Depends on the person or situation--some need more than others.

If at first you don't succeed, walk away again.

And come back with a different plan of attack.

Or refrain from doing that.

Figured that, as you seem to have bundled the place in with the similar stores which we've been talking about.

Just verified what you were figuring.

Abundantly.

Fun place

Such places are amusing, especially for those who
don't read expiration dates!

We do, when grocery shopping, and have pulled a number of things
out/called them to the attention of staff.

The salvage stores in my experience often stock
things that are perilously close to or beyond
expiration. I'm not sure what the laws are about
that, and often you see weasel words like "best
by" - which means that if you acquire the stuff
after then, it might not be your best buy.

Still time to find out about allergies or dislikes and cook

accordingly.
Problem is that people tend to say, oh, anything
YOU cook will be fine. Until it's not.

That's why we want to know in advance. One child in our LG at church
can't have too much dairy (some, but not a lot) so I let his mom know we
were having lasange a couple of weeks ago. She packed an alternative
entree for him but let him have the rest of the meal.

But people don't want to be such a BOther. Except
that they are.

Not abundantly. In the city, it's fine, but Houston is so
spread out that there are large blocks of territory that
have minimal or no public coverage - similarly to other
large cities, such as LA and Denver.

Sounds like improvement is needed.

Not going to happen in the foreseeable future.
It's a surprise to me that there's any system
at all.

A few cities in the US have a half decent public transportation system.
When Steve was getting his language training in Monterey, I had to take
our younger daughter to the hospital on Fort Ord (from Pacific Grove).
We were able to get there easily by bus, not a lot of walking to stops either. The only other places we've encountered that is in Europe.

California, especially on the coast, has been pretty
progressive about such things as public facilities.
That's what those whopping taxes go to, at least in
large part.

I'd be uncomfortable with that, even if it was good beef.

Had to go with the military dictates if we wanted to go with the program.

I hate to say it, but in such circumstances I
might go without beef.

But you weren't feeding growing kids and a spouse.

The Germans can do it, you can do it.

Or leave it and go hungry, which is a viable

alternative. > ML> > Couldn't--Mom worked at the school & her lunch time was the same as > ML> > mine. Small enough cafeteria she would have seen me ditch it.

Oh, well, it was worth the thought.

True, I just had to fill in some of the details.

Could you have occasionally effected a trade with
someone who was peanut deprived?

No, as most of us had basically the same sort of lunch.

Ah, I give up.

Watergate Salad

Easy enough to make but nutritionally, almost but not quite dead.

One can say that about many sweets, but I sort of
wonder whether gelatin desserts are as nutrition-
sparse as people (nutritionists) claim.

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Hi Michael,

Depends on the person or situation--some need more than

others. > ML> If at first you don't succeed, walk away again.

And come back with a different plan of attack.

Or refrain from doing that.

True, whichever is to your advantage.

Such places are amusing, especially for those who
don't read expiration dates!

We do, when grocery shopping, and have pulled a number of things out/called them to the attention of staff.

The salvage stores in my experience often stock
things that are perilously close to or beyond
expiration. I'm not sure what the laws are about
that, and often you see weasel words like "best
by" - which means that if you acquire the stuff
after then, it might not be your best buy.

We went to one of those stores with some friends in PA a few years ago.
They bought quite a few things; we left the store as empty handed as we
came in. Everything we looked at had a "Best By" date that was long
past.

Still time to find out about allergies or dislikes and cook

accordingly.
Problem is that people tend to say, oh, anything
YOU cook will be fine. Until it's not.

That's why we want to know in advance. One child in our LG at church can't have too much dairy (some, but not a lot) so I let his mom

know we > were having lasange a couple of weeks ago. She packed an alternative

entree for him but let him have the rest of the meal.

But people don't want to be such a BOther. Except
that they are.

Agreed--that sort of action hurts others in the long run.

Not going to happen in the foreseeable future.
It's a surprise to me that there's any system
at all.

A few cities in the US have a half decent public transportation

system. > When Steve was getting his language training in Monterey, I
had to take > our younger daughter to the hospital on Fort Ord (from Pacific Grove). > We were able to get there easily by bus, not a lot
of walking to stops > either. The only other places we've encountered
that is in Europe.

California, especially on the coast, has been pretty
progressive about such things as public facilities.
That's what those whopping taxes go to, at least in
large part.

Trouble is, other parts of the country need the transportation as bad,
or more so, than the cities but can't afford the cost.

I'd be uncomfortable with that, even if it was good

beef. > ML> > Had to go with the military dictates if we wanted to go with the > ML> > program.

I hate to say it, but in such circumstances I
might go without beef.

But you weren't feeding growing kids and a spouse.

The Germans can do it, you can do it.

We did buy German beef as well--low and slow with the crock pot did a
good job of tenderising it.

Or leave it and go hungry, which is a viable

alternative. > ML> > Couldn't--Mom worked at the school & her

lunch > ML> time was the same as > ML> > mine. Small enough
cafeteria she would > ML> have seen me ditch it.

Oh, well, it was worth the thought.

True, I just had to fill in some of the details.

Could you have occasionally effected a trade with
someone who was peanut deprived?

No, as most of us had basically the same sort of lunch.

Ah, I give up.

Watergate Salad

Easy enough to make but nutritionally, almost but not quite dead.

One can say that about many sweets, but I sort of
wonder whether gelatin desserts are as nutrition-
sparse as people (nutritionists) claim.

Most of them are sugar, water, artificial coloring and some sort of
thickener. Don't see much in the line of nutrition there.

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