Oh, I hate when what you think of as being fiscally pro-active bites you in the butt.

Oy, Zen, that's no fun.

I'm a little tight myself with the fraudulent charges, but mostly all that means is that I can't go to the Rush concert tomorrow, which is a pretty first world problem. I'm also going to try not to grocer until after payday, which may be a pretty interesting exercise in creativity. Starting with tuna noodle casserole tonight! But I actually love tuna noodle casserole, and Dave hates it, so while he's on tour is an excellent time for me to do it.

I ordered dog food before, thankfully, but no idea if it'll come before I run out of what I have, so the dog might be getting crumbled up dog treats for a meal or two. It's the same thing, just in biscuit form, it's just not money efficient that way. What's the word I mean for that? Oh, economical, right.

I told Hubby's daughter about the ceremony for the organ donation memorial, she acknowledged it but said nothing else. Which is fine by me, I am quite content to go alone and make this observation in silence.

My mom never made tuna noodle casserole, which gave me a little sads growing up as I love both canned tuna and noodle casserole and thought it would be very delicious to combine the two.

I think I mainly had the camping version:ramen, tuna, froz veg trifecta plus cheese. Possibly cheese in a can. Cooked over butane. I've had the actual casserole in the Midwest, but I preferred the camp ramen version.

I also love tuna noodle casserole. Brokeness is the perfect reason to finally start, begrudgingly, to learn to cook, so I might as well start by making something I really like.

Boil 2/3 bag of Muller's wide egg noodles for six minutes, throw in a handful of frozen green peas. While cooking, open and drain 6oz can of white or light tuna, and one can condensed can cream of mushroom soup. Drain noodles, add tuna, using fork to tease tuna flakes apart. Add soup, toss gently, dust with cracked black pepper, and serve.

It ain't cuisine, but it's fast, filling, and has protein. Even token greenery!

My egg noodles are always mush.

My mom never made tuna noodle casserole, either, but I tried it as an adult and quite like it. I do a white sauce instead of the cream of mushroom soup, though, usually. Unless I have cream of something soup lying around, but I usually don't.

Ooh, I could make that with shirataki noodles, or something close enough. Some time in the future.

I just use regular pasta. And today I didn't have cream of mushroom soup, so I made a roux. And I added black olives because I did have those and the SO haaaaates olives. And I thought I had panko, but I didn't, but I did have rye toast crackers so I banged those against the counter until the dog came running to the kitchen looking at me all worriedly. So, really, not like tuna noodle casserole at all. But it had tuna! and noodles! And was in a casserole dish, so never mind, it was totally valid tuna noodle casserole. And yummy, and will last me quite a while by myself.