What a Loaf
So I intended to make meatloaf Sunday night (And starting a story off like that kinda lets you know where this is going...) but when I got home from grocery shopping Friday morning with the ground beef, I realised I didn't have bread crumbs. Hadn't even thought to check.
I didn't really want to make another trip JUST for that, plus the "snowstorm" this weekend. I hesitate to call it that here, since it wasn't THAT bad in my location, but still not exactly something to go out traveling in.
I could substitute stuff, but didn't reeally want to, so I scrambled around the internet and found what I wanted for a stupid price of shipping (Actually not THAT bad, probably as much or less than I would have paid to get some coffee and a bite to eat if I went out to get it) BUT it would be here Monday.
Well...my schedule has been so messed up lately, instead of making "dinners" shortly after getting up, I usually will swap "dinner" and "lunch" and make it in the AM, so that was probably when I'd end up making it ANYways.
Plus, I always make multiple meals at once, and switch around them, so I had another plate of food ready to go, if I had to push to Monday NIGHT.
But then! uh, the item hasn't moved from it's last location. In Connecticut. Where it probably WAS buried in an actual snowstorm. Got the notification late in the afternoon that it was delayed and not showing up Monday.
And now I'm sitting here, having had my lunch, and uh, having NO idea what to make for dinner, because I don't know if the ingredient I need will arrive or not, and I'm *also* worried that the meat could go bad, since it's been sitting in the fridge since Friday, and wasting all that meat, and messing up my meals, is not really something I can handle right now.
And I COULD go back to the substitutions idea, but that would have been SUCH a waste of money.
And I can't even be mad about it, because hey! It's the winter, and there was a snowstorm! Whataya gonna do??
I do actually have a backup plan involving the leftover chicken wings, which might be my go to if worse comes to it.
💎E💎
I didn't really want to make another trip JUST for that, plus the "snowstorm" this weekend. I hesitate to call it that here, since it wasn't THAT bad in my location, but still not exactly something to go out traveling in.
I could substitute stuff, but didn't reeally want to, so I scrambled around the internet and found what I wanted for a stupid price of shipping (Actually not THAT bad, probably as much or less than I would have paid to get some coffee and a bite to eat if I went out to get it) BUT it would be here Monday.
Well...my schedule has been so messed up lately, instead of making "dinners" shortly after getting up, I usually will swap "dinner" and "lunch" and make it in the AM, so that was probably when I'd end up making it ANYways.
Plus, I always make multiple meals at once, and switch around them, so I had another plate of food ready to go, if I had to push to Monday NIGHT.
But then! uh, the item hasn't moved from it's last location. In Connecticut. Where it probably WAS buried in an actual snowstorm. Got the notification late in the afternoon that it was delayed and not showing up Monday.
And now I'm sitting here, having had my lunch, and uh, having NO idea what to make for dinner, because I don't know if the ingredient I need will arrive or not, and I'm *also* worried that the meat could go bad, since it's been sitting in the fridge since Friday, and wasting all that meat, and messing up my meals, is not really something I can handle right now.
And I COULD go back to the substitutions idea, but that would have been SUCH a waste of money.
And I can't even be mad about it, because hey! It's the winter, and there was a snowstorm! Whataya gonna do??
I do actually have a backup plan involving the leftover chicken wings, which might be my go to if worse comes to it.
💎E💎