Lou Decruss > wrote in
:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:34:01 GMT, Sarah Gray >
> wrote:
>
>>Lou Decruss > wrote in
m:
>>
>>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:19:08 GMT, Sarah Gray
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>top round is a very versatle cut with
>>>>> little waste, it's the cut most likely to be on sale at $5/lb as a
>>>>> BOGO.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>$5 a pound is too expensive for nearly anything when you are working
>>on
>>>>a limited budget...
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOGO
>>>
>>> Lou
>>>
>>
>>I read it that it was $5 a pound after the BOGO thing. Even $2.50 a
>>pound is no deal for boneless meat.
>
> Around here it's usually a bit over 2 bucks for top round. I don't
> take Shemton too seriously when it come to comparing food prices
> anyway. Actually I don't take him seriously about anything really.
>
> Lou
>
>

My point is, that, if you are serious about saving money, you buy things
(especially meat!) when they are on sale so you can spend less and have
variety.

"Dan Goodman" > wrote in news:4764a343$0$1117
:

> Sarah Gray wrote:
>
>> Christine Dabney > wrote in
>> :
>>
>> > Heya folks,
>> >
>> > I know we have had extensive discussions about shopping for food,
>> > and getting good deals, and cooking on a strict budget. A budget
>> > of about USD $40/week, for instance. I don't know how that amount
>> > translates to foreign currencies...
>> <snip>
>> > Anyone else trying to do this sort of thing? Stick to a strict
>> > budget? What are you buying, and are you shopping the specials?
>> > What do you plan on making with what you buy? How will you extend
>> > your purchases to get the most out of them?
>> >
>>
>> I have been mulling the idea of starting a blog about this type of
>> thing. My budget is $300 a month for myself and my daughter. I know I
>> can do this, because I used to spend less to feed both of us and her
>> father.
>
> There are already such blogs; for example,
> http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/
>
> But there's still room for more, if you can do something the other
> bloggers aren't, do something better, or both.
>

I like to take pictures of the things I cook...
Plus, I'm not likely to have ads for Christian ringtones on mine
I don;t expect to have a large audience, it just seems like something
fun for me to do.

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:10:08 GMT, Sarah Gray >
wrote:

>My point is, that, if you are serious about saving money, you buy things
>(especially meat!) when they are on sale so you can spend less and have
>variety.

Gottcha. And don't do all your shopping in one place. I look at sale
flyers but I have a pretty good idea where I want to buy different
things at.

Lou

"Sheldon" wrote

> I pay $1.99/lb for center cut loin chops or a center cut bone-
> in loin roast and may slice it into chops, same difference...
> sometimes boneless center cut loin is $1.99/lb too. But when you buy
> the entire loin there's a tremendous amount of waste, bone and fat...
> so at $1.89/lb (a dime a pound less) there's is no savings, in fact

Actually it depnds on the cookery style but normally there's more than a
10cent difference between bone in and boneless.
I do frequent crockpots of beans and things that are enhanced by roasted
bones. Hence, I have a use for that bone.

>I think it's silly to keep all those dollars worth of food in a
>home freezer, not only is your cash tied up interest free but it costs
>at least a buck a day to power that freezer plus amortizing the cost

I will disagree here. An extra freezer is normally a money saver as you can
stock up on
'loss leader' sales items. Also, they do not cost 1$ a day to run. My
current one runs about 40$ a year or about 11cents a day.
That was Japan electric costs. I havent been here long enough to have
worked out the difference but I expect it to be less, though
not as radically less as you might think. It wasnt plugged in until roughly
1 DEC so I can match the OCT/NOV bills (all else being just about the same)
tot he DEC one when it shows up for a reasonable difference value.

Sarah Gray wrote:

> "Dan Goodman" > wrote in news:4764a343$0$1117
> :
>
> > Sarah Gray wrote:
> >
> >> Christine Dabney > wrote in
> >> :
> >>
> >> > Heya folks,
> >> >
> >> > I know we have had extensive discussions about shopping for food,
> >> > and getting good deals, and cooking on a strict budget. A budget
> >> > of about USD $40/week, for instance. I don't know how that
> amount >> > translates to foreign currencies...
> >> <snip>
> >> > Anyone else trying to do this sort of thing? Stick to a strict
> >> > budget? What are you buying, and are you shopping the specials?
> >> > What do you plan on making with what you buy? How will you
> extend >> > your purchases to get the most out of them?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I have been mulling the idea of starting a blog about this type of
> >> thing. My budget is $300 a month for myself and my daughter. I
> know I >> can do this, because I used to spend less to feed both of
> us and her >> father.
> >
> > There are already such blogs; for example,
> > http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/
> >
> > But there's still room for more, if you can do something the other
> > bloggers aren't, do something better, or both.
> >
>
> I like to take pictures of the things I cook...
> Plus, I'm not likely to have ads for Christian ringtones on mine

If I had an active blog and someone wanted to pay me for letting them
advertise Christian ringtones, I would probably accept the offer.

> I don;t expect to have a large audience, it just seems like something
> fun for me to do.

Then it's worth doing.

--
Dan Goodman
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Lou Decruss > wrote in
:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:10:08 GMT, Sarah Gray >
> wrote:
>
>>My point is, that, if you are serious about saving money, you buy
things
>>(especially meat!) when they are on sale so you can spend less and
have
>>variety.
>
> Gottcha. And don't do all your shopping in one place. I look at sale
> flyers but I have a pretty good idea where I want to buy different
> things at.
>
> Lou

I make lists and plan stuff out... I've even been doing that while I've
lived with my mom, even though she plans stuff here and I just shop
according to her list.

In article >,
Lou Decruss > wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:10:08 GMT, Sarah Gray >
> wrote:
>
> >My point is, that, if you are serious about saving money, you buy things
> >(especially meat!) when they are on sale so you can spend less and have
> >variety.
>
> Gottcha. And don't do all your shopping in one place.

As long as you don't end up driving hither and yon getting bargains, and
costing yourself the "savings" in fuel.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

Miche > wrote in
:

> In article >,
> Lou Decruss > wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:10:08 GMT, Sarah Gray >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >My point is, that, if you are serious about saving money, you buy
>> >things (especially meat!) when they are on sale so you can spend
>> >less and have variety.
>>
>> Gottcha. And don't do all your shopping in one place.
>
> As long as you don't end up driving hither and yon getting bargains,
> and costing yourself the "savings" in fuel.
>
> Miche
>

True; I live in a suburban area where there are many supermarkets and
other food sources within 5 miles, and most of them are on the way to
somewhere else I have to be...

"Sarah Gray" > ha scritto nel messaggio
. 33.102...
>>>$5 a pound is too expensive for nearly anything when you are working
> on
>>>a limited budget...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOGO
>>
>> Lou
>>
>
> I read it that it was $5 a pound after the BOGO thing. Even $2.50 a
> pound is no deal for boneless meat.

I disagree, I think. I paid about that for boneless pork leg yesterday, and
when I cut it up into meal portions and froze it, it was seven meals for
?3.68. It was a members only special at the supermarket. That is about 50
centesimi per meal, or $.75, loosely speaking. There's no waste at all.

--
http://www.judithgreenwood.com

Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:34:38 GMT, Sarah Gray >
> wrote:
>
>> Lou Decruss > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:54:16 -0700, Christine Dabney
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> One of the things I am finding, at least for the way I cook and
>>>> eat, that $40/week buys me almost too much food. If I spend it on
>>>> high priced "treats", then it doesn't go far at all.
>>>
>>> Why don't you take the time you're spending with this silly
>>> self-challenge you're undertaking and work a few more hours per
>>> month and buy what you really like? According to what you've
>>> posted over the years you sure do like your "treats"
>>>
>>
>> Not everyone *can* just work more hours to make more money, Lou.
>
> She's a specialized nurse. Around here at least they have so much
> work they turn down overtime. One of my friends is a surgical nurse
> and makes over 40 bucks an hour. One Saturday per month could double
> a $40 a month food budget.

So far as I can see, Christine makes it a sort of challenge. She doesn't
say she can't afford more
Anyway, I like my time at home too much to look for overtime

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:08:04 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>Heya folks,
>
>I know we have had extensive discussions about shopping for food, and
>getting good deals, and cooking on a strict budget. A budget of about
>USD $40/week, for instance. I don't know how that amount translates
>to foreign currencies...
>
>I know there are many among us that think it can't be done.... But
>there are those of us that do think it can be done, and done very
>well. Even in areas where there are not a lot of resources....or maybe
>just one or two supermarkets, etc.
>
>Anyway, I thought I would start something here..maybe posting what I
>buy every week, and what I end up doing with it. And how well I am
>doing on staying within my budget. And how creative I might be able
>to get with what I find in the markets, on this budget. A disclaimer:
>I am only shopping and cooking for myself for the most part, but
>occasionally I like to have folks over for dinner. I am still trying
>to stay within that budget even when I have folks for dinner.
>
>I would hope this thread/topic doesn't turn into one that degenerates
>into name calling or whatever. However, knowing this group, it
>wouldn't surprise me if it did..LOL.
>
>I thought I would start out by showing what I bought today...a picture
>and maybe prices. I started out with $40. I spent about $16 on what I
>bought today. I still have about $24 to spend til next payday, which
>is a week from today.
>
>More disclaimers: I still have a well stocked pantry, fridge and
>freezer. I am not buying meat right now, as I am trying to use up
>what I have in the fridge. But even if I were buying meat/protein
>sources, I still would have some money with which to work. I always
>look at specials, and try to buy those, if I can.
>
>Anyone else trying to do this sort of thing? Stick to a strict budget?
>What are you buying, and are you shopping the specials? What do you
>plan on making with what you buy? How will you extend your purchases
>to get the most out of them?
>
>I might post pics and ads from where I shop occasionally... And maybe
>even finished dishes.
>
>Anyone else interested in playing along with this idea? Show what you
>buy, what specials you bought, what is available in your area, what
>you cooked, etc..... Maybe contribute ideas of what to fix with such
>specials..what I could have bought, and maybe fixed...
>
>Now..for pics and what I bought, where I shopped, etc.
>
>I shopped at Sunflower Market today. A new one opened up on this side
>of town this week. I went in there this afternoon..
>This is their ad for the week:
>http://www.sfmarkets.com/PDFDocs/r/R...EXJER7ET07.PDF
>
>I bought plum tomatoes, which were not one of the specials. Yeah, I
>know, it isn't the season for tomatoes, but these looked decent. I
>will use them in a salad, and in a pasta dish.
>I also bought Ita lian parsley, red onions, grapefruit and
>apples (which were on special). Green peppers and green onions were
>also on sale, and I got those for making leftover turkey gumbo on
>Sunday.
>
>I also stopped at one of the local Asian markets to buy some garlic.
>They don't have an ad, but I wanted garlic, and some other things. I
>bought. I got the peeled garlic there, carrots, and some baby bok
>choy. The baby bok choy will be cooked with tofu and oyster sauce in
>a stirfry. I already have the tofu. I have oyster sauce. I also have
>some slice mushrooms that I bought on sale a week ago. They need to
>be used up soon, so I will add them to the stirfry.
>
>The pictures of what I bought:
>http://i6.tinypic.com/8bdzuw0.jpg
>http://i5.tinypic.com/8557muw.jpg
>
>Oh, and tonight, I am fixing sweet and sour chicken, from The Breath
>of the Wok... Some of the peppers will be used, as well as the
>scallions, and the carrots.
>
>These dishes, and the fruit will be some of my dinners (work and
>otherwise) this next week. I haven't decided on what else to cook yet
>for the week ahead.
>
>Anyone else want to play?
>
>Christine
>
>
>
>

Are you trying to shop or eat on $40 per week? There is a big
difference when you start out with a well stocked freezer and pantry.
I have 2 large freezers and the freezing compartments of 3
refrigerators pretty well stocked. I also have about 50 running feet
of shelving in the basement full of home canned goods. Plus more with
purchased on sale coffee, soups that my husband likes, dishwasher
detergent, etc. So I think that if I worked real hard at it (and kept
the DH out of the grocery store) we could both eat for about $20 a
week.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:21:19 GMT, Sarah Gray >
wrote:

>Miche > wrote in
:
>
>> In article >,
>> Lou Decruss > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:10:08 GMT, Sarah Gray >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >My point is, that, if you are serious about saving money, you buy
>>> >things (especially meat!) when they are on sale so you can spend
>>> >less and have variety.
>>>
>>> Gottcha. And don't do all your shopping in one place.
>>
>> As long as you don't end up driving hither and yon getting bargains,
>> and costing yourself the "savings" in fuel.
>>
>> Miche
>>
>
>True; I live in a suburban area where there are many supermarkets and
>other food sources within 5 miles, and most of them are on the way to
>somewhere else I have to be...

We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
That would suck.

Lou

"Gregory Morrow" wrote

> Veg and lotsa other stuff is almost laughably cheap at the Asian stores I

> I can buy three or four big bags of stuff for well under $20.00...the same
> goes for Mexican places, especially produce.

> I could go on, but these places are a wonderful boon for the budget...

I agree. I might make a fast drive out to my local one. They are one of
the only 2 places nearby with decent seafood and that it is also a very good
price, is a major bonus.

I'm sure 2 bags of 'stuff' will follow me home after leaping in my cart.
I'm also sure it will be 20$ or less unless I see something really special
and stock up. Actually, come to think of it, make that closer to 30$ as I
need some of the better rices. Asian trained gal here <g>. I can't IMAGINE
minute rice or 'boil-in-bag'
!$@#$%!#@% in imy home.

Ophelia wrote:
> Lou Decruss wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:34:38 GMT, Sarah Gray >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Lou Decruss > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:54:16 -0700, Christine Dabney
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> One of the things I am finding, at least for the way I cook and
>>>>> eat, that $40/week buys me almost too much food. If I spend it on
>>>>> high priced "treats", then it doesn't go far at all.
>>>> Why don't you take the time you're spending with this silly
>>>> self-challenge you're undertaking and work a few more hours per
>>>> month and buy what you really like? According to what you've
>>>> posted over the years you sure do like your "treats"
>>>>
>>> Not everyone *can* just work more hours to make more money, Lou.
>> She's a specialized nurse. Around here at least they have so much
>> work they turn down overtime. One of my friends is a surgical nurse
>> and makes over 40 bucks an hour. One Saturday per month could double
>> a $40 a month food budget.
>
> So far as I can see, Christine makes it a sort of challenge. She doesn't
> say she can't afford more
> Anyway, I like my time at home too much to look for overtime
>
There used to be a joke about "Refigerator Nurses" who only worked when
they needed to buy a new refrigerator. For me it isn't far from the
truth. I don't walk in the door for less than $43/hour and if I work
weekends (which I do) I get an extra $5/hour, and anything over my work
commitment (24 hours a week) gets me another $10/hour extra on top of
all that. I'd get that on top of OT pay too assuming I ever broke 40
hours in a week. So I do sign up for extra time now and then when "Momma
needs a new....<fill in the blank>" It isn't easy work, requires a
certain type of personality and some brute strength at times and is
risky to my own health at times, but considering tht I started out
making only 13.44/hour 10 years ago when I first graduated from my
university program, I reckon I'm doing pretty damn well.

"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
>>How many people are you feeding on that $100 a week?
>
> LOL.. Technically it's supposed to be only two. But we make and sent
> goodies to two of the kids and the other is here all the time and he
> eats all the leftovers. Which is fine because I'm not big on
> leftovers so very little gets thrown out around here. I hate throwing
> food away.

OK, so you are eating on about $40 a week per person.



> I'm sure I "could" eat for $40 a week myself. But there is no way I'd
> call it "amazingly well". I like too many things like steak, shrimp,
> brie, nice condiments, shark steaks, salmon, pine and macadamia nuts,
> kalamata olives, and the list goes on.
>
> I have no doubt a person can eat well, and even healthy for $40 a
> week. But not "amazingly," and certainly not the way a foodie
> claiming to have over a 1000 cookbooks would be content with.

You say that you can't, but do the math. $100 a week divided amonst two
people plus a fairly regular guest works out to $40 a week, maybe even a
little less. I like, and buy, much of the same items you do. I don't pay
full price at the supermarket though, as I can get big saving using a food
warehouse (BJ's in our area). Why pay $4.99 a pound for pork loin when I can
buy it and cut it myself for $1.89 a pound?

Sheldon oftem mentions the cost of stocking a freezer since your money is
tied up in inventory. He makes a good point, but you can save much more that
you can make in a bank or money market with careful shopping. Why pay $4.99
for a container of ice cream when I can buy it on sale for $1.99? If it
sits in my freezer for four weeks, the ROI is better than bonds.

Thank you for re-inforcing what I stated, you can eat "amazinly well" on $40
a week. YOu just have to know how to shop.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

"Christine Dabney" wrote

>>If I were in that situation, I think getting a standalone freezer to
>>take advantage of cyclical sales and having a plan according to everyday
>>prices, as opposed to shopping around, would be in order.
>
> That's what I do, even though I live in a city. I shop the sales and
> thus have a well stocked freezer. If I bought all this stuff at
> regular prices, I am sure it would have cost a fortune.

Yup. Even a small standalone extra freezer in a small house of 1-2 people
pays for itself.

Examples in use he

3 small chicken carcasses- waiting for me to want to make stock. I call
this 'free' as we ate the chickens.
2 medium fish carcasses- ok, so most of you all arent into Dashi or 'fish
stock' but it's a mainstay here.
10 lbs rice- bugs dead if had any
10 lbs various flours for breadmaking- bugs dead if had any
7lbs frozen whole calimari- small ones, not but 6 inch body, 2 if fried per
person, 1 if stuffed (only place with good calimari is 10mile round trip and
not on the way to anything else so stocking up makes sense), repackaged to 3
to a bag for our uses.
1 gindai and 2 milkfish (same place as the calimari)
4oz miso (odd how miso doesnt really freeze but stays pliable)
12oz of tofu (same place as the fish, 25cents a block)
1 ham bone (saved for a bean pot)

I havent had the freezer back in Virginia for long so that's a minimal stock
over the last 2 weeks. Later, it grows as sales items accrue, and stock
accrues (meaning I wont have to get stocks but make my own). I need one
more small cornish hen carcass to make a good stock batch.

My main kitchen freezer holds the chicken thighs, pork loin, and some
leftovers we garnered in the 1.5 months while waiting for the big freezer to
arrive.

"Lou Decruss" > wrote

> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
> That would suck.

That's tough. You'd just have to get yourself organized so you don't
have to make a run to the store at the drop of a hat.

Where I live, in the middle of everywhere and nowhere, there used to
be just one supermarket convenient. It was awful, I bitched about it
all the time. Grubby store with no selection and surly employees.
Someone said Why don't you just shop somewhere else? There really
is nowhere else convenient. The only other store within 8-10 miles
was a huge hassle to get to and I didn't like that store either.

Then Stop and Shop opened a couple miles away, and coincidentally
my usual store was bought out by Albertsons and there was happiness
and peace in the land. Fast forward 10 years or so, I pulled into the
new Stop and Shop and ... it's gone! Brand new building, empty.

Damn. So the past few weeks I've gone back to being 'stuck' with
one local store, but today, I see another chain has taken over the
Stop and Shop building. I had forgotten how nice it was to have a
choice. I can't imagine having to drive 25 miles would be a fun
situation. Maybe it would be worth it to have chickens and goats.
Heh.

nancy

"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
...
I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
> That would suck.
>
> Lou


Sucking at about 28-30 miles. We go once a week and combine it with our
trip to the farm to pick up milk. Before then,we would try to make it every
10 days. I hate shopping, mainly because it takes a whole day because we
have a long shopping list and DH will not get started early.

I am finally free from shopping at Walmart. Now there is a Walgreen's in
the last couple of months (on the way to town, and Costco Pharmacy, of
course), but whereas I went to Walmart to buy distilled water, now my
distiller has been purchased and I'm distilling everyday. My glass wine jugs
for containing water will be arriving tomorrow.

Today there is ice everywhere, but we have no choice. Pick-up days for
milk is Fri, Sat, Sun, so there is no choice. I hope to get DH to do the
trip alone.

Good Sunday morning,
Dee Dee

"The Cook" > wrote in message
...
>
> Are you trying to shop or eat on $40 per week? There is a big
> difference when you start out with a well stocked freezer and pantry.
> I have 2 large freezers and the freezing compartments of 3
> refrigerators pretty well stocked. I also have about 50 running feet
> of shelving in the basement full of home canned goods. Plus more with
> purchased on sale coffee, soups that my husband likes, dishwasher
> detergent, etc. So I think that if I worked real hard at it (and kept
> the DH out of the grocery store) we could both eat for about $20 a
> week.
> --
> Susan N.


I like your style. You and Ed give sound advice.
Dee Dee

"Wayne Boatwright" wrote

> It seems we've always had a freezer. My parents always had two chest
> freezers. Even when I lived in apartments and condos I had an upright
> freezer tucked away somewhere. We left our old one in Ohio when we moved
> to AZ, but bought a new one almost immediately. It's not large, only 16
> cu. ft., but we got a really good buy on it at Lowe's.

I've had one for 15 years now. The old unit (left with the tenants when we
were in Sasebo Japan) was a commercial monster unit we never filled, but it
is now happy with a local church that has a soup kitchen.

The newer unit, gotten in Sasebo, is smaller but still a 24cubic if I added
it right 3x2x5 internal dimensions. Modern and energy efficient

I can estimate food savings with it. Roughly 25$ a month directly due to
being able to take advantage of sales in quantity and store stock making
stuff til there is enough to make a 4Gallon batch in the crockpot. Add the
savings of not buying stock <g> and we seem to figure about 25$ a month.

Figure it costs me a 10 mile round trip (nothing else that direction we go
to) just for seafood so thats about 1.10$ for my car and i have cholestrol
problems (beaten back to 220 only by a seafood diet), I can get in bulk
there and without the extra freezer, I'd have to go almost weekly. Call it
3 times a month.

"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:21:19 GMT, Sarah Gray >
> wrote:
>
>>Miche > wrote in
:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As long as you don't end up driving hither and yon getting bargains,
>>> and costing yourself the "savings" in fuel.
>>>
>>> Miche
>>>
>>
>>True; I live in a suburban area where there are many supermarkets and
>>other food sources within 5 miles, and most of them are on the way to
>>somewhere else I have to be...
>
> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
> That would suck.
>
> Lou

To get any choice other than the two I already have I'd have to drive 100
miles west to a much smaller town that has a Safeway. Going east I think it
would probably have to be around 200 miles to find a store other than the
two choices I already have.

Ms P

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:23:26 -0500, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
wrote:

>
>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
>>>How many people are you feeding on that $100 a week?
>>
>> LOL.. Technically it's supposed to be only two. But we make and sent
>> goodies to two of the kids and the other is here all the time and he
>> eats all the leftovers. Which is fine because I'm not big on
>> leftovers so very little gets thrown out around here. I hate throwing
>> food away.
>
>OK, so you are eating on about $40 a week per person.
>
>
>
>> I'm sure I "could" eat for $40 a week myself. But there is no way I'd
>> call it "amazingly well". I like too many things like steak, shrimp,
>> brie, nice condiments, shark steaks, salmon, pine and macadamia nuts,
>> kalamata olives, and the list goes on.
>>
>> I have no doubt a person can eat well, and even healthy for $40 a
>> week. But not "amazingly," and certainly not the way a foodie
>> claiming to have over a 1000 cookbooks would be content with.
>
>You say that you can't, but do the math. $100 a week divided amonst two
>people plus a fairly regular guest works out to $40 a week, maybe even a
>little less. I like, and buy, much of the same items you do. I don't pay
>full price at the supermarket though, as I can get big saving using a food
>warehouse (BJ's in our area). Why pay $4.99 a pound for pork loin when I can
>buy it and cut it myself for $1.89 a pound?
>
>Sheldon oftem mentions the cost of stocking a freezer since your money is
>tied up in inventory. He makes a good point, but you can save much more that
>you can make in a bank or money market with careful shopping. Why pay $4.99
>for a container of ice cream when I can buy it on sale for $1.99? If it
>sits in my freezer for four weeks, the ROI is better than bonds.
>
>Thank you for re-inforcing what I stated, you can eat "amazinly well" on $40
>a week. YOu just have to know how to shop.

If you want to think I re-enforced you that's fine. I did say we
spent OVER $100. I don't know exactly and I'm not going to waste my
time trying to figure it out. But I do know if we limited out food
purchases to 80 bucks a week our lifestyle would decline most weeks.
And both of us are wise shoppers.

Lou

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:31:19 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>
>"Lou Decruss" > wrote
>
>> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
>> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
>> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>> That would suck.
>
>That's tough. You'd just have to get yourself organized so you don't
>have to make a run to the store at the drop of a hat.
>
>Where I live, in the middle of everywhere and nowhere, there used to
>be just one supermarket convenient. It was awful, I bitched about it
>all the time. Grubby store with no selection and surly employees.
>Someone said Why don't you just shop somewhere else? There really
>is nowhere else convenient. The only other store within 8-10 miles
>was a huge hassle to get to and I didn't like that store either.
>
>Then Stop and Shop opened a couple miles away, and coincidentally
>my usual store was bought out by Albertsons and there was happiness
>and peace in the land. Fast forward 10 years or so, I pulled into the
>new Stop and Shop and ... it's gone! Brand new building, empty.
>
>Damn. So the past few weeks I've gone back to being 'stuck' with
>one local store, but today, I see another chain has taken over the
>Stop and Shop building. I had forgotten how nice it was to have a
>choice. I can't imagine having to drive 25 miles would be a fun
>situation. Maybe it would be worth it to have chickens and goats.
>Heh.

Keep the chickens and goats. Glad you got another store. I'd be sad
to just have two.

Lou

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:45:45 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
wrote:

>
>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
.. .
> I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>> That would suck.
>>
>> Lou
>
>
>Sucking at about 28-30 miles. We go once a week and combine it with our
>trip to the farm to pick up milk. Before then,we would try to make it every
>10 days. I hate shopping, mainly because it takes a whole day because we
>have a long shopping list and DH will not get started early.
>
>I am finally free from shopping at Walmart. Now there is a Walgreen's in
>the last couple of months (on the way to town, and Costco Pharmacy, of
>course), but whereas I went to Walmart to buy distilled water, now my
>distiller has been purchased and I'm distilling everyday. My glass wine jugs
>for containing water will be arriving tomorrow.
>
> Today there is ice everywhere, but we have no choice. Pick-up days for
>milk is Fri, Sat, Sun, so there is no choice. I hope to get DH to do the
>trip alone.
>
>Good Sunday morning,
>Dee Dee

Sorry to hear about the long drive Dee Dee. But I'm glad you're free
from WM. If I believed in god I'd say WM was owned by satan.

Lou

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:56:01 -0600, "Ms P" >
wrote:


>> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
>> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
>> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>> That would suck.
>>
>> Lou
>
>To get any choice other than the two I already have I'd have to drive 100
>miles west to a much smaller town that has a Safeway. Going east I think it
>would probably have to be around 200 miles to find a store other than the
>two choices I already have.
>
>Ms P

Good Lard!!! I hope you really like living where you do. I'm a city
peoples. I'd die living that far from things.

Lou

"Lou Decruss" > ha scritto nel messaggio
...
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:31:19 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Lou Decruss" > wrote
>>
>>> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
>>> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
>>> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>>> That would suck.

>>Where I live, in the middle of everywhere and nowhere, there used to
>>be just one supermarket convenient. It was awful, I bitched about it
>>all the time. Grubby store with no selection and surly employees.
>>Someone said Why don't you just shop somewhere else? There really
>>is nowhere else convenient. The only other store within 8-10 miles
>>was a huge hassle to get to and I didn't like that store either.
>>
>>Then Stop and Shop opened a couple miles away, and coincidentally
>>my usual store was bought out by Albertsons and there was happiness
>>and peace in the land. Fast forward 10 years or so, I pulled into the
>>new Stop and Shop and ... it's gone! Brand new building, empty.
>>

Glad you got another store. I'd be sad
> to just have two.
>
> Lou

Surely that would depend on what you got in the trade off? Two or more
supermarkets would sort of preclude brilliant wilderness landscapes or
silent mountaintops, or many other things that might be found appealing.

--
http://www.judithgreenwood.com

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:25:29 GMT, Lou Decruss > wrote:


>I'm sure I "could" eat for $40 a week myself. But there is no way I'd
>call it "amazingly well". I like too many things like steak, shrimp,
>brie, nice condiments, shark steaks, salmon, pine and macadamia nuts,
>kalamata olives, and the list goes on.
>
>I have no doubt a person can eat well, and even healthy for $40 a
>week. But not "amazingly," and certainly not the way a foodie
>claiming to have over a 1000 cookbooks would be content with.

You would be very surprised at how amazingly well one can eat for that
little amount. The cookbook library enables me to search for recipes
for great food, and often times it is pretty amazing for the little
amount I spend.

As someone said, how much you spend doesn't correlate with how well
you can eat, nor how amazingly good it can be. Peasant food can be
extremely good, and even amazingly good if done well.

Christine

Oh pshaw, on Sun 16 Dec 2007 08:20:12a, Lou Decruss meant to say...

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:31:19 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Lou Decruss" > wrote
>>
>>> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
>>> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
>>> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>>> That would suck.
>>
>>That's tough. You'd just have to get yourself organized so you don't
>>have to make a run to the store at the drop of a hat.
>>
>>Where I live, in the middle of everywhere and nowhere, there used to
>>be just one supermarket convenient. It was awful, I bitched about it
>>all the time. Grubby store with no selection and surly employees.
>>Someone said Why don't you just shop somewhere else? There really
>>is nowhere else convenient. The only other store within 8-10 miles
>>was a huge hassle to get to and I didn't like that store either.
>>
>>Then Stop and Shop opened a couple miles away, and coincidentally
>>my usual store was bought out by Albertsons and there was happiness
>>and peace in the land. Fast forward 10 years or so, I pulled into the
>>new Stop and Shop and ... it's gone! Brand new building, empty.
>>
>>Damn. So the past few weeks I've gone back to being 'stuck' with
>>one local store, but today, I see another chain has taken over the
>>Stop and Shop building. I had forgotten how nice it was to have a
>>choice. I can't imagine having to drive 25 miles would be a fun
>>situation. Maybe it would be worth it to have chickens and goats.
>>Heh.
>
> Keep the chickens and goats. Glad you got another store. I'd be sad
> to just have two.
>
> Lou
>

For a few years we lived in an area where the closest store was 23 miles
away, and it was the only store. The next closest was 40 miles away. That
really sucked big time, since we had been used to any number of stores
where we lived previously. Now we live in an area where there are stores
of 4 major chains as well as a Wal-Mart all within a 3 mile radius. The
only places I have to drive slightly farther for are TJ's, Sprouts, and
Whole Foods.

As far as what we spend, we are on a fairly tight budget, so we buy what we
can when we can for as little as we can. It can vary radically from week
to week. We put things in the freezer when there are the best prices. I
always make large batches of spaghetti sauce, chili, soups, etc., and
freeze them in dinner sized portions. We certainly don't go hungry, but I
can't say that we always have what we want to eat at any given time.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Dec 13,2007

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Oh pshaw, on Sun 16 Dec 2007 07:56:01a, Ms P meant to say...

>
> "Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:21:19 GMT, Sarah Gray >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Miche > wrote in
:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As long as you don't end up driving hither and yon getting bargains,
>>>> and costing yourself the "savings" in fuel.
>>>>
>>>> Miche
>>>>
>>>
>>>True; I live in a suburban area where there are many supermarkets and
>>>other food sources within 5 miles, and most of them are on the way to
>>>somewhere else I have to be...
>>
>> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
>> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
>> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>> That would suck.
>>
>> Lou
>
> To get any choice other than the two I already have I'd have to drive
> 100 miles west to a much smaller town that has a Safeway. Going east I
> think it would probably have to be around 200 miles to find a store
> other than the two choices I already have.
>
> Ms P
>
>

You must live in the middle of nowhere!

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Dec 13,2007

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On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:34:36 -0000, "Ophelia" > wrote:


>>>> Why don't you take the time you're spending with this silly
>>>> self-challenge you're undertaking and work a few more hours per
>>>> month and buy what you really like? According to what you've
>>>> posted over the years you sure do like your "treats"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not everyone *can* just work more hours to make more money, Lou.
>>
>> She's a specialized nurse. Around here at least they have so much
>> work they turn down overtime. One of my friends is a surgical nurse
>> and makes over 40 bucks an hour. One Saturday per month could double
>> a $40 a month food budget.
>
>So far as I can see, Christine makes it a sort of challenge. She doesn't
>say she can't afford more
>Anyway, I like my time at home too much to look for overtime
>

Exactly, Ophelia.
This challenge is a game to me...and yes, I am saving money for
specific things. I can afford more, but if I want to save money I will
cut back. And no, it is not really a silly challenge, at least to me.
Maybe to others of you, but not to me. And I am not sure which treats
you are speaking of...it is very rare that I spend money on special
treats, other than to get the ingredients to make them myself.

ANd as it is, I work 12 hour shifts..and some of those shifts are
brutal. Sometimes, it is all I can do to work the ones I have
scheduled. I come home exhausted many days... There is a reason
many nurses burn out early and often...

Christine

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:23:26 -0500, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
wrote:


Why pay $4.99
>for a container of ice cream when I can buy it on sale for $1.99? If it
>sits in my freezer for four weeks, the ROI is better than bonds.

Or you can get the ingredients for it, and make some of the best ice
cream that you have ever had, in amazing flavors and combinations, for
not more than you pay for the cheaper brands. And the quality is much
better.

Christine

--
http://www.judithgreenwood.com
"Christine Dabney" > ha scritto nel messaggio
...
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:25:29 GMT, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>
>
>>I'm sure I "could" eat for $40 a week myself. But there is no way I'd
>>call it "amazingly well". I like too many things like steak, shrimp,
>>brie, nice condiments, shark steaks, salmon, pine and macadamia nuts,
>>kalamata olives, and the list goes on.
>>
>>I have no doubt a person can eat well, and even healthy for $40 a
>>week. But not "amazingly," and certainly not the way a foodie
>>claiming to have over a 1000 cookbooks would be content with.
>
> You would be very surprised at how amazingly well one can eat for that
> little amount. The cookbook library enables me to search for recipes
> for great food, and often times it is pretty amazing for the little
> amount I spend.
>
> As someone said, how much you spend doesn't correlate with how well
> you can eat, nor how amazingly good it can be. Peasant food can be
> extremely good, and even amazingly good if done well.
>
> Christine

Here is a strictly local dish I wrote up for a recipèe brochure. Cheap and
good. You can substitute thick bacon, diced, for the guanciale. Polenta
Valsugana is a polenta that cooks in 8 minutes. I have no use for that
stuff in tubes. Obviously, ordinary polenta can be used. This serves 4, so
it makes 4 meals for me.
Preheat the oven to 175°C or 350°F

Cook Polenta Valsugana for 4 exactly as in the preceding recipe.

a.. 1 etto (100 g) guanciale or pancetta tesa. Ask for it "sottlile ma non
troppo" (thin, but not too thin). Cut the slices you get into 1-inch wide
pieces.
b.. About 100 g (3.5 ounces) of pecorino stagionato, grated coarsely
c.. Extra virgin olive oil
Oil a baking dish well.

Put about 2 tablespoons/cucchiai of the oil into a frying pan and saute the
guanciale until well browned and crispish, but not hard.

When the polenta is boiled, pour half into the baking dish, then scatter
half the guanciale, including the oil, over it, then half the grated
pecorino. Pour the rest of the polenta over that, and smooth a bit with a
wet spoon. Scatter the rest of the guanciale over it, poking it down a bit,
then the rest of the oil, and then scatter the rest of the pecorino over it.

Bake for 20 minutes. Best hot, smoking hot. A light tomato sauce can be
used as a garnish.

This is a traditional dish of the Trasimeno zone, and therefore Trasimeno
wines ought to work. It's lovely with cabbage, especially sauteed.

"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:56:01 -0600, "Ms P" >
> wrote:
>
>
>>> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
>>> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
>>> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>>> That would suck.
>>>
>>> Lou
>>
>>To get any choice other than the two I already have I'd have to drive 100
>>miles west to a much smaller town that has a Safeway. Going east I think
>>it
>>would probably have to be around 200 miles to find a store other than the
>>two choices I already have.
>>
>>Ms P
>
> Good Lard!!! I hope you really like living where you do. I'm a city
> peoples. I'd die living that far from things.
>
> Lou

Basically you don't miss what you've never had. I grew up in this area.
When you grow up here you're just used to not having things or driving 2 to
4 hours to somewhere.

It's just short of 4 hours to the nearest "city" from here. It's perfectly
normal for people here to get up, drive to the city, have lunch, shop all
afternoon, have supper and drive home all in the same day. You leave at 8am
and are home by 10 or 11 pm.

You will not get any sympathy from anyone out here when you whine about
driving a whole 25 miles to something. There are people out here that live
more than 50 miles one way to the nearest Walmart.

We used to have 3 choices of grocery stores. Now we have Walmart and
Dillon's. Dillon's is owned by Kroger.

But I can still feed the two of us on less than 80 bucks a week shopping at
Dillon's for the majority of my groceries. There is very little food that I
buy at Walmart. The things I buy there are generally non food but Target
beats their price on most paper goods now so even the non food I buy at
Walmart is getting less all the time.

Ms P

"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
3.184...
> Oh pshaw, on Sun 16 Dec 2007 07:56:01a, Ms P meant to say...
>>>
>> To get any choice other than the two I already have I'd have to drive
>> 100 miles west to a much smaller town that has a Safeway. Going east I
>> think it would probably have to be around 200 miles to find a store
>> other than the two choices I already have.
>>
>> Ms P
>>
>>
>
> You must live in the middle of nowhere!
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright
>

LOL, no. I live on the edge of the middle of nowhere. The actual middle is
100 miles to the west of here. From there it's 100 miles to anything east
or west. My mom lives over there. She comes over here about every other
month and stocks up on staples she can't get at home.

Honestly out here 100 miles just doesn't seem all that far. Shoot, I've got
to drive at least twice that far in either direction before I feel like I've
left home.

Ms P

"Ms P" > wrote in message
...
>
> To get any choice other than the two I already have I'd have to drive 100
> miles west to a much smaller town that has a Safeway. Going east I think
> it would probably have to be around 200 miles to find a store other than
> the two choices I already have.
>
> Ms P


One makes sacrifices to have a certain life-style; that's what we have done.
I hope yours is a good trade-off, too.

Dee Dee

Lou Decruss wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>
> >I can go for a while on $40.week but not too long before replenishing
> >staples...
>
> I'm in the camp that believes two can live for not much more than one.

I'm in the camp that believes that food is the one cost two (or more)
cannot share... you can have a whole family living under the same
roof, sharing the same ride, finding their way by the same lights,
watching the same TV, sharing the same PC, cooking with the same heat,
even showering together, but no way can two eat the same food unless
you both eat half the amount.


> We spend over a $100 a week. �

Over, how much "over"... that's like asking an alcholic how much they
drink each day and they answer, oh, more than one... what they don't
say is one at a time until they finish the bottle. When someone
answers they spend *over* $XXX they are giving the classic Bubba
Clinton response... lying by the sin of ommision... and then I know
I'm never going to believe anything you ever say about how much you
spend for anything, you'll never tell the truth. Actually I don't
think too many ever tell the truth about this topic.. people don't
tell their own children their income, they're not going to tell the
truth about money on the net.

> But we eat out less than once a month.

That's a whole nother catagory from grocery bills.. to some a burger,
fries and a coke at a fast food joint is eating out, to others a full
soup to nuts porterhouse/lobster dinner with $100/pop vin at Chez-Chez
is eating out. My brother spends way less than $40 each week on
groceries from the market, his fridge is literally empty except for
doggiie bags (that mostly end up in the trash), he eats out every
meal, a lot of retireees in Florida do. My brother never cooks, he
owns one small sauce pan and one small fry pan, the last time I
visited his fry pan 20 years old and still had the label glued on.

Again, there is no friggin' way in the US in 2007 one can eat *well*
on $40/week... you can subsist... but eat well, no way, no how. I
don't call eating from the used meat bin, the used produce bin, the
used bread bin, etc, eating *well*... that's eating well in Somalia or
Biafra.

When folks claim to have well paying jobs... live in their own nice
home, and talk about how they spend money on all sorts of non
essentials then I'm not going to believe they eat on $40/week (why
would they want to), not unless their life is a charade and they don't
really live as they portray themselves and so they need to skimp on
food (kishka gelt) to keep up the fasade. I don't see too many
grocery carts going through the checkout containing under $100 of just
food, and then they're only 1/3 full.... mostly I see $300 carts and I
can tell it's just a week's worth or less for a family of four by the
perishables, not too many buy a month's worth of perishables.

If folks really don't have enough money to spend more than $40/week on
food there's no shame or need to appologize, but that's a whole lot
different from portraying themselves as able to do all sorts of costly
things like trips to foreign countries, entertain with huge cookouts,
and all kinds of other costly hobbies and endeavers and then expect me
to believe they're eating on a poverty and distress budget then there
is something terribly wrong with their paint by numbers picture of
themselves. There have been times in my life when I had to tighten my
belt for a couple three years and if anyone knows how to stretch a
food dollar it's me, the last time was 20 years ago when I went a
couple of years on $25/wk for food, I lived but there was no way I ate
well on that limited budget... stews, soups, and chicken get boring
very fast... my best meals were those when I'd surf cast the Lung
Guyland waters, free fresh caught fish, but still I'd have to add
ingredients to make it a meal.

And anyone tells me they buy expensive cuts like rib steaks and lamb
chops marked down I call them a liar, the meat department employees
take those if they're worthwhile, if not they go into the ground
meat. In all my years of shopping I've never seen expensve cuts
marked down for quick sale, the store employees get first crack at
discounted meats, in fact they purposely plan on discounted meats for
themselves by putting the best of them aside until the day before the
sale is over... the meat they put out for quick sale isn't even fit
for the grinder.

SHELDON

"Ms P" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> 3.184...
>> Oh pshaw, on Sun 16 Dec 2007 07:56:01a, Ms P meant to say...
>>>>
>>> To get any choice other than the two I already have I'd have to drive
>>> 100 miles west to a much smaller town that has a Safeway. Going east I
>>> think it would probably have to be around 200 miles to find a store
>>> other than the two choices I already have.
>>>
>>> Ms P
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You must live in the middle of nowhere!
>>
>> --
>> Wayne Boatwright
>>
>
> LOL, no. I live on the edge of the middle of nowhere. The actual middle
> is 100 miles to the west of here. From there it's 100 miles to anything
> east or west. My mom lives over there. She comes over here about every
> other month and stocks up on staples she can't get at home.
>
> Honestly out here 100 miles just doesn't seem all that far. Shoot, I've
> got to drive at least twice that far in either direction before I feel
> like I've left home.
>
> Ms P


Sounds like West Virginia to me -- any more guesses?
Dee Dee

"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:23:26 -0500, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
>
>
> Why pay $4.99
>>for a container of ice cream when I can buy it on sale for $1.99? If it
>>sits in my freezer for four weeks, the ROI is better than bonds.
>
> Or you can get the ingredients for it, and make some of the best ice
> cream that you have ever had, in amazing flavors and combinations, for
> not more than you pay for the cheaper brands. And the quality is much
> better.
>
> Christine


I saw Ina Garten making ice cream using a Cuisinart ice cream maker which
you usually can get for $49.95. She said something like, this is a very ice
cream maker. I agree.
Dee Dee

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:30:14 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:42:38 GMT, blake murphy >
>wrote:
>
>
>>is that the peeled garlic in what looks like a sealed plastic bag?
>>how well does it keep, and how do you store it after opening the bag?
>>
>>your pal,
>>blake
>
>Yes, that is the peeled garlic. I got hooked on getting it after
>buying it one day in an Asian market. I tend to use a lot of garlic,
>and I get really bored with peeling garlic... This bag of garlic
>cost me about $1.50.
>
>It keeps pretty well. I transfer it to a ziplock bag and store it in
>the fridge. I am thinking that I might like to use one of those
>Handivacs on it though..when I get one.
>
>Christine

i was in a huge korean market that had peeled the cloves in a jar, in
what i think was salt water. i'm wondering how those keep as well.

your pal,
blake

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:54:08 GMT, Lou Decruss > wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:34:01 GMT, Sarah Gray >
>wrote:
>
>>Lou Decruss > wrote in
m:
>>
>>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:19:08 GMT, Sarah Gray >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>top round is a very versatle cut with
>>>>> little waste, it's the cut most likely to be on sale at $5/lb as a
>>>>> BOGO.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>$5 a pound is too expensive for nearly anything when you are working
>>on
>>>>a limited budget...
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOGO
>>>
>>> Lou
>>>
>>
>>I read it that it was $5 a pound after the BOGO thing. Even $2.50 a
>>pound is no deal for boneless meat.
>
>Around here it's usually a bit over 2 bucks for top round. I don't
>take Shemton too seriously when it come to comparing food prices
>anyway. Actually I don't take him seriously about anything really.
>
>Lou

he knows his spam, though, and the best kind of cheap vodka to drink
with it. yum!

your pal,
blake