| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/15/2006 8:45:46 PM | Or just to lazy to go shopping.
I make peanut butter sandwiches and add granulated sugar, when no jam is available. Most jam is loaded with sugar anyway.
 Its peanut Butter jelly time!!!! | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/15/2006 10:06:37 PM | | my Sydney diet was.... a day... 1 sandwich... mostly with polish salami and cheese.... or Lavish bread with polish salami and cheese as a pizza.... but i always had 2min noodles (seafood laksa)...every pay day i would get something from the cafe.. either a crumbed chicken breast on turkish bread toasted with lettuce cheese bacon and mayo... or a pasta dish... that alone pretty much blew my budget for the week...lol... public transport and rent was so expensive down there.... half my wage went on to weekly train and bus tickets... but at least i lost alot of weight....lol... | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/16/2006 10:04:24 AM | | I am poor. I wait for whole chickens or chicken breast go on sale and buy as much as I can afford. You can do so many different things with chicken...fry,bake,bbq,soups,sandwiches. Hamburger is a crime these days. | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/16/2006 4:37:14 PM | In South Texas rice and beans is a staple; people buy them in big bags. In North Texas I've noticed that the asian thing is always rice rice rice.
I've also found an odd grocery of I don't know what - rejects? big lots? anyway, this is a little back road place that has even name brand foods really cheap. They are usually dented or crumpled in some corner. But .29 for Kraft mac will do for me. | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/16/2006 4:43:51 PM | just that one store. Odd brands too, are less than normal. Including .10 on jello.
They have some really good buys, but you have to also know your prices because you can pay as much as normal for something like toilet paper. | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/16/2006 8:48:49 PM | I have a chest freezer, and when meat, cheese, or other foods go on sale (or better yet, a sale plus a coupon!) I stock way up.
I just got imported swiss cheese (Finlandia) for less than $2 a lb. That was a great find. Sale, plus a dollar off coupon which doubled. | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/16/2006 9:13:09 PM | | Cant you guys buy direct from the wholesalers?.... we can over here... and they have little shops everywhere .. that sell things in bulk like frozen foods.. and sauces and canned stuff... even the fish markets where you cant get any fresher then that and alot cheaper as there isnt the increase for profit that the shops put on.... same with fresh fruit and veg.... every friday or saturday the public can go in and buy fresh foods just like the resturants... and it is so dirt cheap..... even the icecream places have a sale on every so many months... as stock that hasnt been sold to stores the public can go in and buy them wholesale | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/16/2006 10:28:24 PM | i live in canada so prices are a little bit higher than in the u.s. on most things. Like the other person said before..i too have a deep freeze..and stock up on everything when its on sale...and more often than not the no name brand products..are made by a brand name manufacturer..with a different label stuck on it.....so i buy the "cheap" kind of almost everything.
a good..inexpensive meal...pasta casserole...
1 pot of macaroni, or rotinni, or whatever else you have on hand
1lb of hamburger
1onion
1 can tomato soup or sauce
green pepper if you have it..or mushrooms..or shredded cheese...
its one of those great recepies that you can add almost anything to it and it'll still taste good. and will keep in the fridge for about 2 days. | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 2:59:09 PM | Meats - 6months
Beads and pastry - 3months
Cakes - Sponge- 3months, Fruits- 12months
Seafood - 3months
Chicken - 6months
Soups and Stews - 3months
Mince (ground meats) and Sausages - 1 month - but will last longer if they are in a air tight bag as if there is a hole or not sealed will get frost bite (loss of colour and dry looking) if this is done can last longer then 1month.
Fruit and Vegetables - 6months
Icecream - 3months.
You have to remember like the suasages and mince.... if all are sealed tightly so there is no frosted air into it they can last longer in the freezer.... there should also be a gauge on your freezer door on how long you can keep things.... this is the Australian gauge... but im sure it is international. | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 5:10:42 PM | it is recommended that you label what your meats are and a date stamp label on it so you know how long they have been on there for....
but like i said... if you seal everything up tight so there is no frosted air coming into contact with the meats or foods... they can last a little longer then what the gauge says..... you just have to keep an eye out for them...
a test you can do is put a hole in one of the bags.... and see how it turns out and compare it to a sealed bag with no holes.... | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 5:13:07 PM |
Meats - 6months
Beads and pastry - 3months
Cakes - Sponge- 3months, Fruits- 12months
Seafood - 3months
Chicken - 6months
Soups and Stews - 3months
Mince (ground meats) and Sausages - 1 month - but will last longer if they are in a air tight bag as if there is a hole or not sealed will get frost bite (loss of colour and dry looking) if this is done can last longer then 1month.
Fruit and Vegetables - 6months
Icecream - 3months.
I am so glad she posted this. I thought of a post for just this. Food isn't forever, even in the freezer. | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 5:16:46 PM | dont you guys have a table of how long food can be in the freezer for on the door of the fridge/freezer or tuckerbox?... it is a standard to have a food chart on ours.... very artistic too....lol.. some of the pics you would never have guess that is what they were if the names werent next to it.....lol...
EDIT: and yes i stood infront of the freezer door and wrote them doesn for yas....lol.. was refreshing... might have to do it again soon.... its getting too hot.... not liking this summer much anymore....lol... | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 5:27:07 PM | | summer is technically Dec-Feb but we have had this heat from Sept... mighten end til march/april.... in the state im in...startes getting chilly at night around may.... no real winter only cold night. maybe 4-6 weeks of cold days in winter... but i am in the tropic state.... | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 5:37:19 PM | | right, same as us in reverse. we maybe see 122 but have been known to got 90 days over 100 or like two summers ago when we averaged 110 for the month of june. but from november to april or so, the best, 75 ever day. Unfortunately we have also gone over 4 months now with no rain either! | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 9:29:25 PM | We dont get those labels on our fridges. Then again Ive never had a new fridge. Always renting. Is it common for stores to freeze fruit? I ate some apples from a small local market and the texture tasted horrible and they went brown alot easier. I was thinking maybe they froze them. Is that a common practise or bad business? | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/17/2006 10:15:00 PM | i ate apples from a small local market and the texture tasted horrible and they went brown alot easier. I was thinking maybe they froze them. Is that a common practise or bad business?
could be bad business.... as i know over here alot of the store have their fruits in the chilled section or a open fridge kinda thing... this is to keep them as fresh as they can... at night they go into the cool rooms to keep fresh if they arent sold.... if they are left out without chilling they will rippen faster hence the brown spotting appearing as browning/yellowish happens when not fresh...and has had been bumped as apples do bruise..
see this is where all the fun happens... you do little home tests for yourself... you get 2 apples... both fresh... put one in the fridge in the crisper section... the other out on the kitchen bench.... and see what happens... might help if you say... drop them accidently to get the bruise thing happening.... leave them in there for a week or so... you will know what they have done to them....lol...
but honestly there is nothing better then a chilled apple....especially when they are all juicey.....
AZ:- the humdity will kill ya here... this would have to be the wettest summer so far.. wel 5weeks with it raining every night... that was fun....lol.. has hit over 120 here... but averaging around 86-96... with 50%+ humdity... and lately .. geeeez... ya knew it was going to rain... as soon as that sun went down... sweaty as dogballs...lol... | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/18/2006 8:10:19 AM | How long can meats stay good in the freezer?
Gramps was a butcher his whole life and this is a chart he gave me when I was buying a whole cow once a year as well as poultry, lamb, and pork.
Meats & Poultry
Recommended Storage Times (months)
Beef Roasts ..... 8 - 12
Beef Steaks ..... 8 - 12
Lamb Roasts ..... 6 - 8
Pork Roasts ..... 4 - 5
Veal Roasts ..... 4 - 5
Lamb Chops ..... 3 - 4
Pork Chops ..... 3 - 4
Veal Chops ..... 3 - 4
Veal Cutlets ..... 3 - 4
Liver/Heart/Kidney ..... 2 - 3
Ground Meat ..... 2 - 3
Pork (cured & smoked) ..... 2 - 3
Sausages ..... 2 - 3
Wieners ..... 2 - 3
Roasts (cooked) ..... 2 - 3
Stews (cooked) ..... 2 - 3
Meat Loaf (cooked) ..... 2 - 3
Turkey
*whole ..... 9 – 12
*pieces ..... 5 - 6
*cooked ..... 2 - 3
Chicken
**whole ..... 9 - 12
**pieces ..... 5 – 6
**cooked ..... 2 - 3 | |
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| Food for when your being cheap or being poor
Posted: 2/18/2006 8:35:03 AM |
ate apples from a small local market and the texture tasted horrible and they went brown alot easier. I was thinking maybe they froze them. Is that a common practise or bad business?
Most apples you get in the market this time of year have been in cold storage since they were harvested last fall. And don't forget, if the produce is from Chile, South Africa, Mexico, etc. it's been in transit for at least a month or more before it gets to your store. | |
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