What's For Dinner?

Yesterday I took out some spaghetti sauce I had frozen about a month ago (thinking WAY ahead, I tell you) thinking "perfect, spaghetti for dinner" - add frozen meatballs and there you go, everyone's happy.

About 5:00 I peer into my cupboard looking for the pasta. You know, the pasta that EVERYONE ALWAYS HAS on hand. It may be vermicelli, ziti, rotelli, or a combination of the bottom of the box of all three, but everyone always has pasta, right? Yea, not me, not now. I continue staring blankly into the vast space that is my cupboard...canned pumpkin, 10 lbs white rice, cream of mushroom soup, raisins, peanut butter, taco shells. Mmmm. I guess we're not having spaghetti.

You see, I'm one of those people who gets satisfaction from making something that might pass for a healthy dinner when there's almost nothing in the house. I like to see the space in the cupboard, it tells me I haven't wasted food and it's easy to see what I have. I haven't gone to the grocery store prematurely to just fill up with things I don't need...yet. Things are simple that way. There are others who get satisfaction from the FULL cupboard and the FULL freezer. Not me. But when Ric's home, I am really good about making full dinners and I usually have plenty of food, and this part of me is not expressed so much.

But when Ric's not home, I use the term "cooking" very loosely. I figure if I have cut and steamed carrots and we all sit down at the same time, I've cooked. Never mind that those carrots could go with macaroni and cheese or oatmeal. Either way, I've cooked.

Anyway, spaghetti turned into tacos last night (yes, even I always have cheese). Thank goodness tonight it's a fundraiser night tonight at Chik-Fil-A. Whew! Maybe tomorrow we'll have rice and raisins.