Cow Hearts for Dinner?

As we have not sold our house and I have not been working the past few months, we have been trying to budget a little better.  The most obvious area of our budget, meals.  I will say it helps mothers who have limited creativity for dreaming up daily dinner concoctions.  I make about two or three meals a week and we eat leftovers the remainder of the week, until Sunday comes.  Our first stop after church are the ever so common letters W-A-L-M-A-R-T.  Probably not the best time to shop as we are starved by the time we finish visiting with families at our church, and are craving just about everything we walk by on Walmart aisles.

So in effort to control how much we buy, while shopping at such a poorly planned time, we generally have our ever constant list.  However, a few weeks ago, we decided to add a little variety and grill out all our meals.  We got chicken legs as John Tesh recommends, hot dogs, and Walmarts great value hamburgers.  The hamburgers were a great steal and would last over a number of weeks, or so we thought.  While Brenton was getting the grill ready, I was getting the meat out and decided to read what the burgers were made of.  The two main ingredients, beef and beef heart.  All of a sudden the idea of burgers made me want to throw up.

Trying to be "tough", I ate the burgers last week without telling Brenton to avoid spoiling his meals as well.  Well tonight, Brenton decided the burgers were such a steal that we should keep buying them.  At this point, I told Brenton what we were about to eat for dinner cause I had been choking down every burger we had up to til now.  We laughed about it through dinner, after dinner and through our walk, until Brenton became so sick he finally agreed that we could throw the rest out. 

Yes!  No more beef heart burgers!  The funny part of the whole ordeal is that we really didn't save anything by our new steal.  We actually spent the rest of the night drinking all our juice, soda and eating anything to wash out beef heart.