On Jun 28, 12:50 pm, wrote:
> On Jun 28, 8:40 am, "Zeppo" > wrote:
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> oups.com...
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> > > Friends,
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> > > I have decided to live the month of July spending just two dollars a
> > > day on food. Other than vague notions of pasta, rice, beans, and
> > > raman, I have little idea what I'm gonna eat.
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> > > Anyways, your help is greatly appreciated.
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> > > What other food items to you think I can add to the list?
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> > > What interesting menu items would you recommend?
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> > > thanks,
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> > > b.
> > > misanthropia dot com
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> > Get familiar with your local markets and what they do with food that is
> > getting too ripe to sell or too close to the expiration date. Markets in my
> > area discount these heavily. If you just buy the veggies and fruit you will
> > use that day or buy meat and freeze what you don't use you can save quite a
> > bit of money.
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> I've been told that Asian super markets have great prices on fish and
> produce. I live smack in the middle of Little Koreatnam and am
> surrounded by such markets, I've just been too self conscious to go in
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> I'll try to put aside my discomort and check one out.
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> b.

Yes, put it aside. Everytime I go to any ethnic market, when I ask a
customer what they will be doing with an ingredient they are picking
up, I get a quite pleasant lesson in cooking that ingredient. This
goes for ANY ethnic person I've ever approached.

Funny thing, one of the last times I did this I was in a big Asian/
Hispanic supermarket of which there are a few around here in
Virginia. The woman I was talking to entered her husband and mother
into the discussion. When I went to the next store on my list of
places to go, there they were, at an Indian store. (They were Indian,
they said, but I would not have known it from the previous discussion/
store event.)

Dee Dee