Yeah my buddy Dan was just saying this last week. He used to make pasta like four nights a week, but his grocery bill got crazy. Now he buys big bags of lentils and dry beans, the kind you have to soak. He makes a huge pot of soup with whatever veggies are on sale, like carrots and potatoes, and it lasts him days. Says it's even cheaper than pasta used to be.

The fabric might not hold up for long.

What do you usually make your shims from, just wood or other stuff too?

Notice this happens with produce now too, where a new farm's strawberries go from perfect to mush in like a day. Feels like the small changes in how things are grown or shipped throw off all the old rhythms we count on. I had to totally shift my grocery schedule because what used to ripen on the counter now just rots. Makes you have to learn the pace of each new batch from scratch.

Lmao @rowan_lane, a meteorite is the perfect way to describe that stage. My first one looked like it could've survived re-entry into the atmosphere.