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We try to watch our weight, and our health. We don’t eat a lot of red meat, even though we love it! Today I have a major craving for a big juicy steak, cooked on the grill. Our local Food Lion has a good deal on New York Strip Steaks (my absolute favorite) and I am planning on buying several of them, along with some salad fixings and grill the steak on the back deck this evening.

I love cheese steak sandwiches. I’ve loved them ever since I was a teenager in high school. My friends and I used to go down to the local Mario’s Pizzeria and order cheese steak sandwiches and fries and a soda. We’d all sit at a booth and have a good time laughing and joking and enjoying the food. A few years ago I heard that that pizzeria closed down, and I’ve had a hard time finding a place that makes the sandwiches as well as that place did.

So I’ve been experimenting at home trying to make our own cheese steak sandwiches. I’ve come pretty close, but there’s still something missing. I guess I need to experiment with different cheeses. I’ve tried looking up recipes on the Internet, and haven’t quite gotten up the nerve to try all the different ones.

I’ve been drinking so much iced tea these past few decades that I have really begun to tire of it. Funny how the other day I was at my mother’s house and was thirsty. She thought she was pouring me a glass of iced tea, but she had grabbed the wrong pitcher and poured me a glass of Red Cherry Kool Aid. I didn’t want to waste it or her time so I drank it and was surprised at how good it went down, so I ended up going for seconds.

Now all I seem to want to drink, after my morning coffee that is, is Cherry Kool Aid.

I have been trying as of late to be eating better for my health and it hasn’t been easy, but I think that even the smallest attempt is better than nothing.  Good health and living longer has not been an issue on one side of my family with grandparents who lived into their 90’s on both sides of my family tree.

I don’t smoke, I don’t get as much exercise as I probably should, but I do a lot of walking these days, like most folks trying to save a buck here and there with the high price of gas and all, I just need to start eating a little better in an effort to live a lot longer, there is still a lot out there that I have plans on doing.

Sprite is my favorite soft drink.  However, I’ve noticed that whenever I order it as a drink in almost any restaurant, all I ever seem to get is carbonated water.  It is really nasty.  If I send it back with a complaint, they bring the same garbage back out as a replacement.  This is very aggravating because I want something sweet to drink that is caffeine free, and I don’t like the other caffeine free soft drinks.  Since it seems to be industry-wide, and nation-wide I find it hard to believe that it is the fault of the restaurant.  I wish Sprite would do something to “take care of” this situation.  They’d probably see an increase in sales if they did!