Having a traditional Christmas dinner is something most American families do this time of year. However my family is choosing to be different in the fact that we have decided to take a taste of a different country for the next few years. We have decided to have Chinese this year and everyone must bring their favorite Chinese dish. I know it sounds pretty weird and things probably couldn’t be any weirder already at our house, but it was a great idea when we started. I laughed so hard when my mother suggested something like this and I continued to laugh until I actually realized that she was serious this was actually something she wanted us to do. I explained that I was ok with a new Christmas dinner but our traditions should remain the same I do not want to eat new food and try a new tradition at the same time it just doesn’t work that way unfortunately. She started to laugh and told me she thought it would be a nice change rather than the same thing constantly at her house. She explained she didn’t know anything about the tradition of the country and she didn’t want our children feeling uncomfortable because we were swaying to much from original tradition. In the long run however we all thought it was a pretty wonderful idea that my mother had come up with. The only problem with the idea is that I am not sure any of us know how to cook food from other countries.

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Another day another marriage woe. I really don’t understand how having dinner and laundry done by the time the husband gets home tells them we have been busy all day.  So as you can tell I didn’t have dinner done tonight and I didn’t have laundry done. My husband was more upset over dinner than anything else. He just looked at me like I hadn’t done anything all day but let me tell you the two year old that continuously runs around my legs keeps me more busy than any job that you could ever imagine. So he acts as though I have done nothing all day. I can’t handle the huffing and puffing so I send him to the store for diapers. During the mean time I start dinner, and to his surprise we are having breakfast for dinner. Ham and eggs it is. When he gets back from getting the diapers I have dinner started. Why is it that when you finally decide to do something then they look at you and say you didn’t have to do that. Really? I thought that is what you wanted was to do is cook dinner. I swear I’m so tired of husbands I could literally make mine sleep on the couch tonight. I hope that he soon learns that being a tay at home mom and wife isnt as fun and easy as he thinks. It wasnt because I wanted to stay home he thought it would be good while I was pregnant. Geeze men.

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During one summer while I was in college, I decided that I didn’t want to have a job because I was taking some classes and didn’t think I would have time to work and go to school everyday. During this time, I became, self proclaimed, the worlds cheapest chef. My parents were covering my rent for me since I wasn’t able to work, but that’s about it. I invented some dishes that cost less than 20 cents a serving. Living like this made me wonder, really, how families were claiming to have no food so they had to go to McDonalds because that’s all they could afford. McDonalds costs a lot when you really don’t have anything, and it’s only good for one meal. Now, a bag of pasta elbows and a can of Hunts tomato sauce together cost less than two bucks and makes a pound of edible, not so bad food. This is something I ate ALL the time. Tomato macaroni. I’d put in some pepper and delicious hot meal right at me for the cost of about nothing. A can and corn, 60 cents, and that’s a decent lunch for me. One time I didn’t have any tomato sauce, so I pulled a Kraft Single into little pieces and put it on the hot pasta when they were done boiling, and BAM instant mac and cheese. A box of brown rice, and bag of frozen veggies, around two bucks. That would last me tons of meals. I splurged on some delicious sauce and just added a bit of that on top, maybe some pineapple if I had some, and that is a meal I’ll still eat to this day, even though I’m not suffering. Just a pound of hamburger meat can get you really far when you are hungry, so stop going to fast food places when you’re low on cash. Poor college kids, take notes from the chef herself.

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