Post by admin on Aug 8, 2008 7:10:27 GMT -5
Someone sold my husband one of those electric sandwich makers for $2 where you take two slices of bread or batter and put filling in and it seals it all up into a nice hot sandwich. Now I've got to figure out how to use the thing. I've been walking around the box, trying to ignore it but it's probably an okay little invention if I'd just get my nose out of a kink and just try it.
Actually, we haven't been eating ANY bread or pancakes etc, so I'm afraid doing so now will add even more weight on. On the other hand it's not coming off from denying ourselves, so hubby might appreciate something different by trying the sandwich maker thingie.
This is something totally new to me, thats why the hesitation to put it to use. When I grew up in Alaska, if we wanted a hot sandwich we'd put it on the flat top wood stove, and brown on both sides. I made lots of toast from our homemade bread that way. We didn't get cheese or lunch meats, it was wild meat or fish and that was it, unless we wanted to use a commercially canned meat. My parents purchased our food for a whole year in cases, usually about $500. My dad supplemented the diet with moose meat, salmon, rabbits, ptarmigan. My mother supplemented the diet with a huge garden, which we canned up for all year consumption.
I actually thought I had the best life any kid could ever have. That feeling still stays with me, and I try to never forget that kind of life and encourage others to live more simply as well.
After all, life is what we make of it. Our attitude about it determines whether we will be happy or miserable. I look at all of life as a hobby, not a drudge.
Elaine
Actually, we haven't been eating ANY bread or pancakes etc, so I'm afraid doing so now will add even more weight on. On the other hand it's not coming off from denying ourselves, so hubby might appreciate something different by trying the sandwich maker thingie.
This is something totally new to me, thats why the hesitation to put it to use. When I grew up in Alaska, if we wanted a hot sandwich we'd put it on the flat top wood stove, and brown on both sides. I made lots of toast from our homemade bread that way. We didn't get cheese or lunch meats, it was wild meat or fish and that was it, unless we wanted to use a commercially canned meat. My parents purchased our food for a whole year in cases, usually about $500. My dad supplemented the diet with moose meat, salmon, rabbits, ptarmigan. My mother supplemented the diet with a huge garden, which we canned up for all year consumption.
I actually thought I had the best life any kid could ever have. That feeling still stays with me, and I try to never forget that kind of life and encourage others to live more simply as well.
After all, life is what we make of it. Our attitude about it determines whether we will be happy or miserable. I look at all of life as a hobby, not a drudge.
Elaine