Text 17763, 110 rader
Skriven 2008-12-13 09:46:42 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: TV dinners
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Hiya Ruth!
-> 
->  hn> a hard time remembering to put the dressing
->  hn> on the side (and I've never been to a place
->  hn> that has) I'd just order the salad with no
->  hn> dressing and eat it that way...or order some
->  hn> dressing *after* the salad was at the table.
-> 
-> One way to go about it & get what you want.  I have to remember to ask
-> for the dressing on the side; it's not that ingrained in my brain yet.
-> Actually, fast food places always have the dressing on the side. (G)
-> 
A couple of our regular haunts do that
as well with most of their salads now.
-> 
-> -> We're going to find a new home for the treadmill before we move; we'll
-> -> probably be in a smaller place.
-> 
->  hn> Craig's list, or the annual Church White elephant sale?
-> 
-> Or Play It Again Sports but I've got to find the instruction book.
-> 
We have filing cabinets in the computer room...
Anne is a great one for filing! Must come from
the "Teacher Gene"! (Grin)

-> ->  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.
-> 
->  hn> We have one in the living room and
->  hn> that's it. It's plenty for us, and I've
->  hn> never wanted a TV in the bedroom.
-> 
-> At times, when I've been laid up and not felt like reading or whatever,
-> it was nice to put on some brainless shows.  But, for the most part, we
-> don't watch that much tv to begin with.
->
We will often watch in the evening but if 
nothing interesting is on, or we don't feel
like watching one of our DVD's, we will most
often have music on. We do like some things
on Discovery channel though...Mythbusters
and now the new Time Warp are fun!
 
-> ->  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
-> 
-> -> 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> This was back in the early '70's when I was
->  hn> in college. Money was perpetually tight in
->  hn> those days, but we managed.
->  hn> We loved making presents instead of buying
->  hn> them, much more personal and the recipients
->  hn> knew we were thinking of them when we made
->  hn> them!
-> 
-> I know; that's why I enjoy making them.  I did sweat shirt jackets for
-> my mom and MIL one year, with painted sweat shirts for my dad and FIL.
-> My MIL was stopped by several ladies over the next few months when she
-> was wearing the jacket so they could see how I made it.  We're trying
-> not to do food gifts for our parents now as both moms are diabetic.
->
You could think of one of their favorite 
treats and see if you could come up with a 
good diabetic version of it for them. My Dad 
is also diabetic, and one of his favorite treats
has always been peanut brittle...I've not managed
to come up with a diabetic version that works ....
so far!
 
-> ->  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)
-> 
->  hn> We probably go through less than 4 loaves a year
->  hn> these days.
-> 
-> I think we average a loaf every couple of weeks--give or take a day or
-> so on either side.  Crusts generally go into a bag kept in the freezer.
-> When that's full (as it is now), I'll thaw them, dice them and oven dry
-> them out.  The next stage is running them thru the blender for my own
-> bread crumbs; haven't bought any crumbs in years.
-> 
It'd probably take me four years to get enough 
crusts! (grin) Then again...I don't usually cut 
them off the bread to start with! 
chat with you soon!
hap 
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