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Giant Goats posted:Prices really do vary. The current prices for these at my local grocery store: bone-in chicken breasts ($6.49/lb. for the family pack), ground beef ($4.99/lb. for the family pack), pork chops ($5.99/lb.) I feel you on this sentiment. I try to make dinners with some kind of meat and some kind of vegetable and maybe a starch, perhaps some bread when we have a pasta dinner. Then there are lunches, which can be leftovers sometimes. Breakfast can be really cheap since we usually have a frozen waffle each or a bowl of cheerios and split a banana. Then there is juice/juice boxes which I pay a premium for because those are the ones with only a couple of grams of sugar as opposed to others with like 25 grams in one serving. Oh yeah, and snacks for the little one. But if I can get everything for a week for $75, I am thrilled. I guess I'm lucky that my kid is a really light eater, but I still have a hard time keeping my food budget a low as some of you guys in here, even with coupons. Call me jealous, I guess.
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I just got my 16 quart stock pot the other day and made a giant batch of bolognese sauce from scratch tonight. It is full of veggies and meat and tasted absolutely delicious. I portioned it all out in baggies to go in the freezer. Including what we ate tonight, I got 15 batches. They ended up costing me around $2.36 each. Add some noodles and maybe some bread and there's dinner for less than 5 bucks.
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Yawgmoth posted:That's because spam is made with the bits of "meat" they they can only reach by blasting an air hose into the stripped carcass and collecting what meat particles the employees don't inhale (and later die from). Gotta love a meal with a story behind it. But seriously, some of this stuff is just gross. Macaroni, tomatoes and hot dogs? Good god why?
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GrAviTy84 posted:I'd think this would also be pretty obvious, but don't buy more than you can consume before it goes bad. Buy for the week, consume more perishable things first, hardier things last. Things like carrots, potatoes, onions, broccoli last at least a week properly stored. Things like lettuce, spinach, asparagus go bad in a few days. Buy a few of each and plan to eat accordingly. Eating on the cheap is mostly planning. I do something like this. I write down my menu for the week, make the list off of that, and go from there. You put meals with more perishable items earlier in the week. Having the list at the store also helps to keep me on track and only get what I need. It's also kinda fun to look around on the weekend for new ideas and build the week's menu around it. But maybe I just have too much time on my hands. Since I only cook for my kid and myself, I've become better at only making what we will eat in one meal (we are terrible about eating leftovers). I make huge batches of bolognese and chicken stock and freeze in sandwich-size baggies. If we want mac & cheese, I halve the recipe and bake it in a loaf pan.
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Yeah I used pork shoulder. The piece that I bought was a little over 3 pounds and cost like 6 bucks. It was plenty for two (adult) people.
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spite house posted:Thrift shops can be great for equipment, and discount clothing stores like Ross and TJ Maxx (if you're in the US) are also excellent for picking up kitchen gizmos on the cheap. You sure don't want to buy pans or knives in those places, but they're awesome for cutting boards, wooden spoons, measuring cups, all kinds of baking poo poo like muffin tins and bundt pans, etc, for a fraction of what you'd spend at Williams-Sonoma or even Target. The Ross near my house keeps having these awesome Pyrex bowls with rubber lids for less than ten bucks a three-pack, and it's revolutionized my leftover storage. (Tupperware and its knockoffs suck so hard compared to glass.) I would love to replace my tupperware with some awesome pyrex. However, every time I open the cabinet, all of the tupperware spills out in a avalanche. Doing that with glass wouldn't be so great. I hate my small kitchen.
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May 17, 2012 03:46
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nm posted:No kidding, even San Bernardino has a farmers market where no one has been shot for months! Produce at a farmers market seems to be about half the supermarket price for better quality and more variety. There is a 99 Ranch Market in Chino Hills, too. But I don't know what direction you're coming from. I live like a mile down the street from the one in Rancho. They've also started doing a little farmers' market at the Victoria Gardens on Friday mornings, I think. Edit: Sprouts is an awesome store, too. My 4 year-old daughter discovered PINK sea salt and I thought she was going to piss her pants or something. Then she asked me how babies are made in the checkout line but that's another story all together. Walk Away fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Jun 13, 2012 06:17
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GrAviTy84 posted:Wow, so many Inland Empire spoongoons Only the best for this forum, baby.
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Jun 13, 2012 06:24
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So what I've deduced from this thread is that we all live within 30 minutes of each other. The IE has a monopoly on GWS! Oh yeah, and we have the cutest kids, too.
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Jun 13, 2012 21:35
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neogeo0823 posted:Bah... My gf is partly stubborn and partly insane. She doesn't want to make stew, chili, or anything that would be "too thick". This eliminates a lot of crock pot cooking. The unfortunate bit is that we're down to $15 to last us till the end of the week. Make your chili. Give her water and ask if it is "not thick" enough. She will get hungry and eat the chili anyway.
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Jul 7, 2012 23:43
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Rurutia posted:Risotto (or is that too thick)? Or stir fried bok choy with mushrooms (add cornstarch and chicken stock while stir frying). Risotto is my favorite go-to for my homemade stock. Using it to make some kind of red sauce or bolognese for pasta is good, too.
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GrAviTy84 posted:
It would be cute if it wasn't so sad.
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Sep 5, 2012 03:57
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lookit dis guy who thinks Government things are honest and unbiased. 