On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Maverick wrote:

>
> "Lena B Katz" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Maverick wrote:
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>>> > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> OK, I will confess. I am an older bachelor, and a lousy cook. But
>>>> there is at least partially a good reason I am a lousy cook. The
>>>> reason is that I never have the right ingredients. For example, I
>>>> bought a box of that Zatarins (sp?) rice mix. I get home and find
>>>> that it needs to be mixed with a can of diced tomatoes. I dont have
>>>> any canned tomatoes..... I live in a rural area, and the nearest
>>>> grocery store is 6 miles away, so I am not driving all the way to town
>>>> just to get a can of tomatoes. Heck, by the time I burn up all that
>>>> gas, if I get to town, I'll eat at a fast food restaurant and probably
>>>> save money, not to mention eating better tasting food.
>>>
>>> 6 miles is a long way?
>>
>> somehow i don't think he's as rural as he thinks he is. to me, it sounds
>> like he lives just outside of Uniontown (American reference, because it's
>> where i'm from ;-) )
>>
>>> Well, I'm a married man with a kids. We keep all kinds of staples on
>>> hand
>>> all the time. I figure we can whip up 3 days worth of meals with what we
>>> keep on hand.
>>
>> from the stuff I keep on hand, we could eat healthily for about.... three
>> months. how do you manage to keep so little on hand?
>
> First of all, my two boys, 20 and 12, can out-eat the wife and I. Secondly,
> they absolutely will not eat a meal if it doesn't have some kind of meat in
> it, preferably beef. I'm going to quit counting the reasons now. The 20 yr
> old will not eat soup unless it is Chili Verde or Chili Rojo stews. Now,
> lets talk about the real reason I don't keep three months of food on hand.
> My pantry. It's large but I have to physically climb up into it. They made
> it out of the wasted space over the stairs leading down to the basement. It
> is not user friendly. My kitchen. It has two roughly 3' X 3' countertops.
> Seven doors on the upper cabinets and 4 doors on the lower cabinets with 5
> drawers to store all our kitchen stuff so a lot of it went into the very
> back of the pantry since it doesn't get used that often. I HATE MY
> KITCHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the rant. ;->

If they won't eat a meal w/out beef... you've got them cooking on their
own, right? ;-) Quickest way to teach someone the value of other foods.
"If you don't like it--go cook something else!"

> I'm just nosey that way. I like to see if I can figure out what makes
> something and then see if I can make my own. BTW, I make a mean teriyaki
> sauce!

mine... isn't teriyaki anymore. but it does make a pretty good stirfry!