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Sheldon Sheldon is offline
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Default (2007-12-21) New survey on the RFC site: Eating well onUS$40.00per week?

On Dec 21, 1:41�pm, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:36:46 -0800 (PST), Sheldon >
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> >On Dec 21, 1:21?pm, sf wrote:
> >> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:50 -0500, Dave Smith

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> >> >ChattyCathy wrote:

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> >> >> If you live alone (as Chris does) one can buy purely what * you* like to
> >> >> eat - which can be quite a saving in itself... We have 4 people in our
> >> >> immediate family and, for example, 3 of us like celery and one of us
> >> >> doesn't, so I buy celery for certain dishes. I hate tofu, but one of the
> >> >> family members likes it, so I have also been known to buy that... If I
> >> >> lived alone, tofu would not be on my shopping list - ever... You getting
> >> >> the picture now??

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> >> >If I were on my own I would eat a lot less beef, meat in general, ?eggs,
> >> >bacon, cream and cheese. Since those are among the more expensive things on
> >> >our shopping list it would cut the bill a lot.

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> >> Meat and fish/shellfish are the worst grocery bill inflators.

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> >Don't you mean the *best* inflators... you have a language problem.

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> It all depends on your POV.


Were those items the "worst" inflators then they'd have the *least*
bearing on ones food budget.

Nope, you definitely have very poor communicative skills, like no
skills at all.

SHELDON