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Papa Joe Aviance Lost 250 Pounds on the '99-Cent Diet'
Yahoo Health ^ | 6/4/13 | Jenna Bergen

Posted on 06/05/2013 12:16:35 PM PDT by Kartographer

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To: Kartographer

My neck of the woods we have “Grocery Outlet”, a chain that carries discontinued items/ overstocks from the main supermarket chains.

One time I was in there and they had the same kind of thing, canned roast beef in gravy, so I got about 4 cans.

Had a meal with it served over noodles about a week later and it was DELISH!!, so I went back, it was all gone.

So next time when I saw something, almost the same, canned chicken in gravy with dumplings, I bought a couple cans, took them home, and tried it that very night. Excellent stuff. Good, cheap canned meats are hard to find.

So I made a point to go back the next day and bought a case of it!

Haven’t been in there for a while, I should check it out.


41 posted on 06/05/2013 2:30:54 PM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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To: Kartographer

It’s amazing what you can find at the .99 store. I’m gluten intolerant and found Gluten Free Pantry items which normally sell for around $5-$6 box. A lot of their canned goods are actually less than .99.


42 posted on 06/05/2013 2:38:54 PM PDT by reformed_dem
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To: Tucker39
"Within three to four weeks, Aviance started to see changes. “And within 3 months, I was like ‘Hey, this is working!” he laughs. “I started to take all of my clothes to a seamstress so she could take everything in. I was still too broke to go out and buy new clothes, but I didn’t care. I was on a mission.”

Aviance’s morning walks become so regular, that people in his neighborhood started to take notice. “Since I walk every morning, people have started giving me high fives. I felt like a mini rock star in my community. I’ve even had people stop me and tell them I motivated and inspired them to start walking.”

43 posted on 06/05/2013 2:46:48 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: bgill

Yes, but when you call it polenta, you can sell it for a lot more. );-)


44 posted on 06/05/2013 2:53:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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To: Kartographer

Did you know there is no Trader Joe’s, Costco or 7-11’s in Fort Wayne, Indiana?

Which means no blue Stilton cheese, no decent $2 slices of pizza and no Slurpee’s.

It is really all quite sad, when you really think about it.


45 posted on 06/05/2013 3:08:10 PM PDT by foxpro2
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To: tbw2
I’ll trust vegetables and fruit, but would be iffy on buying meat products. There’s the discount beef frozen meals that are actually horse, and the Icelandic meat pie found by DNA testing to have no meat in it.

Good points.

It pays not only be informed, but to be wary as well.

We only purchase meat where we have some confidence in the store.

And who knows for sure what is in prepared foods?
Even well known brands are an unknown.

46 posted on 06/05/2013 3:13:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: Kartographer

yuck I hate WalMart “meat”


47 posted on 06/05/2013 3:46:44 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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BFL - This broke, fat guy REALLY needs to read this!


48 posted on 06/05/2013 4:04:44 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Vendome

I thought it was “fiddycent”.


49 posted on 06/05/2013 4:31:04 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Probably. I just knew it wasn’t spelled “fifty.”


50 posted on 06/05/2013 4:52:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
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To: DuncanWaring

Lust post the guy’s pic already.

I’m on my phone and can’t get to it right now.

LOL


51 posted on 06/05/2013 4:59:21 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Kartographer

80% of the canned food at the Dollar Tree in my town is made in China. No thank-you.

A few things here and there are made in India, Turkey or Spain. I’ll take a chance on those.


52 posted on 06/05/2013 5:37:43 PM PDT by Rebelbase (1929-1950's, 20+years for full recovery. How long this time?)
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To: bgill

We don’t have a 99cent store here either. And I don’t think 50 dollars a week is cheap for one person. We spend about 30.00 dollars per week for 2 people and grand daughter’s breakfast, lunch and snacks.

If it wasn’t for sales and growing a lot of our own food we couldn’t get by that cheap.


53 posted on 06/05/2013 9:16:08 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Kartographer

Then he died of malnutrition.


54 posted on 06/06/2013 1:19:50 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: foxpro2

I think they are building a Costco soon.


55 posted on 06/06/2013 1:22:47 AM PDT by gattaca ("Empty heads are fond of long titles" Old German Proverb.)
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