Ramen Noodles

Years ago when the Scout Master and I had only been married for about 6 months we wanted to move from our no heat, no hot water apartment into something that would be friendly to our meager income but also provide us with those maybe not necessary but certainly nice to have features. A married couple who where really good friends with us had what we called a sweet deal and let us in on some insider information that could lead us to a new and more desirable apartment. See Joyce and Ernie were what we called apartment police. They lived in a building where they kept watch over the girls that lived there, making sure that the boys where out on time and all that jazz. Aspen apartments would rent out their unused apartments to married couples. The Scout Master and I knew we had to get in on that because Aspen apartments had to be campus approved for unmarried students to live in! They had free heat, local phone and cable!! We are talking a MAJOR upgrade from the apartment we were living in (which by the way was not campus approved, apparently once you are married you can live in any dark hole you can find).

Anyway, the lease on our crappy sub-par, sock blacking apartment was up and we were jazzed to move. But on what money The Scout Master made feeding cows (yes, he really did that and sometimes I helped, it's a long story that doesn't have much to do with or current story so back to that later). What was I say? Oh, yes......so we were going to move but we needed to come up with some money. The only money we had other then our rent money was food money. So we put a down payment on the new apartment and ate Ramen Noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner for about a month. Really, a month. That isn't even me being dramatic or anything.

Needless to say that after that time Ramen Noodles didn't make onto our menu after that. But a few weeks ago while I was at the grocery store I picked up a 12 pack of Ramen Noodles for our food storage. It was a nostalgic purchase, I admit it.

Somehow the Scout Master got a hold of them and made them for dinner for everyone. This was the kids' first experience with Ramen Noodles. They loved them!! So to commemorate there first taste of chicken flavored Ramen Noodles I had to take a few pictures.

Emma thinks they are fun!

Kyle breaking the rules and eating
with his fingers.

B. Having a great time with all those noodles!

I have to admit after so long a time they tasted good and had me thinking about how cozy it was in that new apartment with the heat, the hot water, and the cable.