lived in New Jersey. I believe the rule of thumb for dried herbs is to use them within a year or two.
I was just as interested in the price itself. $1.49.
It took me four stores to track down a replacement bottle this week, and when I finally found it I paid $5.89.
Good thing it will last me another seventeen years.
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ROFL…reminds me of late last summer when I decided to clean out my bedroom closet. Up on a self in a grocery bag was a pack of gum, some cotton balls and a bottle of Allspice. We had lived there 8 years and I’m guessing that bottle had been in there since we moved in! And why did I put that bag in my closet to begin with??
Lisa, at least the cotton balls were probably still good as new! The gum, not so much.
I cleaned out our spice cabinet over the holidays. I found SEVERAL that were well over a decade old. Yikes!