I hate when I start making dinner and realize I'm missing a vital ingredient.

[LeftyMom]

I did that today. The worst part was that I'd already gone to the store to get something else I needed, and didn't realize I needed a second item. So either I had to truck back over to the nearest grocery store that has what I need (5 miles or so) or scrap what I had and start something else. Waste either way. :grr:

[reyd reid reed]

1. Been there, done that.

Sucks. We used to have an Albertson's about a mile up the road -- maybe a little less. Literally took two minutes to get there (yes, I timed it. I'm easily amused and distracted), nothing between our house and the grocery store except one stop sign.

Store closed over the summer. Now the nearest store is about 3 miles away by way of a major street and about a half-dozen stop lights and turn signals...and I know it sounds petty, but I miss my two-minute away store.

*sigh*

[Midlodemocrat]

21. Man, I'm with you.

There used to be a Winn Dixie at the front of my neighborhood; I could run and do some quick shopping at lunch.

Now it's at least a 2 hour trip between driving and traffic and location. Ugh.

[crim son]

2. I do that regularly and it's very frustrating.

One of my habits is to go shopping for, say, a seafood stew. I'll come home and discover I've bought the milk, the cream, the potatoes, the corn and the sherry but I've forgotten the F****** seafood.

Oh, and it gets worse as you age :P

[billyskank]

15. I once decided I'd have pizza for dinner

So I went and bought all the things to go on top of it and forgot to buy the pizza itself. :blush:

[crim son]

16. That's what I'm talking about.

I do it once a week. Yeah, it's embarrassing :blush:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear LeftyMom..........

BTDT......

It has taken me many years (about 40!) to remember to check the damn recipe before shopping..... :cry:

It is quite traumatic to go through what you went through, today... :pals:

[XemaSab]

4. Like meat?

:hide:

/kidding

[LeftyMom]

18. /me throws blocks of tofu at Xema

:P

[Nicole]

5. One advantage to getting older is that never happens anymore

I always make a shopping list, even if I'm only getting a few items.

It was quite aggravating when it used to happen.

[bumblebee1]

6. Did something close to that

I was baking a chocolate cake for my husband. He was to take it into work with him. After I got it out of the oven, I noticed it looked flat to me. Flat like a brownie. Then I realized I forgot to put milk with the mix. I frosted it. It tasted good and had no complaints about it.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Make list of

all necessary ingredients + cookware/utensils. Make sure to have all on hand, and clean :D

Words of a lazy foodie :D

:loveya:

[Broken_Hero]

8. The last time that happened to me

I forgot the spaghetti noodles...I swear, I had a 2lb box of it in our cupboards, and I spend a good hour working on the sauce, and I go look high/low for the noodles, and I couldn't find them...I was so aggravated, because I almost bought some, but put them back, cause I thought I all ready had them....

[qnr]

9. Ugh. I've done that. Go shopping at the end of a rough day, change into comfortable clothes,

start cooking, realize you forgot a necessary ingredient. Hop on the bike and pedal back to the store. Get in line, remember you changed into comfortable clothes, but you neglected to transfer the wallet. Pedal home without the necessary ingredient....

[Porcupine]

10. adapt, invent, modify......

it's surprising the number of ways that you can make food work without the crucial ingredient. If it's day to day cooking you can try and modify the recipe and see what you get. You've always got that can of soup in the back of the cupboard.

If you screw up on cooking for guests you may be in trouble though. I always have the ingredients for emergency noodle on hand.

Emergency Noodles (last ditch meal)

Spaghetti
Parmesian cheese (or jack if desperate)
garlic salt
Dried parsley
dried basil
olive oil.
frozen peas(a luxury)

cook noodles, add other stuff to taste.

[Skittles]

11. now hear this

when I lived at my boyfriend's farm he was cooking something that called for eggs. So he left to go to the barn and came back enraged because there wasn't a single egg to be found even though he had four chickens. He called them "vindictive bitches". I told him I thought they were just old. :7

[MissMillie]

12. happened to me on New Years Day

went to make boiled dinner and realized I had no potatoes.

My son was out w/ my car, so I made him run for the potatoes.

[wildeyed]

13. I try to remember to put all the ingredients out in the middle of the kitchen table.

Stare hard at ingredients. Stare hard at recipe. Only then begin to cook. Sometimes the system works, sometimes not. It is soooooo infuriating to realize an ingredient has gone AWOL, especially with hungry kids staring at you.

[cwydro]

14. I needed olive oil

last night. I NEVER run out of olive oil. Aaaaarrrrgghhhh.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. That happens here a lot.

One of the ingredients will disappear down the vast hole that is a Midlo kid's stomach and then the empty box is replaced on the pantry shelf and I don't realize it until it's too late.

I. Hate.That.

[photogirl12]

19. Well...

that is my life on a daily basis! Want to make something and there is none in the house. What is worse is when the shelf is empty at the grocery store and you have to go to yet another grocery store to get it!:grr:

[trof]

20. If you had some ham, you could have ham & eggs...

if you had some eggs.
Sorry, old joke.
;-)

[Roon]

22. My Grandmother does that

I can run to the store and be back with the item in ten minutes flat! So she always calls me.

[speedoo]

23. What were you missing?

I have a table of substitute ingredients. If you like, I can tell you what veggie subs it lists (if any).

[LeftyMom]

24. Nutritional yeast nt

[speedoo]

25. Sorry, can't help with that one. nt

[LeftyMom]

27. I kinda figured. There's really nothing else quite like that stuff. nt

[leftofthedial]

26. same hear

last night I was fixing veal piccata when I realized I didn't have any veal

so I went down to the place where they torture cute little cows and got some fresh veal

then, when I got home and started boiling the calf meat, I realized I was totally out of piccata too!

I'm a frigging maroon.



I hope the sarcasm is HUGH!