RE: Re: Re:Re: Re: Thanksgiving Turkey ... don't know whether to laugh or cry

[Guest guest]

Alice is my kind of gal - my pantry is so full that when I put something

new in, something else pops out - it is a kamikaze pantry!! My kids used

to tease me about being a full-service Catholic capable of feeding the

county for a year during disaster, like a Mormon, providing the guilt of

a Jewish mother, and dressing like Buddha (pre wls)!!

amber/fl

Re: Re:Re: Re: Thanksgiving Turkey ... don't

know whether to laugh or cry

Alice I had a neighbor once who used to stock her pantry like that too,

till

one day something (a canned item) EXPLODED. I think it was tomatoes or

something, don't remember 'cept it was a huge mess LOLOLOL! She must

have had it

in there since the dawn of creation! And the most bizarre aspect of

this

is, one day she rang my doorbell and asked me if I happened to have " a

spare

head of cabbage " (her words exactly!) ROFLMAO!

She looked truly surprised when I told her that I didn't! A little

horrified even!

To this day I have to say that with all my fruit & vegetable excesses, I

have

never stocked a spare head of cabbage! A girl's gotta draw the line

somewhere!

(okay confess do you have a spare cabbage in your veggie cooler right

now?)

Lucille

In a message dated 11/24/2003 2:43:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

>

> Boy, howdy can I ever relate to this one! And it ain't just fruits

> and vegs. I not only overbuy but I still overcook so we have

> leftovers for days and days and days and.....well, you get my drift.

> I learned to cook for a large family and have never unlearned.

> Couple that with being M.O. and now no more big family (just have one

> DH and a 10 year old granddaugher) and I make enough food for half

> the block. And watch out when I make soup- looks like I'm going to

> supply a soup kitchen. I keep the cupboards so full that we had to

> build an overstock cupboard in the garage and I still can't get it

> through my head that I don't need to buy like that. And don't even

> ask about ordering in a restaurant! I don't know why I think there's

> a famine coming soon and I need to stock up for it.

> Alice

> The Loon

>

[Guest guest]

I feel sick if my pantry isn't full. I have an old hutch that I use as my

pantry since I have very little cupboard space, and the bottom half is FULL

of canned goods, flours, sugars and bottled stuff. The top half is full of

baking items, spices and boxed goods. if there is a considerable gap in the

canned goods, I don't feel good until I go to the store and stock up

again---I know I'm weird, but when I was growing up, we were so poor that we

always ran out of food the last week of the month and had to resort to

eating stuff we wouldn't ever eat normally ( cause we didn't like it---it

was usually gross veggies that the kids hated but mom liked)---I don't want

my kids to have to do that so I'm always stocked up and I NEVER run out of

toilet paper---I remember those days all too well and I'm NOT doing them

again, LOL!

:-)

Re: Re:Re: Re: Thanksgiving Turkey ... don't

> know whether to laugh or cry

>

>

> Alice I had a neighbor once who used to stock her pantry like that too,

> till

> one day something (a canned item) EXPLODED. I think it was tomatoes or

>

> something, don't remember 'cept it was a huge mess LOLOLOL! She must

> have had it

> in there since the dawn of creation! And the most bizarre aspect of

> this

> is, one day she rang my doorbell and asked me if I happened to have " a

> spare

> head of cabbage " (her words exactly!) ROFLMAO!

> She looked truly surprised when I told her that I didn't! A little

> horrified even!

>

> To this day I have to say that with all my fruit & vegetable excesses, I

> have

> never stocked a spare head of cabbage! A girl's gotta draw the line

> somewhere!

>

> (okay confess do you have a spare cabbage in your veggie cooler right

> now?)

>

> Lucille

>

> In a message dated 11/24/2003 2:43:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> Graduate-OSSG writes:

>

>

> >

> > Boy, howdy can I ever relate to this one! And it ain't just fruits

> > and vegs. I not only overbuy but I still overcook so we have

> > leftovers for days and days and days and.....well, you get my drift.

> > I learned to cook for a large family and have never unlearned.

> > Couple that with being M.O. and now no more big family (just have one

> > DH and a 10 year old granddaugher) and I make enough food for half

> > the block. And watch out when I make soup- looks like I'm going to

> > supply a soup kitchen. I keep the cupboards so full that we had to

> > build an overstock cupboard in the garage and I still can't get it

> > through my head that I don't need to buy like that. And don't even

> > ask about ordering in a restaurant! I don't know why I think there's

> > a famine coming soon and I need to stock up for it.

> > Alice

> > The Loon

> >

>

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