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I imagine the hardest stuff to work around will be fresh produce as it just has a short shelf life. I rarely follow recipes exactly myself although I haven't go

I imagine the hardest stuff to work around will be fresh produce as it just has a short shelf life. I rarely follow recipes exactly myself although I haven't gone this far out there yet. I usually look at a few recipes to get a general idea of ratios and ingredients and then come up with a blend that sounds most appealing to me. I haven't gone this far out there yet though. I'm not even sure what all is available at most 7-11s and Walgreens other than snacks - although I have been noticing that 7-11 seems to be trying to carry some produce. Any other unusual combinations you're thinking of trying?

nate 17y ago
Yeah, the produce thing is a problem. 7-11 by me has been carrying things though like fruit, so more recipes I'm making explore stuff with apples and oranges. I've also been exploring what I can do with fruit snack cups that have peaches and stuff in them. I found a recipe for a mango chutney, I didn't have mango :) but I had a peach snack cup from 7-11, turned out great. 7-11 has been carrying avocados and potatoes every now and then. And I hear walgreens started to have onions sometimes. One of the most fun cooking experience we've had was when my wife was signed up for Freshpicks http://www.freshpicks.com/cms/ http://www.freshpicks.com/cms/. So she would get pretty random assortments of fresh vegetables and we would figure out what to make with them or try and screw them into some recipe that called for something else. I'm thinking of signing us up for that again because it plays well into this habit of making stuff with what you already have without planning.