Oromocto a bunch of pussies that thought they were special because their dads carried guns.
Fredericton a bunch of asshole civil servant kids.
Your Grocery Bill
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Oromocto a bunch of pussies that thought they were special because their dads carried guns.
Fredericton a bunch of asshole civil servant kids.
I hear you, SLM...........my mouth is watering at the thought especially the yorkshire puds!
And parsnips!
I decided a few years ago to keep my grocery tapes and thanks to the print outs, I can track the rising cost of my groceries. You are right, VanIsle........the cost keeps going up.
I'm of two minds about the matter, I would guess the average family spends less than 20% of net income on groceries. Back in the day the grocery bill was the major expense and between that and the cost of a dwelling probably accounted for 70% of my dad's pay cheque, so I guess by comparison we are getting off fairly easy today. With groceries there is a lot of flexibility where you can spend as much or as little as you like. Eating habits have changed. How often do you see a grocery cart loaded with 50 lbs. of oatmeal, 50 lbs. of spuds, 50 lbs of flour, 25 lbs. of rice? Today it's mainly processed foods in small packages and stuff like condiments (condiments back in the day were salt and pepper). Would anyone who is truly concerned about the price of groceries be buying a dozen cans of pop? I think you have your answer right there. As far as the milk is concerned, is there anything wrong with power milk besides the kids don't like it? That part wasn't even a consideration growing up! All in all we are eating pretty high on the hog, and the waist lines around town attest to it.
Talking about parsnips I bought two fairly large ones at Safeway yesterday without checking the price first..................over $2. Kind of figured parnips and turnips pound for pound should be worth about the same.................................No way Jose.
Leftovers can (I stress can) be great. If my husband is on evening shift - guess what he gets for dinner???? Otherwise, I make dinner at about 2:00 PM. Then when it's time for me to eat dinner myself, I feel like I am eating leftovers. On the other hand, my kids, kids are often here so I have food in the house that teens like and that my adult kids like. They are all here so much that I cannot get used to the "cook for two" rather than cook for four. We over eat. I am working on making myself throw "it out" so I won't nibble but sometimes, it's not easy. My son just had a chocolate craving and I told him that there was Nanaimo Bar in the freezer (not homemade). Once it comes into the house - it's hard to resist. I ate a piece. If he had not been here, I would not have thought of it. All kids - big and small inflate the grocery bill.
You get 3 meals from a 13 inch? Even if I only eat 2 pieces there would only be two pieces left after my husband eats and if the kids are around, we need at least two pizza's that size.
That's just it, what's not there you don't think about. I do most of the grocery shopping here, sticking mainly to nutritional foods and not too many frills, (maybe a box of ginger snaps) then my wife decides to go down town and buy 14 different varieties of junk food including crap like Kraft dinner and cookies and muffins and pies and "goldfish" for the grand kids. And then I see this stuff and start to pick. Most of the crap on the shelves today is just as deadly as arsenic, it just takes a few years longer to kill you. :smile:
What's a Ukrainian doing eat pizza? What happened to capoosta? :lol:
Pickled herring aside - way aside, I like all you eat but not together. The coleslaw and the beets - love them both but not at the same table as yams, turnips, carrots and potatoes. Maybe I'll take out a slow cooker roast tonight. Maybe.
They do keep going up. I didn't have to know prices when I was a cashier but you keep seeing prices all day long and you remember them even if you are not trying to. Plus - like everyone else, I buy a lot of food and since SOM is so close by, I usually shop there. I notice a very big change in their prices over the past 3 - 4 months.
This is one of the reasons why we hunt and fish. Grain fed deer, wild fish, make for smaller grocery bills, and healthier diets.
Is it that sort of yellowy colour?
There is a solution to that issue:
I rarely have leftovers.
...'cuz I freeze them for future premade meals.
I did that whole prepaid meals thing for years, when my kids were small. I guess now I'm kinda spoiled, if I feel like having something particular for dinner then I just stop and pick it up at the store on the way home from work.
And the big guy in the photo looks like he could outeat my son, so while leftovers wouldn't be a problem, I'm thinking poverty might, lol.
I've seen those in grocery stores here. They look gross, I never buy them.
You're lucky to live in an area that is conducive to that sort of thing. I used to like that too but had to move for work from one province where one fish would feed five to a province where it takes five fish to feed one, and you might get five on a lucky day. If anyone had to rely on it for a living, they wouldn't be living. I'm told it's the result of many years of acid rain. I've given up hunting for the most part too, any time I found a good spot, it got logged out the following spring.
I've never tried US poultry, but I'm certainly not impressed with the factory chickens available here. The bones should be white, not dark red or brown once cooked. We lived next to a chicken farmer, he started with one 36000 capacity barn, and between him and his brothers had 6 such barns within 2 years. He matter of factly explained the process one evening, 43 days from hatch to market, growth hormones, force feeding, antibiotics, acceptible losses in the hundreds per week. His son used to take the remains along the grid in front of our place and dump them on other land he owned one section over. Our dog would run out to the road and collect remnants that fell off the gut wagon and bring them home, ugh. His chickens went to Superstore, Safeway, and KFC. We bought free range farmgate chickens for years after that. (Don't bother raising them yourself unless you're willing to invest a big commitment in time and effort if you can find someone else willing to).
Who is "we"? I gave up hunting and fishing as there is no economic benefit. It's cheaper to buy meat in the grocery store.
Him and his family.
I hunt and fish because I enjoy it. These days it's more about getting together with my brothers, sisters and brother/sister inlaws. The women get their boxes of wine and make perogies and cabbage rolls while we hunt. I don't see one of my sisters and her kids too often as she lives in Texas, so it's always a good time.
I hunt and fish because I enjoy it. These days it's more about getting together with my brothers, sisters and brother/sister inlaws. The women get their boxes of wine and make perogies and cabbage rolls while we hunt. I don't see one of my sisters and her kids too often as she lives in Texas, so it's always a good time.
Exactly. I don't know anybody (except for CB) that says it lowers the grocery bill. It's about the enjoyment. I could always take it or leave it so when it became more expensive to hunt food than to buy it, I gave it up.
It does work well in lumber, if you are a buyer. Sucks if you are a mill or market logger.
I think it depends on where you live. We have deer on our property every day and the ocean is less than 1 k. also have a garden and fruit trees. If you live in the city and have to drive 100 miles to hunt then it probably is not cost effective.
I live out in the country. I couldn't even begin to count the deer within 5 miles of my house. Get the odd moose hanging around as well. It's just not economically viable.
A day or two off work, gasoline, tags, habitat fees, ammo. etc does add up. If it were for food I'd only go for elk and never bother with deer.