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Could You Eat On $30 A Week?
CNN/theindychannel.com ^
| September 22, 2011
| Sheila Steffen
Posted on 09/22/2011 7:36:30 AM PDT by Abathar
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To: Abathar
Back in the 60's, when times were pretty tough for our family, my mother used to feed a family of 6 on a buck. Tenderoni macaroni was 19 cents, 3 cans of tomato sauce 24 cents, a can of beans was 11 cents and a half-pound of hamburger meat was 35 cents.
Talk about stretching a dollar...and my kids still ask me to make my mother's pasta fagiole. They love it.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:47:05 AM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(Vote Against Barack Obama in 2012!)
To: Abathar
Half the world's population lives on a diet of rice and beans, and it is a thoroughly adequate and nutritious diet.
My bet is you could live on $10 of rice and beans a week, and eat all you wanted.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:49:23 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
To: Abathar
Before we get too excited about this $30 Dollar food stamp receipient, let's first learn what the maximum food stamp recipient draws. It is entirely possible that the majority of those drawing the $30 dollar amount are gainfully employed and only qualify for that supplemental amount.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:49:23 AM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(If bull s*it was gold Obama could pay off the National debt all by himself.)
To: yldstrk
Your definition of nutrition is unscientific.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:49:46 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
To: SueRae
Budgeting in any area is an acquired skill, just like anything else.
I keep a budget spreadsheet which helps me a lot, but I do get lazy from time to time. :)
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:49:55 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Howie66
"You can bet that MoochHell Ubama couldnt eat on $30 bucks a week." Mochelle wouldn't make it past her first morning slopping for under $50.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:50:05 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: BobinIL
Amen! Family of five, about 50 bucks a week, supplemented by items from Walmart that Aldi doesn’t stock.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:50:25 AM PDT
by
agrace
To: Mr. K
Food and gasoline are no longer included in the inflation numbers because they are "Too Volatile". For example, the Tomato juice I was buying last summer for .99, is now ON SALE for $1.89. HOPEY CHANGEY!!!
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:50:29 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Democrats have been OUTFORCING America's jobs for 40 years)
To: yldstrk
Bologna sandwiches, hot dogs, raman noodles that is not nutrition, that is the meat remnants and empty starch.As a food service professional, I have to disagree with you. There is no such thing as "empty calories". The body uses the starch in ramen noodles as well as it does brown rice or beans and rice.
As for your assertion the meats mentioned are "meat remanants, also bravo sierra. The body uses bologna and hot dogs the same way it does filet mignion.
You have highly romanticized view of food.
/johnny
To: Abathar
$5 of beans and rice will take you a lot further than $5 of bread and bologna.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:51:35 AM PDT
by
IMR 4350
To: Abathar
$30 a week might be harder if your are a single person but for families.
When my sonIL was out of work for a couple of months my daughter applied for food stamps, they are family of five and received $800 a month plus WIC for the two under five.
They had more than enough food.
When my sonIL start working again two months later they dropped the food stamps and went back to their food budget of $350 a month.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:51:54 AM PDT
by
svcw
(It is who I am, it is what I do.)
To: Abathar
Bologna, hot dogs, and Ramen noodles. Ya, that’s the ticket. Thats a recipe for a heart attack.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:51:54 AM PDT
by
Roklok
To: yldstrk
Bologna sandwiches, hot dogs, raman noodles that is not nutrition, that is the meat remnants and empty starch. Maybe not, but replace the Ramen noodles with Peanut Butter and you'd pretty much have what we fed our brood over the years. Not a sick or obese one in the bunch.
To: Howie66
You can bet that MoochHell Ubama couldnt eat on $30 bucks a week. It's a safe bet that she couldn't eat her fill on $30 a meal.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:53:25 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
To: Abathar
when i was on welfare, back aounr ‘80, my food budget was eleven bucks a week. i doled it out carefully, and survived on it. the government cheese was a godsend.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:55:03 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: yldstrk
"Are you freaking serious? Bologna sandwiches, hot dogs, raman noodles that is not nutrition, that is the meat remnants and empty starch."*embarrassed* I'm a kept man who gets fed three squares a day by my incredible wife, those are the first things that came to mind from someone who doesn't make good life choices if left to his own devises on diet...
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:55:58 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:56:35 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
To: Abathar
30.00 a week X 4 people = 120.00 a week
120.00 X 4 weeks in a month = 480.00 per month - breakfasts and lunches for 2 kids 5 days a week at school. (if I’m correct in all this)
That is MORE than I spend and I homeschool so I have to feed them every meal.
Read the article. The author is complaining that she ran out of money when she bought chicken breasts at 4.69 a pound and fresh broccoli. Honey, you need to shop at Aldi’s or Sam’s Club.
*snicker* She is going to starve.
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posted on
09/22/2011 7:58:18 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice)
To: econjack
I swear, there wasn't one thing in that cart that was fresh. Everything was processed, frozen, or microwavable...easy and fast to cook.I see a lot of that. Yesterday, I found beef shanks that were beautiful, and $1.70 per serving. I bought 2 and a package of beef bones for $0.80. I'm making the brown beef stock now, for the occo bucco and polenta that will be tonight's supper for 2, with a total cost of less than $5.
At the restaurant where I learned to make the dish, we charged $35/plate for that meal.
It's very high quality gourmand fare.
But it does take time and effort I started the stock yesterday at 1400.
/johnny
To: IMR 4350
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