I’ve always made it a point to cook for cheap. Crockpots are great. Bread machines are great. Wild game is great. So is canning and preserving what you grow or pick at a farm. It’s often a topic of dinner conversation to figure out exactly how much my family of three is eating that night. Often, our entire meal comes out to less than $4. No way we could all eat out for $4. That’s the key—eat at home. Stock a pantry. Buy in bulk. If you’re a food snob, give instant mashed potatoes, ramen noodles, bulk rice & store brands a try. Bypass Whole Foods and drive to Aldi’s once in a while. Clip a coupon on occasion. Plan your meals each week. Make sure you don’t eat like a pig so you’ll have leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day. I think eating cheaply is a rather worthy & enjoyable challenge.
Msg can lead to many diseases of the nervous system. It artificially causes your synapses to “fire” repeatedly and wears out your “connections”. If interested go to truthinlabeling.org. It is highly educational and a real eye opener.
Americans are being sabotaged by way too much msg in their diets and are coming up on the short end of health because of it. There should be a constant outcry. Msg makes food taste better because it fools you into thinking you have that satisfied taste that protein gives you.
It also has the ability to draw people back to the food that has it in it. That is why it is being crammed into so many foods by marketers. The problem is if one marketer leaves it out and another puts lots of it in most people will automatically buy the one with it in so the first marketer finds it hard to compete. Msg should be outlawed because of its ability to make people over time very sick. Companies would have to go back to putting lots of honest to goodness flavor in food. Of course that would be more costly.
I have LOTS of Ramen Noodles. I mean LOTS!
Years ago, I got this itchy feeling I should start stockpiling food, so I did.
One week later, I KID YOU NOT, some planes crashed into the World Trade Center.
Top Ramen is a good indicator of inflation. I used to be able to buy them for 12-15 for a dollar. Now you are lucky if you see them 10 for two dollars.
Like I said above and you know, these are all just things to start get ya going. I love to cook, and am usually quite good at it.
I once had a dinner date and cooked a duck for this beautiful girl. It basically turned into some bones and a pile of grease!
But she gave me another chance, so I decided to try something like a Chicken L’orange, except I used Lemons instead of oranges and orange peels.
Turned out surprisingly good!
She must have liked it because she ended up marrying me...
regards,
djf
Aldi is the best grocery buy in America. Their soups are pretty good too, but when it comes to tomato or chicken noodle it HAS to be Campbells condensed. My relationship with them goes back to the middle of last century.