Whelp. I’ve done it. I’ve finagled another way to save money again. Except this has gone a little far. I mean, seriously, making your own Grape Nuts at home? Why on earth would you take the trouble to do that? Unless of course you have a family of 6 with kids that happen to adore [...]
We had refrigerator crap as a side dish to our dinner recently. At least, that’s what the Omnivore thought we were eating. Why else would he say: “Hey! This is good for a bunch of crap you just found in the refrigerator.” My reaction to this comment had two options. Option 1: Don my angry [...]
“If you are afraid of butter, use cream.” That’s good advice, Julia…if you are 6 feet 2 inches tall. You have a lot of space to distribute those calories. And it is true, 1 fluid cup of cream has about half the calories of a fluid cup of butter (yes, I checked, using my calorimeter). [...]
I’m just going to be blunt about this. My dip is better than your dip. Sure, I like your garlicky-cream cheese spread and this girl is not going to turn down your black bean salsa, either. And for goodness sake, I am a vegetarian and that’s practically synomomous with hummus so pass that spread right [...]
The Omnivore is a green bean purist. He wasn’t always like that, though. Years ago, he’d only eat the green if there was more dairy involved than vegetable. And by dairy, I mean Butter. REAL BUTTER. But times have changed. Kids no longer walk to school. White picket fences no longer exist. And the Omnivore [...]
