Spacing Trips to the Grocery Store? - Page 10

 
We find that we have to have regular trips to town for one reason or another
that has nothing to do with food and that is when we buy our groceries.

I think for me the only problem would be bananas.  There is no way to store
them in any way.

I always have UHT milk on hand for when we run out of fresh and I would have
no trouble just using that all the time.  I also keep UHT cream for the rare
times we use it.  We bake our own bread most of the time, but I have to get
my husband to do some of the kneading as I now no longer have the strength
for a big batch of multiple loaves.  We freeze all but one loaf. We have a
veggie garden and for most of the year I have fresh greens and always have
fresh herbs with the exception of coriander which I have to buy in mid
summer through to mid winter.  I bake our all own cakes and most of our
biscuits (cookies) with the exception of the watercracker/Jatz type savoury
biscuits to have with dips.  I make most of our own dips and the only 'dip'
we would buy regularly is Salsa which falls off the shopping list once the
tomatoes are cropping.  We have our own chooks so have our own eggs but even
if we didn't, eggs last for a long time and even more so if stored in
pollard or coated in vaseline.  Meat can of course be frozen as can
casseroles and all sorts of other things.  The one and only problem between
long spaced shopping trips would be bananas.

 

them in any way.

Wrong, they last a lot longer in the fridge, tho they look just as bad on the
outside.


no trouble just using that all the time.

Me too.


some of the kneading as I now no longer

Time to get a bread machine.


Makes more sense to get a bread machine and bake more often.


always have fresh herbs with the exception of

of the watercracker/Jatz type savoury

Dont bother with dips, use Jatz for cheese.


which falls off the shopping list once

for a long time

Yep.


Just the fridge is plenty for even a couple of months food run times.


Obviously you can stop eating those if the week that a fridge gives is too short,
or just eat them for the week after the shopping trip and do without for the
extra.

 

Yuk!  I can't stomach bananas with black skin.  I prefer bananas slightly
underripe and once the skin is black, they make me want to barf. If they get
overripe, I make a banana cake out of them.


I had one.  I hated it so gave it away.  I find it's less messy to make it
by hand even if it does take more grunt power.


Not to us.  We prefer a bigger loaf than machines make as we eat a lot of
bread, we hated the hole in the bottom of the bread and the cleaning up and
we prefer the flavour of oven baked bread.

 

that has nothing to do with food and

them in any way.


outside.


Nothing to do with that silly claim you made.


want to barf.

Your problem.


You've got a hell of a lot of mindlessly silly hangups, havent you ?


Like hell it is.


More fool you.


the hole in the bottom of the bread

You've got a hell of a lot of mindlessly silly hangups, havent you ?


There is no clearing up whatever.


You've got a hell of a lot of mindlessly silly hangups, havent you ?

 


I'm with you on that.  I *hated* the bread machine that I briefly owned.  Tiny
little loaves that tasted nothing like what I make by hand, even using the
same recipe.

I make plain old French bread almost exclusively.  I'd much rather spend a day
every so often baking, vacuum packaging and freezing a large quantity than I
would fooling with the machine, even if the product came out the same.

I generally like kitchen gadgets but a bread machine is a glaring exception.

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