"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:10:49 -0700 (PDT),
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > If I was going to prune our grocery bill:
>> > >
>> > > Beans once a week.
>> > >
>> >
>> > I'd be eating beans more than that because there's so much you can
>> > do with them. Variety is the spice of life!
>>
>> Yes. Alas when I was on my poverty diet, I didn't think of beans. I
>> ate a Carnation Breakfast Bar or boiled eggs for breakfast every
>> morning. I bought the bars when I had coupons. I liked them because
>> they contained vitamins.
>>
>> Lunch at work was spaghetti with red sauce. No cheese. I did not
>> have a microwave at home so I made a huge pot and reheated at work.
>>
>> At home I had peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and dinner. Rounded
>> out by canned peas, carrots (no baby carrots in those days) and
>> apples. I did grow some of my own things including lettuce and
>> onions so I always had salad.
>>
>> I also ate air popped popcorn for snacks.
>>
>> About once a week, I went out to eat. My parents paid. We usually
>> ate at Sizzler and I took the all you can eat aspect of the salad bar
>> seriously. I only ate the vegetables, trying to get my fill of
>> things I couldn't afford to have at home.
>>
>> Thankfully I only had to do that diet for a month. But it was pretty
>> well balanced and cheap.
>
> And costs more than a regular scratch cooked diet would. That was all
> 'fast food' sorts.
What? How is spaghetti made sauce made from scratch considered fast food?
Or hard boiled eggs?
>
> I just tossed 57cents of pasta in a pot and boiled it. I added in a
> separate pot 2 large (28 oz) cans of crushed tomatoes, chopped garlic,
> basil, oregano and black pepper. The cans were 50 cents each. I added
> 1 lb of Johnsonville sausage which was 4.99 for 1.5 lbs but I had a
> 1.50 coupon and they were doubling up to 2$ coupons so I paid 1.99 for
> 1.5 lbs and used 1$ worth.
>
> Spagetti cost: .57+1.00+1.00= 2.57
Well great. I was a vegetarian and didn't eat meat of any kind. How is
yours any better?
>
> How much is the result? I have 8 1cup servings. Thats 32cents a
> serving and much more filing than a 75 cent carnation bar.
Those bars most assuredly were not 75 cents back in the 70's and they aren't
being made now so I haven't a clue what you think they are.