Food

[firelizard5]

Goal for the week: Remember that I am not my entire family.

No, this is not some sort of existential crisis regarding my place outside my family unit. This is a much more practical issue--food.

At home, I am the household chef. I generally cook for five people. However, one of those people is my sister who, being fifteen, eats approximately one

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[elwood012]

Well, there's always leftovers. Lots of leftovers...

[grammarcookie]

I HAVE THIS PROBLEM TOO! it was *much* worse when i first started cooking on my own. i'd buy food for six people instead of little old me -- three eggplants is just how many you buy at a time, right? -- and then it'd go bad or i'd give myself a tummyache.

it's gotten better, through a combination of (1) constantly scaling down what i get (2) inviting people over a lot [easier when i lived in campus apartments with all my friends] and (3) learning to love leftovers.

sadly, right now i am back to overbuying because i've been without my partner-in-food (boyfriend) and too busy/tired to cultivate dinner-mooching friends.

[scifiben]

Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been going to my friends page much lately.

Lettuce goes bad pretty fast, but with these things called Debbie Meyer GreenBags to slow the process down somewhat (I bought them on impulse about 18 months ago and still haven't used up a pack of 20), I seem to be able to finish a whole head before it spoils about 80-90% of the time. They seem to help with some things more than others; grapes don't seem to last long no matter what I do. Then again, some of the organic produce at the grocery store seems at least halfway to spoiling when I buy it, thanks to those overzealous automatic sprayers; I doubt you have that problem so much with farmer's markets.