addendum: hoarding update

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Today I played Hunkering Down and Making Do. (copyright grumpy bastard.) This involved buying lots of frozen concentrated orange juice on sale. And toilet paper. And coffee. And, of course, polenta.

Opinions on freezing cheese? Yes? No?

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that's a qualified yes

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or possibly it should be "unqualified" since I'm not exactly a foodsafe expert. But I think you can freeze blocks of hard cheese. not sure how the soft ones would work out, texture-wise. so probably best not to buy bargain lots of triple cream brie. (i'm almost sure any luxury item like that it required by law - the Elitist laws, if not our own civic laws - to be something that must be used up immediately, in one go. Unless you're talking jars of anchovies, but why would we do that, anyway?!)

and now I'm going to go gorge myself on that other inexpensive staple of Hunkering Down, popcorn! (alas, without the parmesan cheese. OOH, wait, I think Dad has some in the fridge - scarfing your families's groceries being a large part of Making Do, if you're lucky enough to live in the same city and they're foolish enough to let you have keys to their houses.)

I also have a Brother Cadfael dvd to watch, borrowed for free from the library. They have a fair selection of videos to watch (not many dvds yet but they're getting there, and at least they have some good ones), and did I mention they're free? Wheee. I've put a hold in for the first dvd for the Ballykissangel series, so at some point I'll get to watch the bit of the series I missed. AND they have "Monarch of the Glen", though just in video and I've seen all the episodes they have 'in stock' already.

Not that I'm trying to dis using video stores - especially Pic-a-Flic, for those in Victoria, though my old neighbourhood on Oswego Video is also cool. I'm just pleased there's a low-cost alternative :)

cheers, the other C