What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today? (2018-2022)

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flyinglentris said:
Oops. I need to add Parchment Paper to my list above, in the previous post.
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Weird thing - parchment paper seems to be out of stock nearly everywhere again. It was impossible to get around June/July, and now again. I checked four places over two weeks and finally found some cheap shop's-brand yesterday (Target).
 
TastyReuben said:
Weird thing - parchment paper seems to be out of stock nearly everywhere again. It was impossible to get around June/July, and now again. I checked four places over two weeks and finally found some cheap shop's-brand yesterday (Target).
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A lot of people are not dining out, but are instead, cooking for themselves. Certain things are disappearing from the grocery store shelves and stocks of suppliers. Walmart has Parchment Paper.
 
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lastmanstanding said:
This made me read about the Eastern brown snake and found that it's the second most venomous land snake in the world, and is responsible for the most deaths from snake bites in Australia.
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Yeah. It adds a new aspect to the veg plot and gardening in general but I've found that both my chickens and the local wildlife (mostly birds) are very useful indicators of whey is going on around me and if they are upset about something...

But just knowing how to 'treat" a snake bite is the single best thing you can do for survival and making sure you carry your phone to the veg plot right now! Normally I don't and hubby didn't have it with him that day either.

Treatment for those not knowing is
  • Lay patient down and not allow to move at all, any movement is dangerous to life.
  • to wrap the bitten limb very tightly in compression bandages to prevent swelling. Most people bandage both legs even if only bitten on one but concentrate on the bitten limb first.. you need to stop the spread of the venom which is transferred around the body by the lymphatic system not the blood stream.
  • Get help fast. (Goes without saying).
Just before Christmas there was a case of a 3yr old girl being bitten by a brown snake (or a tiger, can't remember now, we get both). Her grandmother knew what to do and as a result not only did she survive unaware of what the fuss was about, but also only spent a single night in hospital.

We usually see 1 or 2 eastern brown snakes a year in the garden. Many more on the roads, usually dead. Just 2 days ago we saw a Tiger snake dead on the road. Neither if us has yet to see one in the wild alive. But given that we've been in Australia for nearly 5 years (come May), so those is our 5th snake season, we've not seen more than a dozen live snakes between us in that time. All have been Eastern Browns.
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
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I was bitten by a Russel's viper in 1996. Fortunately many of my friends were there who took me to the hospital.
Many people in Sri Lanka still believe in treatments that include elements of witchcraft and herbs. Despite doctors' constant advice to people to go to a hospital some people still go to such joints.
When I was bitten there were a few people who said that the best treatment is to take me to some woman who would so do her witchcraft that the snake would come there. My friends said "no need to worry, the snake is already with us" because they had already killed the snake to show the doctors. LOL.
The reason for that belief in people is that a large number of snakes in Sri Lanka are not venomous but people do not know that. Therefore the number of people who are "healed" by them is considerable. When a person in real danger is taken there he dies but the story goes that the witch doctor couldn't do it means no western medicine could've done it either.
 
Savoury and Sweet snacks
Taralli pugliesi and M&M’s

I might nibbling them combined together :rolleyes:

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I bought some Velveta industrial cheese product and a chub of Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage to make the traditional Mercan NYE queso dip. Also bought my favorite tortilla chips.

Also, I bought some pistachios. WOW! Those nuts are ridiculously expensive! They don't come from some exotic land -- they are from California. Just shy of ten bucks for 12 ounces!

CD
 
Off oop the mountain with Don Mladen hopefully to reap the benefits of his pre Christmas pig slaughter.
 
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Burt Blank said:
Off oop the mountain with Don Mladen hopefully to reap the benefits of his pre Christmas pig slaughter.
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The Don just called to cancel. It's snowing like mad in the mountains and he is also worried about the earthquakes.
 
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