What do you do when you have little to no money for groceries?

Start rooting around in your chest freezer.

We’ve found a Berger smoked turkey (yes, an entire turkey. A big one) that someone (my dad? Dad’s girlfriend? In-laws?) sent us for Christmas this past year and which we never ate. We tossed it in the freezer for another time, and that time has come.

We now have enough smoked turkey meat to make a million meals, and that’s just what we’ll do.

Yesterday we had turkey sandwiches.

Today I had a turkey leg for lunch.

Tomorrow we’ll do a dinner of turkey in some way, shape or form…

God bless chest freezers. And relatives who think smoked meat is a good present.

p.s. Is it bad that, when I was younger, I thought about all the cool but totally uncessary things I’d buy if I won the lottery… but now that I’m where we are today, I daydream over paying off my student loans and my one credit card, my car loan and my bills so that I could FLOAT FREE AS AN EAGLE? I find it pretty pathetic and lame, but maybe that’s just what adulthood does to you.