We had a gift certificate for Les Shchwab for a tire balance and rotation that someone in my family won in a raffle at the volunteer fire department fund raiser. No one needed it until we got new tires for my husbands car recently and put them on ourselves because my dad was a mechanic for a long time. So yesterday my husband took the last half of his shift working for a bank of america call center off and we drove to the neighboring town where the certificate was written out to and got the tires done. And of course one of the joys of owning a car is taking it to have one thing done and the guy tells you you have something else wrong. The ball joint on the left side is shot so we'll need to have my dad fix that.
Anyway, so when we got home it was late and I just didn't feel like making anything fancy so we had sloppy joes. We used store bought buns and a can of sauce so I didn't take any pictures. I just wanted to post this as a reminder that homemade food is great, and nothing beats homemade hamburger buns. But sometimes it's okay to splurge and eat something prepackaged and factory made. The buns were actually free because the call center is neighboring with the local food bank and when they have over stock they sometimes bring stuff over and let the employees take it home just so someone eats it and it doesn't get thrown away. But if we had bought it we can get it for $0.98 at Kroger or $1.00 at Walmart just depending on sales, and the sloppy joe sauce was store brand for $0.88. The beef is about $3.50 for 1lb but we already had some from a larger package. Either way you're looking at about $5.50 for 8 'sandwiches' which is still an amazing price considering if you went out to eat you would be paying about that much per 'sandwich' if not more.
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