Today I consider myself a spender of
negative nothing. Sounds strange, I know, but this is my reasoning. Today I made crab cakes for dinner. Usually I buy a can of lump crab meat and make them using my world famous recipe that brings friends and family begging for my crab cakes. (Sorry for bragging but it's true!) I usually make them 2 or 3 times a summer because of the expense... over 20.00 for that can of crab meat is bothersome to me. If I have to feed more than 4 people I end up buying two cans or three ergo spending over 40.00-60.00...almost the cost of filet mignon! That's why only the most avid of crab cake lovers will be the recipients of my endeavors. Every once in a while I go out to dinner and order crab cakes and they range from 20.00-25.00 an entree of 2 cakes. So if my family goes out to dinner and we all get crab cakes that would be about 75.00 plus and they're not half as good as home made. But today I reverted back to a time when man had to hunt and kill his food for dinner. I spent part of the week-end crabbing in the bay and caught a good number of crabs. Together my husband and I ripped their shells off and then cleaned and steamed the little buggers. I methodically removed all of the meat from the shells and had a nice amount to make a crab cake dinner! It was quite a process but quite delicious. Since I made the dinner without buying anything I consider it a
less than spending anything adventure! Wonder what else I can find in the wild to eat.
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