Jam is a dessert food. It doesn’t belong as a central part of a meal.

Yet Americans will eat it with sweetened peanut butter and sweetened bread and call the resulting creation, whether in its squishiness or its sogginess, a full meal.

Chevre or Havarti or even Gouda would make a good addition. Parmesan or Cheddar would not. Cheez Whiz would be the cursed option.

Ranch only works as an alternate pizza sauce, anything else is

You don’t need passive income to be able to do what you want. Mostly you just need to get past the barrier of housing cost.

Where I am, I could pay down a mortgage on a good house in 4-5 years of working fulltime. With another two similarly-committed comrades to share the house with, we could easily pull it off in 2 years. After that, baseline cost of living would be 6000 a year for 3 people.

After working fulltime for 2 years I quit my job and the 18 months since I’ve averaged less than 10 hours a week of zero-hour type gigs or odd jobs. I’ve been on like 12 overnight-away-from-home trips in that time, totaling over 3 months. I could probably retire on 300k, including the cost of a house. I’m going to have to start working again soon but I’ve been in total vacation mode for a year and a half.

This is a very tenuous alliance.

At the capitalist bug farm, mice were always getting into our waxworms, because they buildings were poorly built, they used poorly-sealed kitty litter boxes to grow the waxworms in, and the racks easily allowed the mice to climb up (partly because of escaped-worm cocoons on them).

We’d see them running across the main floor all the time. It was very common to open up a box after 6 weeks and see a litter of baby mice inside, and barely any waxworms. Maybe one out of every 50 was like that.

You wouldn’t happen to know any fish nurseries in need of mealworms, would you?

So um…

…do you work closely with fish nurseries?

I used to compost the vegetable peels, now I feed them to my worms.

Sometimes it takes me a while to go through a sack of potatoes, and I am always going to aggressively peel what’s left.

not since I quit the capitalist bug farm, over there you’d get drizzled with roaches every time you opened a door or moved a rack