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Suncat

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  1. We have a store here that got some blocks of unsalted european style butter.. a bit different flavor than we're used to.. but not bad.. and it's only $1.99/lb we'll adapt
  2. One of my dh's favorites in college was bean burritos. You could even make the beans from scratch and freeze in small batches.. but just heat up the refried beans and toss in cheese.. spread on a tortilla and add toppings if desired. Fast and cheap.
  3. I've added radishes to cucumber salad (vinegar and sugar and dill) and they were good.. the red does "bleed" if I remember right. I got a box of apples today for $.50 a pound.. haven't seen that in a while. guess we're going to be processing apples here. Oh and I was offered a couple of homegrown cooking pumpkins today.. I'll get them later in the week. So lots of apple and pumpkin stuff going to be made here.
  4. partially using leftovers here too.. making homemade pizza.. used a leftover alfredo sauce with sausage and veggies in it on one of the pizzas.
  5. Corned beef and cabbage(home grown) with mashed potatoes
  6. yeah we have a few green tomatoes left that I want to fry.. and we tried out a green tomato pie that was really yummy (sweet, almost like apple pie)
  7. the glass bulb of an LED is cooler but they still have parts that can get hot.
  8. I'm still using fresh tomatoes.. these ripened in the window after being picked green (scalloped tomatoes as a side with homemade macaroni and cheese for dinner tonight).. but I picked the few cabbages we had today. They'd be ok for a bit longer but they weren't getting bigger and I've wanted to use them before my mom moves to my sister's house for the winter. (she's in a warmer area).
  9. Yep.. I use it to inform myself.. so that when I'm at the store looking at stuff, I can have a "feel" for the true difference in cost.. and can balance that along with the work of dealing with something like a whole chicken, and whether or not I want to mess with broth at that time.
  10. That's true but you could compare things like a whole chicken vs just the bone-in breasts for the cost of the meat serving.. you'd still have bones to make broths.. It's just a tool to help you compare the cost of a serving a meat across the various ways they're sold.
  11. I find it helpful.. in the for instance I gave above.. both of those just happen to work out to $0.50/serving.. but it really helps me in knowing that what looks cheaper may not be.. or what I think isn't too much more.. maybe really is.
  12. You input the information from your area.. so like if you know the price of a whole chicken at your store is $1.25/lb and the boneless skinless breasts are on sale for $2/lb you can see how they compare by the number of servings you get from them.
  13. So, I don't know if this has been shared here.. but for a straight cost per serving (doesn't account for things like using bones for broth) this is a great little calculator. http://www.cheapcooking.com/costperserving.htm This will let you compare things like bone-in chicken breasts with blsl chicken breasts for the amount of meat you'd get.
  14. There are dual purpose chickens.. not sure about ducks
  15. I've discovered things like.. you can easily slice a boneless pork loin roast into lovely pork chops.. and when you get it on sale it easily undercuts buying pork chops (and you can package up for the freezer in amounts for your household). Also I can take a pork shoulder roast (cheapest cut currently) and hack it into long chunks and bbq like ribs and it's very close to the boneless country style ribs that were easily running twice the cost of the roast. I try and only get beef when it's clearanced and get it right into the freezer..
  16. Nothing like eating today for yesterday's prices
  17. Nice! My grammy would make a pear and pineapple jam that was really yummy.. I think she also did the spiced pears (they're sorta pickled I think)
  18. the most basic of soap can be made with lye and fat.. and lye can be made by running water through wood ashes.
  19. that sounds like what I ran into getting here.. I bypassed it by coming directly to the forum url instead of the main page.
  20. I've read some stuff about diseases essentially having a cyclical pattern.. so that they'll "die out" and come back.
  21. Suncat

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    Oh I would so do that.. ummm actually out of necessity.. my dd at 14.5 yrs did that. (I was in the hospital 2hrs away on bed rest with my last pregnancy). She did good. Maybe I should at least be taking my son (he wants to drive anyway) and having him deciding what to get (even if off the list of what we need).
  22. And perhaps it's mostly an illusion..Because of inflation while we may be bringing home 32.5% more (on average) than in 2000, our buying power is actually down -5.7% Which means that we HAVE to be bringing in at least 40% more than in 2000 to stay at the same buying power we had. And besides that. When one person is home it's much easier to be frugal than when both work. When we talk with people about income we explain ours this way.. DH brings in the money, and my job is to make it stretch as far as I can. When you don't have someone who can concentrate on the stretching and being at home to do the things that make that work.. time to yard sale for needed items or to hunt for the best deals, to run to the store at least every week to get only those things currently on sale and to keep enough stocked up that you never have to buy stuff not on sale.. and it's really hard to do all of that on top of another job. That's why you almost always see when young families are trying to decide if the mom should stay home that they're told to consider the COSTS of both working to include it in the budget to see if having both working brings them out ahead or not. (hint: often not) http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/Real-Incomes-Four-Years-After-the-Great-Recession.php
  23. Add it to the forum calender?
  24. Now that is funny.. I have centurylink too.. but every few hours I would connect and could see the page.. but no one else had posted that there was a problem.. and I'd think.. ok must be fixed.. but it'd be down again the next time I came through. (I have several sites that as I take breaks during the day I just go through the list so even when I thought it was down I'd click on it without thinking as part of the routine). Oh and I was mostly amused by the problem.. I saw that it said the domain name wasn't paid for and thought to myself.. hmmm sounds like something I'd do.. I'm sure they'll fix it asap.
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