Interesting Food Tips

From my kitchen to yours...

1. If you get some lite cool whip and at the stage where it is halfway between frozen and defrosted, you take a spoon and stir it up like crazy... it becomes something like marshmallow fluff. AND it will stay that way as long as you refrigerate it, but still at low low calories.

2. Unlike beef jerky, turkey jerky stays soft for a long time, even after you open it. And cats think they want to try it, but they really don't... they just want to get really up close to you and sniff it while you eat it.

3. When you're starving, even the frozen vegies in your freezer in the "steam itself" bag look tasty. Ok, that's a lie. They still look unappealing. You should always try to have something tasty in your freezer for those "emergency" hunger strikes when you're too lazy to go to the grocery store. I recommend Lean Pockets Pepperoni Pizza. Seriously.

4. Suzy Q's can go stale before the date marked on their package. It's a crime.

5. The large bag of pancake mix at Costco is a lot larger than it looks. Unless you have 10 kids or plan to eat pancakes every day, it'll expire before you can use it all.

6. Vegie Chips. Air puffed into a vegie paste to make it look like a potato chip... who knew they could be so good?

7. Crock pot. Frozen Meatballs. Grape Jelly. Catsup. Turn it on, walk away, come back to deliciousness.

8. If you serve alcohol before you serve dinner, people will be more likely to love your dinner.

9. Bananas should only be considered mini-fruit. They don't have juice. If you feel like a fruit, go for an orange or something juicy - you'll be glad you did. But use one of those peelers on the orange because the oil from the rind can get into your eye and hurt like crazy.

10. Do not microwave fish to reheat it. Take 5 minutes to heat it up in a pan instead - you'll be glad you did, and so will all of your neighbors when they don't have to smell the microwaved fish nastiness coming out your windows and from your clothes.