Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 20, 2019

Where are the potato chips?

The mini ones also go very well with spaghetti

French toast, OUI !

Wonder if the kids will end up playing doctor?

Do I detect a Rose Is Rose influence here?

We have too many nights like that in our little love nest.

Are we doing dinner?,or grazing?

Every Sunday after breakfast, we make a menu for the next eight days. We also assign cooks. Sometimes we even follow the menu.

You mean they DIDN’T chop up the hot dogs and put them INTO the mac n’ cheese? That’s the full-on meal of any college kid out there… cheap and easy. ;-)

Janis as a kid in #3 looks like she’s from a Gene & family panel.

I cook, he eats. He cooks, I eat. With just two of us, and a cat that doesn’t like most “people food”, we rarely have a problem, because we don’t cook what isn’t liked by both of us…we can get personal favorites when we go out to eat.

Wow! Child Janis today! Is this a first?

It has taken us years to adjust to a gradually emptying nest. Only one son home now, and he not too often. The adjustment involved volume. It is hard to make spaghetti for two after decades of cooking for a crowd.

Mac and cheese (augmented w/sharp cheddar) is actually pretty awesome by itself.

Some kind of noodle with some kind of sauce with meat in some shape. Works for us.

When the kids were in middle school we always had “guests” for supper, sometimes several. Ergo Mac and Chess was a staple. if I was home from work in time from scratch, but there were a LOT of blue boxes in the trash as well. You know how salty that is-but one little fellow always had to salt his almost white. Hope Janis and Arlo have their BP med’s on track.

When we have these nights it’s what we call “pizza, pop and popcorn” night. Frozen pizza (Dr. Oetkers Pulled pork) and put on a movie and make popcorn. Wash it down with a soda. Just a nice quiet night.

Nice throwback to Gomer,and LuAnn ;)

Ha! We had Mac and cheese last night for the first time since our ‘salad days’

If its early enough, my wife and I go to the market and see if anythingSparks the appetite. One of the benefits of being retired

That is so us! Give me three choices, no you, no you——-

Reliving the best parts of your youth to enjoy the other parts as well.

…“Relationships are just two people constantly asking each other what they want to eat, until one of them dies”…

My wife doesn’t even ask. We know whatever she makes will be amazing.

When our kids were little, I once told a friend from my wild days that you don’t really realize you’ve been fully domesticated until you’ve eaten a dinner of hot dogs & M&C off a Dukes Of Hazzard plate and washed it down with Kool-Aid from a Hamburglar glass, then showered & dried off with a Big Bird towel……….

Sonic works. With a limeade Slush.

I our early married life, I would prepare 3 cheese mac and cheese for my wife and I. Farfalle, parmigiana, Romano and mozzarella with a butter and half and half roux…baked until bubbly and crusty. After 45 years and a much tightened budget it is now Annies shells with white cheddar out of a box, on the stove top.

we have two freezers full from the abattoir, but wife forgets to take anything out, so it ends up h-dogs or discount frozen pizzas.

My hubby will occasionally suggest what he would like for dinner, or I will ask if he wants something special for his birthday. Usually though, I cook it and he eats it. I’ve learned over the years what things he REALLY dislikes, but he is always happy when I make meat loaf and mashed potatoes!

If you’re going to ACT like children ….

I believe the point here is that in panel 3 they reverted to their childhood selves and decided to have what they would have enjoyed as kids.

We go out for dinner quite often, the weekdays are pretty much one or two different places, but the weekends we vary it up a little. Often we get to the point of walking out the door and one of us will ask “where do you want to go” probably 90% of the time we are thinking of the same place.

Beanie weenies!

Jinx jinx jinx jinx. I said jinx first. Gonna tell mommy

When my wife and I have this conversation, we usually end up going out to eat.

We had hot dogs last night! :-D If you’re ever in Vallejo, CA try Sac’s Hot Dogs. You won’t be disappointed.

Beans and Franks, and canned brown bread. Yum!

This was one of my hubby’s and my staple dinners in our early years….

My late husband used to ask me that occasionally when I getting ready in the morning. I would usually tell him that I wasn’t even sure what I wanted for breakfast yet.

Always spaghetti on Monday..eating in or out. so that’s one night that is easy

I used to love hot dogs. I got ill from them about 2 years ago and can barely deal with cooking them for him – cannot eat them any longer.

When we both worked I had a schedule of meals that we ate week to week. Now there are so many things that one or the other cannot eat that I am often cooking two different dinners. Latest thing is that he has become lactose intolerant.