Plague oranges
Mar. 21st, 2020 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkJJ had to leave the house for a bit today, and going out found a bag of oranges on our doorstep. No note, just oranges.
So hey, free oranges!
Given their unknown provenance, though (well, even if I'd known who they were from, given current events) I washed them first. Twenty seconds with soap, just like the handwashing recommendations. :D
So yeah, that was odd. I can only assume somebody overbought and wanted to share rather than waste them? I mean, hell, I could have done the same if I'd ended up needing to resort to the 40lb bag of onions in order to get the like 3 onions I needed, last week when we were shopping!
On that front, I have used the onions, making butter chicken, and pot roast. Both of which have lots of leftovers chilling in the fridge or freezer for later. We have no shortage of food, though we go through milk at such an absurd rate that part of the reason JJ had to go out was to get more, even though we bought four gallons just a week ago. We still have enough whole milk, the goober drinks a lot, but not two gallons a week, lol. But JJ lives on milk, I swear, and I use some myself.
I've been having milk and Oreos in the evening, in fact, because we got Oreos for the goober. Her school was going to have an end-of-quarter party with "dirt pudding", the thing with gummy worms stuck in pudding with crushed Oreos on top so it looks like dirt. She was very excited about this, and kept pulling the flyer off the fridge to talk about it. But of course that got cancelled. So we figured we'd throw her a dirt pudding party at home.
That was a great success, but now we have an awful lot of Oreos, and even more gummy worms. I won't complain, I like both!
So hey, free oranges!
Given their unknown provenance, though (well, even if I'd known who they were from, given current events) I washed them first. Twenty seconds with soap, just like the handwashing recommendations. :D
So yeah, that was odd. I can only assume somebody overbought and wanted to share rather than waste them? I mean, hell, I could have done the same if I'd ended up needing to resort to the 40lb bag of onions in order to get the like 3 onions I needed, last week when we were shopping!
On that front, I have used the onions, making butter chicken, and pot roast. Both of which have lots of leftovers chilling in the fridge or freezer for later. We have no shortage of food, though we go through milk at such an absurd rate that part of the reason JJ had to go out was to get more, even though we bought four gallons just a week ago. We still have enough whole milk, the goober drinks a lot, but not two gallons a week, lol. But JJ lives on milk, I swear, and I use some myself.
I've been having milk and Oreos in the evening, in fact, because we got Oreos for the goober. Her school was going to have an end-of-quarter party with "dirt pudding", the thing with gummy worms stuck in pudding with crushed Oreos on top so it looks like dirt. She was very excited about this, and kept pulling the flyer off the fridge to talk about it. But of course that got cancelled. So we figured we'd throw her a dirt pudding party at home.
That was a great success, but now we have an awful lot of Oreos, and even more gummy worms. I won't complain, I like both!