Posted on 07/07/2024 2:26:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A man in California spent more than $400 dollars at Trader Joe’s to feed his six children for a week and a half, as Americans struggle to survive in President Joe Biden’s (D) economy.
The father shared a video online that showed a receipt from the store in Westlake Village in Los Angeles County, Fox Business reported Saturday.
“Here’s what it takes to feed six kids in about a week and a half,” the man said in the video. The camera then pans down to show the bottom of the receipt which says the total bill was $444.38:
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You check in but,
You can never leave
I’ve never understood TJ fanatics.
It would help if he took a nutrition class, bought some fresh, unprocessed food- fruit, veggies and meat, real cheese and butter, eggs-and learned to cook, too. His kids would be healthy and he’d save some money...
Mirrors on the ceiling,
Pink champagne on ice,
We are all prisoners here,
Of our own device.
A pound of pasta is just empty carbs-almost zero nutrition-just a filler/platform to go with real food-you have to put some fresh veggies for fiber and vitamins and some meat for protein to fuel the muscles and brain to have a healthy meal...
Relax, said the night man
We are programmed to receive-
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave...
Of course... but if you can’t afford enough healthful food, you have to settle for carbs.
“We use to buy Two Buck Chuck at the WLV Trader Joe’s, but I have heard it’s not two bucks any more”
Yeah for about six+ years. Never bought the $2 stuff, but they have plenty of much better wines for $6-8.
Well, I like Trader Joes stuff, but if you go there to feed your family, you deserve to get fleeced for every cent you spend.
So I called up the Captain, “Please bring me my wine”
He said, “We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969”
I live in a rural area and I grew up on a ranch-everyone grows a garden here and even if you don’t know how, the produce at the small-chain grocery store is local, organic and reasonably priced. the fresh meat is reasonable, too. I’ve been poor living in a city as a single mom years ago-I still managed to budget my food dollars for fresh stuff. There is plenty of fresh food available cheap in stores-you just have to buy the reasonably priced stuff and cook it. Settling for carbs is why we have an obesity problem even with kids-they are not healthy. The same people who say they can only afford carbs now will still be saying that if DJT is in office again and food is reasonably priced-have you noticed that those same people have money for a case of sodas, a few boxes of sugary cereal and a few packages of cookies?
Its functionally the same company when it comes to purchase agreements as they use their combined purchasing power for everything...
except cigarettes. Aldi (N DE) doesnt sell cigs, Trader Joes did/does (S DE).
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
Had to find the passage back
To the place i was before...
I shop at both here in Virginia. They have similar prices for produce, not very different for cheese. I don't buy milk. Mostly importantly, chocolate prices are similar and both are more expensive than Aldi.
Yeah it’s the store he shops at. You’re so smart. You beat the Biden inflation by changing the store. Idiot. Prices are relative. They go up 20%. But some how you and Aldi’s have defeated the Biden economy. Idiot.
First the pandemic then Bidenomics hammered the smaller China chains like Big Lots, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, etc. Walmart didn't go up nearly as much. I suspect that it's survival of the biggest because they can pay off Brandon's minions. Similarly, Brandon crushed the small refineries after taking donations from big oil.
I really like the Eagles, even though they are kinda considered Easy Listening rock.
The man’s TJ’s grocery receipt showed plenty of processed food and carbs. He paid $3 or $4 per item. My comment was that he could’ve bought a pound of pasta there for 99 cents (unless the prices are higher where he shops).
Yes, fresh fruit and vegetables are important, but fruit and vegetables alone are not enough. Children need carbs, too, such as pasta, rice, potatoes, and bread. Pasta was a life-saver when I was a single mom. I never bought soda, but I baked desserts from scratch. We also ate pizza. But, my children were thin, and so was I (at the time).
You’re right-and with that pound of past, he could make pasta with meat sauce/meatballs, chicken alfredo, chicken piccata, pork carnitas with pasta etc, etc for a whole month-but he’d have to learn to cook first...
My family were health nuts-naturalists-so are my brother and I. Living on a ranch, we had plenty of healthy natural food. The only time I deviated from the organic healthy diet was in my 1st year of college-for a whole semester, I ate dorm-type food like everyone else-ramen noodles, fast food, hamburger helper-and my energy level dropped, I had headaches, etc-my mom read me the riot act. Never did that again.
Brown Rice and occasional potatoes-fresh ones, no packaged-are the only carbs other than homemade whole grain bread we ate and no margarine-real butter. We did not get sodas or candy, but my mom baked cookies and pies from scratch, and taught me to. I still eat that way. My 1st husband was raised on a ranch-his mom was a naturalist also-so we raised our cub that way. No one in my close family has been overweight-I weigh the same 103-105 I weighed at 17. The guy in the article could have saved a lot if he’d have made some fresher and healthier food choices to cook at home-and shopped at a less expensive store-maybe we should send him a cookbook?
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