Five kids and a pound of hamburger
by Joanne Wiklund, U.S.A.

One pound of hamburger, one onion, one clove garlic. Chop the onion, put one tablespoon of olive oil in skillet. Press the garlic into the oil, add the onion and brown. Take a large pan, fill half full with water and put it on to boil. Take two cans of Campbell's tomato soup, don't add the water!, open and add to the onion, etc. Add 1 tablespoon sugar, some basil, some oregano, and some celery salt, stir and simmer slowly.

Add to the boiling water a small package of angel hair pasta. Cook it about five or six minutes, drain and add it to the sauce. Mix it all up till pasta is covered. Serve on a plate sprinkled with parmesan cheese. The whole thing should take about 20 minutes tops. If you get tired of the angel hair, you take macaroni, and call it goulash. When you get tired of the goulash, you don't boil the pasta. Just put the sauce between two slices of whole wheat bread and call it Sloppy Joes. If you feel creative, you make meatballs out of the hamburger with some egg, cracker and milk. Brown the meatballs in the oil, garlic and onion, cover with the sauce, add a teaspoon of sweet pickle juice, spices and all, put in the oven and bake it for 35 or 40 minutes at 350 degrees. You can even make meatball sandwiches with it. I was raised on this. My mom had five kids and one pound of hamburger.You don't make quarter pounders that way! My children were raised on it. It is comfort food.

When it comes to housework, they told me I was allergic to house dust. I thought they said housework, so I don't do it! Seriously, the best thing you can do is to get someone else to run the sweeper. Vacuuming is the worst thing for me to do! Throws my back out every time. Pacing myself? What is that? Each year I am more convinced that I have to get some things done, time is running out. Yet each year I have been in the same place, doing the same things I said last year I don't want to do. So forget pacing myself. I am going to just enjoy today and not worry about tomorrow. It is scriptural: "The trouble today is sufficient thereof!" But most of all, today I must move something. My arm, my leg, my head, my feet, something must move. And I have to make myself move more and more all the time.