How about the rich and stupid? (miserable failure)
Posted on 08/28/2006 11:20:06 AM PDT by freepatriot32
If you shop at WalMart try the ground turkey chub (freezer case) for $1.36 a pound. Low fat and good in any ground beef recipe. Ten pound bags of chicken legs with thighs attached are under $5.00. Remove the skin and it's relatively low fat.
For healthy veggies, Great Value frozen veggies with no additives like fake butter sauce, etc. Cheap and as healthy as fresh. You can eat cheaply and well, but you have to look around and think outside the box.
I made a big vat of homemade beef stew just a few days ago. I like to use V-8 instead of tomato juice-seems to give it a better flavor and body.
About once every 10 days, I run production on 3 main courses, cooking up enough to last through a good many meals. For example, this might consist of spaghetti sauce, seafood Alfredo and chicken marsala. One portion of each goes into the frig, the remaining portions into the freezer. In the morning, I pick which one I want, let it thaw during the day then microwave it later. Rice microwaves fast and so do potatoes. A thawed half-slab of pork ribs broils in about 20 minutes. Baby backs are even faster. While things are heating or cooking, I'm free to do something else until the timer goes off. Want your fruits and veggies fast? All you need is a blender, juicer or food processor. I have them all. There's just no excuse for not eating well at home.
Three words: rice and beans.
Too many carbs. :)
Does this mean that Fat Momma will win on "Who Wants To Be A Superhero"?
Pizza is actually the perfect example of a complete meal.........all the food groups are represented.
I actually thought about making it tonight.......but opted instead for chicken livers. Maybe I'll do pizza tomorrow.
No offense, but has this person actually seen what Jo Frost looks like?
I do the same thing. :)
When I'm craving heat, I'll even use the spicy V-8. Ooo-la-la!
Well, of course you didn't see them. They were all at home, gobbling Hagen Daz and watching the day soaps, while their copies of "Sweatin To The Oldies" moldered on the shelf. ;-)
Sorry. I meant to ask what is your proposed budget for poor families. Apologies for seeming to pry into your personal budget.
One solution would be to get rid of the Food Stamp program and go back to giving out commoditites.
When I was a kid, we had a family down the street that would be called "dysfunctional" today. The dad was in prison, the mother was an alcoholic, the older brother did heroin and the older sister was a streetwalker. The kid my age was my best friend and you couldn't ask for a nicer or more polite kid.
Every month this family received government commodities - flour, powdered milk and eggs, peanut butter, honey, cocoa, canned Spam product, margarine, oatmeal, dried beans, potatos, onions and others. As a kid I was fixated on the large tin of peanut butter - I couldn't understand why I couldn't get one.
Back then poor people had no choice but to prepare food from scratch.
The grocery industry helped get the Food Stamp program started. A grocery store makes just as much profit on a cart full of groceries whether you pay cash for it or use Food Stamps. In the days of commoditites - the grocery industry got nothing from the poor - since they were given food directly.
Maybe we should think about returning to the days of direct food distribution.
I know the ACLU would have a hissy fit since the poor have the "right" to purchase whatever food they desire (as long as us working stiffs are paying the bills).
I get very tired (as many others do) of standing in line at the grocery cashier and seeing the person in front of me pay for pop, chips, ice cream, cookies, frozen pizzas and T-bone steaks with Food Stamps (or now with the Electronic Benefits Card), while I'm buying whatever's on sale that week.
Where do you get the idea that if someone is overweight or a smoker they don't work as hard as someone else? I thought a person was hired due to their being able to do the job? Silly me. I am a smoker and when I worked I put 150% into my job. And alot of non-smokers couldn't hold a candle to me as far as my health was concerned. But then I did eat right and got plenty of exercise.
Hehehe...
I guess everybody's not on Phase I.
It can't smell as bad as my dad's homemade sauerkraut. The only things that could clear our house were Dad making sauerkraut, and Mom giving me a perm.
One time Mom and Dad launched into an odor offensive - Mom was perming me and Dad decided he HAD TO MAKE SAUERKRAUT RIGHT THIS SECOND - and my eyes still water when I think about that.
We had to open all the windows, and that is a project not lightly undertaken on a 100-degree summer day in Houston.
Thankfully no one in my house thinks cauliflower stinks......it is about one of my favorite veggies.
Well for me, hitting a fast food restaurant is a rare treat. I usually spend less than a dollar fifty per person per meal.
Why are your posts about Hispanic people?
And beans are good for you.
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