Charlie cooks lunch on visitation days so I have more time to spend with Hailey instead of wasting it on cooking. Today, I walk into the kitchen and I smelled something really weird. I’d smelled it before… it was really familiar but unfamiliar in our home.

“What’s that smell?”

It took a while before we figured it out. Charlie wasn’t sure what smell I was referring to until I was eating and I asked him what he’d put into the burgers. He claimed it was only salt and pepper. So I sat slowly chewing my food, trying to figure out why it tasted so differently. Finally Charlie bursts out in excitement and announces that he knows what it is.

It’s real ground beef! It’s not the ground beef in the tube that has been processed to fit in the tube!

Holy crap! That’s exactly what it was. The smell and the taste are so different when it’s fresh. Not that there is anything wrong with ground beef in the tube. I mean.. it’s cheaper by like $3/pound and after the first few times of eating it, it becomes pretty normal to you. But when we were at BiLo a couple of days ago, the fresh ground beef was on sale so we picked some up. I’m pretty sure I haven’t had fresh ground beef since I’ve lived here. haha