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Well...scale and distance won. I did not go get the AWESOME Packzi today. I had left over chicken and will try to behave myself until I go on vacation. There is always next year for the Packzi.
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.
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I like to burn a scented candle when we cook. It certainly will help with fish. TJ Maxx has tons that smell nice and are the best prices. Also Target has nice ones. I can't stand ones that are named for a food item. It's good to smell the top to be sure you will like the smell. A nice scent will overpower just about any item you are cooking.
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Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday so today we get to go on a guilt free binge in order to clear all the indulgences out of the house before lent begins- Mardi Gras, yay! I am cooking up some curly fries for lunch and have whipped up some cream to go with the crepes I'll make for supper. I have way more than I need, so I put a dollop in my coffee too. Yum.
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CM - hahaha. That's right. Seal on Sunday if the ice hasn't melted.
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PolarBear, I'm giggling away like a two year old here -

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..?
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It's Friday, so we're having fish. My New Year resolution is to serve fish at least once a week. Not sure what fish, but probably will be baked in the oven to keep the fishy smell down.
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I've been doing my grocery shopping at Aldi's for years now. They were off my radar for decades, then I started going a few years ago and now I love them. It's a much smaller store than most grocery stores and always same layout at any location. It has almost everything I need.

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.
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My 90 year old caregiver father cooked steak and potatoes out on the grill for him and my mother. He cooked twice as much as they needed so there would be leftovers for another night. He's LEARNING! :)
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Love Packzi. There is a great bakery down the street from my house. Too tempting on my walk to work. My mom made good ones. My MIL could as well, but now that she’s older she doesn’t cook much.
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Hamburger soup and some Brussels sprouts for more veggies. I came back from a trip south yesterday and always like to have some soup or stew or such frozen for quick healthy meals when I return But that hasn't stopped me from munching on turkey pepperoni sticks during the day. 😉
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Well...Tonight I had some left over Chinese food from earlier this week. My sister, her husband and a few friends took me out for my birthday.
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)
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Homemade Chicken salad and tater wedges! If you are ever in Monroe, NC you have to go to Hathaways!
Best food ever!
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I found some onion rings in the freezer. Onion rings count as a vegetable, right?
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stuffed peppers
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I wish I did like milk smeshque for my poor bones,but Iv'e just never cared for it.
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.
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You don't like milk, Lu?

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...
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I don't eat much cereal because you have to put milk on on it,but every now and then I'll have a bowl of Fruit Loops and pour the milk off it.I like Cream of Wheat much better and it's made with water but it's expensive like the dry cereal too.
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I grew up eating cereal for breakfast, cheerios, corn flakes or puffed wheat with a big spoon of sugar on top, once in a while my mom would buy alphabets or frosted flakes or lucky charms - yum. My grandmother would buy those little boxes where you could put the milk right in the box, that was so cool!
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.
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I'm a Raisin Bran girl

the Viking mixed Cherrios and oatmeal squares together with a banana- no cholesterol problems for her
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I love cereal too.
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Your'e right Send...Cereal is SO expensive~
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.
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Cold cereal or steak?
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.
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Pizza sounds so good.....
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Pizza delivers late. Call out.

Trader Joes is out of frozen Wonton Soup because the weather delayed the frozen foods deliveries.
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Well jeepers

lost track of time at work and everything is closed and I’m hungry

another late night

hope vending machine has peanuts 🥜
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Eat when you are hungry.
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).
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So I was out getting a haircut (the cheap place is over $20 now, sheesh!) and missed lunch. It's 3:00, do I have lunch now or hold off and have an early supper?
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When there are no good donuts locally, a Krispy Kreme is worth the drive.
I felt awful after my recent donut ingestion.

Veges last night .
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Oh no MsMadge! Where will you go now?
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My local family owned donut shop caught on fire a couple of weeks ago 😥
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