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Re: I'm changing my ways!
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Posted by screaminghollow on May 20, 2008 at 05:02:56 from (209.86.226.14):
In Reply to: I'm changing my ways! posted by Paula on May 19, 2008 at 16:17:59:
There's a grocery outlet in this little town. Not like Sam's club, but an "overstocked, weird won't sell and past the holiday, type bargain outlet. Fortunately it is right on the way home from work. It is a hit and miss proposition, because you never know whwt they will have and there is never any fresh meat or produce. Cheese is sometimes dirt cheap, I bought some 2 lb boxes of cous-cous for 3 boxes for a dollar. (Guess this isn't a cous-cous type of town.) Spaghetti, noodles and pasta are often 3 lbs for a buck. Right now, Johnsonville Brats, frozen, are $1.19 a pound. Snack foods and frozen pastries fill two of the aisles, and are pretty cheap. Some times they have brand names, sometimes stuff no one has ever heard of or dreamed of. (Mexican style dill pickles, with a jalapeno pepper in every jar. Or Thai style potato chips, very sweet and HOT!) Mayo and ketchup and mustard are always cheap. A few months ago, they had 12 oz packs of offbrand hot dogs, 4 for a dollar. I cut them up and feed them as treats to the dogs.
Cake mixes are usually 75 cents, if you like Duncan Hines pineapple cake, or orange dreamsicle cake. (actually pretty good) Seriously, though. We get lasagna noodles when they have them and gallon cans of brand name pasta sauce, riccotta cheese and make huge lots of lasagna which we freeze. A friend told me there is such an outlet over near Waynesboro, which may be within your occasional travels. We have even grown a few vegetables in flower pots in the kitchen in winter, simple fast growing stuff like pak choy, radishes, etc.
We raise our own meat. I can get a jersey bull calf for $10 or 20 bucks and figure in 18 months, I have about 250.00 in feed and it costs 200 to get it butchered and wrapped. That comes to a few cents over a dollar a pound for the burger, steak, roasts etc, which are pretty lean. A lamb can mow your lawn all summer and be ready for the freezer in November.
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