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Post by waywyrd on Jun 11, 2018 18:35:26 GMT
What do y'all think of the IHOP/IHOB silliness going on? I think (hope?) they're just doing this temporarily, but reading twitter is cracking me up. Wendy's tweets especially.
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Post by Critical on Jun 11, 2018 20:17:07 GMT
I think it's just for a week or so to advertise their burgers. I never eat there because I hate pancakes and they even add pancake batter to their eggs. Whoever is in charge of Wendy's twitter account is a master. They're hilarious! I wish their burgers were actually good, but their Twitter is awesome. Looks like Denny's and Waffle House are getting in on the action too: www.cnet.com/news/wendys-waffle-house-dennys-diss-ihops-ihob-name-change/
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Post by justCoz on Jun 11, 2018 20:51:52 GMT
That's hilarious Critical, thanks for sharing that link. The stupid name change is getting them noticed, too bad it's not going to get me to go there any sooner.
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Post by waywyrd on Jun 11, 2018 20:58:18 GMT
Our IHOP stays packed. I haven't been there in about ten years, but I remember some kind of stuffed French toast I used to always get that was pretty good. Not healthy, but good. I'm glad it's only a temporary ploy, because saying IHOB just sounds like I have a head cold.
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Post by waywyrd on Jun 16, 2018 21:30:47 GMT
I was just reading about the salmonella in the Kellogg's Honey Smacks...how on earth does a cereal get tainted with salmonella? I can see the eggs, chicken, etc. But cereal? Fortunately I haven't eaten those since they were called Sugar Smacks. Ew. So we went blueberry picking this morning and I ended up with two gallons. They are soo good this year, I had to stop myself from munching on them as I picked. I've already had a request for blueberry muffins tomorrow morning...I just like tossing a bunch into my oatmeal at breakfast. We also stopped at a little produce stand on the way home and got a basket of peaches and another watermelon. I love summer fruits.
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Post by Brooks on Jun 17, 2018 15:11:59 GMT
I was just reading about the salmonella in the Kellogg's Honey Smacks...how on earth does a cereal get tainted with salmonella? I can see the eggs, chicken, etc. But cereal? Common enough for dry cat and dog foods to be contaminated with food pathogens. Maybe for the same reason. Two gallons of fresh blueberries would be heaven! I could eat blueberries as a child, became allergic to them as a young adult, ok now and making up for lost time!
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Post by sweetmermaid1 on Jun 19, 2018 6:35:03 GMT
I love candy and don't let myself eat a lot but I was in the store today and saw Key Lime flavored Twizzlers. I circled around them a few times and then the devil on my shoulder insisted that I buy them. OMG. .the devil is not always wrong.
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Post by Critical on Jun 19, 2018 6:43:26 GMT
Argh! All this talk of fresh fruit has me regretting not getting up early and hitting the farmers market Saturday! I'll have to go next weekend and stock up. The local blueberries are WAY too pricey for me, so I just get them at Trader Joe's (if they're priced right), but I always get my stone fruits and strawberries from local farmers. In the summer, my "fourth meal" every night is a bowl of strawberries with a peach and some blueberries thrown in. I usually eat half a flat of strawberries every week in the summer.
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Post by sweetmermaid1 on Jun 19, 2018 6:59:02 GMT
Argh! All this talk of fresh fruit has me regretting not getting up early and hitting the farmers market Saturday! I'll have to go next weekend and stock up. The local blueberries are WAY too pricey for me, so I just get them at Trader Joe's (if they're priced right), but I always get my stone fruits and strawberries from local farmers. In the summer, my "fourth meal" every night is a bowl of strawberries with a peach and some blueberries thrown in. I usually eat half a flat of strawberries every week in the summer. I have a rare day off on the day that our town has it's farners market this week....looking forward to counteracting all the crap Ive eaten this week.
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Post by Brooks on Jun 19, 2018 14:00:03 GMT
I have a rare day off on the day that our town has it's farners market this week Yeah, why do towns schedule their farmers markets during the day on weekdays when us poor working slobs can't get there. I have to go to one near work and then drag stuff home on public transportation. It has to be something special, like asparagus picked that morning. Or pastured liverwurst.
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Jun 19, 2018 18:29:38 GMT
I'm dying for some Bing cherries but the prices are outrageous!!!
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Post by Gutmutter on Jun 22, 2018 13:27:32 GMT
They were on sale when I went to the store just now. I got some to snack on. Yum!
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Post by Critical on Jun 23, 2018 23:17:01 GMT
I hit the farmers market like a tornado this morning! It's my first time this summer, which is odd, since I normally go every weekend as soon as it's warm enough. After around May 1st, we have maybe 8-10 farmers markets around the city with only Monday and Friday being "blackout days." My favorite one is year 'round (we have 4 or 5 of those) on Saturdays. I got out early and went a little nuts. I came home with a half flat of strawberries, 2 lbs of cherries (Bings and Rainiers, my favorite), peaches, broccoli, cauliflower and tomatoes (mine haven't ripened enough!). Then I hit up Trader Joe's and Whole Foods for salad greens, spinach, blueberries, Persian cucumbers, mushrooms, red and green bell peppers and bananas. It's too hot to cook and now I won't have to! I would need a shoehorn to get anything else into the fridge! It is PACKED!
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Post by MissScarlet on Jun 24, 2018 18:09:03 GMT
I want to go to our Farmers' Market so bad, but it's rained the last 2 Saturdays.
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Post by betty80 on Jun 24, 2018 21:15:24 GMT
I want to go to our Farmers' Market so bad, but it's rained the last 2 Saturdays. I hope the weather clears up soon. I love Farmers Markets.
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Post by beerbelly on Jun 25, 2018 22:48:28 GMT
There is such a difference in the produce I get from the Farmer's Market. The food spoils so quickly. It really has opened my eyes to how different fresh food is from what I normally get from the supermart.
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Post by Critical on Jun 26, 2018 2:20:36 GMT
I have the opposite experience, at least with veggies. Most of the stuff I get from the farmers market tends to last longer because it was picked more recently. Of course, when you're talking melons or certain other fruits, maybe those do have a shorter shelf life because they're not picked unripe like the ones you buy at the store. I find that the veggies last MUCH longer than the ones from the grocery store. Most stores don't even carry Ambrosia Melons because you have to/should pick them when they're ripe.
I'd rather buy the super fresh and picked-when-ripe fruit than the bland stuff they sell at the grocery store. Strawberries from the grocery store smell like nothing, even after they're cut up. The ones I get from the farmers market smell like perfume. I generally buy a half flat every week - that's 6 baskets - and that lasts me the week. Maybe a handful of those end up molding, but that's not very many in the scheme of things.
I would love to buy my salad greens at the farmers market, but I haven't had great luck and there really isn't a farmer at my little market who sells much of a variety. There's a HUGE year 'round market here on Sundays where you can buy anything from artisanal cheeses and breads to fresh caught seafood and grass-fed beef, in addition to TONS of various produce items. It's just so huge and the parking is insane, so I don't go there much. Also, I generally don't buy anything that exotic anyway, so the smaller one suits me just fine. That big market is the market where I used to buy my salad greens and that vendor is gone. It was kind of a collective that I (privately) referred to as "The Salad Hippies." It was a bunch of twenty- and thirty-something white folks - many with dreadlocks and a fondness for tie-dye. They grew the best salad greens and I would always buy from them and the greens would last a week or more. A few years ago, they were gone. Alas. Now it's Whole Foods instead.
I had my first summer salad lunch of the year - just a giant salad with every kind of veggie I could throw in, along with some grilled chicken. Yay!
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Post by beerbelly on Jun 26, 2018 2:30:28 GMT
I'm spoiled that the Greenmarket moved closer to me. Only a block away! There are only four vendors but lots of variety.
I know what you mean about strawberries, grocery strawberries have no taste or smell and they are huge.
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Post by burntbrat on Jun 26, 2018 2:53:11 GMT
I wish we had a decent farmer's market around here! There used to be one kind of close, but I never went because it was... weird and shady. It's hard to describe. But it was all inside and it looked a bit like a meth house. Sometimes the communities have what they call farmer's markets, but it ends up being people selling candles and empanadas and such. The closest thing I can get is Sprouts. Which sells the same produce as Walmart, despite their claim... stickers don't lie y'all.
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Post by angelic_one2002 on Jun 26, 2018 11:26:54 GMT
Bagged salad from the store sure doesn't stay fresh long. That seems to spoil quickest of any produce for me, from the store.
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Post by Critical on Jun 26, 2018 11:54:32 GMT
I think it depends on the brand. I do pretty well with prepackaged salad greens, mainly because I've done the trial and error thing. I've bought some over the years that seemed to have turned to algae overnight, but I've settled on a few brands that seem to last longer. The bagged baby spinach from Trader Joe's lasts up to two weeks - way longer than the stuff from the grocery store. I generally get spring mix greens in the plastic tub - either Organic Girl or Whole Foods' 365 brand - and both last longer than a week. In the summer, especially, I eat a big salad pretty much every day, so the greens rarely get wasted.
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Post by MissScarlet on Jun 26, 2018 16:45:23 GMT
I always check the Sell By Date on the bag & buy the one with the farthest out date. I like to buy the ones at least a week out, but sometimes that's not possible. Even then it's usually at least starting to get soggy before the date.
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Post by burntbrat on Jun 27, 2018 1:42:12 GMT
I can't do bagged salad anymore. I've had too many super dirty pieces. I think spinach has been the one that's ruined it, but it's ruined it for everybody! I still buy the bagged spinach but I rinse it and re-bag it. Salad spinners are great! I usually buy a couple heads of Romaine and then a green leaf, and maybe another variety. I chop it all, rinse it/soak it, then salad spinner it and bag it all up. It's a bit of work on the front end, but at least I don't have to worry about getting a mouthful of dirt. I also chop up a cucumber and a bunch of radishes, and sometimes prep other fruits and veggies so when I go to make my lunch during the week I can just pour salad ingredients into a container and voila! Healthy lunch in no time!
Also... I find that all of my produce lasts at least a week as long as I take care of it before hand and as long as it's pretty fresh. Asparagus has been the exception. It gets either mummified in the stalks or soggy on the tips if I don't use it within a few days of buying it.
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Post by Critical on Jun 27, 2018 4:57:47 GMT
I won't buy anything bagged but spinach and the occasional chopped salad kit (the ones with all the fixings in the bag). NO WAY am I buying a bunch of unwashed spinach. I was traumatized from a childhood full of sandy spinach that my mom never seemed to wash enough. I loved spinach as a kid, but still. Blech. I buy my spring mix in a 1 lb tub. The lettuce in plastic bags does seem to go downhill faster than in the tub. I preferred buying my salad greens at the farmers market, but since the Salad Hippies seem to have gotten out of the business, I've never found a comparable vendor. I never prep ahead of time because I'm lazy! My daily salad is usually spring mix, baby spinach, a Persian cucumber, half an avocado, 6 or 7 cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, red bell pepper, grilled chicken and whatever dressing is on hand. Takes about 5 minutes of prep, so that's not too bad and I'm getting a ton of fresh produce.
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Post by Brooks on Jun 27, 2018 13:30:21 GMT
My daily salad is usually spring mix, baby spinach, a Persian cucumber, half an avocado, 6 or 7 cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, red bell pepper, grilled chicken and whatever dressing is on hand. Takes about 5 minutes of prep
I'm impressed! It would take me most of 5 minutes just to pull all that stuff out of my refrigerator, LOL.
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Post by angelic_one2002 on Jun 27, 2018 13:50:45 GMT
I always check the Sell By Date on the bag & buy the one with the farthest out date. I like to buy the ones at least a week out, but sometimes that's not possible. Even then it's usually at least starting to get soggy before the date. I buy the bagged salad that is the furthest dated too, MissScarlet, but it still seems to go bad very quickly..in a couple days. I don' think brand matters, as they all startto go bad from what I have bought. I've also recently noticed that there seems to be less salad per bag.
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Post by MissScarlet on Jun 28, 2018 20:29:20 GMT
Mainly what I buy in the bags is Spinach. It usually makes it a week if the date is out there. By day 6 or 7 it is getting a bit limp, but still OK to use. You're right about lettuce salads. They seem to start to brown as soon as the bag is opened.
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Post by FannyMare on Jun 28, 2018 20:50:49 GMT
Ours seem to last okay. I buy the kale salads in a bag, they taste very good, and last as long as I need. We eat a salad most nights though..
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Post by Critical on Jul 27, 2018 21:51:37 GMT
I thought I bought a package of sliced white cheddar.....but it was actually sliced White American. WHY is that even a thing? American is the worst cheese ever, but I have to find a way to eat it, since I can't afford to just dump it. UGH.
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Post by beerbelly on Jul 27, 2018 22:44:57 GMT
Maybe make a mac & cheese with a better cheese....
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