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I l-o-v-e salad bars. Amazingly enough, there's a small café in my nearby town that has a wonderful salad bar...so many choices that change often, everything is super fresh and kept cold. This is in a town of about 2,000! And it's available every day after 11AM six days a week (Sundays it's a buffet). This restaurant is always busy, full of locals, the food is very good and it's quite inexpensive. I feel lucky.

Tried the lemonade cocktail yesterday wish Jack Daniels...that didn't do it. Tonight I'm using Gordon's lime twisted...this is better. i do want to try it with rum though since I have several bottles of different kinds. Tequila sounds goo too.

Jo, i have This one and it work great although it only is useful for smaller fruit ( but that's all I need it for). I only juice limes and lemons. it is bulky tho so it's a pita to store. I used to use it often to squeeze a bunch of lemons and limes to freeze in ice cube trays for use in cocktails. Now it's stored away and I use this one that I bought in 2004 because it's less bulky and easier to clean up.

Wow! I got my bottle of Inner Beaty the other day and I've been using it on everything I could find It is amazingly good! Better than ANY other hot sauce I've ever tried by a big margin. i put some on my lunch quesadilla and couldn't get enough of it; it's just the right amount of heat with a wonderful flavor.

Thanks, all, I just put mine in the freezer!

I bought lot of brown rice to use in making my dogs' food. is there a right way to store it? It seems like it is similar to whole wheat and I'm afraid it will go rancid if I don't keep it under refrigeration. Is tha t necessary or am I over thinking it?

Wow, I gotta try these, they look fantastic!

I have a jug of Simply Lemonade and thought I'd make a cocktail with it, Which liquor would go best?

Is there really any major difference in the dried and the fresh? I've only used the dried type but I'm open to finding a plant. Do you use more of the fresh like other herbs?

After reading articles about how Certo and grape juice can seriously help with arthritis pain, I went looking at the grocers. I assumed what I needed was powdered pectin but Certo itself seems to be a liquid. The dry products came under a different name. Does anyone know if they're the same? And would achieve the same result? For convenience sake, I'd prefer using the powder but not if I wouldn't get the same relief.

My Mom, who passed away at 80 had lost most of her appetite. The only thing she seemed to really enjoy was sweets; she loved peanut butter cups as well as donuts and the like. Oh, and she did very much like KFC chicken. A lot of what happens to elders can be depression. I think that was part of Mom's problem, she had just lost her dh of 50+ years three months prior to her death. Health problems can also factor in. I am a senior and I socialize with others near my age and we all enjoy good food, most of the others try to avoid salt but I love it. One thing about the older people here in this landlocked state is that they didn't grow up eating seafood so they tend to avoid it. Such a shame because it is such a healthy choice.

How perfect!!!! And now that I see it finished, I can agree with the mister about the rolling ladder.

I don't think I've seen picka peppa around here but I'll look for it now.

I'm wondering if this was a one-time situation,. Perhaps they disn't have the best product available on that particular day. I've dined there before and did not get the bagged salad product. Let's hope that was the situation.

I'm making Swiss steak in the Ipot now...chuck steak, potatoes, carrot, onion and canned Italian tomato, slow cooking. the aroma is intoxicatingly. it's a cool, wet day here and Swiss steak seemed like a comforting dish for a gloomy day. Used my new non-stick inner pot which worked beautifully.

It still is. There are a few farmers' markets around but the growing season is quite short and the options are not much. The Hutterite farmers come to Stevensville (a few miles South of where I live) and bring their produce, poultry, breads, etc. but the quantities are suitable for huge families (like theirs). Giant loaves of bread, huge cabbages the size of basketballs, chickens around 7 or 8 pounds. Too big for my needs. Very little In the way of delicate items like tomato, lettuces, summer squash, etc.

I had dinner last weeke at one of town's better restaurants. I was so disappointed in the salad. the lettuce had clearly come from a bag because it had that unmistakeable chemical taste I recognized. i should have complained but didn't. Why would a good restaurant compromise their ingredients this way?

I'm thinking of carrying my own small bottle of hot sauce for use in restaurants because they all seem to have only Tobasco available. I hate Tobasco sauce! It tastes, to me, like too much vinegar; I will not use it on anything, even if there's nothing else available. Some time ago I did a side by side testing of hot sauces (I have at least 6 to 8 in in my pantry). My favorite of those that I have was Dirty Dick's. But now I also have some of the Inner Beauty, I'll try that one in my next test.

what's a low-salt cucumber? You mean they're not all the same?

I got my first bottle of the Inner Beauty Hot Sauce yesterday and was eager to try it on my meatloaf sandwich...I like it a lot; it adds a nice extra layer of flavor to an already great sandwich.

My Schwan's delivery is coming today. Not a meal kit, but it works better for me. Today's is cod, chicken spinach ravioli (I got some Rao's marinara for it), garlic French bread, chicken cheese quesadillas, chocolate brownies, and ham and cheese omelets. The quality has been very, very good and I can put my meals together anyway I like. I'm only limited by the available space in my freezers!

I'm so envious of those of you who have a TJ nearby. My closest is a 3-½ hour drive each way. Just to have access to the wine selection would be great. When I lived in Portland, I'd drive my SUV up to the door and get a load of eight cases of various wines. That'd hold us for a good long time. Each trip was an adventure, and I really miss that.

I'm crazy for beets prepared any way. I ran across these while grocery shopping and picked up a package. Not impressed, the flavor was quite mild and they weren't salty enough for my taste. Too bad, a crispy, salty cracker tasting of beets sounded heavenly.

this happened to me with an order of Darwin's frozen dog food. My previous UPS driver retired and I was getting a new guy every visit. I got an email that my package (30 lbs.) was delivered yet there was no package at my door. I called Darwins and the CS person said she'd check with UPS. Turns out the package was delivered to a neighbor. Woman then suggested that I schlepp over and get the package from the neighbor. I said no (I have a bad back and can't walk very far, let alone carrying a heavy package). UPS driver appeared shortly and got the package to me. Doesn't happen often here; we're a small town and most people know their way around. And I get a lot of deliveries so unless the driver is new to the area the service is very good. I do like that I get emails now announcing the deliveries otherwise they may sit at the door until I happen to upon them. It has happened more often that I get mis-delivered mail, but even that is now a rarity.