D and I haven't figured out how many groceries to buy each week or even each day. I'm grateful that his parents help to buy some food for us; they mean well, but it throws me off a bit sometimes. For example, I will try to plan at least three days in advance on what to eat, so I can buy the necessary ingredients, but then D's parents give us food and then we can't finish all the food before it goes bad and then we feel guilty for having to throw away food.
We prefer to eat different things every night, so we end up with excess food that's been more than a day old. Maybe we want cucumbers for salad, but after two days of eating cucumbers (cut differently each time) I decide to make coleslaw for a change. We buy a head of cabbage, but we can only manage to eat half a head. The cucumber meanwhile is sitting in the fridge. The next day, D expresses that he would like baby carrots, so we buy baby carrots to go with cucumber slices, but not too much cucumber because we have carrots to go with them, so the remaining cucumber goes back into the fridge. The next day, we go out to eat because of course we got bored of eating at home. Poor cucumber is sitting in the fridge again, but it's not lonesome because it has the leftover baby carrots and the half head of cabbage. By the next day, D's parents have bought us more stuff and we have to eat those things because his parents were so nice to drive all the way over to feed us.
If I actually knew how to cook well, I could use cucumber, baby carrots, and cabbage in different recipes.
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This is why I need to come over more often 'cause you know that I will clean out your fridge and eat anything. D's parents won't be able to keep up! ;)
next time you shop at Save On Foods, not StupidStore, ask someone in produce to cut a head of cabbage in half for you. This way you dont have to try and eat a whole head before it goes bad! You could also invite me over once in awhile, and Angela and I will "clean out" your fridge for yah!
You are both welcome to our humble fridge anytime. You are also welcome to use whatever we have in the fridge to make us dinner. Anyone else?
Someone once suggested a recipe called "Garbage Soup", which sounds rather disgusting, but was based in what I think is a good idea ... you take things like chicken bones, leftover vegetables, etc, and put them all in a container in the freezer ... add to it as you like, and then when you are ready, you can make a pot of soup with all the leftovers. I'm not sure it will solve the cucumber problem, but it would solve the carrot/cabbage issue.
Of course the other solution is to have D suggest to his parents that they don't need to bring food.
Or else, freeze whatever they do bring you :D
sign me up, Tree! (if I can EVER find my way out there... is WestJet flying out there yet??)
hey, we can all bring something to throw into the soup... and I can bring my pressure cooker thingy and the soup can be ready in no time.
as for buying things in halves, does that work with everything in the produce section? would they sell me half a cucumber? that'd be awesome... 'coz i can never finish my cucumber either. ya see Tree, if you live in Richmond, we can split our groceries!!
Garbage soup sounds very similar to "Stone Soup" which is a soup of everything thrown in, plus a rock. I will try that. Thanks for the suggestions!
=m=: I'm giving a photo map to Angela so she knows what landmarks to look out for when she tries to find her way to my house. Maybe you can come with her one day. If not, WestJet does fly to the Abbotsford airport and I could pick you up there.
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