"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 06:13:36 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 7:31:38 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>
>> > My first thought would be why buy large tomatoes if that's not what you
>> > wanted in the first place? I don't know about you but I don't buy
>> > anything I don't already have some use for.
>>
>> Interestingly, she opened with "I screwed up and kept buying large
>> slicing tomatoes". It suggests that she bought some, lost track
>> of them, and bought more. I wonder: does she hide them around the
>> house like a squirrel burying nuts?
>>
>
>
> I buy things twice occasionally, but it isn't worth posting about. My
> hot sauce collection was the worst - but only one or two were
> purchased by me. My son would bring over a new hot sauce whenever we
> were cooking food like tacos and not take it home with him so I ended
> up with something like 6 or 8 bottles (all different brands). I
> solved my hot sauce problem by gathering up what I didn't want to keep
> and sending them home with him. End of story.
>
> Julie could have solved her excess tomato problem by grating them and
> making a no-cook tomato sauce that she could always freeze if she
> didn't want to use it immediately.
> http://www.thekitchn.com/grated-toma...-kitchn-206814
>
> If she stopped using Swagbucks as a search engine and switched to a
> decent one, like Google, 95% of her questions would be answered and
> she wouldn't need to post them here.

Gee, sf. Wouldn't that apply to pretty much everyone here? And no, I
wouldn't try to grate tomatoes and make a sauce out them. I specifically
mentioned the type of tomatoes. I would generally use Romas for sauce. I
only used medium sized round ones once as I was given an entire wheelbarrow
full. I had just moved in and had an empty freezer. Got no freezer room now.