Can and do. However, if someone just gives me bags of mini carrots, I will cook them too. Of course, now my neighbor is keeping stuff since I told her how easy it was to use it. Like the milk and yogurt. It's usually only a couple cups of yogurt and a half gallon of milk, but combined and voila, you have a half gallon of perfectly fine yogurt.

I really don't much care for drinking milk and love yogurt. So, one day looking at all that milk I suddenly realized that the yogurt contained active culture and wouldn't it just convert all that milk to yogurt if mixed and set out. Yes, it did.

However, the fruit juice is sweetened so unless I'm going to make some homemade hooch I don't see much use for it. The sweet bread is coated with sugar and so I can't eat that without getting sick.

Thanks. That's was what I was concerned about. Maybe cooked strawberries? I did an experiment with cooking strawberries with coconut oil as I crushed them down a bit and it made an excellent topping for yogurt.

We need a sub where we can exchange cooking and food hacks. I watch Gordan Ramsey videos and much of his main complaints about restaurants involves food freshness, frozen foods and hygiene.

Over time I've come to really despise bland food and lack of imaginative thinking when people cook food.

One of my things I like to cook that's really simple is coarse grading potatoes to cook. I add some salt, even Lawry's is a great seasoning salt. Some chopped onions sometimes, a bit of black pepper I have crushed from whole peppers, some crushed chili and olive oil. Then I mash it all down into a patty in the Teflon frying pan. I turn on high heat and don't disturb until I can just start to smell that the potatoes are being seared brown on the underside. Then I cut the large patty into quarters and turn over to sear the other side. While that's going on I grate some cheese onto the side that I've turned up. When the other side is nicely browned I can place the quarter patties on a plate and then cook up some eggs in the pan with some coconut oil and salt. Black pepper and oregano can be added for more flavor. Put the easy over eggs on top of the potatoes and I have a quick easy breakfast. A bit of ketchup and or Tabasco and voila.