Extreme Couponing

"Julie Bove" wrote in message
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Mine too, it does not last forever. It does separate and gets dark and
nasty looking after a couple of years. Depends on how many stabilizers and
preservatives it contains. I tend to buy mustards with less of these.

Paul
 
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"Julie Bove" wrote:


Can you freeze or can them? Or turn them into something else that
you like to eat? Like baked goods? Those freeze fairly well, too.

I know it happened before, but I just can't imagine food going bad
before it gets used. One of those three pound bunches of bananas is
enough for everyone to have one banana, usually. We easily go though
five pounds of cheese a week. A dozen eggs is just breakfast. Six
pounds of onions is about a week's worth. We can eat 25 - 30 pounds of
fruit in less than a week. When the farmer's market is going, we buy
two of those boxes (at least) a week, just to eat, not accounting for
preserving. Those four pound bags of boneless chicken are two meals for
us. We did find that 600 pounds of beef will last us over a year, but
we need two hogs a year and we eat about two lambs per year.

We are trying to replace most of our chicken consumption with turkey,
since our chickens are mostly for eggs (the extra cockerels or mean
roosters are for eating, and we sometimes turn an older hen into stew)
and our turkeys are mostly for meat. We will have butchered six turkeys
by Sunday. Three are whole in the freezer, we'll put another in the
freezer whole and portion out the other two into pieces. We probably
need to butcher three or four times that to replace all the chicken, but
we didn't want to buy that many in the first year, so we are keeping
four breeding trios to raise more this year. A turkey dinner, done more
modestly than Thanksgiving is, is a normal dinner here. We can usually
get another meal out of the turkey (casserole/sandwiches/something like
that) and soup.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
On Apr 9, 5:23?am, "Julie Bove" wrote:

No wonder you're such a miserable person. You're sick with multiple
illnesses, you're basically a single mom who has to do everything
around the house, and from how you've described her here, your
daughter is a brat. I guess there's not a lot for you to be happy
about. Sorry about that. I'll try to find you less irritating in the
future.

But I do have to ask this: Have you ever TRIED a positive outlook? I
know plenty of people with cancer (and I'm one of them) who refuse to
allow it to bring them down. They face their treatments with a smile,
find the humor in it, etc. And it's been proven, time and again, that
a positive attitude does help cancer outcomes. I realize your
illnesses are not curable and they are not going away, but maybe less
negativity will make you feel better. At the very least, it might make
you more pleasant to be around. Having friends who support you
emotionally (and also give you tangible support in the form of helping
you with your housework, hanging curtains, changing light bulbs, etc)
is sometimes better medicine than anything else. I am 4 ft 11, also
afraid of ladders, and I also have ceiling light fixtures. But I have
no fewer than 8 friends that I can think off the top of my head, who,
if I called them right now and said "I need some light bulbs changed,
can you please run over here and help me?", I wouldn't have to face
this evening in the dark. And similarly, if they needed a baby
sitter, or groceries, or a run to the drug store, or any of a number
of other things that I am capable of, I'd help them. If any of my
friends were sick or heaven forbid, someone in the family died, I'd be
the first one over there with a pot of soup or a baked ziti or a
roasted chicken from the market.

I realize just because you don't discuss your friends, doesn't mean
you don't have them; But i get the sense that you don't have many
friends. I hope I'm wrong. I would be lost without my friends. Not
just because of the physical help I've received from them, but even
more so without the EMOTIONAL support.
 
On Apr 7, 12:56?am, Ran e at Arabian Knits
wrote:

There was a time when that would have almost have been true here. My
son will happily polish off 20 a week these days.

--Bryan
 
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"Julie Bove" wrote:


Well that's great, but a child who screams when she gets the wrong
texture in her mouth and who messes with other people's food, bangs on
the table and screams at her mother _in a restaurant_ is likely to grow
up to be an adult who behaves inappropriately in the workplace. Giusi
is trying to tell you -- rightly, btw -- that bosses won't put up with
it.

I hope I never, ever have to work with her.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases
 
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:23:21 -0400, "Nancy Young"
wrote:


I buy a lot of items by the case and when on sale and don't see where
stocking up and paying less is weird. I must have at least 30 pounds
of pasta at any given time because when it's on sale I stock up and I
like to have an assortment of different shapes, anytime I spot a shape
I don't remember having before I'll buy a few. I probably have a lot
more pasta if I tally up all my smalls that I use for soups. What
I've had trouble finding lately is alphabet pasta, when I find it I'll
probably buy a half dozen boxes. I just counted, I have 8 boxes of
orzo... I often use it instead of rice. One of the best plusses about
stocking up is having to make far fewer trips to the store... when I
go to Sam's Club I stock up on cases enough that I don't need to make
that trip for nearly a year... and nowadays with gas so dear it makes
even more sense to stock up. I just don't stock up on items that are
highly perishable like fresh produce and items that require
refrigeration/freezing (owning a large freezer negates any savings),
but I'll keep like a year's supply of cat food and litter. A couple
weeks ago when my visitors came up from NYC and asked what they can
bring I reminded them about matzo, there at Passover time it's less
than a doller a pound box, here in hillybilly land even when I can
find it it's like $4/lb... they brought me 15 boxes, a year's
supply... I eat matzo all year because I like it... last night's
dinner was tuna salad on matzo, adds crunch to what would otherwise be
a mushy sandwhich. I like matzo instead of crackers... in fact right
now I'm thinking of having some good NYC smoked gouda on Manishewitz
matzo. I think a lot of those that are anti stocking up would
themselves were they able to justify the major out lay of cash all at
once that in the long term would save them having to skimp and
pinch... from reading the anti stocking up excuses mostly what I hear
is sour grapes.
 
Nancy2 wrote:

One lady said she goes dumpster diving. Another said the newspapers give
her all the extra coupons. But still... They'd be getting multiples of the
same things.

I quit taking the paper because the few coupons that were in there were
mostly of no use to me.
 
Julie Bove wrote:

The two bottles in my fridge (different brands and types) both have
"best by" dates, which aren't technically expiration dates.
 
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:38:31 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:


Dijon is my least favorite mustard, to me there is nothing mustardy
about it... worse on a dawg than ketchup. Before using dijon I'd
rather forego mustard... once made the mistake of putting Dijon on a
ham and swiss, beyond TIAD... couldn't eat it.
 
On Apr 11, 3:49?am, "Julie Bove" wrote:

Newsflash, Julie. There aren't a lot of jobs out there for dancers
unless they are extremely talented, and even then... The odds of her
getting a job in dance are slim, but even if she succeeds, which I
hope she does, the odds of her still dancing professionally after the
age of 30 are even slimmer. She's going to have to learn to do
something other than dance. What if, (and I add, sincerely, heaven
forbid!!) she suffers a career ending injury? I hope she doesn't, but
you simply cannot count on having a career as a dancer. She's going to
have to learn how to do something else as a back up plan. And if you
don't teach her that, you are doing a disservice to her. and if you
don't give her the people skills to survive in the business world, you
are also doing her a disservice. Even if she becomes a fabulously
successful dancer, she is going to need to work with others, share the
lime-light occasionally, etc. She needs to develop those skills now,
so that being nice and also being humble come naturally to her. I
can only go by how you characterize her but from what you've
mentioned.... she sounds like a self-centered brat.
 
On Apr 11, 5:53?am, Boogiemeister wrote:

I have come to that conclusion, also. There is no way the things that
she posts could be real. It's just *too bizarre*.
 
On another show a woman bought 35 bottles of Maalox tabs. Even when I
was
using them on a regular basis for GERD and daughter was sometimes
taking
them too, we maybe went through 6 bottles a year, I've never seen an
expiration date on mine.Depends on how many stabilizers and
preservatives it contains. I tend to buy mustards with less of these.




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"Julie Bove" ha scritto nel messaggio
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We speak only after months of your ruthlessly exposing your personal
behaviors. Why did you post it if not to get a reaction?


I don't think anything about your age. Maturity, yes, perhaps.
Responsibility, surely. Why do you think only your own desires are to be
satisfied? Do you live on a distant island with no one around you?

We are the people around you. We are the ones who see and hear you spit and
scream and whine in public. We are the ones who will give your child a job,
or not.
 
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