46-year-old soup among food bank donations

A tin of Heinz kidney soup dating back at least 46 years has been donated to a food bank which was also given a 35-year-old tin of sweetcorn.

The “Ready to Serve” soup still bears its original price sticker and would have set you back 10d, meaning it was sold before decimalisation in 1971.

The Green Giants niblets sweetcorn would also seem like a bargain to today’s shoppers, costing just 8p according to the packaging.

Helen Bull, the partnership and fundraising officer from Cardiff Foodbank, where the tins were handed in, said people wanted to be generous by donating items but may not have realised they were out of date.

“Lots of people clean out their cupboards, and donate items that they have never used and don’t really look at them,” she said.