My Meal

Three nights ago I had spaghetti with tomato sauce (or spaghetti sauce; I’m not really sure what to call it), with water to drink. This is a very popular meal with my family; one that we have at least once a month. My step mother is the one who cooks it, most of the time. There are no special ingredients, no toast as an addition, and not even meatballs or ground beef added! Only spaghetti noodles and sauce (the generic brand, mind you). Though it sounds like I’m complaining, I am most definitely not. Italian, fake or real, generic or name brand ingredients, is my favorite kind of food!

Both the spaghetti noodles and the sauce came from our local grocery store, Food Lion. Though we normally buy our groceries from Sam’s club, Wal Mart, or Kroger, Food Lion is where we go when we are planning a last minute dinner, since it is much, much closer to our home. (And believe me, this dinner was planned VERY last minute. I didn’t even know my step mother, Kris, was cooking! I sure am glad she did, though!)

 I highly doubt anything was prepared in order to maintain a healthy dinner. It was more so just cooked because it’s almost a tradition to have spaghetti at our home. Regardless of how this meal was cooked, the people in my household try to maintain a healthy diet. We generally try to avoid eating out, and instead, stay home and eat. My step family was raised eating “organic” food, and my dad and I always ate whatever we pleased. When our two families combined, we came to a consensus to meet in the middle. Little to no sodas, no junk food unless on occasion, and very minimal fast food. But we are not opposed to a little dessert every now and then!