The upcoming grocery list/menu
@sallypup (57837)
Centralia, Washington
November 16, 2017 2:58pm CST
Another week of easy driving to the grocery store. For that, Higher Power, I am grateful.
Tonight we will settle into wrangling over: what do you want to eat? What do I want to eat? What is boring?
Included will be the Thanksgiving ingredients. We've got the big squash that we will stuff with cornbread. We have the corn ready to be ground. The cherries for the pie are in the freezer. I'll buy egg rolls cause they're a treat.
And then this year we will again make fruit cake. We skipped the tradition last year but this year we plan on it again. There may be enough butter in the freezer for that. I will buy goodies like dried apricots and dried cherries for the fruitcake. The hens are molting so I may have to cave and buy store eggs. Maybe some filberts, too, to make the fruitcake super special. Raisins. Must not forget raisins or the dried pineapple I do NOT buy that waxed fruit fake stuff for fruitcakes. No and no. Fruit for the fruitcake. And butter and decent flour but not wax.
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
16 Nov 17
@just4him This is not the store fruitcake. This is old fashioned tasty good stuff- tons of good stuff in it- from butter to filberts to grape jam!!! Not much to not like. Its a process to make, too. I always ask before I give a cake away cause it costs a lot to make and takes up a lot of time and worry to get it right.
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@celticeagle (158968)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Nov 17
We will have the usual turkey and dressing. One year I'd like to have mashed potatoes. Haven't had that in years.
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@celticeagle (158968)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Nov 17
@sallypup .....I really miss them. My daughter fixes the fake ones sometimes. Yuck!
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Nov 17
@celticeagle We lived on dried potatoes when we were in northern Idaho but that was a cabin situation and so we ate what was easy to store and would sustain us.
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Nov 17
@celticeagle Mashed potatoes are so tasty. Its something we have every couple of months.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
17 Nov 17
You are so good, me I will order my fruitcake from Collins Street Bakery in Texas, it is soooo good. lol
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
17 Nov 17
@sallypup lol Will you think I am terrible if I admit I have never read the ingredients? I looked on their website but it doesn't list the ingredients, but I do know that it is mostly fruit and nuts very little cake.
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Nov 17
Does the Texas bakery put butter in their cakes? Curious me, @BelleStarr.
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Nov 17
@BelleStarr I was just curious cause a couple of years ago my Mom bought us a fruitcake that monks had made. I don't know what was in that cake but it had a huge and I mean huge after taste that kind of burned the mouth. Like it was rancid and year old grease was in there. We don't like to waste but we threw it away.
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@kobesbuddy (74550)
• East Tawas, Michigan
16 Nov 17
I hate that waxy looking fruit! It doesn't taste like fruit, instead it stick in my teeth!:(
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
16 Nov 17
@kobesbuddy I promise you that there is none of that in my house.
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@kobesbuddy (74550)
• East Tawas, Michigan
16 Nov 17
@sallypup It doesn't even taste like fruit, it's so sticky and gummy!
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
16 Nov 17
I love fruitcake. It has been a long time since I had homemade fruitcake.
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Nov 17
@Happy2BeMe We loved Thrifty Foods- I think that's the name of the grocery store- when we visited British Columbia, Canada. I'm guessing they'd have pretty decent fruit cake there.
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
17 Nov 17
@sallypup We don't have one of those stores here. I sometimes can get them at the local bakery but they really sell out pretty quickly.
@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Nov 17
@JudyEv Your dear Mum was right. Buying fruitcake material takes quite a bit of money. There is a store in town that has bulk food. I'm hoping I can just buy what I need there for the fruitcake. Maybe less packaging will cut the cost.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
17 Nov 17
I make two kinds and nothing that taste like th crap in stores already made. Mine are yummy!
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@thislittlepennyearns (58134)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
16 Nov 17
I need to get the stuff for pumpkin cheesecake and my homemade cornbread and Mac and cheese this weekend. We have a turkey and rolls.alresdu.
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@sallypup (57837)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Nov 17
@thislittlepennyearns Mac and cheese for Thanksgiving? Interesting. I used to love to make cloverleaf rolls for Thanksgiving.
@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
17 Nov 17
It is so important to be thankful for things.
Good luck with the fruitcake
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