Re: Broke and hungry

Sheldon <PENMART01@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:8895525c-5634-4461-893c-
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Sarah Gray wrote:
in general. Just nothing really fancy.

A can of "spam": .65 (half a can)

In your dreams. I eat a lot of Spam, probably as much as a Hawiian...
I buy Spam by the 4-Pack at Sams Club, like 16 cans at a shot (I do
this twice a year so I go through about 30 cans a year), costs just
under $3 a 12 oz can, I think it cost $2,69 this past summer, that's
the cheapest price I've found... the small market in town charges
$3.29, I'd do without first. I eat the entire 12 ounce can myself...
sounds like a lot but I slice and slow fry until it shrinks by about
half, I pour off nearly a third cup of fat. Sometimes I coat the
entire chub with some of the brown sugar glaze mix that comes with
spiral cut ham and nuke it on medium, again it shinks by about half...
makes two average sized sandwiches... yes, I eat 2 sandwiches... I
weigh about 180 and I do hard physical work so I burn it off.



Well, there is no law that says you have to buy the national brand. If
you're choosing to spend more money than you have to, that's your
problem.

rye bread (20 slices?) 2.50; .50 for 4 slices

A 2lb loaf of seeded rye at the Price Chopper bakery dept. costs
$4.89... I buy unsliced. Unlike some of yoose figger there is no
Price Chopper where I live, I drive about 20 miles to the nearest
one... there is one in the other direction too, but still 20 miles
thataways, I use both, depending where I'm heading.


Again, you are *choosing* to buy the store bakery bread, instead of a
cheaper variety. You could make better bread at home for cheaper if you
want *really good* rye bread.

american cheese (12 slices) .63 (for 4 slices)

I was at a Supper Walmart yesterday, I buy cold cuts there because
they have the lowest prices and the freshest product (huge
turnover)... I didn't buy american cheese but the woman being served
at the same time paid like $5.19/lb. for LOL. Without giving the
price per weight and brand your.63 means nothing (you have 12 slices
and 4 slices, which? Probably 4 at that price).


4 slices for two sandwiches seems reasonable. American cheese is
available for half the price of the deli stuff in packages with the rest
of the cheese.

Cold cuts are
expensive nowadays, a pound of Boar's Head bologna is $6/lb,

DUDE. You can't use premium brands to make a point about groceries being
unaffordable for the average consumer.

head
cheese is like $7.50/lb, Di Lusso Genoa is $7/lb cheese is costly, I
bought a pound of ordinary Alpine Lace Swiss; $6.38/lb... most good
cheese costs over $10/lb. I went to Lowes to buy my Christmas tree;
got a nice 7 1/2' douglas fir for $23, across the parking lot is
Walmart, I dropped $120 there on nothing, if not for the two big bags
of cat litter I wouldn't have needed the cart to haul it all out to my
car.

mustard .09 (a tenth of a bottle?)

Meaningless without knowing the brand and size. I make my own
mustard. But when I do buy mustard it's Gulden's spicy brown, I don't
remember the exact size right now and I'm not going down to the
basement fridge right now where I keep it but it's the big jar, like
24 ounces I think.


What does brand have to do with it. For all intents and purposes,
mustard is mustard. I'm talking about a 12 oz bottle of spicy brown
mustard here; I don;t really pay attention to brands unless I find a
product I *really* prefer over something cheaper.

pickles .25 (1/4 of a jar)

More gibberish... what's a 1/4 jar mean, which brand, how large a
jar? I like Claussen from the refrigerator case, the quart jar costs
like $2.50 on sale, I can eat the entire jar in one sitting, I don't
buy them but 2-3 times a year.


Again, you're choosing to buy the expensive brand of pickles.

cabbage .50 (half of a two pound cabbage)

50 cents a pound for cabbage is kind of high... maybe when you buy a
half a head you pay more... I've never seen cabbage sold any other way
but whole heads or shredded in a sealed salad bag. Whole heads in
town are like .19-.29 a pound.


I only buy cabbage when it's on sale, so I was guessing :)

mayo .46 (1/3 of a jar)

A third of *what size* jar, and which brand?!?!? I buy Hellman's
quarts, on sale at $1.99... I couldn't eat a 1/3 jar in one sitting,
the entire quart lasts me almost a year.


This was for coleslaw.. a quart or mayo. It would be less mayo than
that, but I was guesstimating there.

carrots .15 (.5# out of a 3# bag)

I ain't doing that math... I've been buying carrots in 5lb bags for
$3. But I've also bought 2lb bags for $1.99. I must have like 25
pounds of carrots in my fridge right now, most get fed to the deer.


I get them 3 pounds for .89.

onions .15 (.5# out of a 3# bag)

Again, I ain't doing that math... onions are kinda high lately,
yesterday I noticed that Walmart had loose onions for $1.15/lb, no
way. I bought onions at my little market in town for 40 cents a
pound.


..89 for three pounds.

apple cider vinegar .09 (a tenth of a bottle?)

More fercocktah math... a tenth of WHAT size bottle? I buy store
brand white vinegar; 5pct... $1.89/gallon.


a quart of apple cider vinegar.

quart of milk .99

I can't remember the last time I bought milk by the quart, for a long
time I was buying 1/2 gallons but of late I've been buying gallons,
$3.69/gal with every tenth one free (Stewart's), I freeze milk.


I can usually find milk on sale for 2.50 a gallon... a quart of milk
costs much more per oz.

is 4.46 ... plus, there would be coleslaw left from the meal. I could
make many meals for that price range, and less "lurid", as you put
it.-
But that's only one meal... at three meals a day $4.46 X 3 comes to
about $13.50... your grocery bill isn't much different from mine...
and no way will I believe you are feeding more than yourself lunch on
6 ounces of Spam and some cabbage.


*You* were the one who came up with the menu! I also assumed that was
for two people... 16 oz of milk, a sandwich of span and cheese on rye
with mayo and mustard and a pickle and coleslaw is more than I would eat
for lunch on an average day.

During the summer I grow cabbage,
I can easy finish an entire 1 1/2lb head of boiled cabbage myself in
one sitting, it's all water. I grow a lot of my own vegetables,
those cost much more than store bought. I have no reason to lie
about the prices the stores charge, anyone can look it up on line.

All I can see is that you are choosing to spend more money, and then
complaining about how high your expenses are.

I
did pay less for most items on Long Island, but that was five years
ago so that argument is meaningless... many items have actually
doubled in price since then, petrol certainly has, diesel has nearly
tripled, $3.51/gal last month.


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