You can always offer a full larder as a part of any settlement! Hee!

That is an excellent husband, Scrappy! And now at least your day is over, right?

What I really need to get focused on is making beans at least once a week once we get back from vacation. I have dried beans like woah.

If they're super old, forget about it -- they'll never get soft.

I'm watching the Criminal Minds pilot. Good times.

right? I am already trying to unload mac's bed frame, wardrobe, and several of the area rugs on whomever ends up buying. For $10 I'll throw in all the food in the pantry.

Actually any canned goods left will go to our church for their on-going food drive, but trying to use as much up as possible and not buy more than necessary is a fun challenge and will save some $$.

Ha! Jamie Oliver is trying an experiment. He took a raw chicken, showed them where the different cuts of meat were, and then asked showed them the carcass that was left. He got them to agree that this was something that should be thrown away. Then he put it into a food processor with the skin and ground it and then strained out the bony bits. Showed it to the kids, go the predictable "Ewww" reaction. Then he added some stabilizers and flavorings, cut it into nugget shapes, and breaded and fried them. Asked the kids who would still eat this, and every hand went up. He says that whenever he tried this in the UK, every kid refused to touch the nuggets.

Yes, my day is over. I hope I never ever have to do that again. All the laid-off folks were incredibly understanding and gracious. And losing 5 out of 82 is going to put us comfortably in the black, so all the other employees will have secure jobs, which is the whole point, of course. The only downside is that we asked for volunteers and the one person we all wanted to leave, didn't.

The only downside is that we asked for volunteers and the one person we all wanted to leave, didn't.

Ouch. Did you can that person anyway?

No, they can do their job, they are just really annoying. Which is not yet grounds for dismissal, although it SHOULD BE.

Indeed.

I suspect that I haven't been consuming enough calories for my activity level.

FitDay is good for tracking food against activity level, plus giving a breakdown of how much fiber, etc. (I try to track my fiber thanks to the Incredible Cranky Lower GI Tract; do you know how hard it is to get 30 grams of fiber a day?)

He says that whenever he tried this in the UK, every kid refused to touch the nuggets.

I will refrain from my Jamie Oliver rant, except to say that OF COURSE when you're a trained chef with the money and access to purchase organic, local, free-range, blah-di-blah food, it's a hell of a lot easier to "eat better" than the barely employed non-chef comparatively rural townspeople who you're condescending to "help" with your elitist foodie ways.

Once again, you git: processed food is cheaper and more easily obtainable than local organic produce and meat.

Maybe the UK nuggets suck?

The ketchup is awful. I had this sudden thought that maybe the rest of the world criticizes Americans for "putting ketchup on everything" because their ketchup is so lousy. If they had decent ketchup they might put it on everything too.