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Not sure if you can even get any but, last outage here in VA we saved our deep freeze by using dry ice. This can be tricky if the power comes back on and you're not home to remove the ice. But it saved about $500.00 of food for us.

Now I find just the oppposite. We buy beef from the farmer and the cuts I've had have all been excellent. I think alot has to do with how meat is cooked.

First- they're seeds not grains. Supposed to allow diabetics to be able to have a rice like item. Just check your glucose afterwards to see if you can tolerate it.

I make parchment packets when I cook fish. Now they make little parchment bags for things like looking fish or chicken. All mess is gone and smell ( fish) after cooking and I've a clean pan. But I do keep a roll of parchment paper on the rare occasions of baking

all I've got to say is that if you're moving, you'd better be able to tie stuff down before it becomes an UFO (unidentified flying object). My folks owned a travel trailer. nothing on the counters and all doors had to have a good latch- including the frige. A swing or hard curve and stuff goes flying!

Meatloaf!
Roasted Chicken (just read the post "A Million ways to Roast a CHicken)
Fruit Salad (always refreshing).
I make a kale dish that wilts the kale in bacon grease (barely a tablespoon), after wilted add stewed tomatoes and crumbled bacon -can also add shallots and garlic.
creamed spinach, creamed peas (add shredded swiss cheese)

Saw a show on PBS this weekend, Cooks Illustrated?, anyway, they were making a porkloin roast in the crock. First try was a soupy mess and no taste, Second try was a should roast roll tied and then browned. After that, saute onions, garlic 1Tab tomato paste, a can of tomatoes well drained and 1/2c white wine. Cook all that down and pour over roasts in pot. Then they used carrots and parsnips cut into chunks. After 9 hrs on low or 4.5 on High, it came out lokking mighty fine and not soupy but did have a gravy.

My fiance drinks coffee 24/7 so when he has meals with me, coffee is served during the meal. I normally don't drink coffee with a meal unless we're dinning out or it's breakfast. When having a dinner party (which is rare due to my teeny tiny apt) coffee is always available but most will have it during dessert or afterward. My mother served coffee during meals if wanted as well.

My mother's favorite "company dinner" dish was beef stroganoff. We had it whenever we had company over. Since she would accompany it with dessert of homemade apple pie, I always thought it was made from scratch through and through. She didn't like my then husband and I had to wait for 10 yrs after we were married for the receipe. Imagine my surprise and disappointment when I found out all it was was a combination of cream of tomato, cream of mushroom, round steak and green pepper with sour cream thrown in at the end over egg noddles. Come to find out she got it from her MIL back in the '50s.

How many died from cancer with all that smoking?