Eating and shopping well on a strict budget
Sheldon wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2:53�pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:56:36 -0800 (PST), Sheldon >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Cindy Fuller wrote:
>>>> I have found great bargains on produce at Asian groceries. ?
>>>> I can get a bag of shallots for what it cost to get two or three at a
>>>> supermarket.
>>> That's too funny... people on a $5/day food budget don't buy
>>> shallots... whatsamatter, Ms Champagne Taste, ordinary onions ain't
>>> good enough for your beer pocketbook... well la dee dah, may as well
>>> pick up a little basket of mushyrooms to go with those shallots,
>>> there's goes nearly your entire $5/day budget and you didn't eat yet.
>>> <G>
>>> WTF are you going to do with shallots on your P&J budget.
>> PB&J w/shallot sandwiches are quite good. �Haven't you ever had them?
>> Probably about as good as those 36 cans of spam you eat per year.
>
> Nope, my Spam is better... it's what I had for dinner last night, a
> can of beans in chili sauce (store brand-79cts) with a can of diced
> Spam, nuked... washed down with ruby port spritzer. And anyway I'm
> not on any budget but sometimes I eat inexpensively, not planned that
> way but turns out that way because it's what I want. I have a few
> different jams but I don't even have peanut butter in the house but I
> do buy in-shell roasted peanuts.
>
> SHELDON
Do the peanuts cut into your gerbil budget?
-dk
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