What’s for Dinner?

Let me just start off by saying, Don’t ever say I didn’t warn you.

If you come over to my house for dinner and I am cooking… Well let’s just say,  pay attention to what you are eating.

Last night, I came home from work to the usual “What’s for dinner mom?” right as I walk in the door. 

No, “Missed you today, Mom”, or “How was your day, Mom”  Nope, straight for the I-don’t-care-if-you-are-tired-and-just-want-to-relax-for-a-minute “What’s for dinner, Mom?”.  I guess that’s the life of the working mom.  You gotta bring home the bacon AND fry it up in a pan without missing a beat.

Anyway, on last nights menu was Frozen Cheese Pizza. 

Don’t judge.  It is quick, easy, and since it has no meat, fairly healthy.  1/3 of a Digiorno 4 cheese  pizza only has 270 calories.  That works out to about 3 small pieces.

So, I turn on the oven to preheat, walk into the bedroom to drop off my purse.  Where Hubby greets me with “Hi Honey, I’m starving, what’s for dinner?”  Arghh!

I then go back into the kitchen and take the pizza out the plastic, put it on a pizza pan and stick it in the oven.  Then for the next 23 minutes while the pizza is baking, I go to the bedroom and help Hubby study for the Lieutenants test.

23 minutes later, take the pizza out of the oven and start slicing it up with a pizza cutter.  Only it is not slicing all the way through.  I keep cutting and cutting and nothing is happening.  So I carefully lift the edge of the pizza up to see if I burned the bottom so bad the pizza is inedible (I’ve never done THAT before) and I see… nothing.  Nice brown bottom of the pizza.

Oh, Wait!

That is not the bottom of the pizza, that is the cardboard the pizza came on!

Hey, I was just trying to work in that extra fiber my family needs in their diet.

Again, don’t say I didn’t ever warn you.