"Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:12:22 GMT, "Jack Schidt®"
> > arranged random neurons, so they looked like
> this:
>
> <snip>
>
>>What other stuff do you know of that people make in batches that really
>>don't save that much time, but give the appearance that they do?
>>
> For me, it's not so much a time saver as a time *allotment*. Working
> full time, you have to schedule cooking "events" for when you have the
> time to do them. Thus, I often plan meals for a week or more and do a
> lot of the grunt work on the weekend: chop a baggie of garlic or
> onions, for instance, or brown the ground beef that goes into
> Tuesday's casserole and Thursday's spaghetti sauce. I don't save any
> time, but it allows me to serve good meals through the week without
> killing myself.
>
> And I am *not* going to confess in this forum to buying prepared salad
> greens. I'd never live it down ;-D
>


Too late, the gato is outta the baggo!

I find that combining the evening's cooking with happy hour kills 2 birds
with one stone and results in some good meals, if I daresay 'daring' ones.
Then again, sometimes I just toss a coupla sandwiches together with all the
foodgroups on them. My shortcut, there ya have it.

Jack Quick