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Default Grocery Store Dinner for Christmas

On 12/23/2015 1:30 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 12/23/2015 12:16 PM, dalep wrote:
>
>> This is a first for me. I have always cooked from scratch as much as
>> possible.
> > I am doing chemo, and had an infusion Monday. I will be down and out

> with fatigue
> > over Christmas. I ordered the "complete" meal from out local Sprouts

> store. They
> > use a "natural" turkey, so picked them over the big chain stores. At

> least we will
> > have food in the house and lots of left overs (just the two of us

> this year). I am
> > curious how this meal will be, but it will fill the bill.

>
> I'm sorry about the chemo and I'm sending all good thoughts your way.
>
> As far as the dinner goes, I'm reminded of Jill's mother's experience,
> the whole meal, it turned out, arrived frozen and in need of cooking,
> something like that, so make sure you know what to expect with no
> unwelcome Christmas surprise.
>
> nancy


dalep, I'm sorry to be late saying I hope the chemo works. I'm sorry to
hear about the need for it.

The meal Nancy mentioned wasn't Christmas. It was one of the funniest
Thanksgivings I remember. The television and newspaper ads all said
"Let Kroger do it for you!" Mom decided she didn't want to cook that
year. She never did like to cook.

So she called and ordered the T-day dinner with all the "trimmings!".
Mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, some sort of vegetable and a pie. To
be picked up the afternoon of.

She, my middle brother and I went to Kroger to pick it up. This was
around 2PM. As my brother was carrying the box out to the car he
commented the box was freezing cold. He opened the box after setting it
in the trunk.

Uh oh. The turkey was frozen solid. And not cooked. All the side
dishes were frozen solid, too. The ad was certainly misleading. It was
not a ready to serve, just pick it up meal. (Let Kroger do what?!)

When my mother got mad, she got mad. She was feisty. She marched back
into the store and demanded her money back. I remember her saying "What
is wrong with you people?! I won't be able to cook this for four or
five days!"

You go, girl.

She got her money back. Then we went to a *different* store. We had
steak and baked potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner that year.

Jill
 
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