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Originally Posted by ptquilts
I was at a Walmart and the produce guy was picking out tomatoes with blems, I said are you going to mark those down, I can use them for cooking. He said, no, we have to throw them out. grrrrrrr.....
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The biggest cheapest bag of beans, protein and carbs. I would also try and glean if I was that person.
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You are so right!
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Originally Posted by Gramof6
Our kids gave us a Food Saver sealer thingamajig for Christmas. When I see sugar, flour, beans, noodles of any kind, gravy & sauce packets, rice, powdered milk, Oatmeal, tea bags, coffee, dried fruits,I stock up and come home and seal them in sm portions. Anytime I find canned goods on sale, & they have a long exp. date, I buy as many as I can. I am thinking of trying to dehydrate some frozen veggies & see how those work. I also think some very lean times may be ahead. We will not be eating gourmet, but we will eat.
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Veggies for soup, corn bread mix and pinto beans.
Originally Posted by nycbgirl
I was with 3 of my long time friends yesterday and one of them told me that a friend of hers lost her job and gets unemployment and food stamps $17 of food stamps to be exact. My first thought was what can you buy with $17 ??? So we made a game out of it and came up with some very good ideas. Of course $17 will not feed a person for 30 days but if it's used wisely it sure can help. Each of us pretended that we had only $20 to spend for a week we had to have 3 meals a day. some of the things we came up with were: rice, beans, peanut butter, jelly, bread, oatmeal,eggs, a whole chicken to bake then make soup out of the bones. a bag of apples, various vegetables, potatos. These are a few things that we had on our lists of course this cost more than $20 but it was a very interesting conversation. As a side note I asked two men the same question and their first item was meat all the women said a carb for the first item. So what would you buy for $20???
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she gets a dollor more in food stamps than I do. It is hard but can be done.
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Box of shotgun shells, box of 30-30s.
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I have been spoiled the last few years...
But there were years that were slim. We got by with small amounts of cash to buy things like flour and sugar because we raised a garden and my husband likes to fish. Wrong time of year to raise the food, I know... |
Are you all aware that the amount of Food Stamps you get is based on your income?
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My mother always had a tupperware type container in the freezer, and always tossed in that "last" tablespoon of corn, peas, potatoes, meats....,.just about everything...then when it was full we always had the most delicious stew...never knew what was going to be in there, but it was something about all of those flavors..it was always good, and just about free!
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