Food/Grocery Doom

Bananas are dirt cheap here, so I have the potassium food covered. Exotic fruits like apples are pricy though.

I've been getting my protein from eggs, chicken livers, and tilapia, all of which are cheap.

I'm growing squash, pineapples, and peppers in my large planter box. I'm also thinking of growing potatoes in bins indoors. I sprout my own alfalfa in jars in my kitchen. It's much cheaper than buying alfalfa sprouts at the grocery store, which sell for $5 in one of those little plastic tubs.

When I go to the grocery store now, I completely pass up all the aisles full of boxed and canned goods. I just can't afford to buy that stuff anymore. I hit the dried grains and beans section, then do the rest of my shopping on the outer edges of the store buying perishables.

There's a limit to the types of produce I can buy, since a lot of that is expensive too. I can only buy the cheap fruits, which are pineapples, bananas, mangoes, and papayas and the only cheap veggies are carrots, peppers, garlic, and snap beans.

eggs are great and cheap!

Its how the Mexican nation even exists ! Are you crazy? Billions of people subsist on grains, Rice is what feeds all the billions in Asia

Adding lime to corn turns it into vital B vitamins. it liberates the Niacin. Without this amazing scientific alchemy, Central Americans and South Americans would have starved and gotten b vitamin deficient Pellagra disease.

I eat whole wheat to get B vitamins and without it, id turn into a insomniac who looks like Im on crack. Been there done that with years of insomnia, Now I sleep like a baby

Few know that the number one cause of insomnia is lack of complex b vitamins.

BTW, I havent eaten whole wheat in four days and have been waking up in the middle of the night, tossing and turning, which is a sign of lack of vitamin B.

Im going to start eating whole wheat toast again with breakfast and Ill sleep sound thruout the night.

i can remember living in the canal zone back in the late 70's, lived on Howard AFB. I can remember eating bananas and mango's as a daily staple, but when you are a kid most anything would be fine.

Mango trees were every where and we had 2 banana trees in the back yard.

His thread had grocery doom in it. Thats getting a big ol' bump!

anyone want to answer my question at the bottom of page three?

Yeah, its great, and very filling, I like the black beans and go out to lunch at Big City burrito a few times a week and request it, They top it over fried potatoes or rice . I order the Chicken Mole with corn salsa

I bought my lady hundreds of dollars worth of new appliances this month still sitting in the box and I told her to start using it so we can start saving money long term. And she told me, not until you remodel my kitchen, lol

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I guess you better get busy.

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Apart from maintaining social conventions in certain situations and obtaining cheap sugar calories, there is absolutely no reason to eat grains.

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If you proposed no grains, Billions of people around the world. (majority) will starve to death. You dont even know the enormity of your suggestion

If I could, Id eat homemade beef jerky and smoked salmon all day long as the the hunter, gatherer diet is more in tune with certain bloodlines

But it would cost thousands of dollars a month of meat.

Im not a multi millionaire yet, so your proposal is impossible.

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I calculated the cost of new counters, and cabinets, and yeah, its expensive. Of course Ill do it myself and cut out labor costs so its doable. But she will have to save me money first and I tell her she has to get busy and make me some chipotle !

lol

i'm not a multi-millionaire either. in fact i'm quite poor and only eat 1 meal a day

try going without grains for 1 month and you'll feel different.

people don't realize they're not getting any nutrition at all from grains...they're just getting empty calories

plus grains cause a myriad of problems and diseases...

Dunno your age, but some thoughts which might eventually be useful to you.

Sometime around age 35 many of us can no longer eat meats after 4pm without experiencing EXACTLY what you've been speaking of--waking in the mid of night and being awake--insomnia.

My doc told me to eat meat before 4pm--something to do with liver bile functions which shut down naturally then and resume around 4 in the morn.

He also suggested a bit of cheese at bedtime-something about the calcium assists sound sleep.

These two things work well for me.

I'm gonna try your whole-wheat suggestion, too!

thats hilarious cause DECA runs a chain of hundreds of stores and pays all its employees pretty damn good and by law can only charge 6 % over cost.

try most likely one out every 2 people shopping is using foodstamps and getting the fucked gouged out of them, the rest of you are too and there is not much you can do about it.

I've alway understood that they are the chickens that are almost spoiled, so they have to be cooked or thrown out. But once a month or so for convenience.

I'm retired mil and wish I had a commisary close by.

Cant buy any warm/hot foods with food stamps.
Rarely is there one in the cooler thats cold.If it is in the cool sections its at least two days old.They dont cook nearly as many as the did in the past so rarely is there any leftovers of the warm chicken.My sister works in a grocery deli and she said its rare they have one left at the end of the day that they wrap and set in the cool section.
Personally I would rather see warm food bought with stamps than junk food but its not allowed.

We eat them often.Dont need much meat.Can make versions without meat too.Rice,eggs,veggies and cheese can all be used.
If I have a tiny bit of meat leftover from a meal thats what we make.

Why would you grill filet Mignon instead of NY Strips??

Tortillas are great wrappers for just about any food.

Im gonna try and can my chicken meat instead of the freezer,save some money on electric that way.

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Last Edited by Six Six Six on 05/22/2012 02:17 PM

I do agree wit what you say, except I do feed my kids organic cereals some days. I myself am gluten-free but my kids are obviously very healthy with no leaky gut issues so they can handle grains. What do you feed your kids for breakfast? I am not a morning person so I don't like to wake up and cook eggs for everybody but I do that 1-2x a week. Otherwise it's cereal, toast or Buckwheat berry waffles.

I bought 4 organic chicken breasts from Fred Meyer the other day. It costs $15. With prices that high some of us who feel we need meat in our diets MUST eat the arsenic chicken. If I had the choice then yes, I would eat only the most healthy meats. As for KFC, that stuff is disgusting. If we stop by there I only get the coleslaw and mashed potatoes, no franken chicken!

She doesnt know how to make sauces and salsas.

These are simple to make and easy to experiment with. When our garden is fully producing, this is my favorite way to make salsa. I take 6 roma tomatoes and squeeze them to get the seeds out of them (you can dry the seeds for next years garden). I put 4 of them in the blender with a couple of tomatillos. I use several different peppers to give the salsa flavor depth. Use how ever many you like according to how hot you like your salsa. I use just the tip of a habanero, a few jalapenos and 1-2 serannos. I use 1/2 to a whole bunch of cilantro and some chopped yellow onion. Blend all of this up, add some minced garlic, lime/lemon seasonings of choice, I prefer salt, olive oil, cumin and a little crushed red pepper. I add the last two tomatoes and just pulse the blender to have some chunks in it. My family's favorite variation of this is when I add chunked avocado and mango to the blended salsa and stir. You can also add various vinegars (modeno is good) and you can saute some or all of the peppers, onions and tomatoes to add a variable flavor. The salsa by itself adds a TON of nutrition to your tortillas alone, a little beans and rice or meat will make it a complete meal.

You are correct about the grains! I don't do well eating a lot of grains but I do require some 2-3 times a week.

It looks like you are doing really good in the food department. Since bananas are cheap eat them everyday. I make them into smoothies. You can do that with the rest of the cheaper fruits as well. It is a good way to start the morning off. And potatoes are loaded with potassium and are very versatile and cheap. Look up the garbage can method of growing them. Grow some tomatoes which are also high in potassium.

You have got the protein covered. I hard boil eggs and they make a quick snack. I will even grind up the shell and add it to my smoothies for extra calcium(and other trace minerals). Yeah, it can be a bit crunchy but then I don't chew a smoothie.LOL

I really think you will be just fine with the types of food you can afford. Just look into different way to fix them so you don't get bored. And eat some garlic everyday for your health.

What's so funny about this is I used to eat all organic. I lived in California for 10 years back in the 80's and did all my shopping at Bread of Life. I was drinking almond milk, eating stuff like Boca Burgers and Ezekiel Bread, and chowing down on all kinds of exotic organic produce. I also had a whole cabinet full of herbal teas.

I had two juicers, one regular and one for wheatgrass. I had this huge sprout garden in my kitchen. I was growing wheatgrass, barley grass, sunflower greens, and buckwheat greens on trays. I was sprouting alfalfa, clover, lentils, and almonds in mason jars. I was drinking lots of juice, and sometimes going on juice fasts.

That may have been why I jumped on you. I miss my old way of life.

The only sprout seeds I'm able to find here are alfalfa, and I am sprouting them in jars in my kitchen. It's my only source of greens.

I do have a little garden in the small space I have. My squash plants are doing very well, almost too well. They want to take over the whole garden. I have to keep moving the new vines away from my pineapples to keep the squash from strangling them. This is the first time I've ever planted squash, and I doubt I'll do it again. It's not a good crop to plant in a small garden.