Oh Nuts!

 I made a Costco run the other day. I was out of calcium, walnuts, and there was a breakfast bar I wanted to scout out. Frankly, I really just wanted to stroll around.

          With just the two of us, and limited room in my kitchen, there’s no deep need for us to belong, although the credit card we have through Costco pays us back for purchases at the end of the year, so that’s an incentive. Plus, it just kills me to pay the grocery store prices for walnuts and pecans.

      

    So, once home, I popped the rotisserie chicken in the fridge (For $5 for a cooked, 3lb chicken I couldn’t pass it up. And it produced one dinner, then one big pot pie for another night with leftovers.) Calcium to the bathroom, giant box of breakfast bars into the pantry,
GIANT bottles of cranberry juice (will one even fit in the fridge?) also into the pantry, and then walnuts, after saving some for immediate use, into the basement freezer.

       

   Except when I got down there:

          I need to work on my inventory control skills. 

One solution to all these walnuts was to make a loaf of bread, adding in a heaping cup of chopped nuts.

          And another solution is I just learned today that a handful of walnuts every day can be instrumental in reducing inflammation.

          The fact that the friend who told me this doesn’t really like walnuts all that much and so has to candy them first, thus adding to her inflammation with the sugar, well, that’s another matter.