OT: Sens Lounge: "Pleeease won't you be.....my neighboµr"

[jbeck5]

All I can say is before inflation this is how I would manage our dietary needs. Now it is no different except there is less leeway on over spending. We eat even less processed food now than ever before.

It's easier to cut out things like eating out or take out orders before altering ones grocery order.

But I agree, as soon as stuff becomes tighter, you get rid of the processes foods, not the good foods.

Things being tight means I'm not buying 2 $5 bag of Doritos...I'll skip it this month. Stick to my chicken and veggie meal and drop the salty greasy snack that's probably just harming me and making me gain unneeded weight.

 

[BankStreetParade]

All I can say is before inflation this is how I would manage our dietary needs. Now it is no different except there is less leeway on over spending. We eat even less processed food now than ever before.

Ok but how do you manage to spend $300 to feed 3 adults every month? Not even the most simple math bears out what you're saying. You'd have to be eating completely unbalanced, monotonous/repetitive meals to even get to about $400 per month, on the low end.

 

[Beech]

wooo f***ing woo

a 67 game from 10 am-1 pm.

Thank you. A reprieve from Patrick and Cowherd and 30 minutes per hour commercials.

Suddenly Kenny W.'s voice is soothing.

 

[jbeck5]

Ok but how do you manage to spend $300 to feed 3 adults every month? Not even the most simple math bears out what you're saying. You'd have to be eating completely unbalanced, monotonous/repetitive meals to even get to about $400 per month, on the low end.

Seriously... I know it's none of my business and he's not going to do the following, but as someone who is trying to maximize my budget...I'm very curious to see like a list of meals for the week, and how much he paid for those items lol

To me, it also doesn't make sense...

Unless he like goes to his parents every Sunday...and then her parents every Saturday...and then does take out Fridays but isn't including that.

Like the math doesn't make sense to me.

wooo f***ing woo

a 67 game from 10 am-1 pm.

Thank you. A reprieve from Patrick and Cowherd and 30 minutes per hour commercials.

Suddenly Kenny W.'s voice is soothing.

Is it one of those games where all the schools in Kingston get tickets and it's filled with kids and teachers? We did that once for the 67s

 

[Beech]

Seriously... .........

Is it one of those games where all the schools in Kingston get tickets and it's filled with kids and teachers? We did that once for the 67s

Yup.. School day game in Kingston. Fantastic idea.

 

[jbeck5]

Yup.. School day game in Kingston. Fantastic idea.

Curious how it works for season ticket holders...if you have like 2k season tickets, are there like 2,000 empty seats? Or are those people asked in advance if they would give up their seats for the game for a small rebate or something and then they sell the tickets to schools?

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDoo]

Ok but how do you manage to spend $300 to feed 3 adults every month? Not even the most simple math bears out what you're saying....

All I know if he's actually coming even remotely close to that then I need to revisit how much my family spends on food.... because we are way WAY higher.

 

[Stylizer1]

Ok but how do you manage to spend $300 to feed 3 adults every month? Not even the most simple math bears out what you're saying. You'd have to be eating completely unbalanced, monotonous/repetitive meals to even get to about $400 per month, on the low end.

We eat a lot of protein, fats and veggies, with a little starch mixed in once and a while. Eggs are an amazing source for 2 out of 3 things that satiate you to start your meals out. It's not like when I get to $300 I won't spend another cent. In general throughout the month I go to the grocery store with a set amount of cash so I can't go over budget. Depending on what is for sale I will usually do a 60/40ish split when it comes to meat/veg-dry goods. If you know how to cook you never end up with monotonous/repetitive meals but of course you will have repetitive ingredients. We have zero waste when it comes to food. People don't understand just how much money they throw away when they don't consume everything they buy. Again when you buy more when things are on sale it leaves you a little more to make simple things that much better. Each week/month tend to bleed into the next were so if there is a week were if nothing is on sale you don't have to buy anything and you are still good with more to spend the next time around. That is where you come out a head.

 

[Beech]

It's easier to cut out things like eating out or take out orders before altering ones grocery order.

But I agree, as soon as stuff becomes tighter, you get rid of the processes foods, not the good foods.

Things being tight means I'm not buying 2 $5 bag of Doritos...I'll skip it this month. Stick to my chicken and veggie meal and drop the salty greasy snack that's probably just harming me and making me gain unneeded weight.

Ok but how do you manage to spend $300 to feed 3 adults every month? Not even the most simple math bears out what you're saying. You'd have to be eating completely unbalanced, monotonous/repetitive meals to even get to about $400 per month, on the low end.

There is a giant misunderstanding of cost associated with food. Many people eat so poorly, they eat expensively.

A proper diet is actually, legumes, seeds, grains, little to no meat. Protein will come from plant sources.

Fruit and vegetables should actually be minimized. They are high on the glycemic index. Will spike your blood sugar and injure you. Dairy should be minimized as well.

If you follow the Canada food guide, translate that into practical meals. You can do so, at low cost. The food guide has been revised on many occasions. Its revisions show a shift away form Dairy and meat and vegetables and fruit and processed carbs.

As an example: A bag of lentils is $5 for 1 Kg. Rice is $4 for 2 kg. Add a bag of onions and other. And for $20, you can have 15-20 meals in a month. Nutritious, healthy and safe. These basic ingredients swell with water and fill you quite well.

It is junk food, it is non-healthy food that is costly.

A bottle of Ketchup is $4-$7, does not contribute to filling you. Does contribute to hurting. And is food's equivalent of a cigarette. So 2 bottles a month, is ~ 10-20 healthy legume/grain/seed based meals.

This country is packed to overflowing with ethnics and immigrants. And many survive on $300 a month. All the while, eat better than others.

a 20 kg bag of lentils, or rice, etc. is $20.. you can feed an army.

 

[Beech]

Curious how it works for season ticket holders...if you have like 2k season tickets, are there like 2,000 empty seats? Or are those people asked in advance if they would give up their seats for the game for a small rebate or something and then they sell the tickets to schools?

I am guessing, and I mean guessing only.

Season tickets may exclude the 1-5 "special event" days. You may get first dibs on purchasing those tickets if you choose.

Again, just a guess.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

My grocery budget for me and my son I have half time is $800/month. I could probably trim that by $100-200 by making cheaper choices, but up in the Yukon, I don't think there's getting around that $650-700 mark for a situation like mine. My shopping routine is 3 stores plus Amazon to get the lowest prices on various things. That also covers his school lunches for 2 days, my lunches at work 5 days, and I never eat take out or go to restaurants anymore, so that's all in food for the month basically.

 

[BankStreetParade]

There is a giant misunderstanding of cost associated with food. Many people eat so poorly, they eat expensively.

A proper diet is actually, legumes, seeds, grains, little to no meat. Protein will come from plant sources.

Fruit and vegetables should actually be minimized. They are high on the glycemic index. Will spike your blood sugar and injure you. Dairy should be minimized as well.

If you follow the Canada food guide, translate that into practical meals. You can do so, at low cost. The food guide has been revised on many occasions. Its revisions show a shift away form Dairy and meat and vegetables and fruit and processed carbs.

As an example: A bag of lentils is $5 for 1 Kg. Rice is $4 for 2 kg. Add a bag of onions and other. And for $20, you can have 15-20 meals in a month. Nutritious, healthy and safe. These basic ingredients swell with water and fill you quite well.

It is junk food, it is non-healthy food that is costly.

A bottle of Ketchup is $4-$7, does not contribute to filling you. Does contribute to hurting. And is food's equivalent of a cigarette. So 2 bottles a month, is ~ 10-20 healthy legume/grain/seed based meals.

This country is packed to overflowing with ethnics and immigrants. And many survive on $300 a month. All the while, eat better than others.

a 20 kg bag of lentils, or rice, etc. is $20.. you can feed an army.

I'm actually convinced you have no f***ing clue what you're ever talking about.

Here's a picture from Canada's Food Guide:

Do you notice how this image is DIRECTLY in opposition to your bolded statement?

And who the f*** goes through 2 bottles of ketchup a month? What the actual f*** are you talking about?

 

[SoupNazi]

Ok. Going to say it once more.

POLITICAL DISCUSSION IS NOT ALLOWED ON HFBOARDS. PERIOD.

This is not up for debate. If it continues, it will be the end of OT threads in the Senators forum.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Store brand potato chips are still pretty cheap. Same with certain pastas and pasta sauces. Not the greatest food in the world, but it works. Also you can get rotisserie chicken in grocery stores at half price in the evenings (if they're still in stock). Cuts the grocery bill down quite a bit.

 

[Stylizer1]

Seriously... I know it's none of my business and he's not going to do the following, but as someone who is trying to maximize my budget...I'm very curious to see like a list of meals for the week, and how much he paid for those items lol

To me, it also doesn't make sense...

Unless he like goes to his parents every Sunday...and then her parents every Saturday...and then does take out Fridays but isn't including that.

Like the math doesn't make sense to me.



Is it one of those games where all the schools in Kingston get tickets and it's filled with kids and teachers? We did that once for the 67s

So far this week we have had asian meatballs and Chili. Tonight will be the leftover meatballs from Monday with different sides.

2 pounds of beef $8
crushed/chopped tomatoes $free
2 cups of dried kidney beans $1
Onion/garlic $free/.20 cents
2 Bell Peppers, 1 poblano, $free
Spices .50

This makes around 5 liters of chili. We eat 1 Liter per meal. So 5L = 15 meals. 15/$10

This works out to $.67 a meal + Some shredded cheese and a dollop of sour cream. About a $1. If I really want to splurge like I did last night you buy a small bag of Frito corn chips for $1.25 from the dollar store for the crunch texture. It's good shit man.

Now the Asian meatballs are more expensive per person but with 2 pounds it comes in a little over that $1.50 mark per person. 1 meal is a little under so the next meal can go a little over.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDoo]

So far this week we have had asian meatballs and Chili. Tonight will be the leftover meatballs from Monday with different sides.

2 pounds of beef $8
...

Where do you shop for groceries? Serious question, this $8 for ~900g of hamburger is just a little over half of what I think I paid last time I did groceries.

 

[maclean]

I love me some chilli. I make mine with TVP instead of beef which lowers the costs even more, but I do have to buy my tinned tomaters. That's about the best value food you can get. I actually made about a month's grocery money selling chilli at a street festival in September.

 

[coladin]

Family of 5 adults. 300 per week easy. Plus order out probably once a week usually (pizza or something)

 

[BankStreetParade]

Where do you shop for groceries? Serious question, this $8 for ~900g of hamburger is just a little over half of what I think I paid last time I did groceries.

Tomatoes - free
Onion - free
Peppers - free
Garlic - $0.20

Basically the entire meal is free lol. Hardly any vegetables or nutritional balance within those 5 dinners that week either. It's bullshit, exactly as I called it. A f***ing Canadian prison spends $5.41 per day on a prisoner's food, which is $164.55 per prisoner, per month. I've never heard of well-fed prisoners and this guy claims he can do it for almost half. It's almost comical how bullshit this is.

 

[2CHAINZ]

 

[Stylizer1]

Where do you shop for groceries? Serious question, this $8 for ~900g of hamburger is just a little over half of what I think I paid last time I did groceries.

If people watched grocery store flyers like they do the stock market people would come out a head. Today being the last day of flyer week food basics has 1lb of ground beef on for $2.88lb, No Frills/Walmart $3.97, and Sobey's $4.49. The last time I loaded up on ground beef was labour day when it was cheap. Canada day before that. Sometimes there are amazing sales the week after a holiday. Sometimes stores have great sales that aren't advertised. But also, not all sales are actually good value. Paying attention over the course of the last 15-20 years lets you figure that out pretty easily.

 

[BankStreetParade]

If people watched grocery store flyers like they do the stock market people would come out a head. Today being the last day of flyer week food basics has 1lb of ground beef on for $2.88lb, No Frills/Walmart $3.97, and Sobey's $4.49. The last time I loaded up on ground beef was labour day when it was cheap. Canada day before that. Sometimes there are amazing sales the week after a holiday. Sometimes stores have great sales that aren't advertised. But also, not all sales are actually good value. Paying attention over the course of the last 15-20 years lets you figure that out pretty easily.

Where did you get it from Labour Day? I'm presuming you got it for $4/lb? Also, how do you shop? Do you go to 6 different grocery stores to buy the things that are on sale at each one? I'm still not understanding your last post where canned tomatoes, onions and peppers are all free. What does that even mean?

 

[Stylizer1]

Tomatoes - free
Onion - free
Peppers - free
Garlic - $0.20

Basically the entire meal is free lol. Hardly any vegetables or nutritional balance within those 5 dinners that week either. It's bullshit, exactly as I called it. A f***ing Canadian prison spends $5.41 per day on a prisoner's food, which is $164.55 per prisoner, per month. I've never heard of well-fed prisoners and this guy claims he can do it for almost half. It's almost comical how bullshit this is.

This is an example of one meal with the help of my garden that I managed to make for $.67 per portion. You could do that too but it appears you would prefer to waste money where ever you can. You also seem to assume we are eating chili for 5 nights straight. lol Ever heard of a freezer?

When was the last time you asked a prisoner if he was well fed?

lol

Where did you get it from Labour Day? I'm presuming you got it for $4/lb? Also, how do you shop? Do you go to 6 different grocery stores to buy the things that are on sale at each one? I'm still not understanding your last post where canned tomatoes, onions and peppers are all free. What does that even mean?

I clearly stated before I have a garden. You're laughing at me because I figured out how to reduce my cost?

Along time ago there used to be this thing that was delivered to your house each week by kids or sometimes adults called flyers. They would tell you when stores that sold things like food would go on sale, Many people were angry because they looked at it as junk and would just stick to their routine of going to the same store every other week and spend money on what ever they wanted and would just pay the bill. Some people though would look at those flyers and notice some places have better prices for stuff than other and noted that if they bought certain things from certain places they could actually save money. Then a terrible thing happened, most houses stopped receiving flyers. Luckily while that was happening the internet came to the rescue and gave people even more flyers to look through and again save money. What's great is you don't have to blindly go to each grocery store in the city to find a deal.

Thank you Internet.

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You're welcome.

 

[Stylizer1]

Just for perspective:
Middle of July whole chickens were on sale. I bought 6 of them.

This is the last one.

4 portions, $1.08 each

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDoo]

If people watched grocery store flyers like they do the stock market people would come out a head. ....

Well, if you are a serious bargain hunter you would have bought BTC a year ago... you'd be swimming in chilli now, am I right @2CHAINZ