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Skriven 2008-12-08 20:50:53 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17438 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: TV dinners
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Hi Hap,

->  hn> What I try to do with anything other
->  hn> than italian dressing is put it on the side
->  hn> and dip my fork into the dressing before I
->  hn> pick up my salad...use a lot less that way!

-> I've done that from time to time, especially if it's a dressing that's
-> not my favorite.  Just have to remember to ask that the dressing be put
-> on the side as a lot of places plunk a heap of it on the salad before
-> it's brought out.

 hn> Yes, and it makes it harder to cut back when you can't
 hn> get the kitchen help to cooperate!

Yes, but some places are just so stuck in their ways, they don't like to
break out of the rut they're in.  I was nicely surprised the last time
we went to Texas Roadhouse; I remembered to ask that they leave the hard
boiled egg off the salad and they did.  I had thought that they had a
lot of salads all "plated" (bowled?) up, ready for the server to grab
with an appropriate cup of dressing.  Could be they do do that in busier
times but the server was out within a few minutes with salad & no egg.
They might have a number of bowls of ingredients in the kitchen so they
can make custom salads quickly.

->  hn> One of the nicest things about the
->  hn> Gazelle is that it folds up and I can

-> The treadmill folds but not as compactly. It can never be fully out of
-> the way in a room as it takes up too much space.

 hn> Which is why we don't have one, we have
 hn> very limited space as it is in this small
 hn> house! The gazelle fits nicely in a space by

We're going to find a new home for the treadmill before we move; we'll
probably be in a smaller place.

 hn> the front door and we can exercise and watch
 hn> tv at the same time! (we only have one tv)

We have one tv down stairs and one up stairs (in the computer room, had
been in the bed room) but Steve is talking about cutting back to one.
There are times tho, when we want to watch different shows (not as much
with no extended cable) or one of us will want to watch a movie....but I
think we can work it out. (G)

-> ->  hn> used to enjoy chicken pot pies...when we
-> ->  hn> could get em for 10 for a dollar on sale!
-> ->  hn> Yes, it was a LOONG time ago (grin)
 hn> ->
-> -> I think we got some pot pies at prices like that but got some at 4/$1 as
-> -> well.  There was one week we had to live on bargain brand pot pies and
-> -> hot dogs as we'd had to use the bulk of the pay check or bills.  Didn't
-> -> have a freezer then so couldn't raid it. We decided never to do that
-> -> again, if at all possible and never did.

 hn> We had one Christmas where we had
 hn> forgotten to pay one bill, and when it
 hn> came due we had to come up with the
 hn> cash...and it left us with $0.50 each
 hn> to spend for Christmas...Of course
 hn> fifty cents went a lot further in those
 hn> days, but it was still a tiny Christmas,
 hn> but it was one of the best, filled with
 hn> other than material joys.

We haven't had them quite that tight but pretty close.  Steve was out of
work one year, had been laid off just after Thanksgiving.  I've done
a lot of home made presents over the years, simply because the money
wasn't there to buy anything.


->  hn> We all have those "learning" experiences when we are
->  hn> first married. They make the best memories
->  hn> in later years though!

-> Yes, as in teaching folks that raised soy beans that they were good
-> people food as well as animal food. (G)  I also developed a sourdough
-> pizza crust--never wrote it down tho back in the day.  We had a starter
-> for about 6 years, lasting even into Steve's initial time in the Army.
-> We gave it away when we packed out for Germany in October, 86.

 hn> When we were younger we had a great Sourdough
 hn> recipe and did lots of bread baking...but life just
 hn> got busier and busier and it fell by the wayside.
 hn> Now we eat so little bread that it would not
 hn> make sense to have one!

My bread making by hand went down the tubes after I broke my wrists.
That's when we got the first bread machine; I still had to make school
lunches for the girls plus lunch for me & Steve.  We still eat probably
more bread than you do but have cut back on the total amount over the
years. A loaf lasts longer now that it's just 2 of us here. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly@earthlink.net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


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