Does anyone actually save money by doing their family grocery shopping at Sam's Club or Costco? I am beginning to wonder. Maybe it's just because there are only two of us. Maybe you need to have a large family to benefit from buying wholesale.
Oh well. At least I have a giant bag of snow peas. Mmmmm.... :)
Posted by waltondammerung at March 24, 2004 12:23 AMI am not a member of Sam's Club or Costco, but your comment about snow peas reminded me that our grocery store has expanded its Thai food section, and they now have Pad Thai and Panang sauce. I am so excited! I made Pad Thai last night and it was awesome! I love Thai food. I could eat it every day. And now I'm bloody hungry. Too bad the only restaurants in this stupid town are Subway... and the Hi Neighbor, which serves Puddin' Meat. Wanna know what puddin' meat is? It's ground up intestines from pigs and cows that's all mushy and runny, and the locals eat it over pancakes. They love it. Hmm, now I'm not so hungry anymore...
Posted by: Vic at March 24, 2004 12:40 PMWe have a Thai restaurant within a one minute walk of our apartment, and another one that's just two minutes away. :-)
Posted by: Peter at March 24, 2004 1:08 PMBut can you get puddin' meat, Peter? I mean, you could be surrounded by good Thai food, but life without puddin' meat would be meaningless.
Posted by: Amy Walton at March 25, 2004 12:41 AMNo, but we can get Shrimp On The Run ;-)
Posted by: Peter at March 25, 2004 10:11 AMFirst it's renting rice, now running shrimp. I had no idea the East Coast was so avant garde.
Posted by: Mom at March 26, 2004 7:11 PMWell, I sort of save money by buying giant bottles of shampoo and olive oil and five pound bags of uncooked spagetti. My favorite money and time saver is six pounds of raw chicken, which I deal with in the following manner.
1) Buy an enormous "flat" of chicken at Sam's and lug it home in a cardboard box really intended for 5 gallon jugs of Cascade.
2) Open the package with a butcher knife and spear a breast.
3) With a grimace, shove it into a gallon freezer bag. Repeat with three more breasts.
4) Mustering all your primal energy, take a mallet and pound the chicken viciously until it is flat discus if meat. (Note: I like to do this late at night to annoy the neighbors.)
5) Seal the bag and place it in the freezer.
6) Repeat until all of the chicken is flat and freezing.
Thaws very quickly.
Puddin' meat.... I would like to find a recipe to make it at home. Purest that I am I love to make things from scratch. It has been so long since I have had it, but I remmber how it tastes.
Goood on pancakes with King Syrup.