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after the week we've all had, well I have no desire to really leave my house! I'll be making lots of different quick breads for freezing. I might make a pork roast. Whatever I can find in my freezer.

No, it seems like a waste of money. I've kept a stick of butter on the counter in a butter dish for forever. My Mom did it before me. I've never had a stick go bad, even in the summer.

I just went on a cooking bender. I made homemade chicken soup, homemade mac & cheese and a basil and lemon vanilla cake. Half the mac& cheese went into individual servings to be frozen for my son's lunches this week-the other half went into our bellies. The chicken soup will be dinner tomorrow and lunches for me throughout the week and the cake-we'll see how much is left tonight. Tomorrow I need to make banana bread.

I need to resupply my banana bread stash. I think I'll also be making some soups on Sunday. Just need to decide which ones before I go grocery shopping tomorrow.

Ah, yes this would be me! I get the teenager and dh out the door and the next hour or so are all for me. I commute to work, but work part time and go in late to miss the traffic. So between 8 and 9, I might go back to bed, I might surf the internet, I drink coffee, I pack up my lunch. It's good. I'm trying to instill the love of Saturday brunch on my kid, but at this point he'd rather veg out in front of video games.

I like the challenge myself each xmas holiday baking season. I've mastered carmel corn, I've mastered peanut brittle and toffee, I've mastered pumpkin rolls. I someday will do a buche de noel. The one area I'm afraid of is fudge. Real fudge, the kind that you have to str and stir. I can do the one with marshmallow fluff, it's the other version I'd like to master next.

Spending $40 on a salt container is God's way of saying you have too much money. For years I used a ramekin without a lid. I live in the Seattle area (super wet) and never had problems with it caking. But I use it every day. And it's kosher salt. Now, in the salt shaker with regular table salt, yes that cakes. I wanted something a little bigger than the ramekin so I didn't have to fill it up all the time. I found one of these at an antihttp://www.etsy.com/listing/107792704/vintage-refrigerator-container-1930s-or?utm_source=googleproduct&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=GPS&gclid=CN-X1pD3mrUCFQfhQgodNH0A8Aque/junk store. I didn't pay over 10bucks for it.

I'm agree with the other comments that say the bagged/binned prewashed salad greens are not an indulgence. Because I'll eat it that way. If I buy a head of lettuce I have all intention of eating it, but what really happens is it sits in the veg bin turning into a science experiement. Also, I don't consider the individual cups of applesauce an indulgence. The big jar goes moldy quickly.

After fine tuning my cold brew coffee at home I consider buying iced coffee at a coffee shop an indulgence. Oh! I know-the awful for me and oh so delicious flavored creamers. My favorite is only available during the holidays-peppermint mocha. I stock pile them because they have a long life in the fridge.

Your kitchen looks familiar! My first rental, and the first two houses I owned! I finally have a "finished" kitchen-with _no_ storage! I agree with whomever posted about keeping the Le Crueset on top of the fridge-and the KitchenAid-that would make me cranky to have to get down all the time. Keep the Le Crueset on your stove top. That's what I do.

Thank you everyone for your great ideas! I especially like the ones about eating in locally owned restaurants and having a "night out" at home. I really do need to get better about planning ahead and freezing things for later use. Just as a side note-the little fella in the picture is my son, who was about 4 at the time, he's now 13! We had just finished eating at Buddy's Italian Restaurant in Pocatello, Idaho. If Buddy's was local, this would be an even harder resolution to make!