Things rude houseguests do, a vent:

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Anonymous wrote:House guests who let their kids raise hell, kick down pressure baby gates (taking a chunk out of the wall), spill food all over the family room, jump on furniture. When we ask them to stop, they ignore us and so do the parents. It was terrible.

I would have asked them to leave. No joke.

She's my best friend for over 20 years. We were shocked by the behavior and felt disrespected by their actions.

Has something been going on with their family recently? Since it's your bff I'd have a talk about what happened and how you feel.

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I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

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Anonymous wrote:I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

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Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. A respected tomato sauce?

Meaning it ain't Prego. And you can't buy it for sale for 50 cents, which throws the whole $8 lasagna algorithm off

What if one buys a can of San Marzano tomatoes for about $4-5 and makes her own sauce? Mind blown.

What if they want to buy the premade, preseasoned tomato sauce that they love?

That's fine, but there's no such thing as a respected tomato sauce.

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Anonymous wrote:I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

But did the pan cost more than $8? If so, it's an egregious waste of money.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread could have been great, but instead it turned into the worst thread ever. Thanks Lasagne Ladies.

Agreed

Try changing the subject.

it was tried several times, chiefy

eh, I'd rather talk lasagna, bucko.

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Grown adults who wrinkle their nose at half of what's on the table. Yes, I'm looking at you SIL. Even better at one dinner was the "Eww.. I'm not eating that!!"

Grow the hell up and just say "no thanks." Or stay home. Staying home would be even better.

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Anonymous wrote:Turn on the TV during a meal without asking first. Decide they're going to just "whip something up" in the kitchen when they've been fed breakfast and lunch and Thanksgiving dinner preparations are underway. Make cellphone calls from the middle of a public area of the house while others are chatting. Announce that they never like x,y, and z while watching the host prepare x,y, and z.

Feel free to add to my list and vent.

None of this would bother me. I guess because I am not some anal person who expect house-guests to behave like they are beholden to me. My house guests can help themselves to any food and drink they want, borrow my car, sleep late, nap, order take out, do their laundry, expect new tolietaries, bath sheets and fresh bed linens etc. They can tell me their dietary restrictions and they can come shopping or sightseeing with me.

Now I'm getting paranoid. I hate stuffing and cranberry sauce. If I say I am not a fan of this, does that make me a rude guest? I eat most of everything else.

YES. Because you don't need to announce it. Just don't eat it! If someone asks why you don't eat it, say: "I'm focusing on the mashed potatoes!"

Do you also announce that you need to take a sh**, or do you just quietly head off toward the restroom/murmer "excuse me." People who have to voice every thought that crosses their minds are the worst.

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Anonymous wrote:I skipped to the end hoping to hear more funny stories and this thread is still talking about lasagna? WTH? Isn't there a weird uncle taking dumps in the master bedroom? MIL getting plastered on riunite on ice, how nice.

LOL!!!

I love you both. Still hate everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

But did the pan cost more than $8? If so, it's an egregious waste of money.

Bought it on sale, 7.99.

now priced at $11.99 for 6 lbs. We purchased one as there’s currently a $4 rebate which reduces the price to $7.99. Discount is valid from 11/11/16 to 11/17/16. Item number 26968.

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Anonymous wrote:I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

But did the pan cost more than $8? If so, it's an egregious waste of money.

Bought it on sale, 7.99.

now priced at $11.99 for 6 lbs. We purchased one as there’s currently a $4 rebate which reduces the price to $7.99. Discount is valid from 11/11/16 to 11/17/16. Item number 26968.

Thank God. Without the $4 rebate you would have been a spendthrift jerk.

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Anonymous wrote:I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

But did the pan cost more than $8? If so, it's an egregious waste of money.

Bought it on sale, 7.99.

now priced at $11.99 for 6 lbs. We purchased one as there’s currently a $4 rebate which reduces the price to $7.99. Discount is valid from 11/11/16 to 11/17/16. Item number 26968.

Thank God. Without the $4 rebate you would have been a spendthrift jerk.

That was a good score pp.

That is why it is important to ALWAYS shop the sales and use coupons whenever possible. Wonderful dishes can go from extravagantly priced to affordable with one little coupon. Enjoy that delicious lasagna.

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Anonymous wrote:I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

But did the pan cost more than $8? If so, it's an egregious waste of money.

Bought it on sale, 7.99.

now priced at $11.99 for 6 lbs. We purchased one as there’s currently a $4 rebate which reduces the price to $7.99. Discount is valid from 11/11/16 to 11/17/16. Item number 26968.

Thank God. Without the $4 rebate you would have been a spendthrift jerk.

That was a good score pp.

That is why it is important to ALWAYS shop the sales and use coupons whenever possible. Wonderful dishes can go from extravagantly priced to affordable with one little coupon. Enjoy that delicious lasagna.

Is $11 extravagantly priced?

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Anonymous wrote:I just warmed up a plate of Costco lasagne. I'm eating it while banging my sister in law in the basement. Life is good.

But did the pan cost more than $8? If so, it's an egregious waste of money.

Bought it on sale, 7.99.

now priced at $11.99 for 6 lbs. We purchased one as there’s currently a $4 rebate which reduces the price to $7.99. Discount is valid from 11/11/16 to 11/17/16. Item number 26968.

Thank God. Without the $4 rebate you would have been a spendthrift jerk.

That was a good score pp.

That is why it is important to ALWAYS shop the sales and use coupons whenever possible. Wonderful dishes can go from extravagantly priced to affordable with one little coupon. Enjoy that delicious lasagna.

Is $11 extravagantly priced?

Yes. If you can buy the exact same thing for $4 less, $11 is too much.

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Eating all the chocolate croissants without us. I went to our favorite bakery and bought 1 chocolate croissant for each person (including kids). They are really big and expensive. This was to go with other breakfast I was making this morning but we ran out of coffee from last night so I ran out to get beans and when I came back, SIL, BIL and their 3 kids ate all 8 croissants and left the empty box on the counter. They didn't leave the three of us even 1 to share. Then they sat there waiting for me to make coffee. I can't wait for them to get the f*** out of our house.