Gary has insisted we eat everything out of the fridge before we get serious about the Gulag Diet Part the Second. Therefore I’ve been cooking food that’s been in the freezer since … December.
I know there are rules about how long you can keep something in the freezer, but in my mind it’s all in cryogenic suspended animation and it will freeze forever.
It was an interesting meal of meatballs, pasta, no sauce but for some butter and cheese, and cocktail wieners in barbecue sauce. Afterward, I became ill. (No!) Not just, “oh, it’s Friday, time for my colon’s weekly visit” sick. More like “there are immune system cells with industrial strength power washers sitting by my appendix and turning my lower intestine into a water slide” sick. Judging from the mad flushing from the hall bathroom, Gary was in the same position.
(And, Friends #3 and Caroline, before you start for the comment button, it wasn’t the ice cream WE had for lunch. It wasn’t. Gary was equally sick.)
I was so sick and so convinced I had given us a mild case of e-coli that I staggered out of the master bathroom and apologized to my husband through the hall bathroom door.
“Oh, it’s not the food, this is just a touch of the stomach flu. Mom had it this week already,” Gary moaned.
THIS from the man who has a special way of pointing into the fridge and shrieking “Rot-ted!” in the manner of “Bani-shed!” from Romeo and Juliet? THIS from the son of the woman who wraps food in Saran Wrap before she puts it in the Tupperware? THIS from the brother of the woman who invades her relatives houses and throws out spices because they are past the expiration date? (Suddenly, we have no spices. Oh, did Karen visit by recently? Can’t turn your back on her.)
And here he has a prime opportunity to wag his finger and berate me for my lax housekeeping and he blames His MOTHER.
He must luurrrve me.
4 responses to “E-Coli?”
Awww…how romantic.
Sue – You know, almost as romantic as the time I had the flu and barfed on him.
Same stuff we had here Thursday – Tuesday.I lost 12 pounds!There are rules about how long you’re supposed to keep stuff in the freezer?
Hot Mom – thankfully, mine only lasted a day and a half. And yeah, I think there are freezer rules in my cookbook. Karen, of course knows them all. Oh, a speaking of Karen, she threw out some bottled water because it was past its “best on” date.