Why Lunch is Better than Dinner

During free time at the Best Western I could be found on the computer at the front desk pricing out equipment.  After work, I was driving to Home Depot to pickup fold-up sawhorses & a sheet of plywood for a table, an extension cord & a big red water cooler for my hot water station.  

February 5, 2013, I ordered a 10ft x 10ft Undercover brand pop-up tent on ecanopy.com for $269.95.  It was my biggest investment yet & I made damn sure it had a Flame Retardant canopy & four walls.  (I still have the tent frame today, in storage at the shop.  We use it now about once a year for catering events.)

On this Valentine's Day, (one year after taking Kate out to dinner on our first date & discovering how broke I was), I purchased a Camp Chef 3-Burner grill for Mad Munch on outdoorcooking.com.  It shipped from Utah & for $219.73 it came with a hand-forged steel, cook-ready griddle that covered 2 burners (the open burner I would use to heat up tomato soup).  

After grabbing a propane tank at 7/11 & hitting up Stump's Market for some grill test supplies, I was ready to try out my new toys.  

One sunny afternoon, I set up the tent & the grill in the side yard outside of my apartment on Cape May Ave.  I invited Kate over & I grilled us up a lunch of OBC grilled cheeses & Miller Lites.  

After this date with Kate, I still had some cash stashed away & could now visualize what Mad munch was going to look like in the very near future.