On Sat, 08 May 2010 14:08:54 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:

> So what would you do if making the above recipe? (other than going to
> the store)

Blender is fine for that recipe. You're just going for texture,
mainly, but you'll probably going to need a little more moisture.
Make it milk.

I'm cleaning out the fridge, freezer, and cabinets as well. Other
than a 3 pound schlong of Columbus salami and some cheese (Yancy's
Fancy - review later) at CostCo, I haven't bought any edible
groceries except bread and 13 boxes of chocolate covered cherries
for 4 weeks. And I'm not cleaning the fridge. It was brand new 3.5
weeks ago.

I'm not feeling the lack of groceries at all yet. When I switched
fridges (twice) I realized I had way too much food. And I still
probably have food I forgot in the neighbors freezers.

Oh, and a near 2-lb bag of Kettle Brand potato chips. Gotta get
those every time I go to CostCo. That week they had BBQ as well as
the usual "lightly salted". I wish they'd bring back the CostCo
sized bags of Buffalo Blue.

-sw

Steve wrote:

> I haven't bought any edible groceries except bread and 13 boxes of
> chocolate covered cherries for 4 weeks.

13 boxes of chocolate covered cherries? At what point do you step back and
say, "Maybe there's a problem"? :-)

Bob

On Sat, 8 May 2010 19:52:04 -0700, Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> I haven't bought any edible groceries except bread and 13 boxes of
>> chocolate covered cherries for 4 weeks.
>
> 13 boxes of chocolate covered cherries? At what point do you step back and
> say, "Maybe there's a problem"? :-)

Never a problem. They were $.50/each. Well, until now. There are
only 4.5 boxes left.

-sw

On Sat, 8 May 2010 20:24:56 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Sat, 08 May 2010 14:08:54 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> So what would you do if making the above recipe? (other than going to
>> the store)
>
>Blender is fine for that recipe. You're just going for texture,
>mainly, but you'll probably going to need a little more moisture.
>Make it milk.

I'm going to try that and I'll grab a can to see which works best.
Thanks!

>I'm cleaning out the fridge, freezer, and cabinets as well. Other
>than a 3 pound schlong of Columbus salami and some cheese (Yancy's
>Fancy - review later) at CostCo, I haven't bought any edible
>groceries except bread and 13 boxes of chocolate covered cherries
>for 4 weeks. And I'm not cleaning the fridge. It was brand new 3.5
>weeks ago.

Yeah. I remember the fridge problem you had. I've been finding
something that's been around awhile and building a menu around that.
I'm about ready to admit I've got a hoarding problem.

>I'm not feeling the lack of groceries at all yet. When I switched
>fridges (twice) I realized I had way too much food. And I still
>probably have food I forgot in the neighbors freezers.

Our cottage fridge-freezer was loaded too. So we emptied and
unplugged it. That forced us to use stuff that would have got tossed
eventually. Condiments always seem to accumulate. And olives! Uggg.
I had 5 jars of them in the fridge. When we go there we take a
cooler. If we're just there for one night we don't even plug it in.
We had an under-counter bar fridge in the city place that had
condiments and we used it for beverages. The hinge thingie broke so I
reversed the swing. Then the other side broke. It was fixable but I
got rid of it. The electric bill dropped 7 dollars the first month.
It doesn't sound like much but we'd go shopping and toss overflow
stuff in the veggie drawer and forget about it. When the door broke
the second time there were six avocados in the bin that were past
their time we'd forgot about. So adding the wasted food to the
electric savings it was a good move to take that fridge out of the
equation.

>Oh, and a near 2-lb bag of Kettle Brand potato chips. Gotta get
>those every time I go to CostCo. That week they had BBQ as well as
>the usual "lightly salted". I wish they'd bring back the CostCo
>sized bags of Buffalo Blue.

Costco rocks but we're staying away for awhile. We're going through a
major change in life and living as spartan as possible makes progress
easier.

Lou

Lou Decruss wrote:
I
> reversed the swing. Then the other side broke. It was fixable but I
> got rid of it. The electric bill dropped 7 dollars the first month.
> It doesn't sound like much but we'd go shopping and toss overflow
> stuff in the veggie drawer and forget about it. When the door broke
> the second time there were six avocados in the bin that were past
> their time we'd forgot about. So adding the wasted food to the
> electric savings it was a good move to take that fridge out of the
> equation.

Just in general I have saved money by not buying stuff if I don't
know where I'm going to store it. I'm getting old, I'm at the stage
where all this stuff is annoying.

> Costco rocks but we're staying away for awhile. We're going through a
> major change in life and living as spartan as possible makes progress
> easier.

Whatever it is, I hope it's good and that you're successful.

nancy