Friday

Getting all the tomato sauce and green beans labeled and onto shelves has been a chore, to say the least. I use a Sharpie and write the year, sometimes the month, too, onto the top of the can and front. So, it is a lot of handling of heavy cans. Yes, a one-pound can is heavy to me. While not handling cans, I picked up a pen to write and clicked the top. The pain was excruciating in the back of my hand. That stopped all useful activity. 

Now that I am no longer with AT&T, they sent me a phone, the free one they said they sent in November. Thanks, AT&T (sarcasm). 

I have grass-fed beef, thinly cut pork chops, and maybe chicken thawing. I know I am making meatloaf. I want to cook the pork chops in sauce my kids were wild about. If there is chicken, it will be baked with carrots, onions and potatoes. The last time I cooked three meats in one day, it was just as easy as cooking one meat. Portions of all those are in the freezer. I will do the same today. 

Yesterday, we went out for one thing at one store and went nowhere else. However, something came to us in the form of a popup Tupperware stand in a grocery parking lot. The woman gladly brought the items to my car for us to examine. I looked at cannisters (tops did not appear to be tight enough); spaghetti holders (at $10 each, I would need ten of those); short, very fat cannisters (too weird); a pitcher and glasses and tray (not interested, just wondering); a divided tray (I will take it). 

Tommy gladly fixes his own salad from items in the refrigerator. I can cut bell peppers and there are usually shredded carrots or baby carrots and grape tomatoes. I prepare zucchini and squash for salads. But, he misses some things and must take out ten containers to make a salad some days. We had the tray in the car and he was looking with interest, holding it. That is a good sign. 

If he thought it was a waste, he would have been uninterested or not talking about it. I asked him if he thought this would help him get salad fixings out. He said it would. So, I had enough cash to buy the first piece of Tupperware I have bought in about 6 or more years. I was tired and did not wash it yesterday, but today I will have it ready for use and loaded. I have cut thin gs up for him and he forgot about the food, could not find it, or probably became tired of unloading the items. 

There are six divisions and a center part that has a covered container. In the summer I can slice or dice tomatoes for the center container. I think more produce will consumed and less wasted. 

I have my eye on a cheap container for spaghetti, but once filled, I cannot lift it. So, it would be relegated to valuable countertop real estate. So, I procrastinate. I had the spaghetti in a flat airtight container and could not lift that. So, I put spaghetti into gallon storage bags. I still cannot lift it from a shelf safely. Now, I just put a few packages of the Ronco in a storage bag. It works for me. 

Have you seen the huge jars that Cheese Balls, like cheese puffs come in at a Big Box store? That is what I want, but who wants to eat all these puffy cheese balls? Well, I probably could and just die! Since I cannot lift it full of spaghetti, I won't even try to find one that is empty. Speaking of spaghetti, prices have risen on my precipitously on my beloved Ronco.

Okay, I am looking forward to 78F today and 80F for two days. I love this. What are you doing this Friday or plan to do? Do you ever thaw out several meats at once to cook and have ready to eat?