How to make dinner:
- Promise your daughter Hamburger Helper for dinner on the way home.
- Thaw out and begin to brown a pound of hamburger.
- Realize that the box of Hamburger Helper that you thought was on the top shelf of the right cabinet isn't there anymore.
- Panic mildly. Decide to improvise.
- Find one box of macaroni and cheese in the kitchen that doesn't have noodles shaped like Sponge Bob, Pokemon, or Spiderman.
- Boil up noodles for mac and cheese, seasoning the living hell out of the cooked hamburger in the meantime.
- Drain cooked noodles, prepare using real butter and whole milk.
- Mix prepared noodles with hamburger. Throw in a handful of shredded cheese and another splash of milk for good measure.
- Have daughter try it. Get thumbs up.
- Decide that the mixture is "cheeseburger pasta casserole", and decide to jazz own bowl up with fancy mustard, fake bacon bits, and canned tomatoes.
- Find missing Hamburger Helper behind can of tomatoes, on second shelf of right cabinet. Facepalm as desired. Shrug off, as you now have dinner for another night.
- Wonder if whole dinner scenario can be linked to other aspects of life. Decide to shut up and eat. Nomnomnom.
- Thaw out and begin to brown a pound of hamburger.
- Realize that the box of Hamburger Helper that you thought was on the top shelf of the right cabinet isn't there anymore.
- Panic mildly. Decide to improvise.
- Find one box of macaroni and cheese in the kitchen that doesn't have noodles shaped like Sponge Bob, Pokemon, or Spiderman.
- Boil up noodles for mac and cheese, seasoning the living hell out of the cooked hamburger in the meantime.
- Drain cooked noodles, prepare using real butter and whole milk.
- Mix prepared noodles with hamburger. Throw in a handful of shredded cheese and another splash of milk for good measure.
- Have daughter try it. Get thumbs up.
- Decide that the mixture is "cheeseburger pasta casserole", and decide to jazz own bowl up with fancy mustard, fake bacon bits, and canned tomatoes.
- Find missing Hamburger Helper behind can of tomatoes, on second shelf of right cabinet. Facepalm as desired. Shrug off, as you now have dinner for another night.
- Wonder if whole dinner scenario can be linked to other aspects of life. Decide to shut up and eat. Nomnomnom.