Cambell’s chunky vegetable soup (with some Mrs. Dash extra spicy & Indian spices thrown in) served over rice, a dollop of sour cream, and crumbled ruffles potato chips sprinkled on top. I’ve served this to non-Indian guests before who “loved my Indian curry”.

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A big chef salad- I usually have salad fixins on hand-boil some eggs, grate some cheese, add chicken or ham or whatever I have in the fridge.

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I often brown a pack of hillshire farm turkey link sausage and pour a large can of bush baked beans on top and stir. Then I microwave a bag of those steam veggies and pop a can of hungryjack biscuits in the oven and call it dinner.

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Cook angel hair pasta per package and drain. Defrost package of cooked shrimp (always have some in my freezer) with cool water. Saute garlic in olive oil until golden add 1 can of diced tomatoes drained (I use the Italian style) and shrimp until warmed through. Add pasta and mix. Serve with grated Parmesan cheese. I have also used this recipe and substituted chicken strips for the shrimp.

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Quick & Tasty – Skillet Sausage & Potatoes & Eggs. 20 min. prep time.
Take 2-3 large peeled & sliced potatoes. Place in a pot of cold salted water and bring just to a boil & drain. Pour potatoes into a hot skillet season with S&P, & brown. Add sliced, smoked sausage (1/2 link), 1/2 chopped onion & 1/2 chopped green pepper. Fry just until onions are glossy. Turn skillet off and add 2 beaten eggs and mix. Serves 2.

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Spaghetti

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I had nothing in hte house this past Sunday when lunch time rolled around. I found a box of pasta (little twirly looking things) half a box of Velveta, bag of frozen peas, and 2 cans of chicken.

cooked the pasta to package directions, meanwhile shread chicken and dice the processed cheese type food, drain pasta and put back in same pot, dump in peas,chicken, cheese. Add some milk salt & pepper cover and keep on low heat stirring occasionally till cheese is melty.

It was an ok quick trow together meal. Brocoli would have been better than peas but I didn’t have any. Canned chicken taste and smells an aweful lot like canned tuna…

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It seems these days the FDA is slow and dumb about reacting to food borne problems. It is almost like a certain number of humans or animals have to die to kick in whatever antiquated methods of finding the source they can and when they do finally find the source (like in the peanut problem), the tainted product is woven into many different products with little or no trail. Right now, tainted peanuts have been traced to MAJOR manufacturers like Keebler and Lance for cookies and crackers. I do not trust the FDA to assure me that peanut butter is now okay. They have a DISMAL track record and first of all said that tainted peanut butter and peanuts were only in institutional 5 gallon buckets. This has been proven to be totally false and I for one will not trust my or my families health to the FDA. Bottom line is they are so antiquated and so inefficient that they are caught playing catchup and only seek the true scope of a food borne epidemic as the trail of casualties starts to pile up. I do not want to be one of their statistics. This is what happens when the government allows the industry to police itself and do its own testing. When profit and consumer safety are in conflict with each other, profit will always win when there is no one watching out for the consumer. We have no country of origin for products, we have no way of identifying where crops are grown when the technology has existed for years but not implemented… the list is endless…. unfortunately.

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I work on behalf of Lance and we have been working diligently to get the word out to consumers that Lance self manufactures 100% of the peanut butter used in our sandwich crackers and our peanut butter products continue to be safe to eat.

To help ease consumer confusion, Lance has created a microsite solely to get the word out about the safety of our peanut butter products — http://www.LanceCrackersAreSafe.com. In addition, a segment also aired on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in early February about the affect the recent peanut butter recall is having on companies who produce peanut butter products that continue to be safe to eat.

We continue to try and do our best to let consumers know that Lance peanut butter sandwich crackers are safe to eat.

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Go get some Peter Pan Peanut Butter. I’ll bet the plant in Sylvester is among the cleanest, if not THE cleanest in the country. Go get some Lance crackers, the freshest and most crispy by far and not effected by the recalls. I do realize how serious the peanut scare was but the people at the plant caused it or at least continued to allow the nastiness, not the peanuts. You would not quit flying all together because a…say..747 crashed. Would you quit driving because a Lexus crashed? I doubt it so….EAT UP!!
Also….COTTON…the fabric of our lives!!

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I often get calls from people at the market…asking me what aisle something is on. Actually its from a single someone ;o)

I just spent 45 min the grocery with kids in tow. UGH! There has to be a faster way to get in and out of the market. Plus even with the sales/BOGO stuff I spent $80 on about 8-10 bags of food. I have not been shopping in about 3 weeks! (Other than milk and eggs)

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No. I just can’t see paying that much extra a month to get web access from a phone type thing.

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For me its all the dishes…..I hate coming home from work to cook and then have to clean the kitchen too….by the time all is said and done its 9PM and my whole day has gone with me just running the whole time.

My crockpot is a lifesaver a few times a week. We hate cassaroles (and the kids hate cheese) so those are not an option.

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I’m originally from Chicago and a cub’s fan. Our ballpark fare was always cold hot dogs and warm beer!

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I’m good with hotdogs or Brats. Really anything that works for laid back backyard grilling works as baseball food too plus peanuts and or Cracker Jacks.

Something a little upscale is nice as a gimmick esp if there is something local about it. Like you mentioned “San Diego has its beloved fish tacos, Seattle, its sushi…and for the truly daring, Rocky Mountain “oysters” at Coors Field.” are all perfect for the locations.
Not sure what we could have upscale in Atlanta with this criteria.

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Nope; had peanut butter on toast this morning! Mmmm!

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We were lucky with the power outage. One of the schools I work at was out about 7 hours, but my house was spared. The freezer usually has about 5 lbs of chicken, 5 lbs ground beef, 5 lbs steak, some random frozen veggies, and a few Lean Cuisines here and there. If we HAD to throw it all out, luckily it would not cost too much to replace. I keep thinking I should go buy another small freezer….but then I would really spend more money at the store and probably on stuff we wouldn’t use before it went bad.

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Putting gallon jugs of water in your freezer is a most excellent idea. If your power DOES go off they will keep your frozen foods colder much longer and may save you BIG bucks! I even keep a couple of water-filled gin bottles in my ‘frige freezer for that very reason. Also, put a single ice cube in a freezer bag. You can tell by looking (if it has melted and refrozen flat)if your foods have been exposed to too much warmth and have thawed and refrozen without your awareness.

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Keep a dead body in your freezer. That will help keep it cold if the power goes out.

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No, I didn’t stop eating peanut butter..We have Lance crackers in our snack machine & I eat those every day..

Ginger, thank you for the info..

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I also like to store blogs in the freezer that never get updated…

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