Can I eat these dry puy lentils?

[montrealeater]

Just found a bag of puy lentils, which I love, in the back of my cupboard. They are marked June 11 (that is the date they were bought - this year - from the bulk section) - and are in a plastic bag, about 2.5lbs worth. Everything in the bag seems dry but the lentils themselves have a slight greyish/speckled tinge (this could be the way they were when I got them, I didn't look at them too closely). They have been stored since June 11 in a cupboard. Are these still OK to cook up and eat or should I toss them?

[The Professor]

+1...absolutely use them. There's nothing that can go bad in them.
That's the beauty of dried foods...with reasonably good storage, shelf life just isn't an issue.

[montrealeater]

HA, Breezychow! And look, you're still able to type up responses on Chowhound, so they can't have done you too much harm. :)

Thanks for the responses, both of you, I was on the verge of chucking these (I thought that speckling was new/odd but was only guessing - wrongly it turns out) and am now very happy I get to eat them. Woohoo, lentil and bacon salad!

[pikawicca]

Absolutely okay.

[Breezychow]

Second that "absolutely okay". The greyish/greenish tinge is the way these lentils are supposed to look. I'm ashamed to admit that I've found these lentils in the back of my cupboard that were a LOT older than yours, & they cooked up just fine.