Are Your Spices Old?

I was skimming through a magazine yesterday as the babies were napping and Lenny was eating lunch, and I found something interesting. There was an ad for McCormick spices. It said that if you have spices in a rectangular tin and it is not black pepper, then your spice is at least 15 years old. And if you have any spices that says "Baltimore, MD" on it, that too is at least 15 years old. I became very curious about my own spice cabinet.

Well, believe it or not I did have a rectangular tin of ginger and two other spices that say Baltimore, MD. Yikes!! You mean to tell me that I've had those for 15 years, at least. Thank goodness those are the only ones that I found. Luckily, I had another container of ginger that I've been using instead and the others haven't been used for a very long time as well. Hopefully at least 13 or 14 year. :-)

I think I'll hang on to the tin of ginger, it might be a collector's item in a few more years. What the heck, I've already had it for 15 years.

Goodbye to these!

Have a great weekend! Hopefully I'll post something on Monday.

From the Mouth of a Three Year Old

This story is a few weeks old and a few of you have heard it but I love it. One morning Lenny and I were talking about birthdays. I asked him whose birthday was next and he said "Brooke and Nathan". Then I said, "then I have a birthday and then you have a birthday". He said "Can you tell the baker that I want a Bob the Builder birthday?". I said yes, I will. Then he said "Are you going to have a 'news' birthday?" I had to laugh about that one. I like to watch the news in the morning when I get up so I guess he thinks that is my favorite and I should have that as my birthday. :-)