Ideas That Might Help.

 Ideas That Might Help.

 

Unfortunately, this ol’ woman has a tendency to like to try strange things that are in the supermarket. No, not octopus or even shrimp, but the smoked salmon dip sounded decent. It was expensive and won’t be purchased again for this house, but still, it was pretty good if a bit spicey. However, the ideas that make things work sometimes might be good to share. For old folks—whether a couple or a single person—the Voila packages of frozen veggies and meat are super! A bag will make more than one meal for an individual and can be closed up and used later from the freezer. No getting tired of the same thing, don’t you see. Then there are those little Tai Pei meals in cartons in the freezer. They make a bit more than a meal for me, so the second meal just sees a bit of sour cream, maybe some black olives, or something good thrown in to reheat. But here is the kicker for eating out: drink water. A soft drink is at least $2.50 plus tax for one person. That’s $5 plus tax for two! Who wants to throw money away! Pretty much the same way for whatever kind of “salad” they may have for lunch. Lettuce is fairly cheap—even Romaine. A tiny bit of grated carrot, a tiny bit of tomato, and maybe a few shreds of cabbage is considered a salad. The dressing sits around when it is not in the fridge, so who knows if it is still good or not. Anyway, using common sense can save us all a bundle of bucks.

 

Today a walk by the 40% off meat case found two rather large ground beef patties mixed with Gouda for $2.40. With a pickle and some salad dressing on a couple of slices of Dave’s Killer Bread, that makes two meals. Prepared the meat in the hot air fryer and they turned out great.

 

When feeding a family of five in this house, it took quite a bit of prep work to be sure that the kids and husband were filled up and satisfied. Those years are long gone. No longer raise and kill chickens for the freezer; no longer can veggies and make pickles. But when the family liked thighs and drumsticks, it was not as easy when buying whole chickens as it is today. Shucks. They sell thighs by the pound without the rest of the chicken now!

 

My phone hardly ever rings unless it is Sterling, but today Jennifer called. Think she has a cold or something. Told her it is ragweed season, but she doesn’t think that is the problem. Anyway, some dipstick decided he needed the $20 worth of copper in the junction boxes for their internet, so now the entire neighborhood has no internet—and most of them work from home! Then the water main broke and no one has water—well, they do now, but it has to be boiled. But someone’s house caught on fire so five alarms gathered up enough fire trucks to try to keep the fire from spreading. She thinks maybe that will help clean out the water lines! Simply can’t imagine! It’s always something!

 

Today was inspired by a scripture that tells me to stop worrying about whether or not I am saved. John 10:28 “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages—And no one is able to snatch them out of my hand.” The very first verse that my parents had us memorize was John 3:16. That should have been my first clue, shouldn’t it.

 

Read today that from all over the western civilization the Jews are applying to come to Israel. They want a place to live and to be able to be Jewish. It startled me to see how many came from France alone! Here Israel is in a deadly war and these people are bound and determined to come to God’s land. Now THAT, Dear Hearts, is faith! I don’t care how many stealth planes we send over there, that country is at war. But these Jews want their home in that place. May God continue to bless Israel!

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.