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Ärende: Re: putting up  was: Thig
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 01-15-14  20:47 <=-

 NB>> That's a little more extreme than what I was brought up with...
 NB>> Variety was fine, so there could be grape jelly AND marmalade AND
 NB>> strawberry preserves, but there had better not be more than one jar
 NB>> of each open at any time... :)  The old almost empty jar needed

 RH> It was extreme but neccessary in our family. Dad's job didn't pay that
 RH> well (He did photography work--liquor licenses, wedding, etc on the
 RH> side for more income.) so food had to stretch. 

We were in a similar situation.. Daddy never had really high-paying
jobs (neither college teaching nor Naval lab research paid that well)...
and he didn't do anything on the side, nor did Mommy ever work outside
the house (until much later, when she was able to go back to college and
got a parttime job to help finance that)... 

 RH> Mom made some of our
 RH> jellies and jams--I remember picking currents from our neighbor's
 RH> bushes (with their permission) to go into a rather puckery jelly. Dad
 RH> put in a couple of gardens every year and Mom canned as much as she
 RH> could. (They bought their first freezer when I was in college.)

Daddy mostly just hunted down bargains at the grocery stores, and got
baked goods from the bakery thrift stores...

 RH> Mom started working for the school when I was in 6th grade and my
 RH> youngest sister was in first grade. The financial situation eased a
 RH> bit but we never had more than one jam or jelly open at once until
 RH> Mom was diagnosed diabetic. That was only relatively recently; a
 RH> couple of years after that, they started buying the low sugar
 RH> jellies for her and the full sugar ones for the rest of the family.
 
One gets into patterns that persist even when the dire straits ease up
and the reason for the pattern isn't so insistent...  ;)

 NB>> scraping down before the new could be opened.  :)  And of course,
 NB>> an open jar of dill pickles could exist at the same time as one of
 NB>> bread and butter pickles...  With eight kids, jars managed to be
 NB>> emptied pretty frequently, though... :)

 RH> Your family could probably go thru one in a meal. Only time we had
 RH> pickles was for Thanksgiving (at my grandparents) or Christmas; the

We weren't allowed to go thru one in a meal, though... it was always
carefully rationed out by Daddy, who always served out the entire meal
for the family (and guests, if there)...

 RH> rest of the year pickle relish was as close as we'd get. Mom would
 RH> set that or ketchup for burgers, not both. For meat loaf, she'd put
 RH> down ketchup or chili sauce; morning (required) piece of bread had
 RH> jelly/jam, not butter unless it was toasted (rare event). But, we
 RH> made it thru those times, lived to tell others about it. (G)

Yup... and managed to at least modify some of the patterns in the
process as well... :)

 NB>> True...  Doubling up the cooking generally manages to be properly
 NB>> leftover... especially if you put away half before serving... :) 
 NB>> It's the "this is probably a little more than we really need, so
 NB>> there should be a bit left over to stow away for something else"
 NB>> things that don't always manage to be left over...  ;)

 RH> The past couple of yeas, I've told Steve "This is supposed to be (x)
 RH> number of servings" with some things so we don't over eat. Sometimes
 RH> the extra goes into the freezer; other times it gets recycled as lunch
 RH> a day or 2 later.
 
That works... :)  With us it's likely to be all or part of another
supper meal... :)

 NB>>> Exactly...  Wegmans' prepared herb stuffing has a "surprise"
 NB>>> ingredient... chopped Granny Smith apples...  One more thing I
 NB>>> can't have... ;(  And they had a tasting station with their
 NB>>> specialty ham for the new year... apple-honey glazed... 
 NB>>> oh well...  ;0
 RH>> Sigh!
 NB>> One manages to survive... generally... (G)

 RH> Feels like you're just surviving some days, just keeping your head
 RH> above water.

At least with food allergies, there's generally equally appealing
alternatives so that one isn't too badly miffed...  :)   For other
things, there's remembering Who is really in control...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... Lead me not into temptation, I can find my own way.

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