Happy Fourth Of July

I've been MIA for a few weeks and I apologize for my absence. I just got over a 10 week battle with bronchitis. It had gotten so bad at one point I wound up in the ER.  Anyway, I'm back! I'm feeling AOK. I've been back to swimming every day at our community pool. Life has gotten back to normal. Whatever that is? LOL!

Hubby and I are looking forward to a nice enjoyable weekend this 4th of July. The fireworks are back and we are hoping to catch them tomorrow evening. In the interim, I did some shopping. Happily one of the supermarkets out here has a holiday heart. They had so many holiday food products on sale, I couldn't contain myself. There were steaks, hot dogs, chopped beef, corn on the cob, ricotta and mozzarella ($3.99 vs $7.99), watermelon and yes, even Bryers ice cream (our favorite!) Everything I bought on my enclosed grocery receipt was on sale (I bought peaches and duck sauce and cans of clam sauce as well as boxes and boxes of Ronzoni pasta (@.99 cents each!) I purchased 47 items, spent $118.75 (our weekly budget is $125) AND saved $77.68 from simply buying what we needed and wanted.

The best part was getting NY Strip steaks at only $8.99 a pound (down from $12.99 a pound. Unfortunately, the last time they had this sale, the sale price was $7.99. Oh well.). Usually I would get two packages but due to inflation, I only purchased one package. Thankfully the package contained three steaks. We ate one and froze the other two. Normally, in the before time, hubby and I would have one steak each. This time around (and going forward) we had one steak and split it 50/50 between the two of us. It's fine. It was more than enough. I filled up our meal with my home-grown mesclun salad and some corn on the cob (10 for only $2!!)

I don't have a photo of the cooked steak. We scoffed it down in seconds. Delish!

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Shop the sales folks! They're out there. Look for them and support them. My kudos go out to our area grocery store. Thank you for making our 4th of July extra special and memorable. Have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend. Please remember our old America as well as our new America. I'm ending my post today with a song from the hit movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney. I grew up on this movie. Every summer, at day camp, my fellow day campers and I were notorious for singing many of these special Americana hits, such as Yankee Doodle Dandy, Over There (from WWII) and For It Was Mary.

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