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"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 06 May 2013 12:45:01 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> On 5/6/2013 6:02 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> Yesterday I went to the local Stop & Shop to get some saltine
>>> crackers. We don't eat them often so I was going to get the two
>>> stack, 8 ounce package instead of the 4 stack 16 ounce package.
>>>
>>> The 8 ounce was priced 2/$6
>>> The 16 ounce was on sale for $2.99 save 30¢
>>>
>>> Decisions, decisions.
>>>

>> It's like leaving free food at the store. I get the bigger
>> size unless it's something I really cannot use. Then I figure
>> out something to do with the extra.
>>
>> Saltine crumbs? Those saltine caramel chocolate things? You
>> could probably use them up before they go stale.

>
> Make "Fire Crackers" out of the other two sleeves.
>
> http://www.food.com/recipe/fire-crackers-423316
>
> I've seen that somebody has even commercialized these and sells them
> for $3/10oz bag.


As a kid, I would spread them with applesauce, sprinkle on cinnamon and then
toast them in the toaster oven. Tasted like apple pie. I would also spread
them with meringue and bake them for my mom. She loved them. I didn't.
They're called Margarites I think.