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Default Barilla Ready Pasta - $6.72/lb

On Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 9:56:43 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:28:34 GMT, Pamela >
> wrote:
>
> >On 12:59 8 Nov 2018, wrote in
> :
> >
> >> On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 11:58:12 GMT, Pamela >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 16:23 4 Nov 2018, Sqwertz > wrote in
> :
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:38:15 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Only way I could see buying that was if I wanted it for a lunch at
> >>>>> work where it is not easy to cook pasta. Usually I'd just bring it
> >>>>> from home as leftovers.
> >>>>
> >>>> I always cook up extra pasta so I can make other noodle dishes or
> >>>> sides quickly within the next 10 days or so. Carbonara, pesto, or
> >>>> simple garlic buttered parsley noodles are a few of my standbys. Right
> >>>> now I have extra cooked farfalle in the fridge (as well pasta salad
> >>>> from the farfalle)
> >>>>
> >>>> -sw
> >>>
> >>>I think re-heating pasta from the fridge is a desperate measure. The al
> >>>dente bite is lost. Unless it's coated in an oily sauce, it clumps
> >>>together.
> >>>
> >>>Why bother when it only take minutes to make freshly cooked pasta?
> >>
> >> I assume you just throw the left over away? Something that really
> >> shocked me when we first came to NA in 1967 was the food wastage.
> >> Growing up during WWII and heavy rationing taught me to never waste
> >> anything - left over bread makes bread pudding etc.

> >
> >I throw it in the bin. Saving food was once very important and my parents
> >couldn't afford to throw any food away but now we have so much and it's so
> >cheap that waste is no longer so extravagent.

>
> Tell that to Yemeni kids!


What is your proposal for getting that discarded food to Yemen?

Cindy Hamilton