Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
This week I am going to make Irish Soda Bread at the Hospice I volunteer at on Thursday. (I am there 4 days a week but my baking day is Thursday) and on Sunday for my Support Group on Monday.
It's just tickled my funny bone seeing your name, and your avatar, and then the opening words: "It's Friday, so we're having fish."
Seal on Sundays, perhaps..?
Anyway, there was an Aldi location very close to where I live, only a couple of blocks away. I didn't go to that one because it was closed. I went there one evening to shop there, a security man for the strip mall informed me that the store was closed. I took it to mean it was permanently closed. There are 3 other locations within 20 minutes drive of that one, I figured they closed it because they didn't get enough traffic at that location.
I WAS WRONG. IT'S OPEN. It's been open for the entire past year that my primary work location is 5 mins from there, and I also live 5 mins from there. I can't explain my simultaneous joy and *derp* feelings about this, but who cares that I misunderstood what happened when I tried to visit before, because the Aldi 5 mins from my house and work is 🎶 opennnnn 🎶 for the next time I want to pop in. 😃
They have this frozen french bread pizza by Mama Cozzi brand, it is so good. I had my first and second one last night because one wasn't enough. Yum.
I am looking forward to Paczki Day, March 5th. There is one place that sells them near me but the best place is about 60 minutes away. Will have to think about it...are "fat pills" worth the drive? Brain is conflicted, heart says go for them, scale says stay away! Have my first vacation in 5 years scheduled..will 2 or 4 or more Paczki going to make me not want to put on the bathing suit that I reluctantly purchased last week? still going to go and the people that I see or that see me will never see me again! So yeah I will eat a few donuts (aka Paczki aka "fat pills)
Best food ever!
My Grandfather ate Grape Nuts and he poured coffee all over them,I think to soften them up.
When I was growing up,we had a milkman that delivered our milk and a little girl down the street often stole ours because they were milk poor and my dH had 6 kids in his Alaskan family and they were milk poor too.
I like honey Bunches of oats, uncle Sam's and the Ezekiel cereals.
I remember as a kid having to eat cereal with water 🤔 because we were milk poor. And I loved cereal.Probably why I love a good cold glass of milk, skim of course. My Mom made cornmeal mush when I was little, I loved it. And rice with sugar and milk.
But now I just like cold cereals, okay and oatmeal with a little brown sugar.
Anyhoo...
While raising three boys with sis I watched the size of the family size box shrink and the price increase so we always looked for sales and stocked up - a dozen or more boxes at a time.
the Viking mixed Cherrios and oatmeal squares together with a banana- no cholesterol problems for her
My dH always makes sure he has plenty of boxes of it though and he even mixes the flavors when he makes a bowl.It's ONE of his "things"....Every single night before bed.
Article on the price of cereal:
"A stop in the grocery store's cereal aisle can be an eye-opening experience, long before a person sits down to breakfast. The sticker shock that awaits those who read the unit prices of cereals - their cost per pound - could bowl a person over.
Assorted grains, preservatives and sweeteners, packed in paper and brightly colored cardboard boxes, now require an outlay of $3, $4 or $5 a pound. Some are as much as $6 or more a pound.
That's as much as a pound of steak or shrimp.
The figures are even harder to swallow when Consumer Reports, in late 1992, estimated that the actual cost of the ingredients in a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes selling for $2.20 was 14 cents. Other costs were 32 cents for processing and labor, 52 cents for advertising and marketing and 47 cents for the supermarket, which boosted the wholesale price to meet expenses and make a profit.
Cereal prices have risen twice as fast as the costs of all other food between 1982 and 1992, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cereal costs rose 85 percent while all other food prices rose 42 percent.
Trader Joes is out of frozen Wonton Soup because the weather delayed the frozen foods deliveries.
lost track of time at work and everything is closed and I’m hungry
another late night
hope vending machine has peanuts 🥜
Treat yourself to an early supper now, while you are out.
Then stop to get some groceries on your way home.
Do not buy any donuts.
Buy some frozen Won Ton Soup for late night eating at home.
If you have g.i. distress and need to calm your digestive tract, get Miso Soup packages. (Per my chiropractor).
I felt awful after my recent donut ingestion.
Veges last night .