TML&D

25. Smoked Turkey sandwiches

26. Roast Beef sandwiches

27. KFC & Popeye’s Chicken. During her final months at the facility, Mom had great difficulty maintaining her caloric intake. She was on antibiotics which made most of her favorite foods taste bad or just have no taste at all, and she was the sort of person who would not eat rather than eat something she disliked. One of the things she found still tasted great were chicken tenders and drumsticks from Popeyes and KFC, and I would pick up buckets of these every few days en route to the facility by taxi, and some mashed potatoes too. I couldn’t have any because of food allergies, so any which she couldn’t finish off on the second day (reheated at the facility microwave) she would give to the most poverty-stricken nurse’s aides and staff. I was always trying to get her to eat more, as she’d lost so much weight– but she could not help but reach out to others and extend her generosity, even in her final days.

28. Honey mustard dressing. Which she would put on the chicken tenders, and salads. One of her signature flavors.