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What's for Dinner? - 3/16/26, Mon.

Corned Beef & Cabbage.  Again.  🤣
This is seriously one of my favorite meals. It was nice eating at my mom's house on Saturday, but I definitely wanted to make it on my own too.  So my sister comes up a couple weekends a month, and stays for like 3 days. We live about an hour away from my mom, and my oldest daughter is going to college, about a 30 minute drive away.  So that is an awesome opportunity to see my daughter, when she comes over for dinner. 

I think Save Mart had the best sale price on corned beef, this weekend.  It was $1.97, so I bought two small ones which were about $4.85 each.  I tossed the meat in a pot about noon when I was home, and let it simmer until about 6:00.  The yellow potatoes and carrots are free from the Food Bank.  The brussel sprouts were $3.99, and the bag of petite onions were $3 (though I only used half the bag).  I do wish I had planned ahead and hunted down fresh onions instead of the frozen, but the beef was literally melt in your mouth tender.  There's almost no leftovers of that.  🍖

Total dinner cost:  $10.35


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