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In all honesty, as mean as it sounds, sometimes the food is THE WHOLE POINT of a gathering for me. So I just don't invite my veggie friends when I want to roast a duck or grill a bunch of oysters. Even the one who happily brings her own sustenance. Sometimes I want to focus on, talk about, revel in the food. I don't want someone sitting there eating something else. Just like we don't invite our teetotaler friend to go wine tasting with us.

Of course, sometimes the food is not the point and the company is. But when I am focused on the cooking, I really appreciate my like-minded food friends...

@CKAL - Ditto to the airplane sounds in White Noise Lite!

@DOITYERSELF - I find it's the closest thing to a fan noise that isn't actually a fan. :)

But I've actually switched to the brown noise in Simply Noise's app.

Anything with more noticeable characteristics than that - waves, rain, crickets - drives me nuts!

I just scheduled eye surgery, and my doc told me to stock up on things with lots of vitamin C!

@Amanda0730: Reading your #2 made me physically anxious. I must eat the most abundant color first, just until it's even with the next. Then I eat those two until even with a third, etc, until I have an even number of each color. Then I eat one of each, keeping the established order. My husband thinks it's so werid.

@hopperodyssey: You are very sweet. Thanks for the smile.

When I was a kid, I used to LOVE sandwiches of kraft singles with yellow mustard on white bread. I can't stand it anymore, so that's probably the only reason I know it's weird. I do lots of the things people have listed without realizing they were unusual. :)

What a fascinating thread!

Stocking up only makes sense if it's something you'll use, so I would just get a lot of whatever I normally buy...probably plus a couple new things that are just fun to try while they're on sale (the splurge category you mention). But don't "stock up" on things you don't normally buy. There's probably a reason you don't normally buy them...

Well, I mean, I understand the objections raised here, but isn't the natural sea salt you buy in stores harvested straight from the ocean, too? I think you're just counting on the heat to kill anything in the water and for the traces of other minerals to be pretty small. I'm not sure I'd go to the trouble of making it, but I think I'd eat it.

This sounds great. What kind of beer are you supposed to use?

Oh gosh. I just planted a small mint plant in my yard this morning. Do I need to dig it up and put a terracotta pot around it?

If it matters, I put it in a small strip of yard between our outdoor stairs and the foundation of our house. The strip of yard is only a couple feet wide and generally faces lots of erosion. I was putting herbs there this year to try to get better groundcover than grass.

If you really want unbreakable, how about metal?

You could go with good old campware like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-12-Piece-Enamelware-Dining-Blue/dp/B0009PUSPS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305146551&sr=8-1

Or invest in stainless like this:
http://www.amazon.com/LunchBots-Childrens-Stainless-Dish-Set/dp/B003KN27QO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1305146551&sr=8-3

Or I actually think these are kind of cute:
http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Steel-6-Compartment-Mess-Tray/dp/B000UBBBEI/ref=sr_1_7?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1305146643&sr=1-7

I do this with muffins...those few saved minutes are especially great in the morning!