Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> I just posted about my chicken salad and as I was doing so I was feeling
> pretty proud of the fact that that meal came together in less than 30
> minutes. I do that a lot‹consider what's available in the fridge and
> get something on the table pretty fast. The alternative is dinner out
> and I'm really not all that crazy about eating out.
>
> I'm good at that‹figuring out a meal on short notice. I horrified
> Sister Helen once when she wanted to know what I was preparing for
> supper. It was about 4:00 p.m. when the conversation took place and I
> told her I had no clue. "Whaddaya mean, you don't know?" "I don't
> know‹supper's an hour and a half away and I haven't thought about it
> yet."
>
> She was incredulous that I hadn't had the menu planned and underway by
> about noon.
>

Plan dinner???? If there is not some fresh meat in the fridge we take
something out of the freeze to thaw. When one of us goes into the kitchen to
prepare dinner we think about what we will do with it, sometimes consulting
the other for agreement or suggestions.