Learning conversions
We’ve started to order more groceries online in order to get them delivered but neither one of us is very good at determining how much something really is in terms of weight. I’ve started to make bruschetta again as I love it (well, anytime really but the tomatoes are cheaper in the summer) but I have no clue as to how much I need. I’m used to going to the store, grabbing a bag and filling it up, or, conversely, picking up a package and mentally figuring out what I can do with that many tomatoes.
(Hubby has to order everything on his computer because Korea hates Macs AND there is some funky blocky thing, so that his work laptop is painfully slow when out of the office, and so he often orders stuff while at work.)
Order failure #1: I asked hubby to order some pork loin so that we could marinate it and then cook it on our George Forman Grill. He ordered 100 grams of ground pork. I honestly didn’t know what it was when we got it.
Order failure #2: I asked for green, Tesco brand, Spanish, pitted olives with no pimentos (ie I copied everything off of the jar for him). He told me it took him over 30 minutes to find them but proudly beamed that he was successful! What gets delivered? Tesco organic olive oil in a green bottle with a picture of green and black olives on it. Man, he worked hard for that one!
Order failure #3: I think that it either is, or is very close to, watermelon season here on the PEN and so I wrote down that perhaps if they had a 1/4 section of a watermelon (the pink ones from back home) that would be a tasty treat. Now, he and I both suck and never think to use a conversion table online… well, we might after today. We now have over 8000 grams of watermelon in the fridge… aka 18lbs…. I have a lot of eating to do in the next little while.
But really, bless my husband for how freaking hard he tries! Love that man!!! Lesson learned: write down approximate weights of items to help speed things up for hubby.
Oh my!! 18 lbs! What are you going to do with it?
We don’t get meat or veggies from Homeplus, so we haven’t run into this problem luckily!
Generally we buy our meat from Costco but I didn’t feel like making the trip and so got that – which is still in my freezer getting icy. As for the watermelon, well, I think I ate a few pounds worth the first day. It’s crazy that that was 1/2 of a watermelon. What sort of weird ass chemicals are they using to make them that big? We have about 3/4 of it still left… maybe I’ll blend it up and freeze it for smoothies later.
Where do you buy your veggies? I gave up on the small market near our house as it’s so expensive (I guess, that’s not true. I do buy things there but then curse my lack of organization skills for having to pay so much).