No, not high-heels as the detail to complete a stylish outfit.
Far from it.
Heels of bread. Lots of them. Each pair in its own individual bread bag, scattered throughout my fridge.
There was no school today, so we decided to go on a (cheap) family outing. We headed to a state park, and wanted to take a picnic lunch. But I was “out” of bread.
Out of bread we’ll eat. Because, I’m still not enough of a grown-up to eat the heels. As I scrounged around, hoping to find enough pieces to put together some sandwiches, I ended up pulling out five empty-except-for-heels bread bags.
Really . . . no explanation is needed here, right?
My detail for the day: Consolidating them into one bag for duck food, and throwing the other bags away.
We stopped by the store for a new loaf on the way to the park.
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OR…. lay them out on a cookie sheet – stick them in the oven, set on about 200, till they’re toasted. Then put them in a ziploc bag, seal the bag and give it several good whacks with your rolling pin. You’ve made your own bread crumbs and taken out your frustrations all at once! (My son loves to do this!)
OOoohhh, I love this idea!!!
That’s what I do! I collect them in the freezer first – I just keep one bread bag in the freezer, and my kids are trained to put the heels in it. When it gets full, or I need bread crumbs, I toast them in the oven and let my kids crush them like Sharon’s sons. If I have no eager children around, I do it myself or whir them in the food processor.
I save them to make bread pudding. =)
I have a relative who saves heels in a big container in the freezer throughout the year and uses them all for stuffing at Thanksgiving.
I would done the same thing… I dont care for the heels . 🙂
Yup, I freeze the heels. Then I toast and put in food processor for bread crumbs.
Ha ha. I am so laughing with you. Even though I eat the bread ends, I can’t keep up with them. And I also have great intentions of making breadcrumbs (I don’t even toast them–just food prcess them and put them in the freezer), but I still have to actually DO it.
Thanks for the chicken info. We actually probably buy 25-30 lbs of chicken at once when it is on sale, but still pay more than that. Gonna be talking to the hubby about getting in on the deal…has to be paid by Wednesday.
That is what my countertop looks like. I have 4 bread bags with the heels in them. I eventually get around to throwing them away. But now thanks to the comments I will freeze them and make bread crumbs out of them.
I’m with Lisa. I keep a bag in the freezer just for heels and when it gets full make my own bread crumbs in the food processor. I don’t toast or defrost first. Just zip, zip and it’s done. Quick, easy, economical!
I will admit to not being a heel lover. But, I convinced my kids that the person that got to have the heel was the lucky person in the house. Now they ask for the heel. Ahhh, a family curse broken. =)
Dude…grilled cheese with the heels is the best!
If you flip the heel around so the “normal” side faces out with the heel facing in, it disguises it and you can get unsuspecting family members to eat it.
This is what my mom did for years, and I still make sandwiches like this – my husband laughs at me but he eats them just the same 🙂
Heels make awesome cheese toast. That is they did when I could still eat bread,
But I got to say, I love the realism of this. Half of the slob battle as Nony so ably demonstrates is knowing what you’ll actually do, instead of what you think you’ll do or what you think you ought to do.
I used to throw the heels to the birds. But I had several instances where I could make a sandwich with heels or cook a full meal for lunch. Surprisingly, I learned to eat them. They’re still not my choice, but better than cooking.
We call the heels the “special” bread, and all my children want to eat them! If I only have one piece of “special” bread, I’ll cut the sandwich in half so everyone can have some. We (parents) started eating them too- best learned with delicious homemade bread!
heels make great croutons.
I’ve saved the heels in the freezer for breakfast casserole. (You can use, sausage, ham, or bacon.)
I think I’ll switch to the crouton idea though. I like that idea better.
Since I need to be tricked too, I flip r ge bread over and put the stuff on the brown part. When you put the two together the outside is normal.
While i hate the heel as much as the next kid, running out of bread happens and i flip the heel over. Spread the pb or mayo on the outside and the regular side is facing outwards. Small mental trick that works for me.
A frequent breakfast for my son (when I actually cook breakfast…) is Easter Egg Bread (named when he was a toddler and I was trying to sell him on the idea and added a drop of food coloring the first couple times I made it. I’ll assume it was near Easter that I did this.) Whisk an egg, put it in a frying pan with a sprinkle of salt and pepper, soak an end piece of bread in the egg, and cook. Yes, it’s just extra eggy French toast without syrup. No, he doesn’t know that. I could scramble him an egg and make a piece of toast…or I could make an all in one breakfast that uses the end of the bread and gets eaten no questions asked 😉