Putting it in my mouth

[A. Secular Human]

Walmart tuna, cold, straight from the can.  I could say that I'm assessing it on its merits aside from in a dish of some sort, but the truth is that I'm hungry and I just like cold tuna straight from the can.  I am indeed assessing different tunas, though I erred somewhat by buying both tuna in water and tuna in oil, so straight-up comparisons may be difficult.  After reading various reviews, the brands I'm focusing on are Starkist, Target's Good & Gather brand, and Walmart's GV brand.  The Walmart brand didn't come up in reviews, but given the price, it's worthy of inclusion.  This is part of a larger project of developing lists of meal ideas that can be made inexpensively in order to lower the average cost of my meals.  I realized that I had more or less dropped tuna from my diet for no specific reason or intent.

Mercury?

[A. Secular Human]

Can mashed potatoes be made without butter and cream?

I've heard that some people make it with margarine and milk. even plant-based 'milk'. These people should be whipped (metaphorically speaking).

Boru

"...even plant-based 'milk'"

I can appreciate your placing "milk" in quotes.  One of my pet peeves.

Plants don't have teats.

[Angrboda]

Panko encrusted chicken tenders with KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce. I'm trying different sauces as I see a lot of BBQ chicken in my future. KC is okay. It's got a touch of hickory to it.

[arewethereyet]

Do you have Sweet Baby Ray's sauces up there? They are pretty good for BBQ. We switched from KC Masterpiece to Sweet Baby Ray's a few years ago.

[Angrboda]

Do you have Sweet Baby Ray's sauces up there?  They are pretty good for BBQ.  We switched from KC Masterpiece to Sweet Baby Ray's a few years ago.

I like Sweet Baby Ray's stuff, but I'm trying to minimize cost, and Sweet Baby Ray's is more expensive than other, potentially suitable options.

Cub has Sweet Baby Ray's on sale for $1.50 a bottle right now, so I'm trying their Original, Chipotle Honey, and Hickory Brown Sugar. The latter is good, but I can probable find generics with a comparable taste. I'm spending a bunch up front to develop sustainable eating habits, budgetwise. As long as I'm earning money donating plasma, I can afford to eat what I like. When I decide to stop donating, I'll have to live on a slimmer budget.

I like Famous Dave sauces, too, but like Sweet Baby Ray, they're a little more expensive.

(Oh, I've also got Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet Golden Mustard, but that's more due to there being fewer options for mustard-based barbecue sauces.)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Leftover chicken/mushroom casserole, dark rye roll with butter, coffee.

Boru

[Angrboda]

Rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy. I used bulk potato flakes from a box tonight. Since I omitted the milk and butter from the instructions, trying to figure the right portion of water and flakes was a bit of an adventure.

[Angrboda]

That reminds me. I've got powdered whole milk. I wonder if it's worth the trouble to include in the next batch. I guess I've got nothing to lose.

[Ravenshire]

Do you have Sweet Baby Ray's sauces up there?  They are pretty good for BBQ.  We switched from KC Masterpiece to Sweet Baby Ray's a few years ago.

Sweet Baby Ray's beats that K. C. crap silly, but I still want my D. L. Jardine's!

[arewethereyet]

Do you have Sweet Baby Ray's sauces up there?  They are pretty good for BBQ.  We switched from KC Masterpiece to Sweet Baby Ray's a few years ago.

I like Sweet Baby Ray's stuff, but I'm trying to minimize cost, and Sweet Baby Ray's is more expensive than other, potentially suitable options.

Cub has Sweet Baby Ray's on sale for $1.50 a bottle right now, so I'm trying their Original, Chipotle Honey, and Hickory Brown Sugar.  The latter is good, but I can probable find generics with a comparable taste.  I'm spending a bunch up front to develop sustainable eating habits, budgetwise.  As long as I'm earning money donating plasma, I can afford to eat what I like.  When I decide to stop donating, I'll have to live on a slimmer budget.

I like Famous Dave sauces, too, but like Sweet Baby Ray, they're a little more expensive.

(Oh, I've also got Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet Golden Mustard, but that's more due to there being fewer options for mustard-based barbecue sauces.)

About once a year I order some bottles of mustard based BBQ sauce from a chain of restaurants in SC.  I split them with my daughter.  I have yet to find one that comes close to it.  The problem is that the chain that sells it is widely known for being as racist as hell.   If I had thought of it, I would have picked some up while in SC last month.  Of course I would have had to redneck up and borrow someone else's car to go there.