The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Figgy1]

Yup, I had it hooked up to an older tv since it's tempermental with a flat screen. I packed it all away though (including tv) because we weren't playing it. My daughter has zero interest in video games and would rather play with her Legos.

That's wonderful, I wish my boys would pick just Legos but some of their Disney based video games are fun

 

[Figgy1]

Hahaaa...!
I participated a coupla' years ago, but, not since. DWifey likes me clean shaven.

I can't say much this year as my dh is working some crazy hours and all the guys at work are doing it. That and I really want a Disney sewing machine.

 

[Figgy1]

Good morning and happy Friday

 

[MinnieM123]

We have not been anywhere close to church attending Christians since the Priest scandal imploded our church twice! Twice!

Still we are a Christian home. We always celebrated Advent the 25 days leading upto Christmas. The kids when young received something small in the appropriate pocket 1-25 in their advent calendar that was about 6 feet tall by 4 feet. They hung in their rooms. It was easier when they were very young. As they aged it was harder. My kids being 5 years apart also complicated things. It ended with the bang of Christmas Day. Christmas use to make me very very tired. Simpler now that they are young adults.

I never had an Advent calendar as a child, but what a cool idea to give out little gifts each day!

 

[MinnieM123]

I think fresh spices taste so much better and if you find a good supplier they might even be a little cheaper than the jar stuff. I like to grind as much as I can

Grind? In the supermarket, they have spices all ready to use in little jars, and you don't have to grind anything!

Oh, a few weeks ago, I was looking in the back of one of my kitchen cabinets, and I found a spice jar from a market that I don't shop at anymore; so the spice bottle was 5 years old. I chucked it into the basket, because I assume you should change up the spice bottles by about the 4th year, right? I figure that's what real gourmands do.

 

[MinnieM123]

Sympathy like. Dish washer and washing machine are 2 things we dare not cheap out on. My dishwasher runs twice a day some days On holidays the poor thing never gets any rest like me

Yikes! Twice a day??!!! (I have an idea for you: paper plates!)

(I run ours once a week! Then again, it's just the two of us here at home, and during the work week, I eat my main "dinner" meal there.)

 

[Figgy1]

Grind? In the supermarket, they have spices all ready to use in little jars, and you don't have to grind anything!

Oh, a few weeks ago, I was looking in the back of one of my kitchen cabinets, and I found a spice jar from a market that I don't shop at anymore; so the spice bottle was 5 years old. I chucked it into the basket, because I assume you should change up the spice bottles by about the 4th year, right? I figure that's what real gourmands do.

6 months LOL not that anything in my kitchen lasts that long

 

[MinnieM123]

Thanks but no thanks. One version I do is gluten and dairy free and I'm sure that doesn't come in nuke form. Do you know if the nuke type is whole wheat pasta?

Never looked for, nor seen, a whole wheat pasta version. That's not to say it doesn't exist. I think you'd probably have to look in a more specialized store such as Whole Foods to fine something along those lines.

 

[MinnieM123]

Quick somebody call a doctor she has frostbite of the brain

Agreed--been this way all my life--I'm a terminal patient!!!

 

[MinnieM123]

That's wonderful, I wish my boys would pick just Legos but some of their Disney based video games are fun

I have a funny idea if you really wanted to mess around with their heads. Go find some old Lincoln Logs (maybe in your grandparents' attic, in an old toy chest) and put them out where the kids normally play. See if they know what to do with them?!

 

[MinnieM123]

Good morning and happy Friday

TGIF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Figgy1]

I have a funny idea if you really wanted to mess around with their heads. Go find some old Lincoln Logs (maybe in your grandparents' attic, in an old toy chest) and put them out where the kids normally play. See if they know what to do with them?!

Both my boys have played with them, my mil found a large set many years ago ay a yard sale. Toys R us currently has a nice selection it seems retro toys are cool

 

[MinnieM123]

6 months LOL not that anything in my kitchen lasts that long

Just 6 months?! But . . . but . . . you only use a teaspoon of most spices in a recipe and there's no way I'd go through even a little bottle in 6 months. I wish they sold spices in little individual, one-time amounts, like in a blister pack, for example.

 

[Figgy1]

Just 6 months?! But . . . but . . . you only use a teaspoon of most spices in a recipe and there's no way I'd go through even a little bottle in 6 months. I wish they sold spices in little individual, one-time amounts, like in a blister pack, for example.

I almost fell out of my chair. I know of a convenience item you don't Mc Cormack has spices for individual dishes. Way too expensive for my needs. They have quite a few at my market, sorry but I never checked to see exactly what dishes they're for

 

[MinnieM123]

I almost fell out of my chair. I know of a convenience item you don't Mc Cormack has spices for individual dishes. Way too expensive for my needs. They have quite a few at my market, sorry but I never checked to see exactly what dishes they're for

Really??!! Oh, I've got to look this weekend to see if I can find that.

I did use two spices last month. I made a turkey chili and I think the recipe called for something like 1 1/2 teaspoons of chili powder and maybe 1 teaspoon of cumin.

So there! You're not the only real cook around here--I know my way around spices, too!

 

[Songbird76]

Thank you for the details. Surprisingly, the can of Libby's that I looked at this morning did not have any preservatives at all. It just said ingredients: pumpkin. By the way, I admire all of you who actually take a real pumpkin, cut it up and puree it, all by yourselves!!

I'd probably use a can if we had canned here! I only do it out of necessity! I have to make everything from scratch here. There are no box mixes for birthday cake, for example...and what passes as a brownie over here is scandalous! Dutch people think the idea of peanut butter and chocolate together is disgusting...I've learned to make my own reeses!

 

[Songbird76]

hoodies to bed

I have been known to do this. I'm a freezebug and I can't sleep if it's cold.

 

[Songbird76]

We have not been anywhere close to church attending Christians since the Priest scandal imploded our church twice! Twice!

Still we are a Christian home. We always celebrated Advent the 25 days leading upto Christmas. The kids when young received something small in the appropriate pocket 1-25 in their advent calendar that was about 6 feet tall by 4 feet. They hung in their rooms. It was easier when they were very young. As they aged it was harder. My kids being 5 years apart also complicated things. It ended with the bang of Christmas Day. Christmas use to make me very very tired. Simpler now that they are young adults.

We celebrate Christmas rather than Sinterklaas in our house just because DS's and my birthdays are so close to Sinterklaas and it gets to be too much. Christmas is a bit farther away. We do a couple of little things for Sinterklaas just so the kids have the feeling that they get to do it, since it's such a big deal at school, etc. But we do more with Christmas and we always have a big family celebration at my in-laws' house.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

20 days until Thanksgiving.

 

[Figgy1]

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20 days until Thanksgiving.

I have to show this to my ds thank you! xoxo