OK, at great personal risk, (but since I am not opening e-mails maybe not), I am going to start the what's for supper thread today!

Since I am home all day, I am going to think of something really good! We are going to have fried fish, I am soaking it in mustard, then rolling in bread crumbs and corn meal, then pan-frying. My sister fixed it this way for us once and it was awesome! Then we will have baked potaotes, a big fresh salad, some homemade corn bread, and some home-canned peaches. Total cost should be about 1.50 because I bought the fish on sale for 89 cents a pound, and the cornbread cost about 25 cents, everything else is home-grown.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), November 29, 2001

Answers

Where can you buy fish for 89 cents a pound? What kind is it? Hubby will only eat catfish and salmon. We are having spaghetti tonight.

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), November 29, 2001.

What is it with FISH lately?!? :-) We're having fish patties - like salmon patties, but made with bass and crapie - and fried potatoes. Some green veggie - haven't decided which one yet! The fish were free, hubby and MIL caught them. The potatoes were free - from a friend's garden. The green veggies??? - probably from a can $.29 at Aldi's.

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), November 29, 2001.

Thanks Cheryl, I was wondering what to have tonight:~} Only ours will be made from Aldi's canned salmon. I like Aldi

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony@countrylife.net), November 29, 2001.

It was on sale at Kroger's and is called "whiting", I have never had it, we usually eat trout or walleye that a friend gives us. I don't know how it will be, but we aren't that picky and my Mom said it is good. I hope it is because I saw it at Ald's also and it was about the same price there at the normal price.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), November 29, 2001.

Fried potatoes and kielbasa, pears, creamed corn, roasted cabbage (or cole slaw--haven't decided which)and cornbread. Potatoes, pears, corn and cabbage from our harvest. Kielbasa on sale with coupon for 1.99 package.

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), November 29, 2001.

Oven barbequed chicken - too cold out to do the real thing!, baked potatoes, cabbage salad (like coleslaw only not so sweet), canned plums. Might bake a cake as we haven't had dessert in awhile, except for the pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. German chocolate sounds good, or maybe a lemon cake?

-- Lenette (kigervixen@webtv.net), November 29, 2001.

Hash brown bake with ham and cheese. Yeast rolls, green beans and fruit. If my electricity stays on(we have ice on the lines) I am going to bake a pumpkin pie for my boys. They ate the Thanksgiving one in about 3 hours!!

-- Ivy in NW AR (balch84@cox-internet.com), November 29, 2001.

I have been asked to fix homemade bisquits,gravy, eggs and grits with hot coffee.When the boys(Dad,son,and bro.in law!) ask they usually get.God Bless-Micheale

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), November 29, 2001.

Big pot of beans with hamhocks and cornbread. Applesauce (homemade) and maybe brownies if the afternoon goes smoothly. (I do childcare) I have never had Whiting fish either..be sure to tell us how it turns out!

-- Jenny (auntjenny6@aol.com), November 29, 2001.

Kebabs with smoked sausage, onions, peppers & apples; rice. There's a glaze for the kebabs but I can't remember offhand what's in it. Spice cookies and pumpkin dip. My daughter made the cookies this afternoon. Yum!

-- Jean (schiszik@tbcnet.com), November 29, 2001.

Lil Dumplin is havin some "hoot built" chicken gruel! The big ugly hillbilly is havin CROW! No need to explain just why I rekon but then again maybe I should. I was teasin her about her little s10 chev. pickup. Ask'r if she was about ready to go to Evansville IND and buy uniforms again. The LAST time she went she forgot the uniforms but came home with the new truck!

Ya'll just can't tease some people! REkon she'll let me have some of that chicken gruel too? Old hoot, the crow eatin hillbilly, gibson. Matt.24:44

-- hoot (hoot@hillbillynet.com), November 29, 2001.

Whiting is a nuteral tasting salt water fish from cold climates. I just brush it with plane yogert and dip in crushed corn flakes or saltines, toaster oven bake it at 325 for 10 to 12.

As for my dinner, a couple of chicken thighs as above for 30 with a handful of frozen stirfry veggies, and I am going to attempt a sweet and sour sauce.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 29, 2001.

I had planned meatloaf, gravy, rice, a veggie and homemade cherry pie. Unfortantly-my basement flooded! So I made meat balls_they cook much faster, canned gravy and frozen spinach. We had to settle for cherry pudding-vanilla pudding with cherries poured over. No idea about the cost- the gound meat was in the freezer, so I'm sure I bought it on sale. I rarely use canned gravy, but I bought some during the Thanksgiving sales-in case of Emergency!

-- Kelly (ksaderholm@yahoo.com), November 29, 2001.