On Sun, 24 May 2015 23:01:39 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"The Other Guy" > wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 24 May 2015 20:17:57 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
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>>>Beans, rice, cheaper fresh veggies, and a hot dog a night of the cheap
>>>sort would be 9$ a week. 9.45 if you added home made bread. Not
>>>balanced at all but you'd make it for a time on it.
>>
>> An 8 pack of nasty cheap hotdogs would cost $4, good ones $5,
>> why cheap out THAT much?
>>
>> And HOW healthy would a person be on THAT diet, after a month,
>> or a year??
>>
>> Let alone, how HUNGRY?
>
>Seriously! A grocery store is full of choices. But many of those choices
>are not mine. I don't eat Ramen either. Beans are cheap and healthy and I
>like them. Rice is no longer as cheap as it once was and perhaps not as
>healthy as we once thought.

Plain rice is less healthful than plain pasta, but either can be a
good nutritious meal when veggies and meat is incorporated into the
dish, and I happen to like rice and beans... I make it Puerto Rican
style with pigeon peas (gondules), I add onion, garlic, bell pepper,
diced tomato, pimento stuffed olives, and either diced pepperoni or
kielbasa, sometimes left over pork chops.... cooked in a heavy pot on
low heat for a long time until a thick crust forms (bun), delicious. I
use long grain Canilla brand rice, a Goya product.