King Ghidorah
El Dandy
On Probation for Charges of two counts of Saxual Music.
How Absurd
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Post by King Ghidorah on Jun 18, 2014 14:25:03 GMT -5
Shit getting more and more expensive, literally $1.25 for some skittles. How do you budget your monthly/weekly grocery haul FAN? Grow your food? Food stamps? Yogi bear style? Between me and my roomate we spend about $175 every 2 weeks on goods, but we tend to eat out fairly often.
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
Perpetually Constipated
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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 18, 2014 14:34:18 GMT -5
I grow my own tomatoes an peppers in my back yard and I'll never quit doing it. Cheap, easy and tasty.
Being in Iowa I have immediate access to knowing people I can buy meat directly from. About once a year I'll buy an entire hog and send it to the locker. Total cost on a 300lb pig runs me about $500. That includes the cost of bacon/sausage/chops/old fashioned frankfurters and whatever else... it's fairly cheap considering you are getting rather high end product.
I do the same with a quarter of beef. The processing on the beef is super cheap (like 10 cents a pound) because all I do is steaks and couple roasts and the rest hamburger in 1lb packs. The reason I don't have a price on the beef is because it fluctuates wildly. Crazy how in a weeks time the price will change 20% up and down.
I cook a lot for guests so no, my wife and I don't eat like a thousand pounds of meat a year. But I probably cook that much.
So about 7-8 months of the year my food bills are pretty small. Typical meal is pork/beef/fish i caught, something from the garden and a starch (rice/noodle/bread). Winter is more expensive because I get stuck buying produce. I can't eat canned/frozen all winter.
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Johnny
Don Corleone
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Post by Johnny on Jun 18, 2014 15:15:52 GMT -5
Well, I can make a hat; I can make a broach; I can make a pterodactyl!
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Jun 18, 2014 15:24:03 GMT -5
... I just ask people for £3.50
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 18, 2014 15:29:39 GMT -5
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Eunös ✈
Dalek
Duck Feet Expert
Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jun 18, 2014 15:31:13 GMT -5
Dunno, I don't do the shopping  |
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Post by bluemeii on Jun 18, 2014 15:35:15 GMT -5
I'll be honest, wife takes care of that. Kind of a case of where she ain't bitching about it I'm not worried about it.
Dammit now I want to know.
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Post by "I'm Batman..." on Jun 18, 2014 16:01:21 GMT -5
I prefer the European method, and just go when I need something. Anywhere from $5-$30.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Jun 18, 2014 18:22:45 GMT -5
Well, if I'm at home with my parents, as I am at the moment, It all gets taken care of for me, so I really can't complain. Otherwise, with all the various 3 for the price of 2 etc deals, I can usually get enough for dinner and lunch for a week for £20. Student thriftiness FTW.
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