*the birds starting to sing
*seeing a pair of wrens
*a Great Horned Owl in a tree

Well, it looks as though we do not have small cans of refried beans available here. I guess that makes sense given that I live in New Mexico where no one would eat small servings of it. In fact, it is available in gargantuan cans here. There were normal sized cans, but then I would have to have a container at work to put the rest of the contents of the can into. The closest thing I could find in small cans was bean dip made for fritos (how ironic, LOL) but very high in sodium. However, I think what I am going to do is to freeze some brown rice and store it in the freezer at work. I will mark it with the date, and after a month has passed, I'll eat it and cook some more.

I am going to continue to investigate other more portable options.
Allison

: I do like this though, no gnashing of
: teeth. Just a chit chat about
: solutions

: Probably at one time I would have
: wanted to throw the potato out of
: the window, and jumped up and down
: a bit

: I have found brown the most difficult
: thing to keep long-term back up.
: My favourite past one might not be
: to everyones taste? But, a little
: ring pull tin of refried beans
: that you can eat with a spoon.
: cold at a pinch, but hot if you
: have access to a micro, and the
: serving size is ideal

: And it just sits there patiently,
: waiting, dependable, it doesn't do
: any crumbling tricks