The chicken...

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Brining helped, as did spicing.  But, honestly?  It was old tasting.  I will toss the rest.  The skin was good, but the meat was slightly old, tainted.  I will toss the other package, and won't buy chicken until they get rid of the bottom of the barrel reserves.  Which, from the sounds of things, won't be for a while.

Not sure I believe the bird flu is any more a thing than covid actually was.  It was, in this case, just another means of causing a food scarcity.  Everyone goes along with it, because certain people make money from the process, through the process.  Big enough companies, at worst, write it off.  But, more likely, are priced well given comparative worth, through insurance and government payments.  Just the cost of doing rich business.

Yeah, no good.  Wont' buy chicken for a good six months, or more.

The roasted vegetables were okay.  To be honest, I don't think roasting veggies is the best process.  Save for things like squash.  The carrots, down in the juices, were pretty good though.  That I could do again, regardless of what meat is roasted.  Those were tasty as the dickens.

With so little to eat, I decided on a bowl of popcorn.  Not keto, but filling, easy to make, and butter does help make it more keto.  Use plenty.  I mostly just ate the skin from the chicken.  Won't bother with the rest, as skin doesn't do well in the fridge.  And, if that is all that was good, it just isn't enough.  Though more would have been too rich.

A case of facial tissue is supposed to arrive today.  I, and thieves, had burned nearly through the open box.  I try to keep two cases, of certain products, on hand.  When I near the end of one, I order another.  Two if I am clean into the second, if I can find a good price.  I did find a decent price, but not worth overstocking.  Who knows, with inflation.  But... I wasn't betting on it.  If required, I just go without and figure out another way.  Just waiting on that.

More gaming, I suppose.  I haven't gotten the shower in.  But will.  Still, not a bad day.  As well, I did a load of dishes, will finish them as I go in to shower.  And, maybe, put a load of clothing in.  I have been using compression hose, longer length, to help with water gain.  As that has begun without medicine.  I just wear them during the day.  They are a bit painful, too painful to sleep in.  But they have been helping with the problem.

Payday, tomorrow.  I'll get to the grocery stores.  I'll probably look in both.  I would like to find better salad makings.  The precut just doesn't last long, or taste very good.  Even digging back through the lot, and with a full inventory, it's all... mush within four or five days.  Something has changed.  It used to last longer, even this type.  Not sure what is happening.

I did find access to the ad pages, for the two stores I generally use.  Can look for specific things, usually meats, that I like, when they are on sale.  I saw a few cuts which might do, though have to look at them in-store to be sure.  They have, for example, started calling a lot of cuts "chuck", which are plainly not chuck.  Dry-assed, non-fat, ugly pieces of meat from some unknown part of the animal.  I have no idea where they come from, I just know they aren't chuck.

Anyway... today is just getting things squared, and ready.  A shower today, and with the beard trimmed, means I can get out something between tomorrow and Saturday, do my shopping, if requiring a minor update if it isn't until Friday or Saturday.  But... I'll be mostly ready.  When I can get out.  Oh, and a load of laundry in and going would be good.  May just dry them in the dryer, this time.  But, if I can do a bit better, I don't mind putting them out on the line, even in the winter.  Perhaps tumble them, once essentially dry.  Even a warmer tumble, if they get a bit too crisp.  Freeze dried!  Mostly.

Well... on to gaming.  Though I may hit that spot of dishes, and set up laundry, then a timer.  A shower, in a few hours, then... beginning winding down.  Good afternoon and day.