What did you eat today?
May 26th, 2021 at 6:41:13 AM
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Quote: lilredrooster....................
joints like Taco Bell, Burger King, Wendys, etc. are masters at giving their food flavor - using a concoction of spices and other things
they all have one thing in common - the meat they use - particularly beef - not so much chicken - which is the most expensive part of the sandwich - is cheap, low quality beef
they're hoping the customer will forgive or forget about the low quality beef because of the flavor of the sandwich
and they're right - a great many customers do forgive or forget about the low quality beef
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The main reason I do not eat fast food burgers is that they have zero taste. I do not like condiments so a burger to me is just beef on a bun, possibly cheese but absolutely nothing else. I have not found a fast food burger that I like,
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May 26th, 2021 at 6:49:56 AM
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Quote: DRichThe main reason I do not eat fast food burgers is that they have zero taste. I do not like condiments so a burger to me is just beef on a bun, possibly cheese but absolutely nothing else. I have not found a fast food burger that I like,
Have you ever thought about their feelings? Perhaps they don't like you either.
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May 26th, 2021 at 6:56:57 AM
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Quote: billryanHave you ever thought about their feelings? Perhaps they don't like you either.
Yes, but I think the cow is biased.
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May 26th, 2021 at 9:42:38 AM
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Quote: vegas
He was recently on a diet and his weight does go up at times. He likes to fast often between his videos. Also likes to bike ride. However you are right he does eat thousands of calories at a time. I think it is the fasting that keeps things in check.
He said on 24-hour stealth parking fast food binges that sometimes he eats as much as eight thousand calories a day. All that fat sugar carb and salt in one day and at his age has to be having some kind of health effect on him. There is no way around it. The amount of sugar and carb he eats at breakfast sometimes makes me cringe. Yet I keep watching. Some truck stops now have machines did make fresh pizza while you wait. Not frozen, fresh. The refrigerator side is loaded up with pre-made pies and the oven side bakes the one you select in a real oven. Completely run by robots. They are pretty good from the reviews I read.
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May 27th, 2021 at 1:01:51 AM
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thats quite interesting, as i find all fast food burgers like an explosion of tastes due to sauces or onions
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May 27th, 2021 at 9:40:17 AM
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Saw this on buzzfeed today.
Someone try this on your kids or your spouse and see if it’s got any merit.
Quote:Watered down mayo is better than milk in a hot chocolate drink."
Someone try this on your kids or your spouse and see if it’s got any merit.
There's no secret. Just know what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
May 27th, 2021 at 10:06:21 AM
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Having the old stand by tonight:
Chunks of potato, onion, pepper and sausage baked together in a casserole dish.
Easy and tasty.
Chunks of potato, onion, pepper and sausage baked together in a casserole dish.
Easy and tasty.
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May 27th, 2021 at 12:38:05 PM
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Quote: MrVHaving the old stand by tonight:
Chunks of potato, onion, pepper and sausage baked together in a casserole dish.
Easy and tasty.
Put it in a cast iron pan and fry it and it's called hash.
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May 27th, 2021 at 3:28:25 PM
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I am grilling Salmon and making Rice-a-Roni for dinner tonight. I felt obligated to cook as the wife is leaving town again tomorrow.
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May 27th, 2021 at 5:04:14 PM
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Quote: DRichI am grilling Salmon and making Rice-a-Roni for dinner tonight. I felt obligated to cook as the wife is leaving town again tomorrow.
Good thing you have two reserve wives to take care of your needs while she's gone.
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May 27th, 2021 at 5:24:33 PM
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Quote: EvenBobGood thing you have two reserve wives to take care of your needs while she's gone.
Only one extra wife.
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May 27th, 2021 at 5:36:33 PM
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I got my first order from Schwan's yesterday. Yesterday I had a frozen spaghetti and beef sauce dinner for dinner. It was a bit above your average frozen dinner. Today, for lunch,I had their boneless buffalo style chicken wings. I'd say it was a bit better than your typical pub wings. I thought the sauce could have been hotter.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's lasagna rollups. They look great.
$20 off your first $50 order, free delivery and 10% rebate, plus 2% cash back for using my CC.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's lasagna rollups. They look great.
$20 off your first $50 order, free delivery and 10% rebate, plus 2% cash back for using my CC.
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May 27th, 2021 at 10:17:30 PM
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I don’t know that I’ve heard the name Schwan’s in at least 15 years. Good middle school friend whose home I was at a lot growing up’s dad was a Schwan’s employee, always Schwan’s ice cream for us in the freezer.
May 27th, 2021 at 10:23:59 PM
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Hard to beat Stouffer's lasagna for ease of prep and quality of product..
Pair it with a good salad and some crusty bread and it's game on.
Pair it with a good salad and some crusty bread and it's game on.
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May 28th, 2021 at 12:25:22 AM
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Quote: MrVHard to beat Stouffer's lasagna for ease of prep and quality of product..
Pair it with a good salad and some crusty bread and it's game on.
Thems fighting words where I come from. I'll agree Stouffer's is easy to cook but they should stick to Mac and cheese.
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May 28th, 2021 at 11:35:34 AM
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Quote: DRichOnly one extra wife.
So you have cut back due to the economy. One extra wife will probably be enough if you pace yourself.
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May 28th, 2021 at 12:22:31 PM
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Quote: EvenBobSo you have cut back due to the economy. One extra wife will probably be enough if you pace yourself.
No, I have never had more than two.
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May 28th, 2021 at 12:25:45 PM
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Quote: DRichNo, I have never had more than two.
Go for 3, what do you have to lose. I only have one wife I can't be with her for more than a few hours or I start to lose my mind. You must have True Grit.
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May 28th, 2021 at 1:40:30 PM
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I’m amazed that someone could refer to a pre-made (frozen?) boxed dinner as “quality”.Quote: MrVHard to beat Stouffer's lasagna for ease of prep and quality of product...
It’s all about making that GTA
May 28th, 2021 at 1:43:14 PM
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Quote: Ace2I’m amazed that someone could refer to a pre-made (frozen?) boxed dinner as “quality”.
Valid point when compared to home made, but my observation rings true, at least in my experience, when compared to most other frozen food entres out there.
Bon appetite'!
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May 28th, 2021 at 3:37:27 PM
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Quote: MrVwhen compared to most other frozen food entres out there.
In other words when all you eat is crap, there's the good crap and the bad crap. Stouffer's it's just a crap against crap comparison.
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May 28th, 2021 at 3:51:37 PM
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No, I am not saying that.
Stouffer's is not as good as a properly made home made lasagna, but it is tasty enough not to warrant that aspersion.
Then again, one man's crap is another man's delight.
Stouffer's is not as good as a properly made home made lasagna, but it is tasty enough not to warrant that aspersion.
Then again, one man's crap is another man's delight.
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May 28th, 2021 at 4:02:27 PM
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Quote: MrV
Then again, one man's crap is another man's delight.
Any Frozen entree is just Frozen Crap to me. Just salt fat sugar and carb put together in a clever way.
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May 29th, 2021 at 6:41:07 AM
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Quote: EvenBobJust salt fat sugar and carb put together in a clever way.
Those are my four favorite ingredients.
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May 29th, 2021 at 7:45:17 AM
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Quote: DRichThose are my four favorite ingredients.
I had you pegged as an extra MSG guy.
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May 29th, 2021 at 8:01:35 AM
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Quote: billryanI had you pegged as an extra MSG guy.
I do like me some cheap Chinese food.
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May 29th, 2021 at 8:41:22 AM
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With the wives both out of town today is going to be seafood boil day. My wife is so allergic to seafood that she can't even sit at the table with me if I order it. The last time she tried she got an ambulance ride to the hospital.
Today will be shrimp & scallops, corn, potato's, and sausage in a spicy sauce with some Texas Toast to sop up the broth. I am very excited as I rarely get to eat it.
Today will be shrimp & scallops, corn, potato's, and sausage in a spicy sauce with some Texas Toast to sop up the broth. I am very excited as I rarely get to eat it.
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May 29th, 2021 at 9:38:22 AM
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Quote: EvenBobGo for 3, what do you have to lose.
Your role as the tiebreaking vote.
May the cards fall in your favor.
June 5th, 2021 at 4:53:14 AM
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IMHO if you have prepared or bought some food that is just not quite up to par - if you buy some regular potato chips (not ranch or other flavors, that's too overwhelming) and then crush them up and put them in your dish - whatever it might be - that it will become instantly more flavorful
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IMHO if you have prepared or bought some food that is just not quite up to par - if you buy some regular potato chips (not ranch or other flavors, that's too overwhelming) and then crush them up and put them in your dish - whatever it might be - that it will become instantly more flavorful
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June 5th, 2021 at 5:01:03 AM
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Quote: lilredrooster................
IMHO if you have prepared or bought some food that is just not quite up to par - if you buy some regular potato chips (not ranch or other flavors, that's too overwhelming) and then crush them up and put them in your dish - whatever it might be - that it will become instantly more flavorful
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This is really common in WW2 era struggle recipes and Midwestern casseroles.
Potato chips on a sandwich is next level.
June 5th, 2021 at 9:50:56 AM
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I recently bought one of those Emeril Pasta and beyond pasta makers and yesterday made my first batch of homemade manicotti.
The cheese mix was slightly off but overall it was a great success.
Breakfast just now was reheated manicotti, breakfast sausage, and a mostly milk smoothie, on my back deck overlooking San Jose mountain.
When breakfast is such a success, it makes you wonder why do anything else?
The cheese mix was slightly off but overall it was a great success.
Breakfast just now was reheated manicotti, breakfast sausage, and a mostly milk smoothie, on my back deck overlooking San Jose mountain.
When breakfast is such a success, it makes you wonder why do anything else?
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June 5th, 2021 at 10:37:01 AM
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Last night wife and I chowed down on take out Chinese food: House Sizzling Platter, General Tso Chicken, and rice.
We bought it from the usual source, the best in our area.
It's good to find a place with big portions, fresh ingredients, and consistently very high quality food.
No, it ain't in Las Vegas; I wonder which Chinese restaurant is the best in Sin City?
We bought it from the usual source, the best in our area.
It's good to find a place with big portions, fresh ingredients, and consistently very high quality food.
No, it ain't in Las Vegas; I wonder which Chinese restaurant is the best in Sin City?
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June 5th, 2021 at 12:33:14 PM
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Quote: lilredrooster.......and then crush them up and put them in your dish - whatever it might be - that it will become instantly more flavorful
It's the salt that does it and the crunch. All you're really doing is adding more salt because a potato chip without salt doesn't taste like anything. Like somebody else mentioned it's an old trick of putting crushed potato chips or crushed saltine crackers on a dish. You can even make a fake apple pie out of saltine crackers that tastes almost like the real thing
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June 5th, 2021 at 12:44:57 PM
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Quote: MrV
No, it ain't in Las Vegas; I wonder which Chinese restaurant is the best in Sin City?
This is John Pinette's famous comedy bit from the 1980s on Las Vegas buffets. Especially Chinese buffets. He probably couldn't do it today because it's not politically correct. It gets funnier every time I see it.
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June 6th, 2021 at 5:05:41 AM
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I've had a lot of luck with mixing different sauces together
I bought an Asian sauce called Sukiyaki which was too spicy for me
I mixed it with a good quality Russian and a good quality Ranch dressing
I thought it was gonna suck but actually it was great
sauces can make a big difference in the enjoyment you get from your food
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I've had a lot of luck with mixing different sauces together
I bought an Asian sauce called Sukiyaki which was too spicy for me
I mixed it with a good quality Russian and a good quality Ranch dressing
I thought it was gonna suck but actually it was great
sauces can make a big difference in the enjoyment you get from your food
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June 21st, 2021 at 1:13:07 PM
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"Cava" is a fairly new Mediterranean chain with 88 locations on the east coast, and in Texas and CA
they make eating healthy a little bit exciting
first you get a bowl either of salad or rice or pita
then you can choose and add up to 3 different kinds of hummus or dips - free with your bowl
then you choose a protein - beef, lamb, chicken or falafels
then you can choose from about 11 different veggies - comes free with your bowl
then you add a dressing
it all comes to about $12.00 - for me it's big enough for 2 meals
I like it quite a bit
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"Cava" is a fairly new Mediterranean chain with 88 locations on the east coast, and in Texas and CA
they make eating healthy a little bit exciting
first you get a bowl either of salad or rice or pita
then you can choose and add up to 3 different kinds of hummus or dips - free with your bowl
then you choose a protein - beef, lamb, chicken or falafels
then you can choose from about 11 different veggies - comes free with your bowl
then you add a dressing
it all comes to about $12.00 - for me it's big enough for 2 meals
I like it quite a bit
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June 21st, 2021 at 1:18:02 PM
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Quote: lilredrooster.....................
"Cava" is a fairly new Mediterranean chain with 88 locations on the east coast, and in Texas and CA
they make eating healthy a little bit exciting
first you get a bowl either of salad or rice or pita
then you can choose and add up to 3 different kinds of hummus or dips - free with your bowl
then you choose a protein - beef, lamb, chicken or falafels
then you can choose from about 15 different veggies - comes free with your bowl
then you add a dressing
it all comes to about $12.00 - for me it's big enough for 2 meals
I like it quite a bit
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Local Buffalo chain called Rachel’s. My bowl overfloweth by the time I’m done! It is excellent.
July 1st, 2021 at 3:38:03 AM
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I have the 7 Eleven App so I get a discount sometimes
don't really understand when I get it and for what items
yesterday I bought a quarter pound big bite hot dog - nothing else
the cashier punched in a bunch of lines on my receipt - I think 6 - they were all abbreviated and I didn't know what any of it meant
the total price for the dog ended up being $1.06................(~:\
I almost feel embarrassed to say this but the dog was really good
I'm generally not a fan of 7 Eleven food - I got the App just for the deal on coffee
now I realize, my snobbery was misplaced - they have some tasty items
it's hit or miss - because sometimes they stay in their heating device too long and they end up overcooked
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I have the 7 Eleven App so I get a discount sometimes
don't really understand when I get it and for what items
yesterday I bought a quarter pound big bite hot dog - nothing else
the cashier punched in a bunch of lines on my receipt - I think 6 - they were all abbreviated and I didn't know what any of it meant
the total price for the dog ended up being $1.06................(~:\
I almost feel embarrassed to say this but the dog was really good
I'm generally not a fan of 7 Eleven food - I got the App just for the deal on coffee
now I realize, my snobbery was misplaced - they have some tasty items
it's hit or miss - because sometimes they stay in their heating device too long and they end up overcooked
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July 1st, 2021 at 6:08:25 AM
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Stopped eating at 7-11 when they discontinued their screaming yellow zonkers.
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July 1st, 2021 at 9:07:35 AM
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Cooked a whole chicken in the pressure cooker, now I have three or four days worth of chicken to use in recipes. And half a gallon of chicken broth to mix with the animals food. An Instant Pot is a wonderful cooking tool.
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July 4th, 2021 at 5:18:09 PM
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I have not posted in this thread for a while. These are what I call roast beef sushi. Thin slices of beef, a thin slice mozzarella, red onion, and homemade basil garlic paste on a half sheet of Nori seaweed wrap. Roll it up tightly. To eat it I cut in bite-size pieces with some kitchen shears. Every bit as good as a sandwich made with bread. But almost no calories. The Nori is only 5 calories per sheet zero carbs. I ate a cut up tomato on the side and it was a full meal. Maybe 350 calories total. I'm trying to lose 30 lb to get to my ideal weight and I'm eating 1000 calories a day. Some days it's only 800.
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July 4th, 2021 at 7:21:39 PM
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Today? For lunch, this:
Those are eight standard (1.5-ounce) Nathan's, each in what is normally 1/2 of a Crescent roll
Those are eight standard (1.5-ounce) Nathan's, each in what is normally 1/2 of a Crescent roll
July 4th, 2021 at 7:38:47 PM
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Quote: ThatDonGuyToday? For lunch, this:
Those are eight standard (1.5-ounce) Nathan's, each in what is normally 1/2 of a Crescent roll
July 22nd, 2021 at 4:28:34 AM
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Popeye's red beans and rice.................whoa...................5 star..................what a crush
dip a piece of their chicken in it and then consume and you're in heaven
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Popeye's red beans and rice.................whoa...................5 star..................what a crush
dip a piece of their chicken in it and then consume and you're in heaven
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July 22nd, 2021 at 5:17:19 AM
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Quote: lilredrooster......................
Popeye's red beans and rice.................whoa...................5 star..................what a crush
dip a piece of their chicken in it and then consume and you're in heaven
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They used to do a wrap, or maybe still do, that was red beans and a chicken strip
July 22nd, 2021 at 6:33:36 AM
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great news - some of the grocery store hot bars have just opened back up
Whole Foods is one of them
they have brisket - excellent - and also all different kinds of chicken
I can fill myself up for about $8.00
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great news - some of the grocery store hot bars have just opened back up
Whole Foods is one of them
they have brisket - excellent - and also all different kinds of chicken
I can fill myself up for about $8.00
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July 22nd, 2021 at 7:07:30 AM
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Quote: lilredrooster.....................
I can fill myself up for about $8.00
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I can fill myself up for $3 at McDonalds. I love the $1 menu combined with their mobile app I can get two small sandwiches, a fry, and a large drink for $3.
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August 7th, 2021 at 5:17:54 AM
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lately, I have a new thing - I'm all about coconut milk
sometimes I drink it but the main thing is to turbocharge deserts
you have to go to an Asian or Latino store to get the best coconut milk
but Goya brands, from Spain, is in the big chain stores
and it's pretty good
pour some over a plain pastry and I'm in heaven - much better than the shredded coconut
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lately, I have a new thing - I'm all about coconut milk
sometimes I drink it but the main thing is to turbocharge deserts
you have to go to an Asian or Latino store to get the best coconut milk
but Goya brands, from Spain, is in the big chain stores
and it's pretty good
pour some over a plain pastry and I'm in heaven - much better than the shredded coconut
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August 7th, 2021 at 9:27:15 AM
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Been eating nori seaweed wraps 2-3 times
a week, love them. You can wrap almost
anything in nori. This one is lettuce, cucumber,
avocado, cream cheese and a super thin
slice of deli roast beef.
a week, love them. You can wrap almost
anything in nori. This one is lettuce, cucumber,
avocado, cream cheese and a super thin
slice of deli roast beef.
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August 7th, 2021 at 9:33:17 AM
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Did you make those ones? Those look delicious and much tighter than the ones pictured at the top of the page...which also sound/look quite good, for the record.
It's basically the same concept and relative consistency of a lavash roll up, except using the seaweed instead.
By the way, what kind of seaweed is it? Dulse seems like it would be a great choice for the two pictured roll-ups because it's more savory and you're already getting sweetness from other components, such as the avocado and cream cheese. I'd go Wakame if you didn't already have sweetness coming from any other components.
My only real objection to the top one pictured on this page is that I'd have minced the red onions, instead. If you get one of those long pieces that lands dead center on the tongue, then that sometimes seems like all you really get out of that bite, to me.
It's basically the same concept and relative consistency of a lavash roll up, except using the seaweed instead.
By the way, what kind of seaweed is it? Dulse seems like it would be a great choice for the two pictured roll-ups because it's more savory and you're already getting sweetness from other components, such as the avocado and cream cheese. I'd go Wakame if you didn't already have sweetness coming from any other components.
My only real objection to the top one pictured on this page is that I'd have minced the red onions, instead. If you get one of those long pieces that lands dead center on the tongue, then that sometimes seems like all you really get out of that bite, to me.
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