"Dimitri" >, if that's their real name, wrote:

>Without casting any aspersions - if someone is on a limited budget buying a
>"special" priced ham or turkey represents a sensational value.
>
>a 20 pound ham will probably yeald 13 to 15 pounds of meat + a ham bone.
>The bone + $1.00 of split peas sand an onion, carrot etc will also yeald
>several meals.
>
>It's just good economic sense if you have the freezer space.

Thanks, kiddo. Most of the soup (with the exception of the potato leek)
will wind up in the freezer. This ham will feed us, literally, for months.

Carol

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