A few weeks ago I purchased some cheese at my local Food Lion. I reached into the fridge over the weekend to cut some of the cheese up to eat. It had not been opened yet, but I noticed that it has mold all over it. I checked out the “Best Used If By date” and it was still a few weeks away.
I was told that if you have a problem with a product and they supply you with a toll free phone number, to call it and inform them of their product’s issue(s). So I did and the lady was very nice and told me that a coupon is on the way in order to replace the cheese. So I have to say “Kudos” to Kraft! They stand behind their products.
Last night my wife decided to bring pizza home for dinner on her way home from work. She called the Pizza Hut that she drives past twenty minutes before she left work. She ordered her pizza (only one, mind you) and was told it would be ready in twenty minutes. She got there thirty minutes later, and paid the $11 tab. After she paid the tab, she was told that they were short handed that night and running “a little behind.” She waited over a half hour before her pizza was ready. If she had known that they had not even started her pizza before she showed up she would have cancelled the order and gone to McDonald’s! Not impressed at all! Next time she wants pizza, she’ll be asking if the pizza is ready before she pays for it!
Do you remember when the alli diet pills hit the market? All I kept hearing about was how it was going to prevent some of the fat from being absorbed into the dieter’s system. I don’t understand how that is going to help someone lose weight – it isn’t fat that makes someone gain weight, it is calories. Fat will clog arteries and give you a heart attack, but it won’t make you fat unless you are eating a lot of calories too!
One of the things that really bothers me a lot lately is how many people are relying on diet supplements for their nutrition instead of simply eating right in the first place. A vitamin pill or a protein bar, or some kind of chemical disguised as a milkshake is a very poor substitute for an honest-to-goodness square meal. I think it is a big mistake to just eat junk food and rely on pills and powders to keep you healthy.
At night I seem to be craving chocolate. Not really the chocolate candy bars, but chocolate cake, or brownies, or cupcakes, stuff like that. Ho Ho’s have been a favorite lately. I like them frozen the best. I have to say that Ding Dongs just can’t hold a candle to Ho Ho’s.
I enjoy eating fruits and vegetables. This time of the year people are busy with outside yard work and the planting of their gardens. I always look forward to reaping the benefits of their labor when they find that they have harvested more than they can use and they start handing out their produce to friends, family, neighbors and co workers. I always have plenty of tomatoes during the summer and fall!
I always liked to watch Grandma work with the vegetables we harvested. She would take her canning jars, wash them out, and put them in pots of boiling water for a while to sterilize them. She would chop the ends off the cucumbers and split each one into four long slices. After the cans came off the stove, she would stuff the cucumber slices into the jars as much as she could and pour in the mixture of vinegar she had prepared. She would screw the seal on with a lid and sit it aside to go on to finish the rest of the cans. I remember asking her what the popping noise was in the jars. She would always tell me it was the canning jars sealing themselves.
Grandma would do the same thing with tomatoes when she canned tomatoes and tomato juice. The only difference is that she would leave the peals on the cucumbers but remove all the tomato skin and some of the cores before she canned them. I don’t recall her ever preserving any melons though. I know she would cut squash up and freeze it, as she would also can green beans, freeze corn on the cob, and the potatoes would be stored down in the basement in huge open wire crates. The floors down there were dirt and cool, therefore, it preserved the potatoes. We had potatoes all the way up until planting time in the spring.
We are getting a Panda Express at our local mall sometime in the next few weeks. I really like their food and I am pleased that I will no longer have to make a long drive to the next town over to order from their menu. Their Orange Chicken is great, I haven’t been able to find any other place that makes Orange Chicken quite the way that they do. Their prices are affordable as well, so it’s all good!
I guess I’ll have to try it for myself and see if they really fixed it. I’ve tried their pizza a few times and never liked it. My kids always liked it, but it was the novelty of having it delivered. I hope they managed to fix it so it tastes good now!
Something that is good about the holidays being over and done with are the left overs that flowing over in the fridge. I love turkey sandwiches with Swiss cheese on rye bread. And I can eat ham over and over for days at a time, speaking of ham, it’s dinner time, I’m outta here………
