DECEMBER.. DINNER MEALS

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:We just did a test. Tina bought cheeto's cheese twists, and Wise brand.
The wise were bigger, but the taste and aftertaste were awful. Tina gives the nose test, and said,"these Wise twists smell like baby vomit / spit-up!".... LOL

Bugster2 wrote:I just can't find any difference in the outcome by using Gold Medal vs KA. We really don't have White Lily out here but one of the local gourmet stores has it for $10 bag. Maybe someday I will give it a try.

Last month I tried Walmart's brand of diced green chilies and they were mush. I will stick to the Ortega brand for now.
I don't like Contadina tomato sauce: it is too sweet. Some grocery store brands are ok.

One thing I must say, is we found that Walmart Brand I think it's "Great Value", tomatoe's, paste, and sauce, are excellent. Somebody has to pack for them, and we have had no issues with it. The other stuff ??? not so much.

bethk wrote:

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:We just did a test. Tina bought cheeto's cheese twists, and Wise brand.
The wise were bigger, but the taste and aftertaste were awful. Tina gives the nose test, and said,"these Wise twists smell like baby vomit / spit-up!".... LOL

Yeah, we're sticking with Cheeto's from now on.  We don't eat them often (actually, the last bag went stale and I just tossed the last 1/3....), but they sure hit the spot when you want something salty & crunchy.  I got hooked on them when I was at DD#2's.  She always have them because the dog loves 'em.  LOL  If you get the bag down he's right there starin' at you with those big brown eyes, droolin' and waiting.....staring, drooling & waiting.......until you FINALLY figure out:  1 for you, TWO for Huckleberry! He's the same way with popcorn.  But that's about all the 'human' food he gets.  Well, 'cept for a hot dog IF he has pills to take.  

I like Tera Chips - the vegetable chips (Taro, beet, parsnip, etc.).  At the grocery store the name brand is something like $4.59 a bag.  Aldi has a store brand that is, I swear, the same exact product.  I can find NO difference in the taste, shape, etc.  And theirs is like $2.39 a bag.  Same for stuff I keep on hand to take when when have a game night and everyone brings a snack.  Aldi has little bags of chocolate covered pretzels, and they're good....for $1.19.  Way more at the other stores.  I also buy all my snack nuts at Aldi.  They're fresh (lots of turnover in product due to the price).  We like to have the unsalted almonds/cashews/pecans available for snacks.

Bugster2 wrote:They are raping us on the price of eggs out here. A dozen goes for $3.50 and 18 goes for over $5. Butter is nearly $5 a pound. It makes no sense to me. How and why do we have the highest food prices? The state is now over 50% immigrant and most of those are poor. You would think there would be some kind of break on prices. And double the coupons.
I saw where Zuckerburg, the 27-year old founder of Facebook is planning on giving away 99% of his Facebook stock over his lifetime. 45 billion. I wish he would give some of it away in my direction.LOL.

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:I thought my sausage cacciatori was done, but in the distraction watching the new shootings in San Bernardino, CA shootings that happened this morning, I forgot to add the potato wedges to the pot. When are these shootings gonna stop? It's like every week a different one.
I hope they track them down.

NormM wrote:I cooked some navy beans and collard greens in leftover turkey stock and ham bones.  We also had a salad, mushrooms and corn muffins.

The ankle bone's connected to the knee bone..... the knee bone's connected to the HAM Bone! The Ham bone's connected to the back bone, and they sucked and knawed on Bones all day!.... LOL

My mom and dad, would boil ham bones and pork bones. They would sit with a whole bowl of bones,,, (Disgusting ) and with a little pick, they would pull out the marrow and eat it. To get some, they would have to suck the inside of the bones to get out the marrow. Brother and I would cringe.    

Dads famous saying was." Hey " "This is a delicacy for some people!"
Brother would softly say,"Yeah, people that Crap on the floor, and kick it out of the way!" ......    

Barbara101 wrote:shrimp tacos coming up..

Bugster2 wrote:

Barbara101 wrote:shrimp tacos coming up..

Shrimp tacos? I never thought of that. You MUST tell me what you have done. DH and Roomie are shrimp hounds.