I’ve done $4 a day for years.
I don’t do the grocery shopping, so I have no idea what it cost.
I am diabetic, so I suspect it’s not cheap.
I occasionally cheat on my diet. This last Friday I decided it was a cheat night. Friday is steak night for us, but instead I wanted a bite of nostalgia. ??We roasted hotdogs over a campfire of real wood.
My bride says the entire shopping trip cost about $6. That is for a package of 8 hotdogs and buns (that’s the cheat- I can’t eat bread). I made a pig of myself and ate 3 hotdogs....two on buns. LOL
I even drank a half a can of diet Coke..... I get about one of those a year.
We have nice store bought roasting sticks, but we chose to make our own using trees libs from an Alder tree. The wood was free, apple and alder...I have lots of that around.
OMG it was great! I roasted my own dogs over the fire... it was like being a kid again. I’d bet I haven’t had a hotdog for well over 20 years.
We used Hebrew National’s delicious kosher hot dogs...for me, this was even better than steak. The smell, the taste, smoke, atmosphere....and the memories of my youth -—EXCELLENT. It was a beautiful evening down in our orchard.
I was the oldest of 6 brats of a dirt poor family. I know full well what it’s like to be poor. I have been what some would call wealthy, I retired at 53 and now at 67 I am ‘comfortable’.
While I don’t wish to be poor again, from my memories, it wasn’t all that bad. Frankly, I didn’t even know I was poor until other kids told me I was and made fun of my hand-me-down clothes.
Anyway, if things turn for the worse, I’ll survive and I think I will even enjoy some of it.
I sent a text to my wife and told her I want to have Hobo stew this next Friday. It’s just small chunks of cheap cut beef, potatoes, onions, carrots all tossed on tinfoil wrapped loosely and set on the coals to cook. I remember loving that stew.
Just the other day I saw Spam being sold by the case at Costco.... I might buy a case or two the next time I am in that store....just for fun, and of course — the memories.
Bon Appétit ......
UPDATE: My bride texted me...says we’re going to have Hobo stew tonight. We will be near the fire pit cutting wood for next year, so we might as well. I am excited. I think it’s been over 35 years since I had that dish. I’ll bet that dish with cost less than $4 each. ;>)