What's For Supper?

 

Almost every day, either Jan or I will ask the other "what do you want for supper?" I used to come up with a menu for the week, or at least I did for a few times, then I stopped doing it for some unknown reason. As much as I like to eat, you'd think that I could take the time to look in the refrigerator or the freezer and come up with a plan. It's not like we don't have anything to eat.

For some reason, all the healthy stuff that I've bought, like the broccoli, lettuce and peppers are just sitting in the refrigerator getting brown and wilty, while the non- perishable canned goods get used up. What's that about? Do we have an aversion to healthy eating now? It almost seems that way. Produce costs too much to throw away. We eat the grapes and bananas pretty quickly, but I have a container of fresh spinach that Autumn gave us that hasn't been touched yet. What gives?

I spoke to my friend Buffalo Bob the other day, and he was complaining that he just doesn't have an appetite anymore. I wish I could say that. Sometimes he resorts to eating cereal for supper. We've done that a time or two lately as well. I think it had something to do with neither of us feeling too good, but I can see where we could fall into the habit of just eating sandwiches for dinner. That's really not all that appealing. 

Since the winter began, I've made several pots of different kinds of soup. Vegetable beef, bean, corn chowder. Yum. Usually we can eat off of that for two or three days, but eventually it runs out and we have to think of something else.  We've got the ol' standby, hamburger, but I hate to eat it more than once a week. I bought several large packages at Costco and spent over $70.00- for what used to be a pretty cheap meat. I may have to take up hunting again, God forbid. I'm getting too old to drag a moose out of the woods.

When we lived in Hoonah, we always had a supply of frozen halibut, as well as venison. We don't live there anymore, and it's not practical to fly down and spend a few days trying to catch a halibut. I could buy it for cheaper than I could fly from Juneau to Hoonah and back. Oh well. 

Without any kids at home, there isn't the same need to figure out meals. Maybe I should scour the neighborhood and find some hungry children and take them home and feed them. If the pressure was on, I'd probably come up with a plan pretty handily.

It's kind of pathetic that I have a readily available supply of food at my disposal, and half the world can't find enough food to eat. I'm sure if they had a choice between eating whatever they could scrounge up, and eating what I have on hand, they'd figure out pretty quick what to have for supper, or any other meal for that matter.