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Gary wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> cshenk wrote:
> >

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> > Hi Julie, I like the ideas there! I've done this before too. Last
> > year I was delivering 7 meals a week to a local fellow who was
> > recovering from neck/spine sugery and others were handling lunch and
> > breakfast. It went on for about 3 months and included a 2lb bread
> > run done twice a week (roomates needed help too since he wasn't
> > able to keep up with bills).

>
> Really Carol? Sounds like you got suckered there. Meals plus 4
> pounds of bread per week? Even weirder ... "roommates needed help
> too" WTF? Unbelievable.
>
> I can see helping out some family with kids when the breadwinner
> gets injured but a guy with roommates, all sharing the rent and
> utilities = dirt cheap monthly expenses????? You got scammed.


Maybe but ke in mind I make bread at 45cents for a 2lb loaf here. The
food trays were for him but the extra bread helped the roomates when he
wasn't paying his share of the electric, water and such.

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