Last Thing You Bought?

I suppose you could say I bartered my time and experience for a dozen shirts, a shawl, leggings, binoculars, and a small teak bench today at the church garage sale. I swear we only had five people contribute items, and there was only one thing valued at $35. Most was a dollar or less. So to gross $260 for the garage sale was pretty good.
 
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Tonight we got lots of stuff: 4(!) my beloved spinach pies, 2 qutabs with greens, pomegranate juice, algerian dates, huge jar of fresh sauerkraut, dill, radishes, green apples, tomatoes, napa cabbage, russet potatoes, seaweed, rye bread, split peas, 2 things of plain dark chocolate, orange dark chocolate, kiwi-grape greek yougurts, beet salad, drench liquor, flax seed flour:lick:; cottage cheese and cold-boiled pork for my sister.
I accidentally found an almond flour! That's a major breakthrough for this chane store system.:up:
 
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I'm pretty mad at myself right now... I walked right past the condiment aisle, didn't even blink. So no ranch, no Teta.... f*ck. :bang: But I got other crap:
  • 1 box Kroger frozen naked potato skins
  • 1 bag Kroger frozen chopped broccoli
  • 1 bottle Silk almond creamer (hazelnut)
  • 1 bottle Core organic peach/mango beverage
  • 2 Founders All Day IPA tall-boy cans
  • 1 half-gallon Silk organic unsweetened soy milk --- and no friggin' Teta to mix with it :mad:
  • 1 bag Daiya cheddar-style shreds
  • 1 tub Tofutti Better Than sour cream --- Had another coupon from @Amy SF :thanks:
  • 1 large white onion
  • The Midnight Line by Lee Child, paperback --- Yay, new Reacher book! Finally! :D
 
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MadamSarcastra said:
I'm pretty mad at myself right now... I walked right past the condiment aisle, didn't even blink. So no ranch, no Teta.... f*ck. :bang: But I got other crap:
  • 1 box Kroger frozen naked potato skins
  • 1 bag Kroger frozen chopped broccoli
  • 1 bottle Silk almond creamer (hazelnut)
  • 1 bottle Core organic peach/mango beverage
  • 2 Founders All Day IPA tall-boy cans
  • 1 half-gallon Silk organic unsweetened soy milk --- and no friggin' Teta to mix with it :mad:
  • 1 bag Daiya cheddar-style shreds
  • 1 tub Tofutti Better Than sour cream --- Had another coupon from @Amy SF :thanks:
  • 1 large white onion
  • The Midnight Line by Lee Child, paperback --- Yay, new Reacher book! Finally! :D
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Could you make ranch with sour creme, soy milk and your other stuff?
 
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silva said:
Could you make ranch with sour creme, soy milk and your other stuff?
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I plan to add stuff to the sour cream (for the potato skins)... garlic powder, onion powder, nooch, dill weed, etc.... I'd prefer to mix ranch into some.... don't wanna risk ruining a whole batch of something.... I think I might have about a tablespoon of Just Ranch left....

I'm thawing my "pub cheese," too.... I'll work out a dip of some sort. ;) LOL
 
77 jars of Gerber baby food - chicken, turkey and ham. I always keep some on hand for sick cats, because they will generally eat that even when they're not up to eating anything else.

Shop and Save usually has a coupon for $15 off when you buy $75 or more, and that adds up to 77 jars of baby food.

My sister's cat Sam just had a lot of dental work done, so we're going to be going through a lot of baby food for a few weeks.
 
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Mischief said:
77 jars of Gerber baby food - chicken, turkey and ham. I always keep some on hand for sick cats, because they will generally eat that even when they're not up to eating anything else.

Shop and Save usually has a coupon for $15 off when you buy $75 or more, and that adds up to 77 jars of baby food.

My sister's cat Sam just had a lot of dental work done, so we're going to be going through a lot of baby food for a few weeks.
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Giving baby food instead of cat food to cats - is that nutritionally okay? I mean, it might lack certain nutrients that cats need, such as an adequate amount of taurine. I’m not criticizing, just curious.
 
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Giving baby food instead of cat food to cats - is that nutritionally okay? I mean, it might lack certain nutrients that cats need, such as an adequate amount of taurine. I’m not criticizing, just curious.
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It's only for short term feeding- like after dental work, or as a last resort when they won't eat.
I had a cat that needed multiple teeth pulled, she still wanted canned cat food, but vet suggested baby food if she didn't.
I've had sick cats I've used baby food in a syringe to get them through.
Not ideal, but almost anything is better than a cat not eating!
 
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Giving baby food instead of cat food to cats - is that nutritionally okay? I mean, it might lack certain nutrients that cats need, such as an adequate amount of taurine. I’m not criticizing, just curious.
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It's a good question, Amy.

Baby food does lack taurine, but feeding it is generally a temporary thing. The thing is with cats, it's a major concern if they refuse to eat anything for even one day. They have a tendency to go into anorexia and not restart eating even when the underlying health issue has been addressed.

A very good and experienced vet told me many years ago that keeping a cat eating, no matter what, is job one. The internal specialist to whom I've taken my difficult cases for three decades now puts a feeding tube into the stomach surgically if the cat hasn't eaten for three days, because the possibility that they will start eating again on their own is so small, and as he says, "You can't treat a dead cat."

i've now fed four cats through surgically implanted feeding tubes, and it's not even easy to wean them off the tube and get them to start eating again on their own, once they are recovered in all other respects.

All that being said about baby food being a temporary thing, Squirt, my feline leukemia positive cat, had a major health crisis just before his first birthday. The only thing I could get him to eat for years was ham baby food (no other flavor), canned whipping cream, and, eventually, a freshly poached fish fillet every day. I did find a human taurine supplement that I mixed into his food.
 
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I have used baby food often on my cats who stopped eating. It worked every time. Bogart was the most difficult with his hunger strikes but baby food always came through for me.
 
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I never go the way I went in the grocery store this evening, but I'm glad I did. I usually dodge & weave through the produce section because people with carts go around the long way.... But I went the long way & I happened to notice, out of the corner of my eye, boxes full of huge red bell peppers... and the cost? Two for $1!! :eek: I know! Holy sh*t! So I grabbed two... didn't plan on getting any, but cripes, how could I refuse? They weren't the "pretty" peppers they have in the spritzing produce section, so I wonder if this was an "Ugly Veggie" thing.... o_O

But it's Monday... and I lingered a short time in the produce section & watched people pass right by... the 2/$1 red peppers caught no one's eye. :| Those are gonna go bad... I might have to buy 20 f*cking peppers tomorrow. LMAO :p

I also bought some Ortega Good Grains blue corn taco shells & some Sunset Zima tomatoes (they're golden-orange grape tomatoes)... and beer. ;)
 
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MadamSarcastra said:
I never go the way I went in the grocery store this evening, but I'm glad I did. I usually dodge & weave through the produce section because people with carts go around the long way.... But I went the long way & I happened to notice, out of the corner of my eye, boxes full of huge red bell peppers... and the cost? Two for $1!! :eek: I know! Holy sh*t! So I grabbed two... didn't plan on getting any, but cripes, how could I refuse? They weren't the "pretty" peppers they have in the spritzing produce section, so I wonder if this was an "Ugly Veggie" thing.... o_O

But it's Monday... and I lingered a short time in the produce section & watched people pass right by... the 2/$1 red peppers caught no one's eye. :| Those are gonna go bad... I might have to buy 20 f*cking peppers tomorrow. LMAO :p

I also bought some Ortega Good Grains blue corn taco shells & some Sunset Zima tomatoes (they're golden-orange grape tomatoes)... and beer. ;)
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Shiiiiit at that price, it’s worth getting 100 and freezing them in stir-fry-ready slices. Assuming it can be worked into one’s budget.
 
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