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Because I DO one day plan to be a home maker (a house wife would be ideal ), I am refining my talents in home making. And you know, it’s sort of satisfying to have things cleaned, tended to, cooked and put away.

I had to boil water to make some iced tea. I boil the water to make sure it’s not full of yucky tap stuff, which means the water has to cool before I can make anything out of it. So, when I make tea, I generally have to boil the water hours ahead and then leave it with a protective lid to cool. Then I did the dishes, scrubbed the kitchen floor, and got it in my head that *I* would make dinner.

Yes.

I was going to make dinner.

This was all around my ventures upstairs to do the occasional thing to get Marius-deRomanus.net revamped and back online.

I’m still trying to use everything in the freezer, fridge and cabinets. My mother and I can’t take that stuff with us when we move, so instead of buying new things, we need to get good use out of what is here. Slowly but surely, the pantries are becoming empty. There is room to see in the freezer! Of course, we are lacking some of the all important ingredients of daily food consumption. Right now, for instance, we have no milk. NO MILK! And we can’t exactly afford to go shopping for a while since money is tight. The economy sucks. It’s best to make what we can to eat with what we already have stocked. So, while I say, “use what we have,” I still sort of lament that I can’t eat cereal. You should see how depressingly empty my fridge is in comparison to the cabinets and freezer.

What did I make for dinner? Well, I’m glad you asked!

We have some frozen chicken, so I took out a piece of that. My mother and I rarely eat leftovers, so it’s better to make just enough for one meal and a lunch for my mother for the next day. The way that my mother and I eat, one piece of chicken is more than enough for the both of us. Since I am working with limited resources at my disposal with the thought of cleaning out the cabinets/fridge, I grab a can of creme of chicken and creme of celery soup. I mix these with some water, some minced garlic and some cut up onion in a baking dish. Into that, I put the chicken.

Then I took the potatoes on the fridge that are just on the brink of going bad and I peel and boil them for mashed potatoes. Sadly, with no milk, I had to work with butter and such. Not the healthiest option, for sure.

Since the chicken will be creamy, I decide to make a light pasta. Besides, with no milk, a creamy pasta is out of the question. I make some wheat vermicelli tossed with olive oil and herbs. With some corn, all that we had in the cabinet, the meal was complete. It was really delicious, too. I was really proud of how everything turned out… I worked my butt off on that dinner.

My mother said that Alfred would have loved the meal. I have to agree with her on that. I think he would have really liked it, too. But, he’s a total eater; Alfred can put away some food. And despite his complaints, he is NOT fat. This upsets me considering how much he eats! Still, because of his job and such, he isn’t eating as much as he used to… rather, as often. Or as much. His body needs him to eat one way, a way that he’s not following through with. Alfred needs to eat a lot very often. That kind of stuff is necessary when it comes to muscle. But, only eating one BIG meal a day (instead of three BIG meals) means that he is losing muscle mass while his body packs away the food he does eat as fat.

Not that he is fat, because he’s not.

And since we’re talking about weight, let me just say that I lost 5lbs. Time to take off that college weight!

My dream shopping list that I can’t afford because I’m food poor:
Milk
Bagels
Strawberry Cream Cheese
Smoked Turkey (for sammiches!)
Oreo Cookies
Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds
Asparagus
Cherry Pop Tarts
Count Chocula
Bologna
Hebrew National Hot Dogs
White American Cheese
Extra Creamy Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

Or I’ll just take some Thai take out.

Enough about food, it’s too late (too early) to get so hungry!

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