Bringing home wrong or weird items
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Sounds yummy.
Vinylhanger
Sous Chef
The goofiest thing I keep wanting to try in our Asian markets is the freeze dried tiny crabs. Just can't pull the trigger. I suppose they would be like tiny crab flavored crackers.
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
I have dried tiny shrimp. Aren't they just used as a seasoning?
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
I put them in my shrimp pad thai.
Rascal
Head Chef
I don't muck up my ingredients, however my wife and son are shockers. Wife went to get eggs for a bacon and egg pie, I normally get these as I buy free range from a guy I know. But this was for a picnic. So we had none so I did her a wee list of about 6 things. While out we swung by out local store and she went in to get stuff.
We get home later and I go to make the pie, no eggs, ask wife where they were, oh, I forgot them. She went out and got them. Our son was the same as a kid. I would send him to the shops to get milk and a tin of beans, he'd come home with coke and a lettuce. In the end I couldn't send him for anything. We still laugh about it now.
Russ
We get home later and I go to make the pie, no eggs, ask wife where they were, oh, I forgot them. She went out and got them. Our son was the same as a kid. I would send him to the shops to get milk and a tin of beans, he'd come home with coke and a lettuce. In the end I couldn't send him for anything. We still laugh about it now.
Russ
Linda0818
Head Chef
That's kids for ya. But then I've been known to forget things at the store, even if they were on my list
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rodentraiser
Head Chef
I've been out to a store three times now specifically to get a birthday card. Got home today and I forgot it again. *facepalm*
Linda0818
Head Chef
I do that too. I even forget stuff I have written down.
At work on the corkboard by my desk, I have a little cartoon cutout of a woman who is saying "I've expanded my skills. I can now forget what I'm doing while I'm actually doing it."
pepperhead212
Executive Chef
If it's something you absolutely need to remember, write it on the back of your hand. You can't miss it!
Linda0818
Head Chef
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
My problem is the produce section. I take one half of the store, Aisles 1 through 11 and Spike covers the other half where all the produce is. I never forget to write down onions, celery and potatoes. But one of the foods I love is a tomato sandwich with mayo and lettuce. I ALWAYS forget to write them down for him. I have to remember to put down tangerines. Those are so easy to peel and eat. I can go through a whole bag all by my lone. I might let Pirate have one. If he is lucky.
Bless his English heart. He now knows to get four tomatoes on the vine and a head of lettuce even if I forget to write it down. He is also in charge of buying my meats. All sausages for some strange reason are on the very top shelf. The one place I can't reach. He really knows how shop for meats and what I can and will cook. Right now it is the cheapest cut of beef he can find for beef stew.
Maybe it is because I have been incapacitated for so long, but I find shopping for food exhausting. The couple of times I sent Pirate with Spike was a disaster. Spike's instructions to me, "Don't you ever send Pirate with me AGAIN." He has no idea how to shop for bargains. He sees a food and decides he wants to make it himself. Then it never gets cooked because it is usually a food I am allergic to or simply do not like.
The next shopping trip is coming up on the fifth of March. Pirate can sit at home and wait for the groceries to arrive and put them away. I will do the meats. I do wrap them in individual servings. I can only eat one chicken leg or thigh per meal.
Bless his English heart. He now knows to get four tomatoes on the vine and a head of lettuce even if I forget to write it down. He is also in charge of buying my meats. All sausages for some strange reason are on the very top shelf. The one place I can't reach. He really knows how shop for meats and what I can and will cook. Right now it is the cheapest cut of beef he can find for beef stew.
Maybe it is because I have been incapacitated for so long, but I find shopping for food exhausting. The couple of times I sent Pirate with Spike was a disaster. Spike's instructions to me, "Don't you ever send Pirate with me AGAIN." He has no idea how to shop for bargains. He sees a food and decides he wants to make it himself. Then it never gets cooked because it is usually a food I am allergic to or simply do not like.
The next shopping trip is coming up on the fifth of March. Pirate can sit at home and wait for the groceries to arrive and put them away. I will do the meats. I do wrap them in individual servings. I can only eat one chicken leg or thigh per meal.
Linda0818
Head Chef
I do feel for you, sending others to do the shopping. I was never comfortable with that, but sometimes I would have to send my SO off to do it for me, if I was working late or had something else to do, etc. And he was an impulse buyer. He'd come home with bags full of a bunch of stuff that wasn't on my list and I'd ask him what this and that was for and he would say he was going to make specific meals out of them or either give me reasons why we just have to have some of the items in the house and the meals never came and many of the items he never ate/used; they just sat on the shelves forever or was thrown away.
He had great ideas, but none of them ever panned out.
He had great ideas, but none of them ever panned out.
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
Sounds like my salted cod Pirate JUST HAD TO HAVE. I love it when done right. He is just to lazy to go through all the steps. The box has been sitting in the fridge for almost a year. And it will stay there until it rots or he does. Whichever comes first.
Linda0818
Head Chef
Ugh. I'd just get rid of it.
Yep, the just had to have stuff was a problem at times. But... now I miss it. I miss him. Period.
He was a pretty good cook when he'd actually get into the kitchen and do something with the items he just had to have, but he would make actual meals maybe 2 or 3 times a year. Not a month. A year.
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rodentraiser
Head Chef
Cheryl J
Chef Extraordinaire
Trust me, I could miss is if it were tattooed to the inside of my eyeballs
Same here! I can't begin to count the times I was in the checkout line, looked at my list again, and yep....forgot something. Oy....
Linda0818
Head Chef
Most of the time, I don't discover I've forgotten something until I get home.
Cheryl J
Chef Extraordinaire
That, too....
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