Day 2 of the Food Stamp Challenge...Thoughts From "Mom"

Tonight our dinner is Tilapia, which is a tender white fish fillet.

It is almost a delicacy. It needs to be served on china plates and use the good silverware, if you please.

This brings up another memory from my childhood in Texas.

Sometimes on Friday night Dad would go down to the fish market and buy a bushel--yes a bushel--basket full of shrimp. This may sound icky to some folks, but how Mom served the shrimp was the best. She boiled the shrimp and let them cool and drain out on our screen porch. Then on our large mahogany dining room table, she spread out the Dallas Morning News at least an inch thick. At each place there were individual condiments: lemon slices, mayo, ketchup, and shrimp sauce. (Very fancy!) I remember I only wanted mayo; some others had all four. After the shrimp had drained, she piled it all in the middle of the table and we shelled and ate shrimp until we were stuffed to the gills.

I don't think we can serve Tilapia like that.

This Food Stamp Challenge can be fun. The menu we created from the SHARE BIG Value Package and a few dollars left over will work. The most important ingredient in any meal is how it’s presented on the plate and the smile on the face of the presenter.