Apples for us too. The kids will dally with other fruit for a while but apples (and stone fruit) are the only ones they will consistently eat a lot of. It makes me feel fairly good as a parent except when I say “eat” I am being a bit a generous, only a percentage will get eaten vs left in random places (we also get through a lot of pest control products too, apropos of nothing ). As it write this I’m looking at a huge chunk of half eaten apple on the coffee table.
They have also decided maple syrup is the only sweetener acceptable for any breakfast food. Not just pancakes and waffles, also cereal.
When I was a teenager, I went through a gallon of milk every week all by myself. I love dairy products - cheese and yogurt (which I make myself) are always in the house.
Here is the most delectable, delicious, decadent recipe for Gazpacho that can only be made with perfectly ripe, homegrown tomatoes. This is not a chunky, salsa-like gazpacho, but a silky, garlicky, refreshing, drinkable food-of-the-gods emulsified with the best olive oil. You will need a good blender-- I use a Vitamix. Food processor might work.
Whole milk plain Greek yogurt. We buy it in milk form, though. I make a giant batch of it in an 8-quart Instant Pot every couple of weeks, then we strain it. The whey goes on the garden, or sometimes a bit of it becomes the liquid in a loaf of sourdough. Breakfast most mornings is yogurt with berries, walnuts, and honey for me, just walnuts and honey for Tom_Scud, topped with homemade low-oxalate granola with cardamom and coconut.
Mine is a lot less ($200-350) but I suspect my place is much smaller (1100 sqft). Per square foot that is a lot. But, in summer, electric is like $50 so balances out.
Looks like McCann’s is organic so you should be good. I’m mid-50s and don’t want kids so I’ll stay true. Of course, there is always the possibility that there will be other negatives to that pesticide, but, I try to make up for all my past faults by cycling, hiking, etc. Something will kill me, I know that. I smoked for a decade, drank way too much for a couple, and then rode motos and cycles way too aggressively and so far have lived through those. Most can still catch up to me since the past ingestion part can get you anytime, but I have slowed down on the two-wheeled vehicles. But, in the last two years, bicycling has been the most negative impact to my life. Literally. Ask both my shoulders!
Thank you, saved! And my wife’s blender is a thing of unspeakable power, it can handle it. I think I’d likely use a slightly spicier capsicum than a traditional bell pepper after the first trial, but that’s me - otherwise looks just about perfect for an easy refreshing and cool mid summer dinner.
And you’re welcome @CairoCarol - I had other great skillet options, but even my biggest skillet wasn’t enough to make the volumes needed to really enjoy and use up a good amount of greens, so I had been working on my own slow cooker versions before I found that one!
Some of it does get discarded, but not a big proportion. Of course, we also have occasional guests. But if I made the calculation I would not be surprised if a third or a quarter of our calories came from olive oil.
From memory and some guesswork: we consume as per what we buy three-four kg of sugar, same amount of flour and about 5 kg of dry pasta per year. Three or four kg of rice. And less than 10 kg of potatoes.
Add to that 30-40 chicken, each around 2 kg, and 20-30 kg of fish. Almost no beef, lamb or pork, apart from some prosciutto, panceta and jamón. The rest is fruit and vegetables, the latter usually prepared with olive oil. Butter: a stick (250 g) lasts over a month, I freeze it in thirds or fourths so it does not spoil. Eggs: 6 to 10 per week. No milk, little cheese. I guess I have forgotten something, I hope nothing significant. Very little canned stuff at our house: anchovies, beans, chick-peas.
Perhaps another quarter of the calories comes from beer and whisky? Will have to watch that. No wonder I keep gaining one kg of weight per year. Extrapolating the current trend I am going to look horrible when I turn 200.
I made homemade tomato soup once that was wonderful. Creamy and rich. Lot of work but need to do it again. Problem is, my wife isn’t into tomato soup.
Yeah. There is also ‘Dogsters’. It’s very cute, one of our dogs takes the little cup buy the edge with her front teeth and gos over to her dog bed in a nook. As in “OK, leave me alone for a bit”
Fancy whole-leaf Assam tea, both decaf and high octane. I like my tea very strong, but must make it mostly from decaf because I’ve become sensitive to caffeine and must limit my intake. I use up a lot of it and have to buy it by the pound way too often.
Fancy Italian whole-bean coffee for Mr. brown. He drinks four large mugs of it every morning, and he goes through it quickly.
Sugar-In-The-Raw for both our morning drinks. Fortunately, we discovered that Walmart carries it in four pound bags, so we buy it there.
Japanese white bread. It’s awesome stuff, and makes great grilled cheese, tuna, and chicken salad sandwiches. You can only get it at Japanese supermarkets, and I don’t get to one too often, so I buy four or so loaves at a time and freeze them.
Years ago I bought a 2.5-pound jar of mixed nuts from Costco. I’ve been reusing the jar ever since, but I mix my own nuts in it now, roasted but unsalted. It sits on my desk at work, and I eat a lot: I refill this thing about once a week.
Wife is Japanese, so a lot of our dinners are served on a bed of rice, and sometimes the meal is straight-up fried rice. We buy 15-pound bags of rice from a Japanese grocery store pretty regularly.
Banana a day for each of us - if not with breakfast, then as a mid-morning snack.
We share an apple after pretty much every dinner at home (we get takeout sometimes, but we don’t eat out very often at all).
Between the two of us, we go through about three avocadoes a week. Avocado toast for breakfast three times, and avocado on a whole-plate lunch salad.
). As it write this I’m looking at a huge chunk of half eaten apple on the coffee table.