Mission: Three Days of Other People's Food!

This is been a busy week in the mission.  In fact it’s been  a perfect storm at least in terms of food (if "perfect storm" means three days not having to make meals at home!).  

On Tuesday we went to the mission home to help prepare the departing dinner: baked potatoes, a big green salad, condiments, soups, and desserts. Sister J and I  brought desserts.  She brought a fabulous pumpkin roll with a cream cheese filling like Debbie makes at home in Vermont.  So good!  We brought the Apple Cranberry Walnut Bundt Cake I mentioned earlier this week. So—on Tuesday I did not need to make supper for us at our apartment.

On Wednesday night was transfers. We always have sandwiches made by the Beaverton Sub Station which are really good sandwiches.  These sandwiches are for the arriving missionaries and all those helping them get oriented to the mission with things like interviews with the president, interviews with the nurse, picking up bedding, getting insurance cards, passports, and drivers' licenses copied, and the actual transfers of current missionaries.  We really enjoy these sandwiches.  They’re such good sandwiches that you can save half your sandwich for breakfast the next day, which I did.  I had a Reuben. I love Reuben sandwiches.  Sauerkraut is one of my favorite foods!

Finally on Thursday one of the businesses our office patronizes (actually it is a body shop which you wouldn’t think we would need to patronize but on the other hand with about 60 cars in the mission and a lot of different drivers, we do have little bumps in the road so this company helps us take care of the cars.) It was very kind of them to bring us lunch.  Not only lunch but they brought a fabulous basket of food treats! The container/basket is really kind of a little cool suitcase-like thing.  I didn’t take a picture of it today but I think I will tomorrow.  It is very cool.  Sister J knows that I LOVE containers of many kinds and said when it is empty I can take it home!  Isn’t that the best!!

So it has been a week when I have had to do very little food preparation at the apartment.  That was good since it gave me a little time to get some of the fix-up/clean-up issues addressed.  Dear One is always happier when there are empty surfaces. I am, too, for that matter, but don’t always have the energy to carry through to the end on cleaning up afterwards.