Respite

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Today I gifted son the freshly invented 1-2-3 ticket which shall keep us from using our cars. It cost me 700 euro, but it is cheaper than having to pay for each railride he has to do until next summer. Besides, Christmas is on the way, and I never knew what to give him- until now. Today he took the train he had booked two days ago. He did not get far. After a quarter of an hour he phoned hubby for help- train was late, and he would not be able to get the connecting train. Hubby told son to dismount at the next stop and shot off, to pick him up about 50 kilometres away and deliver him at the first stop of the connecting train. Phew! Otherwise son would have had to take a train three hours later!
No complicated cooking tomorrow, I found two untouched packages of Parmesan that expired a few days ago but are still edible. That comes when you have a husband who is constantly on a grocery shopping trip... So knoepfli with Parmesan sauce it will be. And salad. Hubby loves salad. Hubby needs salad. Me- not so much, though I love vinegar. Maybe that´s the problem with salad- hubby puts next to no vinegar in the vinaigrette!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No vinegar in the vinaigrette? That sounds... controversial. 🤨

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Hubby does not like vinegar, he prefers lemon juice!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

I am about to put a stop on grocery shopping until we get through some of the stuff in the pantry and freezer. My Husband likes to do grocery shopping a bit too much as well, and we no longer have a boy in the house to eat it all. I found 2 dozen cans of various soup in the pantry, among other things. Milk, eggs, and salad greens are the only things we need this week (and probably for the next 3 weeks...)!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can imagine. I have a tendency to hoarding as well, even though we don't even have a pantry. When these concrete monstrosities were built the "genius" planers apparently believed that a corner cupboard in the kitchen would do the trick. Which is why I keep forgetting where I've put things and rediscover them with great surprise. *g*

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Our house has a basement, with enough room for a big chest freezer and metal shelving for canned goods. It was fantastic when we had a teenager living at home, with lots of teenage friends all in sports. Now that it is just 2 old fogies, we do not need nearly as much. Old habits die hard though.

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Our main storage room is also in the basement. Two adults, one son now and then, two fridges, one freezer. I wish I´d have had all that when our children were at home. Now it´s mostly filled with hubby´s bacon... I will have to limit my husband´s grocery shopping to twice a week. Currently he is searching for goods daily. I have never seen a man looking at the leaflets we get twice a week so long and hard!

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Oh yes, it´s definitely fun to rediscover those grocery items I missed in the beginning then forgot about them! If I am lucky I can still use them...