Topic: grocery store

It is very hard to get out of the habit of running to the grocery store for every little forgotten thing. After repeated failures, I've pretty much decided that a new strategy is in order for making sure I can avoid the store altogether. I will say, however, that I'm very good at getting only that which I've gone there for, with exception of yesterday, when I took Seth along and he wanted to eat...

It's been a while since I had time to do any serious cooking at home, but tonight I managed to feed TFR well. The Lad needed a couple of items from the grocery store, so on the way home from Daycare we stopped and I got... THE BUG. A mood to cook mean struck me, so I went to town. Dinner was pretty light fare, my old standby of cedar-planked hazelnut encrusted salmon, but it was special in that...

So far, it's only 8 days into July and we've not managed to eliminate grocery store trips. And, since I want to avoid it, Nate has started going instead, which, as most of you who regularly read my posts, means coming home with extra things that we do NOT need or are NOT good for us (he also lacks certain price comparison skills - although he's pretty good at it when it comes to toilet paper,...

I realized I never did post about whether or not I met my goals for June. Turns out that we're still spending a lot of money on little trips to the grocery store to feed our sugar habit (often masquerading as forgetfulness). I made yogurt once, but, afraid to heat the raw milk too high and kill all the wonderful enzymes, it never turned out, and so I bought a 6 quart pack of Nancy's from Azure...

This weekend I was making a quick ingredient run to get pastry making ingredients together for a crazy afternoon of cake making. My smudged list included the standards- cream, chocolate, eggs, sugar and gelatin (for making the easy egg white free style of gelatin stabilized whipped cream mousse). Much to my surprise I discovered that my neighborhood Whole Foods doesn't carry gelatin. Having...