The Old Folks Home

[Arielle]

Leftovers are such time savers. I love having a roast as we all pick at it until it is almost bones and ready for soup. I picked over two chickens today, and tossed the scraps and bones to the chickens. Picked clean!! Recycling at it's best.

 

[Kansaseq]

I don't cook often, but am simmering a pot of homemade, split pea soup as I type this (yea, it's 1:43 am!). Since I'm single,this will last me a week or more, which I LOVE! Cook once, eat for two weeks. I'm really thinking about processing a couple of my roos to have fresh chicken too. I've never eaten my own before,but am really wanting to try. I'm even going to raise some extras next spring, (will actually be HOPING for roosters) to fill the freezer.

 

[Stumpy]

It's just the two of us, so I'm glad my DH likes leftovers. If I make too much of something, more than we can eat in three or four nights, I freeze it for later. I'm looking forward to turkey leftovers in November.

 

[lynn1961]

Just me an DH at home, last kid moved out 2 years ago, one of the girls at work ( she is 30ish ) was afraid I would have empty nest syndrome when he moved out. Ummm, no, have been raising kids for 30 something years. The house stays cleaner, things don't get moved around, if I can remember where I put stuff, thats a plus. Can come and go as we please now, not running a taxi or catering service for kids now !
Is kinda nice in a way to have all adult kids, some things make me sad about not having kids at home though, this year was when all the school supplies were put out !
I still work 40 plus hours a week, do most of the cooking for the week on one of my days off, still have not gotten it down to cooing for just 2 people.

 

[Arielle]

NOthing like turkey leftovers!! We eat turkey all year long. Roast once overnight and eat all week. Yum.

 

[Arielle]

I don't cook often, but am simmering a pot of homemade, split pea soup as I type this (yea, it's 1:43 am!). Since I'm single,this will last me a week or more, which I LOVE! Cook once, eat for two weeks. I'm really thinking about processing a couple of my roos to have fresh chicken too. I've never eaten my own before,but am really wanting to try. I'm even going to raise some extras next spring, (will actually be HOPING for roosters) to fill the freezer.

Pea soup is yummy! I don't eat it any more, NOT LC, but the kids eat it up and in the fall it hits the spot.

I am still working up the courage to process some roosters. Need to work on the plucker. Would like a few less to feed. Generally about 55% of hatches on average are roosters. If I run the incubator a bit too low, I hatch a LOT of roosters, and few pullets, and a lot just don't hatch ( the pullets, I guess). Ask me how I know? Learned the hard way. lol

 

[7 Biddies]

NOthing like turkey leftovers!! We eat turkey all year long. Roast once overnight and eat all week. Yum.

I love turkey for sandwiches and tetrazini. Then I use the carcass for turkey soup with noodles. OH THE GLORIOUS SMELL & TASTE!! If someone else cooks TG dinner, I beg for the carcass.

 

[ducklucky]

Maybe you need to just retire now LOL! Our kids are grown and gone too, scattered across the country. Do we miss them? Not really. Only one, hopefully he will be here for Christmas, been a couple of years. One has been to visit, but he is a pain, a real pity party, the other has never visited, but can go to Disney every year. Kinda sad, but it's okay. We can do what we want and don't have to worry about the house being clean or entertaining. DH is ill anyway and we need our peace and quiet. Our animals are our babies now. And don't worry too much about the empty nest syndrome, grandkids will be along before you know it.

 

[7 Biddies]

Just me an DH at home, last kid moved out 2 years ago, one of the girls at work ( she is 30ish ) was afraid I would have empty nest syndrome when he moved out.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Now, *that's* funny; I don't care WHO you are!!!

I love my kids, but I love having them grown even more. Sure, I sometimes think back and miss my little ones. But, those days are gone and having them living with me now isn't going to bring them back. I love the young adults they have become and have fun listening to their ideas and discussing current events. They're interesting people! But, I also love my peace and quiet, the free time to read or putter in my yard, less laundry and cooking, and no homework, carpools, after school stuff, orthodontists, or eyerolling teens to put up with. My adult offspring actually think I have something interesting to say and love to come visit.

This is MY time, just as nature intended (which is why we can't have kids after a certain age), and I'm enjoying it to the fullest! Never let it be said that I wasted my "Golden Years" sitting around and crying about what's gone. No sirree. I'm making the most of what I've got!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: I make sure we bring the turkey!