You know life is pretty dull when the weekly food ad is a big deal. Wine time followed by dinner is the highlight of the day around here.
Just look at these prices. Hamburger $1.99 a pound, a box of pasta 49 cents, canned tomatoes 49 cents, bread $1.50. You could cook a huge spaghetti dinner for the price of a fancy cup of coffee.
And yet people are going hungry in this country. I know everyone doesn't have easy access to cheap grocery stores, much less the time and ability to cook frugal meals from scratch.
How did our mom stretch a can of tuna into five white bread sandwiches? Lots of Miracle Whip and celery. Girls learned these these tricks hanging around the kitchen. Fast food wasn't invented yet.
With so many restaurants closed, I suppose the food supply chain readjusted. Which could explain the cheap hamburger. A few weeks ago I bought 10 pounds of Russet potatoes for 88 cents. The kind of perfect baked potato you'd get in a steak house. Well, the problem in this house is too much of good thing.
Enough talk about food. The vaccine news this week is wonderful, coming at the darkest time of the year. Incredibly, some people refuse to believe the pandemic is real. People apparently don't want to hear the facts, preferring their own echo chambers of "news."
Mark Twain: A lie races around the world before Truth puts on its shoes.
Amanda said the family practice clinic where she works already put in an order for vaccines, and she and another nurse have promised to give each other the shots as soon as they can.
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