Does anyone ever use Schwan't food delivery?

My neighbor uses it every week.  She works as a nurse but does like to 18hr shifts twice a week.  She has 9yr old twins, a 4yr old, and an 18mo old.  She home schools her children.  He DH works for the railroad. 

I am just curious if it really is a benefit and worth the money.  Maybe for that size family it is more practical for them but maybe not for a smaller family.  Is the food ready made and frozen, how much work is there in fixing a meal, etc.

Anyone familar with this?  Just wondering!

• Does anyone ever use Schwan't food delivery? - trose
  • Great frozen fish - halibut, blue hake, fillets; sm - Queenie
  • Schwans - Good for on the go food - MTT
  • I think they are expensive. Would rather have - Schnucks delivery groceries. nm
    • I thought they were expensive too - rubee
  • I buy from them also. Never really - CountryMT
    • I love their popcorn shrimp too! sm - sleepy
      • That's NOT popcorn!! Where are the kids??? - nm Mama Shrimp
      • I get the sausage links too-that - CountryMT
  • Yes, I buy some items from them. Some stuff is very good - & some is just ok. Their (sm)
  • Sorry, should be Schwan's nm - trose

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I save every packet of sauces from my Chinese food delivery.  Whether I'm cooking bar-b-q (ribs, chicken, pork chops, etc), or baking whatever or grilling, broiling, or boiling, I can usually throw together something from those packets depending on what flavoring I want to achieve.  My dad taught me not to look at recipes, but just to think about how flavors work together and trust your guts.  That doesn't work for everyone, but I've made some delicious dinners when I didn't have any other seasonings in the house but those Chinese food packets :)  Try to remember to balance out a sweet with a sour (or salty) flavor.  I remember how I was horrified when he put cinnamin in a pot roast once, but it was the best roast I ever had.  He had been doing it for years...he just hid it from me.  Once I knew he used it, I enjoyed it more than I ever had!

start with your parents first (i'm assuming their still with you).  They're usually the most understanding of these situations.  Explain that you're simply strapped for cash, but would love to have everyone come together at your place for dinner.  Suggest to your parents (if they're on board with you) that the others want to exchange gifts, they can meet at someone else's place later for that.  I don't see anything wrong with it as long as everyone knows up front that you're not exchanging gifts. 

I usually give them 3 or 4 dollars.

But I got to thinking with the cost of gas, maybe that's not enough? Don't they usually pay for their own gas?

How much do you tip?

Hi all:  I've recently noticed that a prominent pizza chain that begins with a D has started charging me a 1.50 delivery charge.  I normally tip the delivery guy anywhere between 3 and 6 depending on amount of order, weather conditions, etc.  I'm wondering who this 1.50 goes to and why are they charging me 1.50.  If goes to the delivery guy, great, more power to him. 

Also, do you tip higher on Superbowl Sunday?  Just curious.  TIA

Has anyone fed their cat Science Diet's CD dry food for FUS? My 8-year-old male, Sam, has been on this for about 5 years with no recurrence of FUS. To keep him away from any other type of food, I have fed the other two the same; however, we now are up to 6 cats, 4 males/2females, and it is getting too expensive. Thinking I could feed all of them a very good dry food and add some CD to Sam's, but cannot decide what would be a good choice.

Thank you.

This is the food that I refuse to eat:

Carbonated beverages
Mayo (Mayonnaise)
Tomatoes
Onion
Spicy Food
Jalapeños
Plain Milk (In cereal it is ok)
Bananas
Beer
champagne
soy milk
coffee
olives
hot peppers
green & red peppers
parmesan cheese
blue cheese salad dressing
raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing
spinach
coconut
mango
tofu
eggplant
yams
cottage cheese
artificial cheese (Mac & Cheese in a box)
cheese flavor gold fish crackers (Bad memory when I got sick as a kid from eating too many)

There is probably more, but this is what I can think of now.

Just saw this on my internet start page and would like to share: 

By ANDREW BRIDGES - Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON(AP) Recalled pet foods contained a chemical used to make plastics, but government tests failed to confirm the presence of rat poison, federal officials said Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration said it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food, as well as in wheat gluten used as an ingredient. Cornell University scientists also have found the chemical, also used as a fertilizer, in the urine of sick cats, as well as in the kidney of one cat that died after eating the company's wet food.

Menu Foods recalled 60 million containers of cat and dog food earlier this month after animals died of kidney failure after eating the Canadian company's products. It is not clear how many pets may have been poisoned by the apparently contaminated food, although anecdotal reports suggest hundreds if not thousands have died. The FDA alone has received more than 8,000 complaints.

The new finding comes a week after scientists at the New York State Food Laboratory identified a rat poison and cancer drug called aminopterin as the likely culprit. The FDA said it could not confirm that finding.

New York officials have detected melamine as well, though it's not clear how that chemical would have poisoned pets. It's typically used to produce plastic kitchen wares, though it's apparently used as a fertilizer in Asia, said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.

The recall involved nearly 100 brands of "cuts and gravy" style dog and cat food made by Menu Foods. The recall covered products carrying names of major brand-name and private-label products sold throughout North America.

The apparently melamine-contaminated wheat gluten also was shipped to an unnamed company that manufactures dry pet food. The FDA is attempting to determine if that product, imported from China, was used to make any pet food, Sundlof said.

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