The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Songbird76]

I actually have a tomato in my frig.

I have carrots and celery, and some apples! Oh, and iceberg lettuce, though that doesn't have a whole lot of nutritional value, but E takes a salad for lunch every day and she doesn't like the mixtures with various green leafy stuff, so I have to get her plain iceberg lettuce. But I've got chicken pot pie in the slowcooker right now! I hope it's good. We finally got out the slowcooker last week, and we tried to make chicken noodle soup, but it was AWFUL!! Lesson learned....Rosemary and Thyme don't belong in chicken soup! This is the 2nd thing we've tried in the slow cooker, so I hope it's better than the soup was.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

I actually have a tomato in my frig.

Is it in a bottle ?

 

[MinnieM123]

Is it in a bottle ?

No, it's an actual tomato in all its glory! Been all by itself in the vegetable bin for a few days now. I'll probably cut it up to use in the tacos for dinner tonight. Figgy will be jealous.

 

[MinnieM123]

I have carrots and celery, and some apples! Oh, and iceberg lettuce, though that doesn't have a whole lot of nutritional value, but E takes a salad for lunch every day and she doesn't like the mixtures with various green leafy stuff, so I have to get her plain iceberg lettuce. But I've got chicken pot pie in the slowcooker right now! I hope it's good. We finally got out the slowcooker last week, and we tried to make chicken noodle soup, but it was AWFUL!! Lesson learned....Rosemary and Thyme don't belong in chicken soup! This is the 2nd thing we've tried in the slow cooker, so I hope it's better than the soup was.

I like a slow cooker any day over an instantpot. IMO, slow cookers are so much easier to use.

 

[FutureCEO]

We all know Disney tracks you but this is just weird.

 

[Songbird76]

I like a slow cooker any day over an instantpot. IMO, slow cookers are so much easier to use.

I've never used an instapot. Slow cookers weren't really available over here until just a few years ago. It's not a "thing" here, but last year, they finally had one in a sale, and I snatched it up, but we had never tried it out. A lot of the recipes seem to call for things we can't get here, like cream of chicken or cream of celery soup. A lot of the "convenience foods" you have in the US don't exist here, so everything has to be made from scratch. We don't have things like canned pizza dough, or biscuits, for example. And we don't have cool whip, so a lot of quick desserts are impossible. But so far, I'm finding that the slow cooker doesn't really save me any time. I still have to chop all the veggies and such. The only difference between using the slow cooker and a pan is that the slow cooker takes longer and doesn't require stirring. But it's not as much of a time saver as I was hoping for.

 

[MinnieM123]

We all know Disney tracks you but this is just weird.

Yah, not a fan. There will be some who will like it, though.

 

[Songbird76]

We all know Disney tracks you but this is just weird.

Um...does the author of this article even know what they are talking about? Harry Potter isn't even a Disney thing....they can't sell butterbeer or project images of Harry Potter.

 

[FutureCEO]

I've never used an instapot. Slow cookers weren't really available over here until just a few years ago. It's not a "thing" here, but last year, they finally had one in a sale, and I snatched it up, but we had never tried it out. A lot of the recipes seem to call for things we can't get here, like cream of chicken or cream of celery soup. A lot of the "convenience foods" you have in the US don't exist here, so everything has to be made from scratch. We don't have things like canned pizza dough, or biscuits, for example. And we don't have cool whip, so a lot of quick desserts are impossible. But so far, I'm finding that the slow cooker doesn't really save me any time. I still have to chop all the veggies and such. The only difference between using the slow cooker and a pan is that the slow cooker takes longer and doesn't require stirring. But it's not as much of a time saver as I was hoping for.

I've used my instapot more as a slow cooker than anything else. I use it for when I don't want to cook over a stove for things like soups or something.

I have also never bought canned dough or cool whip.

 

[Figgy1]

She’s on vacation in Florida.

She needs to head up here and turn on the heat

 

[Figgy1]

Shipt. Instacart. Etc.

I wish!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can only do that from the store with the worst produce and the highest prices not to mention nobody would take my order no matter how high the tip was. Between contactless for the pantry items and the fresh produce/milk/eggs my car was packed full

 

[Figgy1]

Oh no!! Is he ok? Did he injure himself? E twisted her ankle in PE and I'm thinking it might be sprained. She says it's swollen and it hurts to walk on it, but she's at school until 3:45 so I can't take her to the doctor yet.

{{HUGS}} my ds is fine now

 

[Figgy1]

I'm surprised you don't have any bags of frozen veggies in your frig, for times when you can't get them fresh at the store. For once, I actually have more veggies in my frig than you do!

Not any more I bet you don't buy carrots 10 pounds at a time

 

[Figgy1]

Ah, but she said she had no FRESH produce in her house, not that she didn't have any frozen or canned veggies.

You know me so well

 

[Figgy1]

I actually have a tomato in my frig.

Tomatoes should be kept in a basket at room temperature until they're sliced

 

[Figgy1]

I have carrots and celery, and some apples! Oh, and iceberg lettuce, though that doesn't have a whole lot of nutritional value, but E takes a salad for lunch every day and she doesn't like the mixtures with various green leafy stuff, so I have to get her plain iceberg lettuce. But I've got chicken pot pie in the slowcooker right now! I hope it's good. We finally got out the slowcooker last week, and we tried to make chicken noodle soup, but it was AWFUL!! Lesson learned....Rosemary and Thyme don't belong in chicken soup! This is the 2nd thing we've tried in the slow cooker, so I hope it's better than the soup was.

Can you get romaine lettuce it has more nutritional value than iceburg but still has some crunch. You can make any soup or stew in the slow cooker that you have a recipe for. You don't have to use only "slow cooker" recipes

 

[Figgy1]

I like a slow cooker any day over an instantpot. IMO, slow cookers are so much easier to use.

We like the Instant Pot so much we now have 3 of them

 

[Songbird76]

Can you get romaine lettuce it has more nutritional value than iceburg but still has some crunch. You can make any soup or stew in the slow cooker that you have a recipe for. You don't have to use only "slow cooker" recipes

I don't think romaine is one we can get in the fresh produce....maybe in the precut. We only have 2 kinds in the fresh section. Iceberg and what looks like maybe Boston lettuce? I don't know what it's called in English. It's called Kropsla here. But they have prewashed and cut lettuce in bags, and it does look like they have romaine in that, but I don't know if E would eat it. She doesn't like the "fancy" lettuce with all the different kids mixed in. When we do tacos or tostadas or anything, I have to get iceberg for her and a mix with several different kinds for myself and M.

 

[John park hopper]

There are so many varieties of lettuce you never see in stores, each year I plant a variety I have never eaten. Have found some easy good varieties

 

[Figgy1]

There are so many varieties of lettuce you never see in stores, each year I plant a variety I have never eaten. Have found some easy good varieties

Wegman's usually has a good variety of salad greens but not as good as my local farm market