Oh, cravings! Who among us does not suffer from cravings?

I\’ve had a craving for sweets since I was a very young child. I guess I got that from my grandmother. She loved sweets, too.

Now that I have pre-diabetes, I\’m working to control my desire for candy, ice cream, and such stuff. Shameful to state, I still nibble at the goodies more than I should.

My desires aren\’t limited to the sugary stuff, either. Chinese food is another. The local Chinese restaurant closed before the end of March, thanks to COVID-19. On June 1st, they opened again; take-out and evening delivery only. Yesterday after I clocked out of work, I trotted over there and got take-out: the Mandarin Chicken Combination Plate, all white meat. (The all white meat costs a little more, but I like it much better).

It would have been much faster to ride, but fitting a take-out dinner box into a bike trunk is a bit tricky. The little container of gravy (for the chicken) might have fallen over, and leaked all over the place. What a mess that would have been to clean up.

My dinner was a bit cooler than I would have liked by the time I had walked home, but that had an upside. I didn\’t scorch my gums just behind my upper incisors by chomping down on a too-hot egg roll!

There was another upside as well. As soon as I walked into the kitchen with my food, I got out two pint-size food containers; and split my dinner into three. Well, the chicken and fried rice parts, anyway. I didn\’t want to cut up the egg roll because the filling would have fallen out.

Thus I\’ve gotten three meals for $12. That\’s pretty hard to beat. But now that the restaurant is open, my cravings for Chinese food will be much harder to control!