Food o rama
Jul. 19th, 2010 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongNothing like my family being gone for most of this week to make me realize how much food we all go through - I didn't bother to grocery shop or cook the whole time and wow is my fridge empty now. They're all back as of today - time to hit the grocery store treadmill once again.
I remember my mom talking about how long it took her once my brother and I moved out to adjust the amount she would buy and cook - she'd still make big casseroles and then she and my dad would get absolutley sick of it trying to finish it off themselves, or she'd buy too much produce and half of it would rot. Her freezer had big roasts in it that she didn't want to cook because it would be too much meat so she'd save them for when we visited, leaving us with the vague impression they were always eating roasts.
I hadn't realized how much I buy is on autopilot until not as much was needed. We had five teenagers living here a couple years back and there was a veritable food tsunami flying through my kitchen, we threw away produce and froze casseroles ourselves after that passed. Hard to believe one day it will only be two of us. I suppose then I get to buy big roasts.
I remember my mom talking about how long it took her once my brother and I moved out to adjust the amount she would buy and cook - she'd still make big casseroles and then she and my dad would get absolutley sick of it trying to finish it off themselves, or she'd buy too much produce and half of it would rot. Her freezer had big roasts in it that she didn't want to cook because it would be too much meat so she'd save them for when we visited, leaving us with the vague impression they were always eating roasts.
I hadn't realized how much I buy is on autopilot until not as much was needed. We had five teenagers living here a couple years back and there was a veritable food tsunami flying through my kitchen, we threw away produce and froze casseroles ourselves after that passed. Hard to believe one day it will only be two of us. I suppose then I get to buy big roasts.
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Date: 2010-07-19 10:14 pm (UTC)This did not help at all when I was living alone with a dinky little dorm fridge! *g*
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Date: 2010-07-19 10:47 pm (UTC)Distraction....
Date: 2010-07-22 02:31 pm (UTC)Ah yes, it was WEIRD to be alone. All I did was study, eat sandwhiches and cereal and watch ridiculous vids on Netflix streaming. However, I noticed something very INTERESTING.... when I picked things up off the floor, they STAYED up off the floor. Very strange. The rules of the universe (that do not merely lead, but rather pull HARD, toward chaos) were in abayence! I love my family, but house work would be ever so much easier if they agreed to leave for a few more overnights like that.
Re: Distraction....
Date: 2010-07-22 04:19 pm (UTC)Re: Distraction....
Date: 2010-07-22 05:29 pm (UTC)Re: Distraction....
Date: 2010-07-22 05:50 pm (UTC)Re: Distraction....
Date: 2010-07-22 06:39 pm (UTC)I will be travelling with this image.... I occassionally go "out with the girls" and whenever they start going on and on about someone like Brad Pitt, I like to throw out a "Oh, I really prefer John Thaw ..." At one point I pulled out the iPhone to pass around a pic of Sylvester McCoy. One lady was deeply, deeply worried about me. Another lapsed into German she was so distressed and pronounced it the face of a man who would steal babies. She then began chanting the entire tale of Rumplstilskin... auf Deutsch. So, it has become something of a joke for me to trot out pics like that to check for a reaction from my table mates.
I had a pic of Pat as Second Doctor as the home screen on my phone. That got some worried glances. Apparently, you are SUPPOSED to have your cat or kids on there... if not Brad Pitt.
I think I will get thumbs up on this new pic. And if I do not, they are the ones I worry about!
Re: Distraction....
Date: 2010-07-22 07:10 pm (UTC)I actually found it through a knitting website called Ravelry, which has several busy Doctor Who forums. One of those forums is my central source for all things Who except fic - it has threads for picspam, episode discussion, rumors and news, crafts, and everything else all neatly organized. Clever people find these things and post them there, and I just see them and remember where to look! ;-)
knitting is obviously
Date: 2010-07-22 07:24 pm (UTC)Re: knitting is obviously
Date: 2010-07-22 08:13 pm (UTC)Re: Distraction....
Date: 2010-07-22 05:32 pm (UTC)strangeness...
Date: 2010-07-22 06:43 pm (UTC)I feel horrible thinking it, but I would not mind if they all occasionally left again! It was so QUIET! sigh. And so easy to get the house clean.