It's just past midnight and I'm arriving home after two grueling days in the ER. My feet HURT and it takes all my concentration to drive safely home. The last thing on my mind is stopping at the grocery store to ready my fridge for this challenge. And so I arrive home empty handed for tomorrows breakfast. Goal number one will be to get food for breakfast without splurging my entire daily allowance. Step 2 will be calling up my Grandmother to find out where all the hot deals are this week and step 3 will be to map out my plan. This part I'm hoping won't be too much of a challenge. Growing up 2nd out of six kids my memory is filled with grocery shopping on a budget for a lot of hungry mouths. We'd walk through the grocery store , my mom with a handheld clicker adding up prices until we hit our weekly limit. Our meals were planned out and predictable....spaghetti, tacos, chicken and rice, chili. We got our fruits and veggies in jello, out of cans, steamed from a frozen bag. And always there was homemade bread. Wednesday and Saturday afternoons our house was blessed with the sweet fragrance of our daily staple. And then there was our favorite meal, breakfast for dinner. Being good Catholics my father would cook up a meatless Friday dinner of PawPaws pancakes with Southern Steens syrup drizzled on top.
This brings me back to my present state of no breakfast for the morning...hunger challenge here I come.
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