[maryz]

Fresh produce and meat costs far less than the prepackaged frozen stuff..

Produce (even though it's August) and meat (even hamburger) cost a fortune around here. Pasta, potatoes and bread are cheap. And you'll get fat on them. Stouffer's frozen stuff is expensive, but Banquet frozen dinners go for $1 apiece; their potpies are $.69.

[Froufrou]

Banquet is probably more caloric-correct than tortillas and frijoles.

[L98Fiero]

"Pasta, potatoes and bread are cheap. And you'll get fat on them."

Perhaps you meant, "You CAN get fat on them." I eat what I want and how much I want. I drink enough soda to warrant my own factory. :) I'm pushing 40, stand 6'0" and weight 165.

Oh yeah, I exercise moderately. VERY moderately. ;)

I don't use the elevator, I use the stairs. I take 2 steps at a time. I don't troll the supermarket parking lot for the absolute closest spot, I just park and walk. I always seem to be involved in some project or other that is phyically demanding, by my choice. These are things I have always done and I have always been in good shape.

Lifestyle.

[A knight without armor]

Fresh produce and meat costs far less than the prepackaged frozen stuff..

Produce (even though it's August) and meat (even hamburger) cost a fortune around here. Pasta, potatoes and bread are cheap. And you'll get fat on them. Stouffer's frozen stuff is expensive, but Banquet frozen dinners go for $1 apiece; their potpies are $.69.


Produce and meat are sky high in my area, too. Pasta, potatoes, bread, white rice, oleo are cheaper. If you have $3 for the week you buy those things instead of a bag of grapes. Of course portion control is so crucial. That being said, people come home hungry and stressed and tired like everyone else and tend to overeat. They do get fat and humiliated. I know people who do this and I have my poor times, too. I suppose the sin starts at being poor and stupid and ignorant in the first place.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Produce (even though it's August) and meat (even hamburger) cost a fortune around here.

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What is your daily budget that does not buy enough normal ingredients?

(And frozen veggies are always cheap, lots for around a buck or two a pound.)

(Pork shoulder is usually about $2-3 bucks a pound. Damn good stuff if you simmer it long enough)

Brown rice is just a cheap as white, and is quite good for you, and won't make you chubby.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Not if you eat the ACTUAL serving size. Too many people think that a portion is an entire dinner plate stacked high (cause it is only "one helping". A serving of meat or chicken is about the size of your palm.