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When your household only contains two people, baking a ham for your husband means the ham becomes the proverbial Thanksgiving turkey and feeds you for a week.
Day one. – the baked (and not that spiral cut nonsense) ham with brown sugar glaze, mashed red potatoes and fresh garlic green beans.
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Day two – ham with the remaining pineapple and cherries, homemade macaroni and cheese and roasted Brussels sprouts.
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Day three – split pea and ham soup with honey cornbread. I can’t stand the stuff, so there’s a big bowl of leftover slop as well. And when it cools? It solidifies into a chunky green block. So appetizing. Not!
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Day four and day five- a rich and creamy ham casserole with egg noodles, carrots, broccoli, onions, Parmesan and cheddar cheese. This is yummy, but produces even more leftovers.
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Day six we reach the end of the bountiful hog and make ham salad for sandwiches.
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And lest you think we forgot his Lordship, trust me. He got a bowl of chopped ham as well.
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River's world..... 
I love the first photo. I see your highness sitting by the table- patiently waiting!!
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When I’m carving something in the kitchen… he’s never far away.
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Oddly our cat only likes I can’t believe it’s not spray butter whenever we sit a movie with popcorn or eat corn on the cob. Never had cat like him to pass on human food. I agree with you on the split pea 🤢🤮
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Dudley likes ham and bacon. A little cheese and that’s about it. No chicken, fish or even tuna. Very odd.
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At least he likes Ham & Bacon, Nigel not so much.
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We have 5 cats. Three love all people food. One sometimes takes a bite or two. The fifth cat turns her naose up at anything but chip dip. Open up a chip dip container and shr is right there, even from a sound sleep!
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Nice 😆
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I love baked ham, but even with three boys they can only have ham a day or two and then I have to find what to do within the rest just for myself. I adore chopped ham salad and deviled ham salad as well, yum! But it’s a lot of ham for just me and it would definitely take me more than a week to get rid of it all 🍖.
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When I cook one I try to make the most of it.
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I always ask for a breakfast of diced ham and scrambled eggs.
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Since retirement my guy goes out to breakfast with the local gang every morning so that’s out..
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Ah, gotcha. I go out for breakfast but not that often. Damn.
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It started as once or twice, now it’s 6 days a week at 3 different places with 3 different groups of friends. He’s a social butterfly.
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🙂
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Not a big ham lover so I especially feel your pain of it lasting that long. That last shot of His Lordship made my day!🤣
Deb
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Glad you liked it, but that wasn’t our little guy. Just an internet meme.
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It’s a good thing you didn’t go whole hog and adopt that FREE Wild Boar!
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Even if I did, he’d be a pet and never dinner.
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Cupcake and I got tired of doing that. We now buy the big Ham Slices. Same meat, same taste. Same enjoyment. No work, No leftovers. Works for us.
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I buy those as well, but my other half wants pea soup and you need the ham bone for that.
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We usually have a ham at Easter, and between the two of us we can also craft a number of meals post-main meal. Glad to see His Lordship joined in the feasting.
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His Lordship never misses a meal.
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We never eat ham. We much prefer Picnic Shoulder. Much tastier. And the leftovers are usable in anything.
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Technically that’s what I’m buying. I just call it ham.
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Ah. You call that ham in Canada and people yell at you!
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I love ham leftovers, but that chunk of split pea soup? 🤣
I love your cat. He is so adorable. But you already know this.
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I do know it. And so does he….
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You say “spiral sliced” like it’s a bad thing. I recently learned there’s a Honeybaked Ham in Milwaukee and I can’t wait to hit that place up!
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If I want a paper thin sliced piece of ham I’ll go to the deli. Not a spiral fan.
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The green stuff looks, frankly, quite alarming. I think I’d just stick with the honey cornbread which sounds awesome. What on earth is ‘spiral sliced’ ham?
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It’s a ham that’s whole, but thinly sliced for multiple servings at parties. Very popular here.
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Oh right. Think we just call it ‘wafer thin ham’. Such a literal country!
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I am laughing at that last image and trying to get the picture of the solid split pea soup out of my mind. GAG for me too. It’s pretty awesome making a week’s worth of food off one protein though.
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The pig is a versatile animal.
😉
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