Ping Jere

Isn't it great that this group has the answer to everything?

(Or, you could have gone to the store we were at last week, where Brian pointed out to me a container containing 10 eggs/20 halves, deviled, for $10.)

Lucille

Cheaper my way LOL; 12 eggs, 24 halves for 2.09.. Also I priced the chicken wings at Hungry Howies, our Pizza chain, and bought Friday's frozen for 60% of the price and heated them myself. The shrimp, yup, I was lazy, and bought them boiled and split in the seafood dept.

Good meal, good company, but I am now pooped! Not used to grandkids (age

Do you have to buy chicken wings nowadays? I thought they were disposable - I've not seen them for many a long year but my grandma used to just chuck them into a pan for stock.

I am not your Grandma, but I used to pop them into the stockpot.

However, Buffalo Wings are a big item here. The wing is split into it's three parts. I guess the tips are still used for stock, or catfood.

However the other two sections are split, cooked in a spicy hot sauce, and served as fingerfood with a blue cheese dressing ( or ranch dressing); usually in Sports Bars accompanied by copious amounts of cold beer.

However both the older grandsons love them, and they are too young for bars; so they are now treated as buffet food.

They are originally from a bar in Buffalo, NY.

Gillian

And how long would it take you to do that and how much do you pay yourself an hour?

Why do people always forget to calculate the cost of their time when they're looking at these things?

Elizabeth (who would gladly pay outrageous amounts of money in order to avoid cooking)

You hiring? I love cooking, and don't figure the cost of my time into it because I'm enjoying myself. Then again, I'm usually being creative when I'm cooking, and not making the same thing in the same way every time. (As opposed to XH who freaked out the day I put cinnamon in the stew. He eventually admitted it tasted good, but it wasn't what he was expecting.)

Not all of us avoid cooking! I really enjoy it, so it is a "fun" thing for me.

Now, house-cleaning...that is entirely different.

Gill

I'm not much of a cook either, but there are certain things that annoy me and spending so much on deviled eggs would be one of those things. The wings would most definitely have come from our best local barbecue joint and most of the rest would be bought ready made.

I will admit though that I most probably would have taken everyone out for lunch and said to hell with staying home and cooking.

Oh yeah!!! I forgot to mention that I'm retired and living in an area that doesn't offer a lot by way of adult ed or museums to wander in and that gives me more time then I'm used to, so boiling eggs might be a good way to fill some of that time.

Oh dear-I was just ready to ask you to come visit and bring a couple of cleaning rags with you. RD&H

You wanna leave California for Salem, 'cuz I sure as hell ain't leavin' Salem?

Women consistently sell themselves and their work short because they enjoy it, but purchased goods include the cost of time. I like to cook, but I don't always have time to do it. If I'm using my time to work instead of cook, I'm making enough money that, yes, $10 for a dozen eggs devilled is worth it because I made more than twice that much in the time I would have spent preparing the eggs.

I think that we often forget, when we look at something and say "I could do that more cheaply" that it would cost us time as well as raw materials. If you have time, great, but that's not always the case. My friend who was out of work for five years has trouble shifting to flying places instead of driving, but now that she's working, she can't afford the TIME to drive - those are hours she could be working.

That's all I'm sayin'.

Elizabeth

Show me where I said that all of us avoid cooking.

I'm just saying that $10 for devilled eggs really isn't that much if it saves an hour of my time. For some of us, cooking is fun. For others it can be an obligation and for us, packaged foods are a godsend and really don't seem that outrageous costwise.

I like to cook and I love to have guests, but I hate hate hate potluck meals and am often invited to them. For those, I purchase something.

That too.

Elizabeth

I lived a different lifestyle when I was working and I was lucky enough to be in a bustling, busy city that offered a myriad of interesting things to do. When you're retired in a sleepy area like this, every day is Sunday.

I've learned how to get out of most potluck meals, but if I'm pushed I buy something and bring that along with an excuse about being too busy.

I don't do much cooking anymore and being retired, and having some good friends who think the way I do, means we can eat out a lot. We make that a form of entertainment. It's actually fun to try new restaurants and rate them.

Unfortunately, too many of them are pretty bad, but we keep on trying and I agree, it beats cooking. Especially when you have to cook for one and then clean up as though you were cooking for a family.

Wow! You should get a LOT of soup from one of those

This topic has reminded me of the shock we got when seeing frozen "potato skins" on sale in a supermarket in Scarborough (Yorkshire). As Maureen remarked at the time "when did people stop putting potato peelings on their compost heap?"

We do cook and fry some of our potatoes with the peels , esp the young tiny ones ,,,Wash well with a brush and cook as usual ,,,, mirjam

Do they also sell "Pegasus" wings ? mirjam

Brat has that all lined up with her manservant lol