In general, meal planning means writing out what you will eat for the next week, pulling the recipes, and then making a list of what you need to buy. It can be a useful tool for sticking to a new diet or budget.
There are commercially available meal planners that can help with this. Those planners either give you a menu for a week and the appropriate shopping list, or let you enter your own menu and then generate a shopping list. Commercial meal planners can be paid or free. SortedFood has a paid meal planning app and there are many others, including some for specific diets like gluten free or keto. McCormick offers a free meal planner and you can also find free meal plans from women’s magazines or websites.
A more budget conscious DIY method is to look through the fridge and cupboards to see what needs to be used up. Then also look through the grocery store circulars to see what is on sale and come up with a plan that uses those items. If you do it yourself, Reddit can offer advice. There are cookbooks dedicated to meal planning as well. My sister used to do once a month cooking when her kids were small and liked this cookbook, but there are others.
As I noted before, my own meal planning is generally pretty vague. I go to the grocery store and see what looks good, then mentally plan a few meals, filling in with what I have in the freezer or pantry. While I’m still not writing out a meal plan, I am being more conscious of what I will make over a week. This is for two reasons. First, I want to eat at least 6 servings of fruit and vegetables per day, and fish twice a week. Second, I want to reduce food waste to save money as grocery prices rise and I get closer to retirement. Having a more defined meal plan helps me meet these goals.
A few tips for those that are dipping their toes into meal planning or who just want to make cooking faster and easier.
A little prep work goes a long way to making it easy to make dinner. Cut up vegetables, make a dressing or two that can double as marinades. UCS’s marinade article notes that most recipes he found are a 3:1 oil to vinegar ratio plus flavorings. That’s also the basic recipe for a vinaigrette dressing.
Picking a cuisine and making two or three meals in that cuisine makes it easier to use up the ingredients.
Things like soup, curries, stir fries, hash, omelets or frittatas, and pizzas or flat breads can use up ingredients. So, include them in your planning.
Stock your freezer with ready made meals by doubling a recipe. When I make meatloaf or lasagna, I make it in mini loaf pans and put the extras in the freezer.
What are your meal planning tips?
Dad and I generally stick to a routine of the same meal for dinner on a weekly rotating basis: Thursday is spaghetti (yeah, I know, not keto), Friday is pizza, Saturday is hamburgers, and so on.
Boring, but easy.
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We used to do a looser form of that. Mediterranean Monday, Tex-Mex Tuesday, etc. (it wasn’t all alliterative, but that’s what came to mind)
It works well from a grocery shopping point of view. However, it was a bit hard to keep going after a few months and it could get pricey if we had to get completely separate ingredients for each meal.
My biggest tip is use your Sunday to put together a side like salad, rice dish, vegetables, or other easily reheated dishes, then make a porch chop, chicken thigh, or steak each day.
Alternatively make a big pot or roast of something that can be used in several ways.
Yesterday I roasted a chicken with basic seasonings so it can be put together with other sides and meals. My wife made wild rice and mushroom casserole for two meals, and I’ll make tacos with the chicken leavings on Wednesday with peppers and onions and Mexican flavors and spices.
I assume a porch chop has a lot of fiber. 😉
The nails are a bit tough, but you need to tenderize.
Here’s another good option for (canned): Click black beans.
I’ve also thrown in sun-dried tomatoes which work well.
Derek isn’t allowed knives? 😉
“May I take your trident, sir?”
“What are your meal planning tips?”
Me: What’s for dinner?
Mrs F: What would you like?
Me: What do you have?”
Puts various bowls of stuff on the table
Mrs F: Chose what you want
Mine: make sandwich (open-faced Wasa with anything, really). Or heat soup.
I used to care at least somewhat about cooking…
There is someone living in my house that I’ve never seen. Must be, ’cause all I ever eat are leftovers. I want to meet this guy.
I’m not a finicky eater, some things I may not want seconds on but I tell my wife if she never made this dish again I’d be happy with that. She really liked cooking for my 2 brothers. She said, “Fourscores are easy, they eat everything” and she was right.
I found that I can stomach leftovers a lot more readily when I reheat them in the toaster oven or the air fryer. Nuking most leftovers makes them disgusting.
I get a devilish joy in stinking up the break room at work with my microwaved salmon.
But, yes, I would agree: toaster >> microwave
#metoo
You deserve to eat dried out fish, just for doing that.
We have all the countertop decorations. They get used a lot for real cooking. I use the MW for breakfast oatmeal. I spent a lot of time downstairs in my office (computer and check book) and have a small coffee maker and an MW and refrig so I can make coffee, etc whenever.
I make a pot of coffee every morning and nuke the last cup of it in the afternoon.
I just got the pot ready so tomorrow morning, I’ll flip the switch on the way to the bathroom. I switch it off when it’s done, MW the second cup later, cups are generous portions.
I used to drink multiple cups at the office but since WFH, I drink one cup a day. Maybe I’m just too lazy to make a second cup (or) there’s the nap I take during every lunch hour that I was not able to achieve at the office which I enjoy way more than a second cup of coffee.
I do one cup only. If I need more caffeine, I have tea. Once in a blue moon, I have a second cup of coffee, but that’s reserved for “I’d fall asleep right row” days.
For as long as I can remember I’ve drank a lot of coffee, at times 20-25 cups a day. I don’t think I’ve ever had a job that didn’t have a coffee pot in it.
First trip to VN my office was next to ration breakdown. My clerks would talk trash to the clerks in RB and come back with giant cans, maybe 15-20 pounders. 2nd time I was next to the mess hall and I could go in and out at will. Now I drink 2 cups a day but 20 ouncers.
OMG ?
My one cup a day is a standard 8 oz.
OTOH I pounded three or four vodka Dews every night for 20 years so I shouldn’t talk.
Make meals that can be used as the basis for leftover meals. Steak one day can be donburi or salad the next.
Don’t be afraid to freeze leftovers rather than thinking you’ll eat it all up. Same for bread loaves. And easy to pull out a meal when you don’t feel like cooking or such.
Make meals work for you, what you like to eat and what you have time to prepare. Don’t be a slave to the kitchen. Unless that’s your thing.
For bulk items, particularly bulk produce, just buy what you need.
I just want to say that bleu cheese dressing is the pinnacle of salad dressings (*chomps another bite of romaine salad with EXTRA bleu cheese crumbles*), but I should probably at least try the vinaigrette recipes you linked. And I should try to make my own bleu cheese dressing – that shit is expensive!
I usually cook all my lunches and some of my suppers for the week on Satdee evening. On the grill goes salmon dusted with homemade Montreal seasoning, bratwurst, a pork product (either a thick cut pork chop or a tenderloin) and a ribeye steak. If I have time, I’ll also grill bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers. This week I baked Brussel sprouts with garlic and balsamic vinegar for the lunch sides. Most weeks I just cut up broccoli or cauliflower and top it with some sort of cheese for the sides. I need some more low carb ideas.
I am a sucker for the “reduced for quick sale meat bin” and the “damaged, dented, beyond best by” shelf. This week I scored a pound of greek bratwurst for $1.50 and stuffed peppers for $2.50. I like to think I am building up my immunity to botulism and sally monilla with every risky purchase. And I’m a cheapskate.
Back when I was married, I made 3 separate meals on weekend nights (in addition to my lunches for the week) – one for my ex-wife who is picky, one for my son who is extra picky, and one for me. It has been hard to adjust to cooking for just me. It has been really hard to adjust to buying groceries for just me.
When I was single I made a big pot of something each weekend. I ate it for one or two days, then froze the rest in meal sized vac seal bags. Once you get a stockpile of chili, stew, tamales, spaghetti sauce and meatballs, and various soups, start eating frozen a few times a week.
It’s better for you than takeout or buys mom or dad premade meals from the HEB.
I has to pass three taquerias a KFC, Churches, BBQ restaurants, and a Whataburger on the local road after my exit. I had to do something to not eat takeout every night.
I love blue cheese crumbles in a vinaigrette more than a true blue cheese creamy dressing.
I just do blue cheese crumbles with no dressing.
Is that weird?
You are posting in a chat room designed for weirdos!
“You, sir, are talking to a weirdo! Hai-yahhh!”
Bleu cheese dressing is easy. 1/2 mayo, 1/2 sour cream, added crumbled bleu cheese, salt and pepper.
My wife is trying to get our foodstuffs under control. Going through the freezer and trying to eat up what we have on hand. A lot of things tend to get buried in the back. A lot of dry product is way outdated, occasionally a bulging can. We tend to overstock, in case, but then rinse, repeat. She watches cooking shows and improvises, somehow it’s not the same.
My meals are easy to plan. I eat seconders like you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
You must spend a lot of time hungry
Do we have a discord? Asked about Pan Zagloba last thread.
I tend to have more cooking times on the weekend. Since its just me, anything I make is generally good for 2-3 servings generally, sometimes more if I use the slow cooker – but depending on mood, sometimes I hold onto leftovers for a LOOONG time before finishing.
https://discord.com/channels/334850908842229760/944793345044144188
Meal planning helps keep the weight off too. It doesn’t always have to be super healthy, but controlled portions of something fresh is better than highly processed anything, frankly.
We use themes rather than specific meals so that each week allows for some creativity while still maintaining the overall budget/health constraints. I do the same for lunches, though my lunches are more repetitive because I just don’t care and need sustenance. Except Fridays. Fridays are for eating out.
It also makes actually good food that much more enjoyable.
My WFH lunches are strictly an alternation of turkey and cheese* sandwiches with packaged Ramen** soups. Never get tired of either. I hope I stay WFH because it got a lot more expensive at the office.
*Swiss, or provolone for variety
**The gourmet Korean ones, not those gross cheap ones
WFH lunch is almost always salad w/ some sort of protein – turkey, usually, but leftover ribeye, leftover chicken, etc.
The NFL is going to require every team in the league to hire a minority or female offensive coach.
So, officially, is there ANYTHING that we can just leave in the male domain? There is no pipeline for female coaches. They have no experience with the game of football at even the high school level. It’s ridiculous to expect any of them to be able to come in and teach NFL athletes anything about playing their sport. It’s an absurdity to think any significant number should be on NFL staffs.
is there ANYTHING that we can just leave in the male domain
Firsting?
Females can First, but the female Firster is best left to compete against other females. Like we wouldn’t have female MMA fighters going against men in a sane world. They are inferior Firsters, but they can First.
Maybe they are targeting transgender females who have played in the NFL; that kills two birds with one stone.
I use to buy a whole chicken every week, that and one or two items from the reduced for quick sale bin made for cheap eatin’. Plus using the back and other scraps for stock was nice. Might have to go back to that as Biden’s inflation* kicks in, either that or start working more than 20 hours a week again (shudders).
*And every other President’s and Congressperson’s who printed, borrowed, and spent trillions of dollars for the last forty years.
It’s still Putin’s Gas Hike, right?
We should tax the rich, like Willy Sutton said, that’s where the money is.
We were just given 2 big packages of beef bones from a recently butchered beef. My wife carefully removed the meat, of which there was a lot and made stock, froze about 20 servings or so. She is very conservative and thrifty as I am. The neighbor also gave us liver, burgers and a big steak. He left with several packs of teriyaki venison sticks. He gets honey every year. Country folks are nice.
When we had 2 hungry boys in the house, my wife would plan out two weeks worth of dinners and shop accordingly.
She was also raised that wasting food is unacceptable.
Now she has trouble making small amounts of food, so there are times when I eat spaghetti, curry, or something like that for 3 nights straight.
Luckily my wife is an excellent cook.
I do not need variety and I love leftovers. If I get on a kick, I’ll eat the same thing for 3 weeks in a row.
Only thing I’ve ever eaten three nights in a row and not been sick of was my ex-mother-in-law’s lasagna. It was that good.
My lasagna is fabulous.
Ah, lasagna . I had fettuccine for dinner, no lasagna for a long time.
*makes note to bring lasagna to the next Honey Harvest*
pistoffnick makes a fine lasagna – heavy on the garlic. For himself, he substitutes zucchini for the noodles.
When I was first married, the wife decided to make lasagna for my mother. My wife didn’t know a clove of garlic from a bulb of garlic. She made it with several bulbs of garlic. I like garlic, but even that was too much for me.
https://y.yarn.co/79458d2d-9267-45d7-b6f8-4b13f3c328bb_screenshot.jpg
Is that you?
Not much fancy planning but the list app on my phone is a godsend compared to paper lists. I spend way too much on food and that might come back and bite me on the ass sooner than I thought.
3 days is about my limit.
My wife knows this and freezes what’s left and that’s what I end up eating when she goes out of town.
This was supposed to be a reply to Moj, above.
I have a LOT of repeats but I cannot eat the same thing twice in row, ever. So I wind up alternating a lot.
I tend to be pretty loose about it, but I write down five or six dinners I want to cook that week, look in the freezer and see if I already have any of the proteins for it, then make a list and hit the grocery store. While I’m there, I’ll pick up meats I tend to use regularly that happen to look good or are at good prices, and if they aren’t on the grocery list for the week, into the freezer they go, for when I’m trying to plan the next week.
I keep larger stocks of things like flour, rice, cornmeal and other shelf stable items on hand and buy in bulk as I’m starting to get low.
And then I’m not rigid about it. I’ll cook whatever of the menu items I most feel like eating or have the energy to cook that night, or I say to hell with it and get carryout.
Weekends are for time consuming or complex recipes and experimentation; weeknights are for items in regular rotation I know I can get to the table in under an hour, max.
Mjy wife cooks in the same general manner as you; see what looks ggo,good, fresh, and go from there. But, she is a very talented and experienced home cook. I, on the other hand am not. I need recipes spelled out for me, as I cannot wing it. So, every few weeks she sends me a list of about 20-30 recipes she finds interesting and I plan from there.
OT – “Antiques Roadshow” had a $300,000 painting on the show tonite. It was “The Answer” by a painter named Jane Peterson. It was done circa 1925. Soon as I saw it, I thought “that resembles Hayeksplosives.” Do an internet search for it and see if you agree.
Red hair and bright-red lipstick aside…maybe. I’ll go along with resembles.
I’m find if I plan too far ahead, I inevitably don’t want to eat the thigs I planned. So I keep lots of chicken, ground beef, and some steaks & pork chops in the freezer, with veggies that also freeze well (broccoli, carrots, etc.). In the fridge I keep yogurt, sour cream, ketchup, mustard, pickles, and some more “exotic” sauces & condiments like oyster sauce. Then of course there’s staples like pasta and rice. If I want to make something that isn’t very freezable, it’s usually just a few things like mushrooms.
So between quick runs to the store and stocking up on staples I can usually throw stuff together last minute that I want to eat.
I have had fun with Home Chef in the past. Used them in Minnesota and later in Escondido CA.
I’m not sure it will work in Nevada heat, even with the cold packs they use.
My favorite part of it was that they’d send some shit I’d never cooked and some methods I’d never used. I learned my Brussels sprouts technique, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, various sauces, and definitely the seafood cooking.
I’d never have dared to buy scallops before but, damn, Home Chef showed me the light!!
Tulip, I’m bookmarking this one in case the shit hits the fan and we are back to survival mode.
We just gave away 2 large bags of spices. My wife would buy a large size, use a little and it would get hidden somewhere. Spices that she never used. She did her Spring Cleaning, the stuff went to two sisters, one of which went to cooking school, both have kids/husbands that are adventurous. Our old friends are more into meat/potatoes/dessert and lots of it and we’re not having dinners with friends much any more. Between the ginned up epidemic and the calendar we seem to have a lot fewer friends.
We used to buy tons of spices at COSTCO in bulk. I probably have stuff that we bought 20 years ago.
A while back I heard some advice that said, “If you can’t remember when you bought a spice, you need to throw it away.” Their takeaway was that most spices lose their flavor after about a year or so and should be replaced. We are working on replacing the stuff that we use and discarding the stuff that we don’t.
I’ve heard that as well, and don’t buy it. I figure if the spices still smell like spices then they are still good, and I’ve used many years old spices that still smelled of spice, they may have lost some flavor but never to the point that it made a noticeable difference. The “spices are only good for a year” shit is probably tied into Big Bay Leaf’s agenda somehow.
Joins Hyperbole’s campaign against Big Bay Leaf. They do NUTHINK!
Willkommen, Kamerad
*hides myrtle tree in yard from pon*
Freezer!
To be lost with the pie crusts that never gets used ’cause Mrs F doesn’t like to make ’em and doesn’t eat any sweet stuff.
Late enough for an off-topic? OK, here goes:
I have a woodpecker that is trying to feed on my house. Over the weekend I bought a .410 to reduce that f*cker to a puff of feathers. I had no ammo so I bought a box of .410 birdshot for (choke) $50. A buck a round. Well, an unloaded gun is pretty useless so I bought a box. (I also bought a box of .357 for $4 per round. Quadruple choke.)
Been shopping around. Apparently .410 is as scarce as teeth on a hen. I stopped at Big R on the way home today. Nothing. Three ammo websites provided the same answer. Nada. I guess $50 beats none at all.
https://ammoseek.com/ammo/410-bore
My deer hunting buddy HATES red squirrels. He keeps a load .410 by the back door during deer camp. If we see one, we are obligated to shoot at it.
I cooked one for him once. Even dredged in egg wash, then dredged in spiced flour and fried in bacon grease, it was horrid.
Squirrel is delicious slow cooked in cream of mushroom soup.
Gumbo…
Finding 16 gauge is a challenge as well. Even in 2000 it was common and inexpensive. Now it is hard to find and expensive when you do. Luckily I purchased a case in 1998 and only use it for a couple of days for hunting.
I haven’t even seen .410 in decades. When I was a kid that was a popular “starter” for grade school kids to hunt dove with.
Pahrump Nevada VFW Saturday swap meet has your covered.
Every type of ammo you could want. Seriously.
Come out to the desert! We’ll get together, have a few laughs!
What about the coast?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NiRBdtdS4
There was a large assortment of 16 ga. at Big R today.
I’m surprised that 16 isn’t more popular. I always thought that it was a nice compromise between 12 and 20. I have a 12 for HD but mostly shoot clays with my 20’s.
Reminds me that there is a gun show in Los Alamos this weekend.
And I really do want to meet with you at some point. Pulsed power is such a unique field that it’s rare to find another practitioner of the art. It was cool to see that Scruffy was commenting on HPM today.
I used a 16 double for years hunting upland, an old Western Field. One of the best shouldering guns.
410 is a little tougher to reload but not impossible. I thought I saw 410s at Fleet Farm but maybe not. The shelves were pretty bare and high priced.
I never reloaded 410, never had a gun.
I do have a few pounds of fine shot left over, I forget what size, you are welcome to it if you come to HH this year.
All the lids I was asked to write are sent to Trashy! It was fun, so I’m glad some of you took me up on it.
Shit! thanks for reminding me! I had the lids righ here and I can’t find them! gotta mail them out tomorrow
You’re aces, Athena!
Thank you for sparing SP my chicken-scratch.
lol I didn’t spare her my terrible art!
Thank you Athena.
Thank you!
I don’t do much as far as meal planning, because I am very fickle about what I want to eat on a given day. That can get pretty time consuming if I have to figure out what to make each day though. But I have started keeping things in the freezer that can be quickly combined with other stuff to make a meal. The GF and I try to decide on the next day’s dinner while we’re eating dinner.
I make a big batch of meatballs, for instance, and then use them to put together a pasta meal relatively quickly. I can make enough for 8 separate meals pretty easily using this recipe.
I also buy large packages of pork chops and chicken thighs, legs, and breasts, and then separate them and vacuum-seal them individually or in pairs for quick use later. I can throw a pan-fried pork chop dinner together pretty quickly, and add in some fresh vegetables or even frozen ones as sides.
Brussels sprouts seem to keep well in the fridge, and they can be quickly sliced and set roasting in the oven. We also keep sweet potatoes in the pantry and they can be chopped into chunks and roasted easily too. Bell peppers keep well and along with onion and carrot can be combined with either ready-made curry sauce pouches or even curry paste and canned coconut milk, along with frozen chicken or pork.
I try to keep it simple and quick so that I don’t have to think too much, but I also try to make sure we have the maximum amount of fresh whole foods in the meals. The exceptions would be packaged curry sauces or italian pasta sauces.
Frozen vacuum sealed fish like salmon or tilapia can be drizzled with pre-made marinade/sauce and baked or grilled quickly too.
Vacuum sealing keeps meats and fish good in a freezer almost indefinitely (on reasonable time scales) and easier to thaw (just dump the pack in some warm water for a little while).
I’ve been chatting away in the Monday afternoon post not realizing there was Monday evening post.
And now it’s time for bed.
Don’t go, man! I was all set on making an ass of myself over the next hour or so and need an audience!
*perks up*
Well, I guess I’m not all that tired.
Ever drink too much on a work day then overcompensate by drinking too much coffee in the evening so you don’t wake up with a hangover?
Also, soon after my neighbor moved out a family of mice moved in. Planning all sort of murderous intent. The games begin after work tomorrow…
…*flips through the basic TV channels*…god, I want to kick Ted Mosby in the nuts.
Good luck with the mouse hunt. Why don’t you just get a cat? Good company…easy to take care of…
And Ted Mosby looks like Cary Grant compared to Leonard Hofstadter.
No pets allowed in my apartment complex.
…I don’t care what Ted’s M looks like. He’s a narcissist, self delusional douchebag. “I’m just looking for my true love.” Yeah, and treating scores of women like disposable meat socks in the process. At least the NPH character is honest with himself about what he is..fuck Ted.
*flips channels*
Sure, Kat Dennings has great tits but the writing on that Broke Girls show is for shit.
*flips channels*
Ah, Bob Ross.
*hits bowl*
I didn’t mean looks-looks. I meant not looking like a total fucktard.
But, my hatred of Leonard comes from Johnny’s complete lack of acting skills. If both fictional people were real, obviously Ted is the worse of the two.
Fair enough. He’s pretty much made a career out of playing the same role he did on Rosanne. Yet, unlike a lot of people, I kinda liked the first three seasons of TBBT. Then it turned into Dorks Fumbling Through Relationships/ Friends for Nerds then I stopped giving a shit.
“My girlfriend’s mad at me! What should I do?!”
Well, later she won’t be. Don’t be such a pussy.
Ted Mosby… Leonard Hofstadter
I had to look up who those were.
Why do you two hate yourselves? Stop watching that nonsense.
Especially TBBT – the little I’ve seen of it just sucks. Nerd minstrel show.
You want nerds? Watch Silicon Valley. That is hilariously real.
* le sigh *
Terrible closing-tag fail.
I’m just drunkenly flipping through channels while waiting for the caffeine to wear off. Sometimes during times like this I hate watch syndicated sitcoms. It passes the time.
*flips channels*
Hey, X Files. I can live with that.
…and I usually get my fill of daily nerdiness right here. 😉
Which is what’s so confusing to me. It’s a terribly banal, and oftentimes annoying, character. Every single other character, on both Roseanne and Big Bang, both the stars and the recurring characters, are more interesting than anything I’ve seen Johnny Galecki do. The amount of money that guy has managed to make playing a character many high school drama students could do in their sleep is just astounding.
Good for him, but if I never hear his voice again, I’ll die happy.
Pop quiz, hot shot:
Dana Scully or Gillian Anderson?
X-Files is a’right.
Caught an episode not long ago and thought it hadn’t aged too terribly.
…referring to a conversation probably only I’ve seen. Can’t remember where I saw it, but it was basically this; Scully is hot but uptight. Anderson is hot but very flighty. Which one do you prefer?
Me, I pick Scully.
And with that, I really am going to bed.
Yeah, Scully. Real-life Anderson seems like a PITA.
Scully. She’s a technically a doctor so has that hot professional woman edge. Plus, the upright girls are freaks waiting to happen if you play your cards right.
Good evening, Mike, slumbrew. I’m out as well.
Bonne nuit, gents
To your first question; no. But I have drank Irish covfefes from mid morning to early evening. That makes for a late, drunk night.
My meal planning: Hit the grocery store once a week. By a small handful of prepackaged vegetables, a couple of round steaks, bread, pasta, eggs, peanut butter and some cheap lunch meat. Anything more than that is a luxury.
Also, I guess something happened during the Oscars but honestly, who fucking cares? Why should I give anymore of a shit what happens there than what happens at the local dive bar on a Saturday night? What’s the difference?
https://twitter.com/mhighgate/status/1508536350584107008?s=21&t=umDslCgKpBpxtgQ8DmMM1g
Hah
I finally got around to listening to his speech to the Europeans a couple days ago. No exaggeration, the man is senile.
$325M to strengthen democracy and human rights in and around Ukraine!
Fantastic topic!
The only way I can maintain Glibfit is to plan ahead.
We spend Saturday and Sunday getting food ready for the week. It’s easier for me because I can eat leftover burgers, steaks,etc forever. Some fruit on the side and I’m golden.
I really love my vacuum sealer. You can prep a ton of stuff, seal it up and enjoy it for months. Highly recommended.
I don’t even know what some of you would do without me. Your lives would be so painfully…second.
Found a little gully.
https://ibb.co/NTtXdDB
As a defensive position, it is too wide. Points also deducted for being too linear. It is too easy to place flanking fire down it. I expect better from the IJA, ughh I mean the JGSDF.
We prep meals for the week.
There’s some overlap, but usually independent of each other.
#lazycooks
Covid cruises:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ruby-princess-san-francisco-princess-cruises/
Line up those body bags.
🙄
Fuck, another cold ass morning. ?
Sixteen degrees for some reason.
18 this morning calling for 70 tomorrow afternoon.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/without-notifying-parents-new-jersey-middle-school-forces-students-to-learn-about-transgender-hormone-therapy/
“New Jersey is set to enact updated health standards in September pushed by Democratic governor Phil Murphy that teach second-graders about genitalia, reproduction, and “gender expression.” Fifth-graders will be required to define masturbation and differentiate between sexual orientation and gender identity, and eighth-graders will have to define gender identity, gender expression, vaginal sex, oral sex, and anal sex. The governor-appointed New Jersey Board of Education adopted the standards in 2020.”
I’d say Western civilization is collapsing
Local news:
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/03/28/james-amabile-human-remains-found-adventures-with-a-purpose-darby-creek/
So strange.
Mornin everyone.
Mornin’.
Morning has broken, like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.
Morning. Alles. Looks like can count today as another “Marked safe from global thermonuclear war.”
On that note and Tulip’s original post, here is the “bug-out” bag in my garage. I got a basic one but then added all kinds of goodies like extra water, vitamins D,C and zinc; much better first aid supplies etc.
https://www.stealthangelsurvival.com/products/2-person-emergency-preparedness-kit-red-survival-backpack-72-hours-stealth-angel-survival
I felt silly getting a bug out bag, but now it seems like a damned fine investment.
I hope o never have to find out.
Oh yeah: main point was that “Mountain House” dried meals are the absolute bomb. Stocked on those bad boys.
Mountain House beef stroganoff almost makes me want to cheer on WW
https://mountainhouse.com
that’s a good price. Thanks for the link
Good morning, HE (are you up already or still up?) Scruffy, and Sean, and good whatever-it-is-where-you-are, straff!
I had a heck of a time dropping off to sleep last night, so I suspect there’s little to no chance I’ll stay awake for tonight’s entire episode to see how they’re doing on Oak Island.
Morning.
Howdy. You having any luck getting your sleep schedule back on track? Mine seems to be getting further off kilter.
I’m getting closer.
Good! I think I need to resist the urge to curl up on the sofa after dinner watching TV. I doze off there, then can’t get to sleep when I get to bed.
Shall I occupy the space and thus prevent its use? I’d have to drive down there first..
That might work. Would you be averse to possibly having a cat park himself on your chest?
Depends whether claws are involved.
Probably not – just, in one case, a massive weight that may make you think you’re experiencing cardiac symptoms or a collapsed lung.
Neat. Might grab one of those.
Good morning everyone. You callous sophisticates lured me in with your cryptic box scores and now I find myself wasting time on Quordle. It took a few plays before I figured it out; I was trying to make horizontal words that also made vertical words… nigh impossible.
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on the daily puzzle this morning
I’m going to have to try that soon. It’s just like back in junior high when everyone started wearing Nike All Courts in the smoking area within two weeks. Hey, maybe this Disco Dance craze is alright. Looks like all the hot girls like it.
I’m hoping the fad burns out relatively quickly.
At the very least the fad of posting number squares.
Fine
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lulz
It’s not a great one, but there’s no reason to mock me, Sean.
lulz @thesnark
Some wag on the twatters recently wrote something like “Wordle is the sourdough starter of Omicron.”
Imagine trying to parse that sentence two years ago.
Yes
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Here’s a question people – from a constitutional perspective, can the feds use the commerce clause to ban the taxation of fuel, as it is vital to interstate commerce and taxing it is an impediment to such?
I don’t think there’s much they can’t do under the commerce clause, it any other clause. It’s not like the words matter to them.
To put it another way, penaltax.
Under the actual meaning, not the distended penumbras and emanations.
I’m so cynical now that I find it hard to care. Of course, that may be the point of constantly keeping us on edge with pandemics and the threat of nuclear war.
This is where I landed after 11/3/20. That shut-down of counting while I was driving to work…
Check practiscore. SCSA at Saraspa has started back up.
My meal plans follow 4X20. Since Judi went vegan she has been cooking alternative meals. It’s not ideal because she has never understood portion size since the kids moved away but I have the palate of a five-year-old since that drastic dental surgery. I don’t care what I eat but I do care about throwing food away. I’ll eat the same meal for days on end because nothing tastes like much of anything.
Favorite salad dressing recipe here. I’ll be the first to admit, it’s… pungent.
And one of the more versatile meal preps that we use: take a small cut of pork butt, brown it on all sides in a stock pot or sauce pan, then add jars of inexpensive tomato sauce. Throw in slices of mushroom, chopped onion or carrot, wine, whatever. Set the heat to medium low and cook away, stirring occasionally. Braising in the sauce breaks down the butt and renders the fat. The port butt can be sliced for sandwiches (Bosslady loves these) shredded and served with a bit of the sauce over polenta, or eaten on it’s own. The sauce will be vastly improved over store bought, and can be re-jarred and stored for weeks in the refrigerator.
That was us 20 years ago.
Yeah, can’t stomach coffee anymore. All of the small pleasures are pretty much done. Most of the big ones too, considering my age, availability and ability. How am I supposed to grip a golf club or any club for that matter?
They make pills for that.
:-)!
It’s a great commercial. Comet channel runs it a lot.
Morning all
Well I’ll be last! Seems to line up with my personal circumstances.
Poor old Festus, just waiting for the hammer to fall.