How many little plastic packets of duck sauce and soy sauce

[LiberalEsto]

have YOU discarded in your lifetime?

Something to seriously ponder.

[Purveyor]

1. Not enough as that crap is nasty. I was so happy when I learned how easy it is to make my own 'hot

mustard'. I even take a baggie of mustard powder to a Chinese restaurant that has relatively decent food for the price but only has 'packet mustard'.

I know there will be a day that I get pulled over by the cops and will have to explain that 'baggie of yellow powder' in my front pocket... lol

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. What's your hot mustard recipe?

[Purveyor]

8. Really simple. Put mustard powder in small bowl, then add just a bit of COLD water

until you get the consistency you like. Then let it set for about 5 minutes for the 'hot' to work.

When at home, I do add just a sprinkle of garlic powder and I'm sure you could had other spices as well.

One thing not to add is something acidic like vinegar. It then become something similar to domestic 'not hot' mustard.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

10. Thanks, I'll try it.

[NightWatcher]

2. The only time I toss condiments is when I move

and I have to dump the condiment drawer. BBQ sauce, Sporks, soy, duck, chopsticks, ketchup, honey.....

I don't throw away sauces until its time to move.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4. I save the plum and soy sauce and throw the rest out.

[LiberalEsto]

5. Do you use them?

Or just keep them?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

7. Yes, the next time I order Chinese food.

[AsahinaKimi]

6. I have never gotten duck sause

soy sauce and hot sauce yes. I keep them for when I need them.

[LiberalEsto]

9. I just discovered that these sauce packets are made in New Jersey

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and that a packet of duck sauce has 22 calories.

Here are some tips on what to do with your saved sauce packets:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/389719

[surrealAmerican]

15. There are numerous brands of the stuff.

I was pleasantly surprised to find the packets in my last batch were actually local (made in Chicago).

[siligut]

19. Thank you for the links, here's what one person does with them. lol

One per kids bag on Halloween night.

Also a good way to get rid of:

Single serve ketchup, soy sauce, and hot mustard packets from takeout meals.
Salt, pepper packets from fast food joints.
Individually wrapped soda straws. From fast food joints.
Saltine cracker packets from salad bars.
Those dipping sauce thingys from McDonald's Chicken McNuggets.

<ok, just kidding>

[siligut]

11. Little packets of ketchup saved me once.

Mr gut likes ketchup on more things than fries, I didn't keep up on his use and we ran out. However, those little packets absolved me. I really don't like to throw good food out, so I just refuse condiments if I won't use them. I do have about 30 or so packets of soy sauce in a drawer, you just never know. I had a musician friend tell me that condiments and crackers kept him fed through a dry spell.

[dimbear]

12. The origin of the term "an airtight alibi" probably.

[siligut]

14. Let me off the hook?

Are you looking for a DUzy?

[hlthe2b]

13. Only after they get stuffed in a kitchen drawer, squished and "relieved" themselves of their sticky

contents all over everything. I now have a little bowl for these miscellaneous packets of condiments and if they aren't used in the two months that goes by between my coffee maker cleanings, they get tossed.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

16. I try to tell the restuarant exactly what/how many I want, (to cut down on waste) n/t

[nolabear]

17. I thought you were going to ask how many of us had a drawer full right now.

[Capn Sunshine]

18. Cause I sure do

It's in the fridge, in the fruit drawer. Behind the fruit of course.