What's for dinner?

Stewball said:

I had 3 bags of cat.litter each weighing about 35 lbs plus a bag of food weighing 3.2 lbs 'Go' plus 10 royal canin pouches, which they have as I treat Friday nights - our eve ig u sabbath - and a gift from my pet shop s small tin of wet food and a large tin of wet food and a little ball delivered this morning.
I also have my weekly supermarket shop delivered
Is there no delivery in America?

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It depends. You can also get a lot of stuff from Amazon but you have to pay the postage. Here in SoCal where we practically live in our cars nobody thinks anything of driving 10 miles or more to get anything, to go to work or visit the doctor, that's just considered normal. Many people drive 50 miles or more one way to go to work. 

Many supermarkets also deliver but again there is a price to pay and with fresh produce you can't pick your own.

With the price of energy in its various forms most of us have learned to combine trips instead of hopping into our cars for every little trip.

peaches08 said:

Some places in the US may offer it, but I can't think of anywhere here where I live.  Or anywhere that I lived in this state, actually.  I picked up 6 bags weighing 25 lbs each.  Good exercise for me and I love that particular deli so it works out.

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Bad for your back.
Do you live in a house or an apartment. Hard to carry them upstairs.
Slotof yhrde plplaces would msjr more money. $5 for delivery or less of course. How're you doing now you don't have to study any more? My son takes his last exam next month. He's studying at the Open University for his BA.
Shame he woke up age 42 to study. Had he gone to university after army, my place of work would have paid his tuition and I would have just has to pay the tax.
Oh well. He's doing it now.
You have a job don't you?
Tomorrow I'll be baking a cake with peaches.

segelkatt said:

It depends. You can also get a lot of stuff from Amazon but you have to pay the postage. Here in SoCal where we practically live in our cars nobody thinks anything of driving 10 miles or more to get anything, to go to work or visit the doctor, that's just considered normal. Many people drive 50 miles or more one way to go to work. 
Many supermarkets also deliver but again there is a price to pay and with fresh produce you can't pick your own.
With the price of energy in its various forms most of us have learned to combine trips instead of hopping into our cars for every little trip.

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First of all I don't 'hop' into my car. I walk. I have no car. I pick my own produce etc at the supermarket and it is delivered for a fee that I think is reasonable as I would never be able to carry my shop home by myself. Of course there's always a taxi!
When I worked, I'm a pensioner, I went you work by bus so I'm not really a 'hopper'
.I feel like I have been told off.

Stewball said:

Bad for your back.
Do you live in a house or an apartment. Hard to carry them upstairs.
Slotof yhrde plplaces would msjr more money. $5 for delivery or less of course. How're you doing now you don't have to study any more? My son takes his last exam next month. He's studying at the Open University for his BA.
Shame he woke up age 42 to study. Had he gone to university after army, my place of work would have paid his tuition and I would have just has to pay the tax.
Oh well. He's doing it now.
You have a job don't you?
Tomorrow I'll be baking a cake with peaches.

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Nah, picking up patients is worse, lol!  When I had horses, goats, chickens, and cows the feed bags were 50-75 lbs.  Hay bales are around the same.  So I'm used to it.  I live in a house that is ground level, but I've lived on the second floor before. 

Congratulations to your son!  I'm enjoying my time between finishing school/licensing exam and starting work in late July.

@segelkatt I hear you about prices in CA!  I try to be a little more green and group tasks as well.

Stewball said:

First of all I don't 'hop' into my car. I walk. I have no car. I pick my own produce etc at the supermarket and it is delivered for a fee that I think is reasonable as I would never be able to carry my shop home by myself. Of course there's always a taxi!
When I worked, I'm a pensioner, I went you work by bus so I'm not really a 'hopper'
.I feel like I have been told off.

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I'm not telling you off, I'm telling you what we do here in SoCal and it's not the best way to live. Too much dependent on our cars. Everything is so spread out that taking the bus is not practical because of the time it takes to get anywhere (public transportation is terrible here) and neither is walking in most areas. Walking is what people do with their dogs or for their health or pleasure, not to conduct business. As I said: not the best way to live.

When I was working it was 25 miles away and it took 30 minutes to get there. I tried the bus which took 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour pus 25 minutes in the late afternoon. I had better things to do with my time than riding an uncomfortable bus, I could also take care of needed business on my way home when driving my own car, some people do car-pool but nobody went even near where I lived so that was out too. 

segelkatt said:

I'm not telling you off, I'm telling you what we do here in SoCal and it's not the best way to live. Too much dependent on our cars. Everything is so spread out that taking the bus is not practical because of the time it takes to get anywhere (public transportation is terrible here) and neither is walking in most areas. Walking is what people do with their dogs or for their health or pleasure, not to conduct business. As I said: not the best way to live.
When I was working it was 25 miles away and it took 30 minutes to get there. I tried the bus which took 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour pus 25 minutes in the late afternoon. I had better things to do with my time than riding an uncomfortable bus, I could also take care of needed business on my way home when driving my own car, some people do car-pool but nobody went even near where I lived so that was out too. 

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You'd have been 3/4 way to Syria or Jordan depending on which way you were going. You can drive from North to South in 3-4 hours.
My mall is within walking distance which is where my supermarket and drugstore are and my book shop and where I buy most of my clothes. Most of my doctors are within walking distance. Dogs are usually walked in the park nearby. Runners run.
As I said it's a small country. :lol3:

segelkatt said:

 
I'm not telling you off, I'm telling you what we do here in SoCal and it's not the best way to live. Too much dependent on our cars. Everything is so spread out that taking the bus is not practical because of the time it takes to get anywhere (public transportation is terrible here) and neither is walking in most areas. Walking is what people do with their dogs or for their health or pleasure, not to conduct business. As I said: not the best way to live.

When I was working it was 25 miles away and it took 30 minutes to get there. I tried the bus which took 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour pus 25 minutes in the late afternoon. I had better things to do with my time than riding an uncomfortable bus, I could also take care of needed business on my way home when driving my own car, some people do car-pool but nobody went even near where I lived so that was out too. 

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We don't have much in the way of public transportation here.  Georgia in general, actually.  There are a lot of bike paths and I've been using them, but some things I still have to use my car for.

peaches08 said:

 
Nah, picking up patients is worse, lol!  When I had horses, goats, chickens, and cows the feed bags were 50-75 lbs.  Hay bales are around the same.  So I'm used to it.  I live in a house that is ground level, but I've lived on the second floor before. 

Congratulations to your son!  I'm enjoying my time between finishing school/licensing exam and starting work in late July.

@segelkatt I hear you about prices in CA!  I try to be a little more green and group tasks as well.

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Peaches08: I'm sure prices are bad everywhere. Time is precious, we are running out of all kinds of resources, pollution is not getting much better than it was 30 years ago etc. So the only thing to do if we want to leave our grandchildren a livable world is to conserve, reuse and recycle everything we can. I'm pretty green, at least greener than every one of my neighbors: every scrap of paper from newspapers to junk mail, all cartons including those from frozen foods, all cans, not just aluminum, all glass jars and bottles, every bit of plastic etc get put in the "blue bins" which are provided by the local waste management company for recycling. I have my own grocery bags that I keep in my car so I won't ever have to get a plastic or paper bag from any store (some even give discounts for bringing your own bag and there are signs in the parking lots to remind you of bringing your bags), I keep a covered bucket in my kitchen for veggie scraps for my composter in the community garden as I live in a 22 unit apartment house on the second floor which has an elevator as there is an underground garage where the blue bins are and the garbage chute ends. The blue bins actually are emptied twice a week and the garbage bin only once which goes to show that people do recycle. We all have to do our share and these things don't take a lot of time or energy.

Stewball said:

You'd have been 3/4 way to Syria or Jordan depending on which way you were going. You can drive from North to South in 3-4 hours.
My mall is within walking distance which is where my supermarket and drugstore are and my book shop and where I buy most of my clothes. Most of my doctors are within walking distance. Dogs are usually walked in the park nearby. Runners run.
As I said it's a small country.

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Distances in the US are enormous. The whole state of California is twice the size of the current Germany, about 1000 miles from North to South. Looking at maps gives a false picture but using a Globe will show the enormity of it all. 

Now back to what's for dinner: bell peppers stuffed with a mixture of beef and turkey with tomato sauce on top, rice, cucumber salad.

Chicken breasts that I breaded and topped with tomato sauce and cheddar cheese and gnocchi with tomato sauce.

Had my chicken soup and a salad of baby greens, red onion, tomato, and ranch.  Deelish!

today it's frozen banquet brand pot pies for me. i'm using what's in my freezers now mostly, as i'm gathering the rest of the $$ i need for having the rest of my roof done this fall.

mickNsnicks2mom said:

 
today it's frozen banquet brand pot pies for me. i'm using what's in my freezers now mostly, as i'm gathering the rest of the $$ i need for having the rest of my roof done this fall.

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I like those!  Can't beat the price, except when on sale.

peaches08 said:

 
I like those!  Can't beat the price, except when on sale.

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yes, they taste ok and certainly are inexpensive. i don't like the beef ones though, the beef seems tough to me. i prefer the chicken and turkey pot pies.

I love the frozen turkey pot pies. I've been trying to avoid things like that while I'm pregnant though because the sodium content is too high and I don't want to raise my blood pressure.

segelkatt said:

Distances in the US are enormous. The whole state of California is twice the size of the current Germany, about 1000 miles from North to South. Looking at maps gives a false picture but using a Globe will show the enormity of it all. 

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See if you can find tiny me

Beef with snow peas over basmati rice.

Big salad, leftover beef chuck roast, shredded, topped with chopped red onion, rolled up in a paleo wrap (this is a wrap made just of cococnut). Boiled zucchini with a drizzle of basil vinaigrette atop. Dessert will be a homemade gluten-free blueberry English muffin with butter.  Yummo!

 

segelkatt said:

Now back to what's for dinner: bell peppers stuffed with a mixture of beef and turkey with tomato sauce on top, rice, cucumber salad.

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I like stuffed peppers with or without meat
I like most stuffed veggies.