What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today (2025)?

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Right! I mean, there's a mailbox with a number *like all the rest* along the route... Lazy I'd say...

Maybe lazy but from what I’ve read pushed to the max on piecemeal pay

 

[TastyReuben]

Not sure when I last had Erdinger dunkel. That’s specialty local (read more expensive than my trousers) cream, ultra-low pasteurized, going to make some creme fraiche.

Those pizzas were a steal at $5 each…made up for by the $9 strawberries (but they’re ripe all the way through).

There’s my pop for the next year sorted.

The gourmet place sells daikon by the pound, cut into pieces, which I prefer, because Kroger sells it whole, and bundled into two giant ones, and it’s always more than I want, so I don’t buy it.

As to the delivery drivers…I’ll admit to pitying the Amazon drivers, as when I watch them delivering in my neighborhood, they literally run from the truck to the front porch and back, and I think it’s a damn shame to work someone like that.

 

[Barriehie]

Maybe lazy but from what I’ve read pushed to the max on piecemeal pay

Those girls are union and making $28 USD/hour and easily working 8 overtime. Grossing around $1500/wk. Tired I can get but we'll paid. I still give them ice water in the summer. (And snacks, the regulars get me my mail, I'm nice! )

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Those girls are union and making $28 USD/hour and easily working 8 overtime. Grossing around $1500/wk. Tired I can get but we'll paid. I still give them ice water in the summer. (And snacks, the regulars get me my mail, I'm nice! )

Thats not the case here at all.

 

[Barriehie]

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Not sure when I last had Erdinger dunkel. That’s specialty local (read more expensive than my trousers) cream, ultra-low pasteurized, going to make some creme fraiche.


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Those pizzas were a steal at $5 each…made up for by the $9 strawberries (but they’re ripe all the way through).


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There’s my pop for the next year sorted.


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The gourmet place sells daikon by the pound, cut into pieces, which I prefer, because Kroger sells it whole, and bundled into two giant ones, and it’s always more than I want, so I don’t buy it.

As to the delivery drivers…I’ll admit to pitying the Amazon drivers, as when I watch them delivering in my neighborhood, they literally run from the truck to the front porch and back, and I think it’s a damn shame to work someone like that.

Found my local herb shop carries fresh from the cow milk; like cow to jug to store. No processing! Still on the fence but it's also $9/gallon...

 

[badjak]

No delivery service here.
Even DHL etc needs to be collected in one of the bigger towns.

 

[MypinchofItaly]

 

[Barriehie]

Walmart and The Herb Shop for the beeswax.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

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Lovely elbow turn in your worktop!

 

[Barriehie]

Thank you. Here's the "crowded" view...

 

[TastyReuben]

Thank you. Here's the "crowded" view...View attachment 125077

Turn that island a quarter-turn and we have the same kitchen layout (though my island is a repurposed cobbler’s bench).

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Thank you. Here's the "crowded" view...View attachment 125077

Looks good to me, a working kitchen doing its thing. Lovely.

 

[Barriehie]

Looks good to me, a working kitchen doing its thing. Lovely.

Thank you. When I'm in there Pippi is on dropped food patrol between the range and the fridge, or mostly on the mat...

 

[JAS_OH1]

Maybe lazy but from what I’ve read pushed to the max on piecemeal pay

Here is the US working for the USPS is a great job to have, pays well, good benefits, nice retirement pay.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Found my local herb shop carries fresh from the cow milk; like cow to jug to store. No processing! Still on the fence but it's also $9/gallon...

With cattle contracting the avian bird flu as of late I wouldn't chance raw milk even if were half that price.