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GLP Recession Proof Meals - Cooking goes a long way in lieu of buying crap
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 4039390:MV8yNDU3ODc4XzQyMzI3Mjk1X0EyQ0VBQTJD] It's the working poor who overextend on the townhouse and car and their matching warehouse furniture sets who can't afford decent food. What we ought to do is teach the paycheck poor who aren't eligible for foodstamps how to shop like a foodstamps mom. 1. Determine your food budget. Put it in a separate billfold if possible. Never buy movie tickets or five dollar DVDs or beer out of the food money. Don't rob the food budget for your traffic tickets. 2. Start a pantry. Buy some things you like in bulk. Don't waste money on big sacks of flour unless you love to bake and have a freezer. Things I like to buy in bulk even when its just me are the thirty pound bag of premium rice. I love rice, and premium basmati is more nutritious. It's not just filler. It's nutritious food. I buy lentils and pintos in bulk, and gallon tins of olive oil when they are ten dollars off. Also big jugs of corn oil for frying, butter on sale if you have a freezer. Gallon cans of tomatoes for homemade tomato sauce. 3. Of you have a freezer,buy y produce in big bags on sale. Mashed potato dishes freeze wepll. So do cut up onions and celery and carrots. Always buy the big bag of carrots and have a carrot chopping hootenanny. Sharpen your knives, clear the counters, and prepare your big mouthed mason jars (only the pint and half pints freeze) and plastic baggies and make matchsticks, coins. chunks, and whatever. Compost the peels. Make a carrot stock. This isn't just cheap, it is a quick way to assemble a soup or sauce if you have half pint jars of carrots, celery, onion, leek, plus the usual snips and snaps. When home cooking is easy, Marie calendars pies lose their appeal. 3.5. I had an ancient freezer in the garage we called the lasagne freezer. I also had stacks of Pyrex pie pans and lasagne pans. Ii bet thrift stores are full of them. When you get ahead foodstamp pr money wise if you have space and time make up a dozen pans of lasagne or pot pie or casseroles you like. If you only remember to pull out a pan to thaw, you will never blow money on frozen or delivery pizza again. 4. Snips and snaps deserve their own number. Never throw away mushroom stems, or oddments of a quarter onion, half the tomato that got refrigerated, wilted parsley. Chop and freeze. Learn to make soup stock and sauce. It will serve you well. Meat fat lay be toxic but its nutritious. If you are broiling a ribeye and not cooking for a week in the fat you are a wastrel. Good carnivores eat drippings and cracklings. 5. Once you have the Pantry built up and the freezer full of snips, you can eat dirt cheap and tasty, with Money to spend on good coffee, berries, whatever your pleasure. 6. Never buy inferior food because its cheap. 7. Don't deny yourself pleasure or nutrition because of cost. If you have five dollars to your name you may as well spend it on blackberries. The best part is not saving money but improved health. Id rather feed you foodstamps and see you smile than see you working and bitching and hurting and ruining the world with Your attitude. Travel tip: buy good thermoses. Chicken stock in a thermos can keep you from spending all Your pay at Starbucks. If you travel you arrive richer and healthier by not eating shlt food on the road. If traffic stops for an accident. Din din! Better than being upset. [/quote]
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Ok GLP lets teach those on foodstamps how to stretch a dollar & where they dont have to eat potted meat or beefaronis or ramen noodles.
^^^these foods have near no nutritional value and contribute to obesity.
for one - every supermarket must DATE their foods. shop in the store and note the DATE OF EXPIRATION. come back that day of expiration and those meats will be reduced by half or more.
shop at bread stores, where most of the bread is either 2/1.00 or 1.00 a loaf.
ill start off with a few - this will feed a family of 6. and for 2 nights.
remember - this isnt mcnastys where you can "supersize it"....the only thing that will supersize is your waist if you dont cut down on portions.
1.5 lbs ground chicken
one onion chopped.
^^cook til browned & onions tender. drain.
add 8 slices of cheese (or 1 can of campbells cheese soup)
low flame, simmer til cheese is melted.
pkg of wraps.
finely shredded lettus
spoon the meat/cheese into the wrap, add lettus,
makes a crap load. 2 maybe 3 nights worth.
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