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Chili Dogs
The annoyance: I can't get the 10-per-pack hotdogs I want; my HEB is now only selling the 8-per-pack hotdogs. Since I eat two hotdogs per serving, and the smaller ones are satisfactory, this means I get one less serving per package, and that's sad.
I could get a different hotdog. But I'm getting turkey hotdogs because poultry is generally less destructive of the climate than beef (at least the mass-produced kinds that hotdogs are made of) and I haven't found any vegetarian hotdogs I like.
(I do like Trader Joe's vegetarian chili on hotdogs, so I use that.)
Also, I prefer the nitrate-free hotdogs, even though I strongly suspect that the celery powder they use instead has natural nitrates that are just as unhealthy. I don't know it for sure.
The fix: I cut the bigger hotdogs down the middle longways, and just use half.
I don't buy hotdog buns but instead just make do with two kinds of bread (sandwich bread and tortillas) to minimize the chances that they go bad before I finish them. (Robin uses tortillas for hotdogs, but I prefer bread.) Currently my sandwich bread is Dave's Killer bread (because it has loads of fiber, a thing I try to maximize in bread because I don't eat enough produce). They have loaves with almost sqaure slices and bigger loaves with more deli-meat-sized slices. I get the smaller one, again, because two slices are a serving, and I already weigh plenty. I can always have a third slice/half sandwich if I'm still hungry.
So, half the hotdog, with plenty of chili and cheese, on that smallish slice of bread is still satisfyingly delicious to me. So now I get 8 servings instead of my previous 5!
Pancakes
The problem: It takes forever to make a batch of pancakes. It's kind of a pain to get the electric griddle out, so I just make them one at a time in a pan.
I could magically declutter the house to have a lovely accessible spot for everything I use, but that hasn't yet happened.
So I tried making a 9 x 9 cake with the pancake batter in the toaster oven. After 30 minutes at 350 degrees, the fork came out clean, but I suspect the top, cooked part of the cake cleaned off the raw batter from the bottom part of the cake. The cooked part tasted pretty good, though (I make banana chocolate chip pancakes).
I decided next time I could try putting less milk in the batter and I could make sure to remember to move the shelf to the bottom of the oven so that the bottom cooks as fast as the top.
The fix: I made enough pancakes (with the same amount of milk) for one serving, because yum! Then I put the rest in a cake pan with the rack on the bottom and that worked!
The annoyance: I can't get the 10-per-pack hotdogs I want; my HEB is now only selling the 8-per-pack hotdogs. Since I eat two hotdogs per serving, and the smaller ones are satisfactory, this means I get one less serving per package, and that's sad.
I could get a different hotdog. But I'm getting turkey hotdogs because poultry is generally less destructive of the climate than beef (at least the mass-produced kinds that hotdogs are made of) and I haven't found any vegetarian hotdogs I like.
(I do like Trader Joe's vegetarian chili on hotdogs, so I use that.)
Also, I prefer the nitrate-free hotdogs, even though I strongly suspect that the celery powder they use instead has natural nitrates that are just as unhealthy. I don't know it for sure.
The fix: I cut the bigger hotdogs down the middle longways, and just use half.
I don't buy hotdog buns but instead just make do with two kinds of bread (sandwich bread and tortillas) to minimize the chances that they go bad before I finish them. (Robin uses tortillas for hotdogs, but I prefer bread.) Currently my sandwich bread is Dave's Killer bread (because it has loads of fiber, a thing I try to maximize in bread because I don't eat enough produce). They have loaves with almost sqaure slices and bigger loaves with more deli-meat-sized slices. I get the smaller one, again, because two slices are a serving, and I already weigh plenty. I can always have a third slice/half sandwich if I'm still hungry.
So, half the hotdog, with plenty of chili and cheese, on that smallish slice of bread is still satisfyingly delicious to me. So now I get 8 servings instead of my previous 5!
Pancakes
The problem: It takes forever to make a batch of pancakes. It's kind of a pain to get the electric griddle out, so I just make them one at a time in a pan.
I could magically declutter the house to have a lovely accessible spot for everything I use, but that hasn't yet happened.
So I tried making a 9 x 9 cake with the pancake batter in the toaster oven. After 30 minutes at 350 degrees, the fork came out clean, but I suspect the top, cooked part of the cake cleaned off the raw batter from the bottom part of the cake. The cooked part tasted pretty good, though (I make banana chocolate chip pancakes).
I decided next time I could try putting less milk in the batter and I could make sure to remember to move the shelf to the bottom of the oven so that the bottom cooks as fast as the top.
The fix: I made enough pancakes (with the same amount of milk) for one serving, because yum! Then I put the rest in a cake pan with the rack on the bottom and that worked!