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Jul 9, 2018 5:20 AM CST
Falls Church, VA
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I went to the closest Aldi from me [a closer one coming soon I hope, the previous stores already closed, but not renovated yet], I saw a cute set of Fajita sizzler set, [the last one], a strainer with extended 'arms' that you can put on the sink, so you do not have to hold it [also the last one] and lots of cooler bags for $6.99! Also a little foldable step stool that I am going to use for gardening $5.00 [would I be able to get up from it?], 11.5 tall. Got all 4 of the items. There were also those colored brown mulch. I prefer natural mulch, so I did not get any.
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Jul 9, 2018 6:43 AM CST
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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Good stuff!
My favorite nonstick skillet is Aldi. It is a speckled grey, very heavy, chrome handle, 10 inches? If a see one smaller I would get that too. (Not the ones with chrome trim edge and Teflon look coating, they eventually get scratched. I have a white lined ceramic one too, with scratches)
Plant it and they will come.
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Jul 9, 2018 7:22 AM CST
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I need to get over there today.

I was excited a couple of years ago to get new ceramic pans. Big mistake. They have long since become completely stick instead of non-stick.
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Jul 9, 2018 7:26 AM CST
Name: Ric Sanders
Dover, Pa. (Zone 6b)
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I'll have to look at some of their cookware. My Calphalon is getting very old, but I still love it, It's nice and light and heats evenly. It is getting just a little sticky. I should have kept my smaller cast irons when I gave them to Jamie, the larger ones were just getting to heavy for my hands. Crying
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Jul 9, 2018 12:39 PM CST
Falls Church, VA
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I have cast iron, small ones to a big [14 inches=recommended to cook Pad Thai=mistake, cannot use it, too heavy=never used], so I am going to give it to someone stronger and younger, and I cooked my galbi or kalbi on my 12 inch one yesterday--. It was wonderful. I bought a 14 inch steel skillet for my Pad Thai, and other noodle dishes, so I have room to stir the egg separately, before mixing it to the noodles. It is heavy too, but not as heavy as the cast iron. I also have some 2 non-sticks--they are nice, but I do not use them very much, I use the small one to make my rissoles skins/wrappers. I have to make them one day for the luncheon potluck. Maybe I change from Jap chae (Korean) to rissoles (Indonesian/Dutch), since I am not bringing many plants this Fall. Risoles [Indonesian spelling] is similar to egg rolls, but the wrapper is soft, it is a crepe, made of flour, eggs, milk and butter, used to wrap the filling and roll in eggs & bread crumbs and fry. Filling instead of pork in egg rolls (chicken for Moslems--but pork is MUCH better) is ground beef in roux (flower and butter and milk), carrots, green beans, potato, boiled eggs, cellophane noodles, salt, pepper, nutmeg. The Dutch would eat them with mustard sauce, I prefer spicy peanut sauce, I will bring both.-- Egg rolls are not breaded, and the wrapper is just flour and salt and water. Risoles have many different recipes, this is my mother's version that she used to make & have them delivered to a store to sell them. Lots of people eat them for breakfast.--

@RickM, can you please change the food that I am going to bring?
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Jul 11, 2018 5:23 AM CST
Name: Ric Sanders
Dover, Pa. (Zone 6b)
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Francine, your making me hungry. Hilarious!
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Jul 11, 2018 6:39 AM CST
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Week of 11-Jul-2018:
Avocados - $0.69 each
Blueberries - $1.79 pint
Tomatoes on the vine - $0.89 lb
Mangoes - $0.69 each
Baby Bella mushrooms - $0.89 8oz
Cantaloupes - $1.29 each
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Jul 11, 2018 8:35 AM CST
Name: Ric Sanders
Dover, Pa. (Zone 6b)
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I just may have to stop by our local store later today. Smiling
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Jul 11, 2018 8:38 AM CST
Name: Critter (Jill)
Frederick, MD (Zone 6b)
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yum & yum! If the blueberries are like the ones at the Pittsburgh Aldi's this weekend, we're all set!
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Jul 21, 2018 6:59 PM CST
Name: Critter (Jill)
Frederick, MD (Zone 6b)
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Bing cherries this week, and boy oh boy are they delicious! Dark & firm & sweet. $1.89 / lb

And the 69 cent mangoes are huge!

Watermelons marked down to $1.99 at our store... I got THREE thinking that I'd take half of them along to a birthday party (forJoyanna's dance friend), but the party went to a different venue with no food, so we are really well supplied with watermelon!
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Oct 18, 2018 6:08 PM CST
Name: Lisa Olson
Washington DC (Zone 7a)
Winternacht Spekulatius for $1.99!
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Oct 18, 2018 9:12 PM CST
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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I love the almond spekulatius at Aldi. With me working and Mark not, I hardly ever go to Aldi.
Plant it and they will come.
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Oct 19, 2018 9:14 AM CST
Name: Critter (Jill)
Frederick, MD (Zone 6b)
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OK, I need to go this week... pumpkins for $2.49! Five dollars is the next best price I've seen locally.

Honeycrisp apples at 2 pounds for $1.99 sounds too good to be true, but we'll check it out. Blueberries $2.50 per pint...

73% lean (aka "fatty") ground beef $1.79/lb... at that price, I'll cook the whole 5 pounds, drain the fat, and freeze for chili etc.

$1.99/lb chicken tenderloins

Those were the things that caught my eye this week. The circular is here: https://www.aldi.us/en/weekly-...

Rick, how did you do the page by page images? Screenshot app?
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Oct 19, 2018 8:23 PM CST
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Yep. I'd grab several shots, stitch them together and crop off the junk, like the browser headers/footers, etc.
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Oct 19, 2018 10:39 PM CST
Name: Critter (Jill)
Frederick, MD (Zone 6b)
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Appreciate your efforts! Do you have a screenshot app you like? My dad had some trial version he used for a while, but we didn't like it well enough to pony up for it (actually, it worked great, just didn't need it often enough to make it worth what they were asking)..
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Oct 20, 2018 5:06 PM CST
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Name: Rick Moses
Derwood, MD (Zone 7b)
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Actually, I use <Alt><Print Screen>, paste it into MS Paint and crop it.

I still have Photoshop on my Win2K machine, but can't afford t move it to a more modern OS.

I'm looking in to Affinity Photo. It's only $49.00
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Oct 20, 2018 9:16 PM CST
Name: Critter (Jill)
Frederick, MD (Zone 6b)
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OK, gotta ask my in-house IT guy... I don't see a prnt scrn key on my laptop. I'm still using Corell Paintshop Pro, but I'm a couple versions behind the latest one. I need to buckle down and spend some time learning to use the program I have -- I do some post-processing and cropping, but I don't take advantage of things you can do with "layers" and all that. Even so, the latest & greatest programs are always alluring! I'll have to check out Affinity Photo. Sometimes less is more... a program with all sorts of capability you don't use can just bog you down.

Back on topic to say I didn't get to Aldi's yet... hope they still have pumpkins Monday.
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Oct 21, 2018 9:24 AM CST
Name: Ric Sanders
Dover, Pa. (Zone 6b)
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I think it was Deb from RCN that recommended Corell Paintshop Pro express, so that is what I got. I think I also bought version 6, but same as you Jill, I have yet to do anything creative with it. Smiling
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Nov 2, 2018 7:42 PM CST
Falls Church, VA
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Went to Aldi on Thursday. Bought Cheese crisps. The Asiago one, I finished it in one sitting, could not stop eating them. So today I went there again and bought 6 more! All kinds of goodies from Germany or the Netherlands. Speculaas, and my favorite Andes Creme de Menthe Thins----
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Nov 4, 2018 7:42 AM CST
Name: Ric Sanders
Dover, Pa. (Zone 6b)
And his children Are his flowers ..
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Grocery Outlet had beautiful yellow apples $.99# and seedless white grapes $1.29#. I also got some canned pumpkin for adding to the dogs food for $.50ea. Smiling
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