Well, I certainly enjoy you helping me out on this one! Thank you for your ideas. My husband and I go to a Sprouts on Sat. morn and rummage through their dempsty dumpsters. We find throw away items in jars, and packaged items and we have a good time. Then we have to decide what to do with them. We give to our traditional church every week. So, we are just new at this. We are careful about what we pick and how we handle things. If we can cook it, pare it and bake it or is still good in the containers, we go for it. I have made apple/pear crisp, cucuмber salad, and we got organic lettuce still in the sealed plastic containers with 2 days to go on due dates. We have found can goods and even pie, still in the containers and good to go. Wild, uh!
Once I ran across a container of a cream cheese with cinnamon and great tasting. On a spur of a moment, I made a bundt cake that calls for cinnamon brown sugar in the center, so I tried this and what I had left of brown sugar and wow! it was a hit! I also put cinnamon in the batter and I called it a snicker doodle cake. It really was good! When I went back to our grocery store for more there was no more. They told me that it is only around in the christmas season. I can't wait to try it again.