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commotiocordisAnd because I'm still not in bed and thought I'd share this random anecdote from all of 15 seconds ago.
I made some broth. Beef flavored, but with no actual meat/meat products in it, go figure. From a big thing of dry mix that was bought for me ages and ages ago once when I was sick, and I refound it in the back of a cabinet relatively recently, so I've been making some on occasion (meaning perhaps thrice total--including said ill occasion--before now). Well, I had picked it up and begun to just drink it because I got tired of the slowness of trying to spoon it into my mouth, and I guess I'm so unused to that feeling of hot liquid pouring down to my stomach with that velocity (I don't drink hot drinks pretty much ever, nor soup that's watery enough to chug) that I literally had to look down and make sure that it wasn't just pouring down my shirt, because that's what it felt like.
And plus. I might have mentioned how dad bought me a loaf of skinnybread a couple of weeks ago. Quite nice of him, that, and I spread it out over those few weeks, but it ran out over the weekend. Well, we really can't justify spending $2.50 on a loaf of bread that's not even as big as the ones we usually get for $0.89, and so I was cool with him not getting anymore, even though I really would have liked it (I got used to my breakfast egg sandwiches). There's even a coupon in the paper this week for them, but $0.35 off still doesn't even bring it close. But lo and behold, we found some for $0.99 in the bakery thrift store (you know, where they send the day-old breads and such). It's a different brand, and it doesn't taste quite as good in a way (it's got a very strong wheaty flavor, which is nice sometimes, but can overpower things) and is 5 calories more per slice--40, up from 35 (which is way too small of a difference for me to think about it as much as I do, LOL)-- but it's cheap, which means that I don't have to ration the bread as much.
I've been out of skinnycheese for about the same amount of time now. No such luck on that front, as I don't think they have a dairy thrift store where they put the day-old cheese. It's like underwear--double the price for half the actual milk content in the cheese. Outrageous. There's a coupon in the paper for the reduced-fat kind, but I go for the fat-free kind, because I think with the reduced-fat, you're tolerating rubbery texture and odd flavor for not enough of a calorie difference.
I made some broth. Beef flavored, but with no actual meat/meat products in it, go figure. From a big thing of dry mix that was bought for me ages and ages ago once when I was sick, and I refound it in the back of a cabinet relatively recently, so I've been making some on occasion (meaning perhaps thrice total--including said ill occasion--before now). Well, I had picked it up and begun to just drink it because I got tired of the slowness of trying to spoon it into my mouth, and I guess I'm so unused to that feeling of hot liquid pouring down to my stomach with that velocity (I don't drink hot drinks pretty much ever, nor soup that's watery enough to chug) that I literally had to look down and make sure that it wasn't just pouring down my shirt, because that's what it felt like.
And plus. I might have mentioned how dad bought me a loaf of skinnybread a couple of weeks ago. Quite nice of him, that, and I spread it out over those few weeks, but it ran out over the weekend. Well, we really can't justify spending $2.50 on a loaf of bread that's not even as big as the ones we usually get for $0.89, and so I was cool with him not getting anymore, even though I really would have liked it (I got used to my breakfast egg sandwiches). There's even a coupon in the paper this week for them, but $0.35 off still doesn't even bring it close. But lo and behold, we found some for $0.99 in the bakery thrift store (you know, where they send the day-old breads and such). It's a different brand, and it doesn't taste quite as good in a way (it's got a very strong wheaty flavor, which is nice sometimes, but can overpower things) and is 5 calories more per slice--40, up from 35 (which is way too small of a difference for me to think about it as much as I do, LOL)-- but it's cheap, which means that I don't have to ration the bread as much.
I've been out of skinnycheese for about the same amount of time now. No such luck on that front, as I don't think they have a dairy thrift store where they put the day-old cheese. It's like underwear--double the price for half the actual milk content in the cheese. Outrageous. There's a coupon in the paper for the reduced-fat kind, but I go for the fat-free kind, because I think with the reduced-fat, you're tolerating rubbery texture and odd flavor for not enough of a calorie difference.
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