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Gregory Morrow[_34_] Gregory Morrow[_34_] is offline
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Default Eating and shopping well on a strict budget

cyberPIG oinks:

> "Sheldon" > wrote in message
> ...
> "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
> >
> > I don't pay
> > full price at the supermarket though, as I can get big saving using a

food
> > warehouse (BJ's in our area). Why pay $4.99 a pound for pork loin when I
> > can
> > buy it and cut it myself for $1.89 a pound?

>
> >I don't know of any cuts of pork that cost $5/lb unless it's cured
> >pork.

>
> Then you sure don't know much. Here in NC, where there are more pigs
> than people (you would be right at home you ugly old man) all cuts

regularly
> cost at least $2.50 a pound, with average cuts costing $3.79 and better

cuts
> costing
> $5- $8 a pound.
>
> I can get pork loins and chops for $1.99 to $2.50 if I watch for sales,

but
> not every
> week.



That's kinda "odd", here in Chicawgo pork is just about the cheapest meat
going, many times it's cheaper than chicken even...


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