Margaret Minnicks

Don't you get tired of throwing away foods because you cooked too much for your small family or just for yourself? Most foods in grocery stores are packaged for many servings. So, what happens when only large cabbages are available? What do you do when a recipe calls for one cup of celery instead of the entire bunch? What do you do if you don't want a dozen eggs or a whole watermelon?

Trail mix is a healthy snack that most people love. It is ideal for kids and adults who have a craving for something salty and sweet at the same time. Trail mix is a combination of both.

Some people prefer white eggs. They wouldn't purchase brown eggs if there were no white eggs available at their grocery store. They think brown eggs are much different from what the white ones they are accustomed to eating.

Living paycheck to paycheck is an expression used to describe what happens when a person spends all his money from one paycheck and will have to wait until the next one to get more money to pay bills he couldn't pay from the previous paycheck. There is never enough money to pay all bills and there is never enough money left over for emergencies. Needless to say, some bills don't get paid every month. In other words, "The money runs out before the month runs out."

Many foods we eat have nothing to do with their names or contents. Some people might not give the name a second thought. They just eat delicious foods no matter what their names are. Below is a list of foods with names that are far from what they really are.

At one time, some people could not afford to have more than one pair of shoes. Poor people used to have one pair of shoes to wear to school and work during the week and a second part to wear only to church on Sundays. Today, most people have more than one pair of shoes. That's good because no one should wear the same pair of shoes every day for several reasons. Even though some people have a closet full of shoes, they tend to have favorites that they wear more often than others.