The Ink-Pot and the Palette

The wake-up call for me was that if I just don't BUY so much stuff, I won't have to discard the unwanted amounts either by mouth or by trashcan. He also reminded me of the Vegetable Soup Meme--i.e., combining the bits of things into a pot of soup yields not only good food, but one that contributes to weight loss because by the time you heat up and eat the soup, you won't be as hungry for your main course. MFK Fisher recommended that you keep the stock from steaming vegetables "in an old gin bottle in the refrigerator" and then pour it into the soup pot.

Although cooking fresh food does take more time and effort than getting take-out, sometimes I think that "food contacts" rather than "eating" can satisfy cravings.

I do not habitually have empty gin bottles around, but I bought a couple of bottles of a posh and not very good French soda just because it comes in triffic glass bottles with cage stoppers--I use them for the rest of the three-liter olive oil bottle that isn't in the green glass bottle on the kitchen cart, but one is getting empty and could be recruited for vegetable juice patrol.

And, in conclusion, salad forks!