"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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> it works really well because you also don't buy more food in general and
> maybe you don't buy what expired again for quite a while, Lee

I am trying to keep much closer tabs on the food. I am doing pretty well
for the most part. I do have to throw out some bread and lettuce each week
because I can rarely finish a loaf of bread unless perhaps husband is home
and even then we don't usually. Sometimes I can get a small bag of lettuce
and that's great! But last time all they had was the family size and that
is just too much for the two of us unless we eat a big taco salad, which we
didn't.

The only really bad thing in the last couple of weeks was all the bags of
gluten free pretzels I threw out. They're Snyders and they're really good.
But they do not sell them in any stores around here that I have seen. So I
ordered them from Synders and they only sell them by the case. Well after
the first two bags, Angela didn't touch them at all. They were good for
many months beyond when I bought them but since she never touched them...
Well they got recycled. I have since bought them from celiac.com and can
get them by the bag. But I will only be ordering them when I need something
else.

What really amazes me is the small amount of food that Angela and I eat. We
do go through a lot of black olives, canned green beans, raw baby carrots
and a fair amount of apple slices and applesauce. Also popcorn. I usually
pop my own from some really fresh kernels I get at the health food store.
But sometimes Angela likes the microwave or pre-popped stuff. And we do eat
a fair amount of cottage and other cheeses.

But the other stuff? Not so much! I've gotten it down to where I can
usually cook enough for two. I did make too much Spanish rice the other
day. It worked out okay because she was still sick today and didn't go to
school. We had it for breakfast. And I have now learned that Augmentin is
a form of Amoxicillin and that she is allergic to it and can never have it
again. She got the most interesting looking rash. So now she is on another
med! I am sick of Drs. and hospitals and just wish her ear infection would
get better. She is in soooo much pain! Some sort of really nasty
respiratory thing is going around here and all the kids are getting it. I
guess I got lucky. I didn't get sick.

I made the pasta salad tonight. I made enough for two but the proportions
were off a bit. It's mostly olives and veggies even though I wasn't able to
put in as many of the veggies as I would have liked. For instance each
container has only two radish slices. There is very little pasta. So we
will round out that meal with some apple slices because we need more carbs
than that. Especially Angela because she will be dancing tomorrow.
Assuming she gets well enough to dance. She may just be sitting out for the
most part but I have to be there to get the recital information for the
remaining two classes.

Now the big trick will be to buy just enough food for my husband when he
comes home on Fri. I have been trying to buy him only shelf stable milk
because I don't drink milk at all and Angela rarely has it. She does have
rice milk once in a while but really not much of that either. At least we
have discovered Winco foods. They have all sorts of things that he will eat
and their prices are cheap! Angela actually loves to shop there. She found
a very nice and inexpensive perch for the cats and they have a HUGE bulk
candy section. Now if she wants something like Andes mints, she can buy
just a few and not have to get the whole box. They also carry Shasta sodas
and she loves the diet cream soda.