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Default "$200 a month on groceries for a family of 4 is impossible"


"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:39:45 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:03:48 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > > wrote:
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>> >>
>> >> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> >> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:49:55 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> >> > > wrote:
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>> >> >> We had Spaghetti Red a lot growing up which is akin to HH.
>> >> >
>> >> > Never heard of that. Spaghetti red always means inexpensive red
>> >> > table
>> >> > wine to me.
>> >>
>> >> You haven't been reading my posts then. I have posted of it countless
>> >> times
>> >> before.
>> >
>> > Let me rephrase. I haven't heard a flesh and blood person talk about
>> > it, nor have I ever seen it on a store shelf.

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>> You won't find it on a store shelf. AFAIK you have to make it yourself

>
> So now you're saying it's not a brand. Sheesh. I stand by what I
> said. The only spaghetti red I've ever heard anyone talk about is
> wine.


*sigh* I never said it was a brand! I said that we ate it a lot as a child
and it is pretty akin to Hamburger Helper in the ingredients that it uses
and the quickness of preparation. It is a commonly eaten food in some parts
of the country.
>
>> But
>> your not finding things on a store shelf is rather meaningless. You
>> didn't
>> know of Boca burgers.

>
> So I didn't know a brand, sue me. I still haven't seen it either.
> Not that I care, but apparently you do.


I don't care. Just saying that the fact that you don't know if it doesn't
mean much.
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>> Or cooked chicken.

>
> No idea what that's all about.


How soon you forget. A few weeks or perhaps it was a few months ago you
posted that you had found cooked chicken breast to use in your enchiladas.
That has been available for years but you said you had just discovered it.