Aged pasta

[tigerfort]

I've just found a large (several kilos) stash of dried pasta, which we're never going to use because of K's allergy to wheat gluten. It's several years past its "best before" date, but there's nothing obviously wrong with it. The local food banks &c won't take it (past best before) and I'd really rather not throw it away. Any suggestions? (I'm happy for someone in the Oxfordish area to collect, or potentially even to deliver it to someone.)

[ETA: now handed over to a someone else, who will ensure whatever's edible is eaten and whatever isn't is given to a suitable preschool.]

Comments

[adaese.livejournal.com]

Might there be a local pre-school full of children who'd like to paint the pasta and stick it loosely onto paper?

[lnr]

That's what I was going to suggest.

[learnsslowly.livejournal.com]

Me too. My mother once had her class do something like this with various shapes of pasta. I think they stuck it on sugar-paper and painted it using metallic spray paint after the glue had dried. It was a hospital school class, so a wide age range. Nowadays I'd say that the overall effect was pasta meets steampunk meets Skylab, but that was in the seventies, so people just said "wow". The glue first, paint after bit was important, apparently.

She did something similar later on with out-of-date pet biscuits and the sweepings off the floor of shops that sold pet food.