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Skriven 2016-01-21 17:25:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: Re: eel  was: Chambord
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-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 01-18-16  16:57 <=-

 >  >  >  RH> treatment insurance doesn't cover.
 >  >  > That's a good thing to support, too...  :)
 >  >  RH> It's also my alma mater, so that gives me an even better excuse.
 >  > Yup...  :)
 >  RH> Then I go and buy other stuff while I'm at it....(sigh) 
 > Well.... at least you are supporting your alma mater as well.....? (G) 
 > 
 RH> Yep. Works both ways.  And it cleans stuff I don't need or want out of
 RH> the house.

And hopefully, you don't add TOO much more into the house... ;)
 
 >  > And that you accomplished, after all... :)
 >  RH> Worked fine for that!
 > And next time that's your primary goal, maybe you'd have a slightly
 > different set of ingredients and/or a slightly different approach to
 > using them... and end up with something other than goo... ;)
 >  
 RH> That's how we roll!  I watch Chopped and sometimes wonder what's so
 RH> tough about it.  That's how regular people cook!

Or at least reasonably creative regular people... ;)

 >  RH> Might.  There's also something called Savingstar that might be an
 >  RH> option or IBotta if you have a smartphone.  Both of those have you link
 >  RH> a shopper card they support and give you money back for the stuff you
 >  RH> were buying anyway. 
 > No smartphone here... no plans for one, either...  :)   I just swipe my
 > Shoppers Card at the store and watch the stuff come off...  

 RH> In that case, Savingstar provided your shopper card is listed as
 RH> participating.
 
And where does one find that out...?

 >  RH> Ours doesn't really have store coupons any more except for those clip
 >  RH> to card things.  Some of them are for store brands. 
 > Wegmans started to phase out store coupons after they introduced the
 > shoppers card... and then ended up with a variety of ways to also do the
 > coupons... they have coupons printed up for the demonstrators to hand
 > out from the demo stations, they have coupons to physically clip in
 > their Menu Magazine, and there are periodic mailings of particular sorts
 > of items, like Organics or Family Packs, that also have special coupons
 > for some of the featured items... Mostly, but not all, store branded
 > items... And then there are the coupons that get printed on one's
 > pharmacy paperwork... ;)  I clip the ones for things we were going to
 > get anyway... :)
 > 
 RH> I clip anything I might use.  The paper store brand coupons went away.
 RH> There are times I use the clip to card, a paper coupon, and Savingstar
 RH> and get paid to haul stuff out of the store.  Can't argue with that.
 RH> Anything I can't use gets donated.

Yup.  :)

 >  RH> Well, maybe not tofu or some of those fake meat products.  I got Quorn
 >  RH> sausage, or would-be sausage for next to nothing once.  That's about
 >  RH> what it was worth.  I can't tell you what it tasted like because it
 >  RH> didn't taste like much.  The texture was pretty foul too.
 > Sounds like you may have overpaid there, even at next-to-nothing... ;)

 RH> I the remains today for lunch.  They weren't as horrible as I
 RH> recalled, but the texture was stiff nothing to write home about.  Worth
 RH> about what I paid.

It improved with a bit of age, then...?  ;)

ttyl          neb

... Appetisers are those little bits you eat until you lose your appetite.

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