What's for Dinner, Sat., July 4, 2026

[NJCher]

Meatloaf sandwich on seeded whole wheat. Vidalia onion, crispy iceberg lettuce, and dill pickle slices. Tomato sauce on the meatloaf.

Zero sugar cola.

Dessert: Chocolate milkshake.

[democrank]

1. Dinner? The coldest items behind door #1.

So warm here so I’m going to have an Independence Day free-for-all. Open the refrigerator door and be random.

~Maybe some cottage cheese, watermelon, leftover chicken grilled with tomatoes and kale.

~ Pudding for dessert

~Lemon water

[Squeaky41]

2. Saturday night plan

Chicken pot pie.
Various diet sodas.
Moose tracks ice cream.

[Yonnie3]

3. Not a clue - will update later

I was awakened by thunder from an unscheduled nap. Strong storms in all directions except the north. We have a storm warning for the next half hour. TJ will head out to work later and there are a lot of power failures in that direction so traffic lights will be out.

I'm making a mug of Irish breakfast tea and will consider food a little later. A little porch sitting to view the storms might be good.

[Yonnie3]

5. Wow! One third of the power is off in Charlottesville

not a flicker here that I noticed.

[NJCher]

6. take a look at the power outage map

that I just posted, just to show how lucky you are:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/123213023

[Yonnie3]

7. Thanks

I've been looking at https://poweroutage.us/area/state/virginia and mousing over my county and city and see that little dot of Charlottesville in Albemarle County is at 38% off.

[NJCher]

12. that's quite a number of people

so you really are lucky.

I just put an update on that thread of a story that came out an hour ago and it said that over 100,000 New Jerseyans were without power today as a result of the storm last night.

A storm is imminent now. I want to go to the store but I'm not risking being out. Meanwhile, the fireworks are going.

[Yonnie3]

14. Hearing some fire works here - storms are gone for now

Ducky seems more annoyed than frightened by the fire works. They are not very close.

[Marthe48]

9. Stay safe!

[Emile]

4. Vanilla pudding.

I came down with the flu. Probably something I caught at my friend's funeral.

[Yonnie3]

8. Sorry to hear this

Hoping for a quick recovery for you.

[Marthe48]

10. Hope it passes soon

[Marthe48]

11. Seasoned pork on a bun

2 deviled eggs. and a dab of baked beans. I cooked everything yesterday. The only thing I did today was peel the eggs and devil them.

My daughter dropped off some black raspberries. I had a biscuit leftover from the other day, so I cooked the berries on the stove and poured them over the biscuit, topped with cool whip, tasted like cobbler

[Yonnie3]

13. Pasta casserole

It's a leftover casserole. Rotini with tomato beef sauce and cheese. It also has some summer squash in it.

Cherry pie, a small no sugar added one. Ducky had a little of the outer crust. He was a happy camper.

TJ got to work OK.