I was in The Dollar Tree last Thursday as usual and looking over their frozen food items I saw 2 new ones being Veggie meatballs and burgers. I have tried the so called phony veggie burgers which are FALSELY called hamburgers as they are not made out of any kind of meat and therefore are not burgers--but that's a whole other rant!

Looking at the 2 boxes I decided to try them and got one of each. On Saturday, as a snack, I decided to cook up the 'meatballs'. There were 8 of them and though, as in much of these make believe meat substitutes, they had a high sodium count, I went for them. I put them on one of my red plates, sat at my dining room table and took a bite--for me a small bite!

I could not believe how bad, awful, sickening they tasted but--being fair--I took one more bite and, if possible, it even tasted worse!

Over 85 years I have survived baby food, my mother's cooking (she couldn't!), Marine Corps food, many bad restaurants and very varied foods but there has only been two foods I vowed to never have again and that was Oyster plant which was on the Weight Watchers list of 'free' foods so I had to taste it. Oyster plant and tofu---no matter what you cooked it in and/or how you cooked it--tasted like bad cardboard and I vowed never to have either again. (In my defense I tried over 20 different recipes with tofu and the tofu tasted like nothing else it was cooked in!)

I threw out the other 7 and 3/4 'veggie meatballs' out and that hurt!! I was thinking of feeding them to one of the resident's pets but couldn't bring myself to do that let alone offer them to a neighbor to taste!!

I now have a box of 2 Veggie 'burgers' in my freezer. Will I try them? When? Can I put enough cheese or mustard and/or ketchup to cover whatever fowl taste they may have? Should I give them a chance? Should I give them to a resident I may not like too much? (If they are as bad as the 'meatballs' there isn't anyone in the world I hate that much!!)

How can I throw out more food? I keep hearing millions and millions of mothers talking about the 'starving kids in (pick a country)' and the guilt is overwhelming but if I ever contemplate comfiting suicide I will go back to The Dollar Tree and buy a couple of boxes of 'Veggie Meatballs' as that is the ONLY reason I can think of for eating them ever again--and what if they don't work??? NO! I WILL NEVER EAT THEM AGAIN!!!!

Mmmmm---but what about the 'Veggie Burgers'? Dare I?