Ever have one of those morning?

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Guest come in for breakfast. Survey the room which includes cheese omelets, salsa, French toast, three kinds of syrup, bacon, sausage, yogurt, melon, strawberries, oatmeal, cold cereal, raisin bread, coffee cake, juices and milk. They say, do you have pancakes?
Ummmmm, as the store owner told the terminator, "just what you see, Pal.".

I checked to see if they would be here tomorrow and promised them pancakes tomorrow. They were thrilled.
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We always include pancakes one morning in a 3-night stay if possible. And the pancake recipe is the most requested recipe we make. Maybe it's because many B+B's feature a big heap of flapjacks, dripping with butter and syrup and a side of bacon in their advertising?
Beachie, do you have a lot of waste from your buffet breakfasts? We started putting homemade granola and homemade yogurt on the sideboard last year and have found that a few really love it but the rest don't even give it a try. Fortunately we can also use the yogurt in other recipes so it does not go to waste. And the granola holds for a long time in a sealed container and can be used as toppings as well. But how about the omlets and FT?
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It is unpredictable, but we often have leftovers. I take the leftover quiches to work with me for my breakfast. DS likes to add leftover bacon to his sandwiches and DH will eat the leftover pancakes. The cats like the leftover sausage. I bring leftover coffee cake to work and it doesn't last 10 minutes n the community kitchen.
We used to make yogurt parfaits and either eat the leftovers or toss them. Now we only use sealed one serving cups. We put them out in an ice bath and reuse any that don't get taken. The granola is in a vacuum sealed container.
We toss away a lot of milk and juice. It's a shame, but it's prepaid for, so we haven't lost anything.
We have never had leftovers of the sweet break pudding I just started to make. A keeper!
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Why are you tossing milk and juice?
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I don't believe we can save milk. It's been in ice, but out for two hours. Juice - if it looks untouched we may save it, but most days, it is a couple glasses left.
Do you reuse?
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I don't believe we can save milk. It's been in ice, but out for two hours. Juice - if it looks untouched we may save it, but most days, it is a couple glasses left.
Do you reuse?

Is the juice in pitchers or glasses? In pitchers, with an ice insert, just reuse. If in glasses then toss. Milk on ice? Reuse. Reuse for cooking if nothing else.
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The juice and milk are served in old fashioned milk jugs in a wine cooler bucket with plastic ice and water. Slightly embarrassed, but I never thought to save the milk for cooking. Why I love this place!
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or smaller jugs - we use Kilner bottles and change them as they empty

 

[Lee2014]

Guest come in for breakfast. Survey the room which includes cheese omelets, salsa, French toast, three kinds of syrup, bacon, sausage, yogurt, melon, strawberries, oatmeal, cold cereal, raisin bread, coffee cake, juices and milk. They say, do you have pancakes?
Ummmmm, as the store owner told the terminator, "just what you see, Pal.".

I checked to see if they would be here tomorrow and promised them pancakes tomorrow. They were thrilled.
.

We always include pancakes one morning in a 3-night stay if possible. And the pancake recipe is the most requested recipe we make. Maybe it's because many B+B's feature a big heap of flapjacks, dripping with butter and syrup and a side of bacon in their advertising?
Beachie, do you have a lot of waste from your buffet breakfasts? We started putting homemade granola and homemade yogurt on the sideboard last year and have found that a few really love it but the rest don't even give it a try. Fortunately we can also use the yogurt in other recipes so it does not go to waste. And the granola holds for a long time in a sealed container and can be used as toppings as well. But how about the omlets and FT?
.

It is unpredictable, but we often have leftovers. I take the leftover quiches to work with me for my breakfast. DS likes to add leftover bacon to his sandwiches and DH will eat the leftover pancakes. The cats like the leftover sausage. I bring leftover coffee cake to work and it doesn't last 10 minutes n the community kitchen.
We used to make yogurt parfaits and either eat the leftovers or toss them. Now we only use sealed one serving cups. We put them out in an ice bath and reuse any that don't get taken. The granola is in a vacuum sealed container.
We toss away a lot of milk and juice. It's a shame, but it's prepaid for, so we haven't lost anything.
We have never had leftovers of the sweet break pudding I just started to make. A keeper!
.

Why are you tossing milk and juice?
.

I don't believe we can save milk. It's been in ice, but out for two hours. Juice - if it looks untouched we may save it, but most days, it is a couple glasses left.
Do you reuse?
.

I don't believe we can save milk. It's been in ice, but out for two hours. Juice - if it looks untouched we may save it, but most days, it is a couple glasses left.
Do you reuse?

We have them in pitchers with an ice tube in the middle. We drink the juice and turn the milk and half and half into greek yogurt. So yes, we reuse it!
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I don't believe we can save milk. It's been in ice, but out for two hours. Juice - if it looks untouched we may save it, but most days, it is a couple glasses left.
Do you reuse?

We have them in pitchers with an ice tube in the middle. We drink the juice and turn the milk and half and half into greek yogurt. So yes, we reuse it!

We use the same thing, with the ice tube in the middle. This one is similar to ours. Just a note it you decide to get one, make sure you store the tube upright in the freezer and only fill it to the fill line, otherwise the seam can burst if the water melts and refreezes if it's on its side or overfilled.
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"This one" looks nicer than ours! Ours is blocky. We just put ice cubes in the insert and pop it into the jug… ready to go. We tried freezing it but had problems with them cracking even when filled half way.
Does anyone knows where to buy other inserts? We have lots of pitchers but would like new inserts for the ones that broke.