Baking day

When my son Peter visits me, he goes through the refrigerator and shows me all the things that have passed their expiration dates. Last time, after he left, I cleaned the refrigerator and threw out all the old stuff. Then I did the same to the medicine cabinet and invested some money in new cough syrup and Pepto Bismo. (Later I read that expiration dates on medicine bottles are mostly another money-making ploy of the drug companies. The article said that most drugs are stable for several years.) One place that I didn't check was my kitchen cupboards. I was poking around in there this week looking for an idea to make a sweet treat for my husband and me. I found a white cake mix with a recipe on the back. With strawberry yogurt and some strawberry jam I could make it into a beautiful, refreshing summery delight. So I set to work. When I got to the part where you open the box, there it was in bold print right on the top--Best if used by June 2003. Well, I can't say that it raised up real high, but it tastes pretty good. Peter, they have a new kind of Crisco now. It's a little more expensive than regular, but 0 trans fat. It comes in one cup sticks, so you don't even have to scoop and measure.