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Mix with egg, pumpkin and lots of spices and put in pastry case and you have a wonderful pumpkin pie!

But I think the best suggestion is giving it to an animal charity. I´m sure it would be welcomed.

Like Eileen and Cyntha have said, it was used alot for babies in the 50's and 60's. I shpuld know. I was one of them little one's. I was 6 weeks prem, weighing 4lbs 7ozs and Mum couldn't feed me herself, so at the hospital they made up a mix of Carnation Evap milk and water for me to be fed with. It didn't do me any harm and I soon was a bouncing, chubby baby. In fact I'm still chubby now. LOL

NO please dont' give it to an animal charity. It is far to rich for animals. They need specially prepared milks or their stomachs can't take it.

You could raffle it on here and raise some funds for the air ambulance or some other charity...

I couldn't really think what an animal charity could do with it. It is not really mine to dispose of in that way. I am supposed to destroy it.

The only way it might be professional for me to use it for charitable purposes might be to make fudge or something with it that the charity could sell so that it was not connected to the product in any way.

It is an absolute disgrace to waste this good food,surely there are lots of places where it could be distributed.
It makes you wonder exactly how much food ie bread, vege. etc. is wasted by supermarkets,that could make a differnce in some folks lives.

We have been brainwashed into actually believing in the sell by and use by dates on products. Okay no-one would buy fish or meat if it didn't look fresh but.common sense should prevail! if we shop for food in markets we can see for ourselves,not just read a date on a label. Protecton gone mad!

I didn't have a fridge till the early 1960s (and mother never) so how did we manage?? we were never! poisoned.
If folk are feeling the credit crunch they need to ask themselves if they really should be throwing 'stuff' away when it's out of date.......and I speak as one who worked with food and was paranoid about using
anything past it's use/sell by.

Like you say, Mau, I don't throw things out until I can see/smell they're on the turn. But I should think as we're such a litigation driven culture these days that companies have to be careful, which I should imagine is why the tins have to be destroyed.

Apparently one of the causes of food poisoning in students is putting opened tins (still in the tin) of food in the fridge and later coming back to it a couple of days later. Big cause of botulism.

I had some unsalted butter in the fridge,date marked for last November. It made a decent bit of pastry this weekend.

I have put in a previous thread about using festering yoghurt for soda bread.I tried topping it up with undiluted evaporated milk this week and it took twice as long to cook.

I made a rice pudding with diluted evaporated.There was some left over in the jug so the other half put it in the fridge. Well,we wouldn't want to run out of diluted evaporated now would we? There are only about two hundred cartons left!

Three Is in a row,the conceit of the woman,sorry about that.

Mix it with equal quantity of water and use as full cream milk.

As it is coming up to Harvest Festival time, donate to local churches. As it is still in date I can't see a problem. I notice you are talking cartons, so not in tins then?

Rosalind

Somebody with two pet pigs that she has rescued has taken a case for them.

I tried a place locally for the mentally handicapped(or whatever you have to say).They cook things for sale but cannot make fudge as it would be too hot for the patients(or whatever you have to say) to do and there is no recipe that uses it. Good old Health and Safety I say!