Food

Meals
You'll notice I added a running list of meal ideas (to the right). Remember when I once posted the inexpensive meals we were eating each week? I did this in part to help me have a list of ideas, in case I couldn't think of anything for dinner... but guess how often I went looking through old posts? Never. So I am simplifying and just adding the main meal (for the most part). We eat whatever fruit/vegetable is on sale or what's in my pantry/freezer. I've noticed we're eating meat a little more. It's because before, I had little to spend at the grocery store, so I would mainly buy fresh produce and that's mainly what we'd eat. Now I'm going to the store a lot less and we're eating our food storage a lot more, which has meat (thanks to my extra freezer). If I start getting fat, you'll know why. Or maybe it's because people keep feeding us. How kind.

Dairy
To the cows across the Country: thank you for creating an abundance of dairy. When I went to Costco a few weeks ago, butter was $5.99/4 lbs ($7.78 previously), cheese was $9.99/5lbs ($12.75 previously... I'm not trying to rub this in anyone's face that might happen to live in Canada) and milk was comparable to the grocery stores (I normally get my milk on sale elsewhere). I'm not sure what has caused supply to spike (or demand to decrease) but I sure do appreciate it. Maybe they can't afford to run as many "three-a-day" dairy ads.

Honey Butter, Not Frosting
Tonight we had beans and cornbread. I actually love beans and cornbread, but only if I call it karnbread. To make sure others in the house enjoy it too, I always try to do something different with the cornbread (because there aren't a whole lot of ways to get creative with the other part of the meal). I try all different recipes. Anyway, last time I made muffins, I was expecting them to be sweet, which I like with my salty beans. They weren't. This time, I decided I'd make some honey butter to sweeten them up. I did just that, but added a little (1/2 tsp?) vanilla to my mixture (1/2 cup butter, 1/4 - 1/3 honey... I left out the cinnamon because of a cinnamon overdose on my glazed carrots last night) and goodness gracious, it was delicious. Don't believe me? Ask the dishes. Just kidding, ask Len why he said he wanted to use it for frosting on a cake.