I was recently gifted (twice) with bags of fresh Meyer lemons from a hyper producing tree in a friend's backyard. These lemons, a cross between a mandarin and a lemon, are amazingly sweet. Truly stunning flavor. These combined with a bag of limes from Costco and my whole living room ceases to smell like lamb kibble and Marley's drool. If that isn't worth the price of a bag of limes, I don't know what is.

As an added bonus, I am finding new excuses multiple times a day to slice one open.

Some lime in my tomato juice with a dash of tabasco. A squeeze of lemon in my water bottle. Fresh juice for stir fry. A little more for preserving a half eaten avocados. Used rinds for cleaning out the disposal. Fresh lemon juice for making apple crisp. A slice to squeeze in a burrito with Tapatio. Some lemon wedges for iced green tea. And maybe a few limes for making rounds of caipirinhas. At lunch on a shitty Monday.

Not that I would EVER do such a thing.