Dear Folks, This evening I decided to sample some of the Mother's Day dinner that my neighbor Ken's parents brought over yesterday. I studied the piled plate and decided that a hamburger, some baked beans and some of the macaroni salad should do nicely. Because the hamburgers were huge I cut one in half, put it on my plate, spooned a nice helping of the baked beans and put the plate in the microwave to heat up. I spooned a helping of the macaroni salad onto a salad plate and aside from brewing up a cup of after-dinner coffee, I was all set. I found the hamburger to be very tasty, not just a plain hamburger patty. The baked beans were just to my liking but I feel guilty telling you that I was disappointed with the macaroni salad. To my taste buds, it didn't have the flavor of enough mayonnaise and it didn't have a touch of mustard in it. Nonetheless it did taste good and went well with the rest of my dinner. In my mind it was a well-balanced nutritional dinner--meat, vegetable and starch. But let me tell you this. When I sampled the strawberry cake, it was to die for! It's obvious that there was strawberry Jell-O mixed in with a cake mix and who knows but what there was also some strawberry preserves mixed in with it. It was light, fluffy, moist and utterly delicious. The over-sized slice of cake would have normally been three servings for me. But before I knew it, I had eaten a good half of it after dinner with my special cup of coffee. When I finally felt less stuffed, I tackled the rest of the leftovers and figured out just how to freeze them in individual servings. First I scooped up the remaining baked beans and spread them just right into a plastic wrap lined tray and put the tray into the freezer. I knew that there were two more helpings of the beans for another couple of meals. Then I scooped up the remaining macaroni salad and placed it into a small plastic container and put it into the refrigerator. Whether it's only one more helping in the container remains to be seen. Next on my list were the two long hot dogs. I cut each of them in half and added them to the freezer--four more helpings. What was left were the 1-1/2 large hamburgers. I cut the whole one in half, wrapped the three halves in plastic wrap and I have three more helpings. I know that the one plate of food that Pattie and John brought over would have been just right for John's appetite. He would have finished it up in one sitting complete with hot dog buns and hamburger buns. But thank goodness for my small-capacity stomach. There's nothing wrong with my appetite, it's that over the years I know just how much my stomach can handle before it starts begging at me "enough, enough!" Now you see what it means to me when anyone brings over "a bit" of leftover holiday dinners. I can feast on the leftovers for months!! Burp! vee