Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans

On 2/28/2025 2:05 PM, fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2025-02-28, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

On 2/28/2025 11:38 AM, fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2025-02-28, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

On 2/28/2025 7:48 AM, fos@sdf.org wrote:

Homemade tomato soup with grilled ham and cheese. Kretchmar
cherry wood smoked ham, Cooper sharp white American cheese,
Schwebel's reuben rye bread, margarine and a bit of bacon fat
to griddle in.

   

Tomato soup with grilled cheese (even better with ham!) is classic. :)
I have to ask.  Why margarine and not butter?

 

i grew up eating them made with margarine. my wife did too.
we've tried butter and prefer it without.

 

Okay.  I just find margarine to be a little too oily and much less
"buttery".

 if i used non-stick cookware i probably wouldn't use margarine
either. i use iron and use only enough to help keep it from
stocking too much.
 

That's kind of what I mean by "oily". :)

After we both get jabs. Pnuemonia (1st) for her, TDAP (tetanus,
diptheria, whooping cough) for me. Docs orders.

   

Whooping cough?  Are you around many babies?

 

i need a tetanus shot. CVS app lists both tetanus plus diphtheria,
and tetanus plus diphtheria plus whooping cough. i decided to wait
and ask my doc. had a regular checkup this week, she said the
tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough one, TDAP, so that's the
one i'm getting.

 

Okay, I'm not trying to argue with you.  Just seems a simple tetanus
shot should be available without combining those other things.  But hey,
in my area CVS is one of the most expensive pharmacies there is so why
not combine the shot and charge [possible insurance company] more.

 my insurance covers the shots. i'd still go to the localy owned
pharmacy if it still existed. my wife worked at walmart
pharmacy as a tech until a new pharmacist that hated everyone
set her up for a HIPAA violation which got her fired so we won't
be going there again. there are Rite Aids in town and i forgot why
they lost my business, i simply never go there for anything.

I'm sorry to hear about your wife's situation; that sucks.  Rite Aid was bought out by Walgreens years ago.  That is another pharmacy that charges higher prices than others, at least in my area.  Knowing an insurance company will pay gives them no incentive to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

Tops Friendly Markets grocery has a pharmacy. on principle, just nope.

What principle?  I've used the pharmacy at Publix Supermarket.  Lowest prices for prescriptions in town.  They accept GoodRx which lowers the cost considerably (maybe even better than an insurance co-pay, if you have a co-pay, so free GoodRx is worth checking into).

Target has one. used to be CVS don't know if it still is. was
nice going there because our Target is really slow, by that i
mean very few customers, and getting in and out is always quick.
stopped going there because a new pharmacist was being a
dickhead. as in questioning why the doctors were prescribing a
particular medicine kind of dickhead.

Sounds like a wannabe doctor who didn't qualify for medical school. I've never encountered a pharmacist that questioned what my doctor prescribed for me.  That would irritate me, too.  I'm the only person who has the right to question what my doctor is prescribing for me and why.
Jill