Posted on 08/11/2013 7:32:30 AM PDT by george76
Edited on 08/11/2013 7:45:27 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
This time of year I can add fresh produce from my garden - beets, chard, eggplant, green beans, tomatillos, fresh spuds (yum), bok choy, zukes, corn (if the varmints don't get it first) and winter squash.
I almost never eat out. Massive waste of money IMO.
I refuse to pay more than $2/pound for meat.
For a family that has to buy in volume each week, it has to be tough nowadays, they just can't wait for the deals like I can.
what time is dinner? lol! Sounds awesome, I myself don’t eat much but three growing teens do.
Heh, me and my brother just about ate my parents out of house and home when we were teens. We drank 11 gallons of milk a week between the two of us. I don’t think my parents could have afforded a third food hoover.
One of my friends said she knew a woman whose job for 6 years was going to the store and bringing home massive amounts of food for her 3 boys! 10 boxes of cereal at a time! My boys do consume a lot of milk!
His parents need to cut him off. Someone has to be paying for the expenses related to his rather nice vehicle.
What ever happened to you don’t work you don’t eat ?
He has enough to buy beer and gas for that car.
Another case of government stupidity.
We need you to publish a shopping/cooking guide here at FR! I can barely get out of the store at $200 a week much less $200 a month. But then I won’t eat Perdue or manager special meat.
This must be news because he’s a white surf punk kid. What about all the illegals and Holder’s people doing the same thing, except having more kids so that their EBT balances are higher?
If you stick to chicken breast for most of your meat, even at mid-price stores such as Giant, you can sometimes get that for $2/pound boneless - and you can do all kinds of things with chicken breast, including chicken chili. You can make tasty posole with thighs. We have two chains in the Philly area, Bottom Dollar and Food Basics, that have very good prices and I shop at both for different items. Food Basics will put high-fiber pasta on sale for 88 cents a box for a 12-ounce box. They have large cans of passable coffee for $6.50 a can, both caf and decaf, and that lasts me for a couple of months. Both stores have decent quality produce. Local Jersey bell peppers for 99 cents a pound at Food Basics. Onions on sale this week at Bottom Dollar - a three pound bag for 99 cents. It is worth looking for similar stores in your area, learn which ones are best for various goods and then watch the circulars like a hawk. I really don’t like Aldi or Save-A-Lot much.
Turning this in to a Cooking And Shopping thread totally misses the point.
This guy is now the norm, and that’s WHY you’ve got to be such a careful shopper, taxpayer...
Death panel will be there for him. Easy come, easy go.
He will become a death panel candidate favorite when he stops voting.
Aldi is the only one in my area, I think. (I’m in central Jersey.) I’m stuck with the terrible A&P and high end stores like Whole Foods, Trader Joes and Wegmans. My total downfall is “organic.” I don’t necessarily believe that it is, lol, but I do tend to go for it. But as someone else said, you are a total inspiration and I’m enjoying your posts.
Bottom Dollar has stores near Trenton and Food Basics has stores in Jersey just west of NYC.
I’ll look for it, thanks.
No, a 1040EZ is for single or married, no kids, standard deduction, no special credits, and up to 100k in income. It does NOT necessarily “mean you are society’s burden.”
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