It's really sad - my in-laws are in their mid-to-late 70s and are currently applying to jobs because they're convinced that Social Security will go away. I hate to see older folks so scared by this lunacy.
I go grocery shopping once a week, and I'm buying just for two adults. Most things I get at Aldi, and some things at Giant if I don't like the Aldi version, or Aldi doesn't sell it. I do make a list ahead of time, but I buy mostly the same things every week.
A typical aldi trip includes bananas, berries (rasp or blue usually), avocados, some kind of fresh green veg for dinner (typically spinach, asparagus, or green beans), bread, jaffa cakes, coffee, low-fat cheese, laundry detergent & fabric softener, windex, dishwasher pods, toilet paper, canned fire-roasted tomatoes (soooo many easy recipes with these!), sparkling water, eggs, egg whites, almond milk, yogurt, and pierogies. Then I typically get my meat at Giant (most of Aldi's meat is pretty gnarly), plus things like toothpaste, evaporated milk, sugar packets, paper towels, canned lentils (my Aldi doesn't carry these???), and a little bouquet of flowers. And then some random things I buy on Amazon, like my tea (yorkshire gold), farro, protein powder, low-fodmap ingredients, etc.
I spend about $150 a week unless I'm out of something expensive like paper towels.
I think bird flu is a convenient excuse for price gouging, just like we saw during pandemic. He could easily address that if he wanted to. He just doesn't care.
No, it's just got an irritating sound. Also it makes me think about Niblets (the frozen corn kernels). But that's not enough to explain how annoying I find that word. Maybe I'm just weird ¯(ツ)_/¯
Girl. Have some dignity and kick him to the curb because it's clear he's not really interested in you. He probably wants you on standby in case his dick or his ego need stroking. Don't make excuses for someone who's mistreating you, especially at such a young age - you're just inviting dysfunction. You can and will do better, but not if he's in the way. Good luck.
And we get a little further from perfection
Each year on the road
I think that's called 'character'; I think that's
Just the way it goes
But it's better to be dusty than polished like some
Store window mannequin
Won't you touch me where I'm rusty
Let me stain your hands
Prepare dough following steps 1-8 in the dough recipe above
While your dough is rising, prepare the pizza sauce
Liberally dust your pizza peel with corn meal (use more than you think you need!)
Transfer the rolled-out dough onto the pizza peel and pinch the edges to form a crust
Assemble and cook the pizza following steps 10-12 in the dough recipe above. I tend to use about 1/2 cup of pizza sauce, 4oz grated mozzarella, fresh basil leaves, and pepperoni, but the sky's the limit really
Yeah probably some pimple-faced DOGE kid who never learned about the Enola Gay because their school systems were underfunded and they're too young to remember OMD.
Yum, that looks awesome!