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Did all the shopping for Thanksgiving this morning. Everything is covered! Also got what I need for church family lunch Sunday. Making deviled eggs tonight, and I'll heat up the green beans Sunday morning, then put them in the crockpot.

Still have a lot to do today since we'll be gone all day Saturday.
 
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vollygirl said:
Did all the shopping for Thanksgiving this morning. Everything is covered! Also got what I need for church family lunch Sunday. Making deviled eggs tonight, and I'll heat up the green beans Sunday morning, then put them in the crockpot.

Still have a lot to do today since we'll be gone all day Saturday.
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There is a special gene inherited by Southern women that somehow passed me by that makes them great at fixin' up meals for special events. I consider myself a pretty decent cook, but timing on extravaganzas is not my super-power!

Also, there's never enough available space in the fridge if I DO cook ahead. So there! 🤪
 
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VolNExile said:
There is a special gene inherited by Southern women that somehow passed me by that makes them great at fixin' up meals for special events. I consider myself a pretty decent cook, but timing on extravaganzas is not my super-power!

Also, there's never enough available space in the fridge if I DO cook ahead. So there! 🤪
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I drive myself (and mostly my husband) crazy because I go bananas when I take on something big.

In 2015, I found out my mom hadn't been invited anywhere else for Thanksgiving (they normally went to visit family that day). So, I planned out how take two dishes to hubby's mom's 1.5hrs away and had Thanksgiving lunch with them, and had a full Thanksgiving meal ready for my mom for dinner that night at my house. I don't know how many minutes were taken off my life planning and executing that day, but it was worth every single second. It was my last Thanksgiving with her.

Also, we had to replace our fridge last spring cause the ice maker went out. Kept the old one in the basement. I cannot believe how handy it is to have two of them!
 
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VolNExile said:
There is a special gene inherited by Southern women that somehow passed me by that makes them great at fixin' up meals for special events. I consider myself a pretty decent cook, but timing on extravaganzas is not my super-power!

Also, there's never enough available space in the fridge if I DO cook ahead. So there! 🤪
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My mom has that fridge problem. It's playing tetris finding space for the wine. 😄
 
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We have accumulated over time the regular fridge in the kitchen, a narrow but REALLY useful freezer in the basement (the only one that would fit down the basement steps), a mini-fridge with a mini-er freezer that I had in my office during my working days, and a (according to the label) wine cooler that doesn't do a whole lot of anything but is useful for stacking beer in before transferring a few cans at a time to a real fridge.

I'd kill for a second honest-to-gosh fridge though.

Note: all this is for two people, which is ridiculous. But when you cook 99% of the time from scratch, it's kinda where you are...
 
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VolNExile said:
We have accumulated over time the regular fridge in the kitchen, a narrow but REALLY useful freezer in the basement (the only one that would fit down the basement steps), a mini-fridge with a mini-er freezer that I had in my office during my working days, and a (according to the label) wine cooler that doesn't do a whole lot of anything but is useful for stacking beer in before transferring a few cans at a time to a real fridge.

I'd kill for a second honest-to-gosh fridge though.

Note: all this is for two people, which is ridiculous. But when you cook 99% of the time from scratch, it's kinda where you are...
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Now that you put it that way, it is kind of ridiculous to have a freezer full in our garage for two. 😄 But I shop meat sales and then shop our freezer for what to cook next.
 
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volwindy said:
Now that you put it that way, it is kind of ridiculous to have a freezer full in our garage for two. 😄 But I shop meat sales and then shop our freezer for what to cook next.
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We have a freezer in the garage, and a spare fridge, plus the fridge in the kitchen. All 3 freezers are full 🤣
 
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I’d like to say that I’m a frugal grocery shopper, and I do buy good meat on sale and freeze it, but I have one side-by-side fridge/freezer. Its ice maker has failed, so I’ve gone back to trays. I shop every few days for fresh vegetables and make most meals from scratch. Every so often, the missus indulges her culinary muse using whatever we have.
 
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