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If you ever want to get a sense of how fast time is passing just take a look in your food cupboards and check the expiry dates on some jars or tins. I do this quite often with items in the fridge and find that I've let yogurt or jams drift out of date. With tins and jars this is much rarer - obviously because they tend to have a much longer life expectancy. Today I was rummaging around looking for a sauce to use with some chicken for dinner. At the back of the section where I keep curry and pasta sauces (shock! - I don't cook them from scratch more than once a month) I came across a jar of Jamaican curry paste. This is something I've been meaning to use for a while but I keep choosing something else. This time, however, I picked up the jar. It was a little sticky around the lid and I checked the expiry date: end of February 2005. This was shocking. For the expiry date to be early 2005 points to a purchase date somewhere before the start of 2004. My mind simply couldn't accept that this jar had been sitting in the cupboard for so long. Time flies when you're getting old - and choosing other sauces.

Tomorrow I'll let you know what I found in my vegetable racks.

Not really; you're safe.