"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

The saga of running a household when you don't know anything about it continues. We got past the using the dustpan bit as far as gathering up all the dust and crud. The answer to that is use the vacuum cleaner.

One of the problems if you are the only one eating a meal is how do you come up with small amounts so that most of it doesn't go into the recycle bin. If there are a couple people around, sure it is easy to cook something and limit the waste.

So often when I am the only person half starving, a frozen dinner will come into play. Now I am not going to mention the nutrition value or whether they are good or bad. Point is they fill the gap for a short time , providing you have some extra cookies for dessert and maybe a half a bowl of fruit or something.

Speaking of dessert, did you ever read the instructions on those frozen dinners? I did, I have to. So the typical instructions go like this.

Carefully remove the plastic from the brownie.

Poke holes in the plastic over the corn and the meat portion. What about the potatoes?

Microwave on high for three and a half minutes.

Carefully remove brownie. Here is where the problem starts. Did you ever try to remove one of those brownies.? Gooey chocolate all over the counter, on your under elbow, your belly and God knows where else and that is only half the brownie removed.

Stir the gravy sauce, carefully replace the plastic and microwave for an additional minute.

Let set one minute before serving. Replace brownie. Where the heck did I put that brownie? It was stuck around here on something. Where is it? The cat looks awfully smug. Are they supposed to eat chocolate?

Ahhh tasty, the meat is so hot it will burn your every part it touches. The corn is lukewarm - on one end. And the potatoes, they seem like they just came out of the frig.

The frozen dinners do save a lot of time though. From the time I got it out of the freezer, read the instructions, followed the instructions, ate it cold, cleaned up the mess, elapsed time: 45 min.

Adds new meaning to the saying "cool"!

-=One Day At A Time=-

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