Beans, rice, potatoes, cornbread, a big bag of sugar. milk, a bushel of green beans, etc etc. Pork chops are usually cheap. 50 pound bag of rolled oats is about 35 bucks. That’s about 400 servings. 50 pounds of flour is about 55 bucks at Costco. Spaghetti noodles and egg noodles are about a buck a pound.
He needs to wise up and stop living so high on the hog.
[50 pounds of flour is about 55 bucks at Costco.]
“”50 pound bag of rolled oats is about 35 bucks. That’s about 400 servings. 50 pounds of flour is about 55 bucks at Costco.””
50# of rolled oats - 50# of flour - great, if you’re going to make a lot of oatmeal cookies...for a year or more.. Don’t forget the raisins....
Country people, like farming people know what you are speaking about. Meal servings, planned for calories and nutritional value. Pasta is our friend, potatoes crucial and really important are canned goods. Not all fresh frozen like this guy clearly buys.
Keep on hand dry milk for reconstitution with water— gives as much or more in calcium than jug milk. Eggs— eggs can be put into all sorts of meals, boiled, fried, mixed in vegetable/meat casseroles to up the protein content.
Simple foods with minor cooking skills required. And every now and then some grocery loss leads real meat cuts at substantial discounts— you have to make a career about knowing when they show up.
And one more thing- have a freezer for bulk purchase protein buys.
Thanks DesertRhino!
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...