Cat Scratch Fever!

[elfs]

Yep, that's what Yamaarashi-chan has. Cat scratch fever. Apparently she has a free-floating prominence of lymph nodes on her neck there, and bacteria from a cat's claws have crawled up there and infected her, and they've swelled up. She's going to be on antibiotics for the next ten days. We have a return trip next Wednesday afternoon. The scratches are actually quite visible, on her inner arm.

At least it's nothing too serious.

And we have eaten far, far too well this weekend. Breakfast was pancakes from scratch (real scratch-- flour and sugar and all that), lunch was full-faced bacon, lettuce, and tomato or egg salad with celery, mustard, and honey, and dinner was roasted salmon (thanks to fallenpegasus) and couscous. The salmon was actually less colorful than the stuff you get from the store-- which means that it wasn't farm raised and so didn't get its glossy fleshtones from dye pellets. And breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs, cereal, and fresh orange slices.

Oh, and fresh-baked challah! Not that great, sadly; I tried a low-fat recipie and it tastes more like English muffin. But, hey, isn't that what you want for breakfast?

Y'know, I did the math on this... why do people even bother eating out? I mean, we all ate really well, and feeding myself and two kids and a spare adult four meals cost less than thirty bucks. Can you even feed two children and two adults four McDonalds meals (or anything comparably cheap) for that much these days? And what I made was probably a lot better for them than fast food or Costco ramen.

Comments

[jenk]

One of the great things about working at home is you can do roasts and crock-pot and other stuff that takes hours.

And Elf - another reason people eat out is failure to plan for food consumption. Arranging to have ingredients available & wanting to eat things before they morph into something fuzzy takes a wee bit of planning. I gave up eating out for lent year-before-last and it was an interesting experience.