he BETTER read this... i might just go put a note in his journal to make SURE he does..

and ed... uh... i must be off MINE too... i am replying to you..*L* and what AM i doing in the caveman thread AnyWAY??

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LOL, one question, does Rob wear a bow tie while he does these dishes?

The guy that came up with the sporky things must of been the bosses son or something.

Lately I have been doing some hot steamy dishes lately so I throw a piece of wax paper under the paper plate, soggy problem solved. Took me a while to figure that out. Have just used a piece of aluminum foil in place of a plate in a pinch. All told it cost me about $12 dollers American per month to live the throw away life style but it's worth it, heck thats less than Netflix.

I sigh with relief every time I remember, that aspect of my future until death IS in my control. I was a care giver for 17 years, I've done the SOS pad thing, the adult dyper thing, I didn't mind it at all while living it. But there is some bliss in recognizing your own traversed burdens. And letting your self of the hook when possible for the next journey.

I had one date that really turn her nose at my dinner ware. I thought it was going to be a deal breaker. I could tell she had a real problem with them. Then after the table was set and we had started eating, she jumped up real fast and said I'VE GOT IT!

She bolted over to my desk and grabbed some markers, came back and drew daisys all around the borders; around the food that was already on the plates. I thought that was so cool. She turned out to be a one very groovy lady.

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Yep that's me washing dishes while walking in place wearing a bow tie and nothing else!

Actually I use paper plates for things like sandwiches but I generally eat off the same ceramic plate that I wash several times a day. Don't mind washing dishes but if they made paper pots, I'd be all over them. LOL

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paper POTS? OH MAN... you and me and mary kay would jump on THAT stock in a heartbeat.. right mary kay?

suddenly i have mental pictures of ya doin dishes that i dont WANT in my head rob..*L*

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I would buy new pots that would come with refillable alluminum liners. Very much like coffie filters. If the pots were tapered I dont see why that would be dificult. A curl over the edge would be simple enough. Say 50 liners at 5 cents a piece. $2.50 American to not wash 50 pots from 50 meals. I see a market for this. Skillet liners with a hard bottom, wok liners that are ridged all the way arround. Alluminum conducts heat well enough. Not for everbody but for some of us it would be a sure buy, I would think.

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sign me up for those!

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I usually use coffee filters to serve snacks to myself and others. I think they make a nice little presentation and they are so darn cheap.

Amazing how much weight we have all lost, 40, 50, 100 plus pounds, what a blessing.

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like giant muffin paper muffin containers.. eh? now if you could get them to make the "FILTERS" in designer patterns... instead of just white and brown "natural ones" ya might HAVE something there...*L*

i know they have those DISPOSIBLE aluminum baking pans...*L* reminds me of my MOTHER (she of the "SAVE IT FOR GOOD" fame) would say "dont throw it away kimmy kell... i'll wash it and keep it for next time... " aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh drove me NUTS with stuff like that...
she kept jars and all KINDS of wierd packaging ... bows... ribbon... wrapping paper.. all used...
of course... she lived through the depression..
spoiled b**ch that i am... i guess i just couldnt relate..:-(

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Haaa. My mom was the same way. Boxes filled with disposable stuff for reuse.

EDIT: I clipped the heavy paragraph myself.

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You know those small rectangular paper trays you often get with take-away fried foods? DH buys those at Costco practically by the case. They started out as our cat food bowls (you know how difficult it is to wash dried catfood out of a dish). Then I started using them for snacks. Then, as they have a kind of shiny finish that's somewhat moisture resistant, I started using them in the microwave. They're good for reheating leftovers for breakfast or lunch, and I even use them to make the little almond meal cakes (aka 3-minute Chocolate Cake).

During the drought in California, when saving water became almost a religion, using paper plates and cups was considered to be environmentally friendly - you didn't have to waste water washing them. Now, if people look at me cross-eyed for using disposable tableware, I just look confused and puzzled and say, "I forget... Are we saving trees or water this year?"

I'm sure real cave women would have loved the idea of paper plates - no lugging all that water back to the cave.

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Thank you TeelBee - now I have another technique for when I get a microwave, } : - )

Those foam trays are dirt cheap and I didn't know I could use them in a micro-wave. I searched a few of my local markets for almond flour for the Three Minute Chocolate Cake with no luck. I will phone all the health food stores in my area to find the least expensive pay-day.

TeelBee have you cooked the 3-min... in a toaster oven? Is it possible?

I met a 101 year old Mexican American lady Mrs. Vigil, that lived out in the northern New Mexico desert. Every day she carried two pails of water each with about a gallon and a half of water from a wooden shaft slung across her shoulders. Her children had grown up to be prosperous and wanted to build her a new home closer to town but she would was determined to live her life as she had grown so accustomed to. She never learned more a few words of English. She was the picture of stability and dignity. Very limber and very Catholic.

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I wasn't meaning foam trays... the ones we use are like a light-weight paper cardboard - about the thickness of a greeting card. But, I suspect the foam trays would work oK in a microwave.

Stephen, I think you said you have a Trader Joes? That's probably the best place to get almond meal (or hazelnut meal, for that matter). It's made from whole almonds, so it has more fiber than almond flour made from blanched almonds. Before I discovered it, at Trader Joes, I always bought blanched almond flour from www.almondsonline.com (a good company to deal with, for online orders).

Toaster oven, eh? I don't have a toaster oven, so I couldn't say about the 3-minute cake. I suspect it would work, but it may take longer to cook.

Wow - a hundred years old and carrying about 25+ pounds of water and pails! I am awed.

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Mrs. Vigil was a thin woman about 5' 2" if memory serves. Amazing in many ways. On a sad note she out lived all but one of her children, I think there were five. But on a pleasant note she was able to keep her home and land to the very end.

Her son Benny was 62 when he passed. Coffee killed him according to the doctors. He drank a good three pots a day I would say, when he went to decaffinated too quickly his kidneys started shutting down. He only last 6 months after that. Lots of dialysis. He was a very good friend to me and I have many warm memories of the times we had together.

My research (obsessing) last night turned up the following site. Quite a variety of nut flours and nuts in general a few flours about $4 a pound for several styles in 5 pound sizes. Interestingly the cost is almost the same as a flour as in whole nuts.
http://www.nuts4u.com/asp/s-type.asp?Category=8
Scroll to the bottom of their home page and you get a better feel for what they have to offer, and they encourage phone orders.
http://www.nuts4u.com/

TeelBee,
Have you used roasted Amond flour? Is it more tastey?

I had almond meal in my hands at Trader Joes the other day but didn't realize that was what is refered to as Almond flour. Yes I would rather have the fiber without the blanching. And I like nutty texture, thats what I always enjoyed about rather dry oatmeal cookies.

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