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@Nerves You most definitely can freeze homemade ketchup. You'll have to give it a good stir when it comes out, 'cause the liquid separates, but I don't find that to be a problem. My favorite way to freeze it is in an ice cube tray.

The problem with combining left over dishes for me is that I usually only have one. I tend more toward using the left overs from the night before immediately the next day, so multiple dishes don't tend to accumulate. That said, I do try to combine the random ingredients that accumulate in the fridge in untraditional ways, like tomato soup macaroni and cheese where I use the soup as a base instead of milk (which, incidentally, works much better than yogurt, at least for cheddar).

I find I must respond to the assumption by RyanTimes "the rats would require twice the amount of drink to get the sweet nutrients they are after."

If you go up and reread the article, you'll find that the rats were "given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow". Further, as the scientists were specifically looking at the intake of calories versus the weight gain, the rats would not have been given unrestricted access to however much food and drink they wanted to gobble up, but to a specific measured quantity. It would be very difficult to conduct a serious scientific trial otherwise. The assumption that the rats would simply consume twice as much is thus flawed.

That said, if it were in real life instead of a scientific trial, I believe that you are on to something. People (and, in my opinion, Americans especially) are used to excessive sweetness, and once someone is conditioned to like a certain level of sweetness, unless they recondition themselves, they would naturally seek it out to feel that satiation.

I'm glad some people know the wonders of Gravensteins and Coxes. I've never seen them in a store, but they are worth finding an orchard that grows them!