Thread: How are you economizing this holiday season? Please share your tips.

meatn3, real cream cheese.

Believe me, you are not alone in the difficult packaging universe. Food packaging is definitely less than perfect. I resort to knives and scissors to open coffee bean bags, bacon, cream cheese; anchovies (and cat food) are messy, but I don't seem to have a personal problem with cracker sleeves. I think the deal is that light-weight packaging costs the consumer less on the bottom line and manufacturers assume the consumer will re-wrap or...

Will be in touch, looking forward to it very much. Temptation, temptation!

Thanks, keg. A chance to sketch a life in food. Growing up in the Central Valley of California. I was really fortunate, came from an extended family of great cooks and adventurous eaters and from an area of genuine ethnic diversity in restaurants. Lots of home grown fruit and vegetables. Hunting, fishing, clamming, gleaning and gathering, canning, and preserving were all part of the mix. Graduate school in Oregon. My first wife did most of...

You can get just about any food product online these days. Certainly nothing you've mentioned seems hard to obtain. If you're in Kansas and want to buy these items at the corner store, you're going to have a problem.

And maybe you could do some CH searching and find a great Russian restaurant to take them to. They could teach you lots of things, I bet.

No, definitely not something I've heard in Spanish. I'm talking exclusively about Latinos speaking English.

You got it, thew. Don't expect a pig roast at a Pakkie place, unclean. Holy Cow, don't beef about Indian food.

this recipe sounds awesome.... i'm assuming you just store it in the fridge? would it be ok to use splenda instead of the brown sugar? and which steel cut oats do you prefer?

Nope, not just in New Jersey. "Our" Roli Boli was in Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester, CT. :) And I still miss 'em, too.