This is material for every comedian in the country.
My wife and I eat well and spend less than $200 a month on groceries. We buy good quality fruits and vegatables and meat when it’s on sale. We cook our food instead of buying precooked meals. We don’t shop at expensive grocery stores like Whole Foods because they simply aren’t worth it. It isn’t hard.
Larry J,
we spend well over that and eat well doing as you do with cooking from the ground up. But we’re stocking up for the impending ZA too so that’s part of my costs!
Actually we stock up because I go weeks on end and I’m too sick to drive to get to the grocery. My better half works OT every week in her job. so she doesn’t always have time to shop. In 2011, I couldn’t drive for 7 months due to various maladies.
We had canned goods, dry goods and most of the meat needed to cover our needs. I managed to snag rides to various doctors, and then ran to grocery stores to fill prescriptions. While the filled my drugs, I ‘shopped’.
If I hadn’t been stocking up for the ZA, it would have been on Mrs Der Schtumpy to get to the store after her 10 or 11 hour days. My way worked better for her, than what most folks do, shopping for a few days at a time.
These clowns are being intentionally ‘grocery dumb’.
I get that most of them were successful lawyers / business people before getting elected, and they probably pay someone to shop for them. But they’ve most likely had to struggle some getting through college or in starting their various careers.
And how can you look at ANY grocery or fruit / veggie and NOT be able to do the math of cheaper buying? […how stupid am I to think anyone in Congress can do math?!] I trust you, those of us with sufficient money who shop, know how to cut costs. It’s a skill we learned when we DIDN’T have sufficient money.
And it’s insulting [and racist considering who they’re pandering toward] to act like the people on SNAP are as stupid as they are acting. If the (R)’s were doing this to prove that you CAN live reasonably on SNAP, and they spent like this on stupid stuff, the NAACP, DNC , et al would be going insane.
How ironic that their job title is “Representative”
They are. Morons representing morons.
$135 a month for a single person would cover a lot of meals. Maybe not enough for all meals in a month but enough for dinners and some sandwiches. Getting more money for children or a spouse would make things a lot easier.
A simple box of oatmeal (like I eat almost every day) costs a few bucks and will be enough for weeks. If you have to have your morning coffee, you can buy a 3 pound can at Costco for about $12 and it’ll last for months. Brown bag your lunch (like I’ve done for 30 years) by making yourself a sandwich and packing some fruit. Most of my lunches don’t cost more than $1.50-$2.00. They’re much cheaper than eating out and healthier. Dinner is wide open with a lot of possibilities. Tonight, I’m cooking a couple salmon fillets with brown rice and broccoli. The bag of frozen salmon fillets cost $18 at Costco but there’s enough in there for many meals.
Since my wife and I found an Aldi near home (never heard of it until last year), we do most of our grocery shopping there. It’s an extreme no-frills store whose prices make Walmart seem like Kroger. The products are off-brands but we’ve found very little that we didn’t like.
The trick to cutting grocery bills is to stockpile when you find a sale of something you were going to buy anyway, then shop for meals. We found a good pack of ribs on sale last Saturday ($6) and I smoked them on Sunday. That’s enough for 3 good meals for both of us. A pound of hamburger ($3) sauteed with onions and mushrooms makes multiple meals when eaten with brown rice and a lot of vegatables. My wife and I both like leftovers so very little food is wasted.
One of the reasons they have children when on welfare (millionaires will discuss having kids with their spouses, but those on welfare?) is to get a bigger piece of the welfare pie.
Food stamps will buy a lot of cigarettes ya know (even with the 50% cost of doing the transaction.)
“Not only did I buy a week’s worth of food on what Democrats claim is too little, I have money left over,” Ferguson said.
This is material for every comedian in the country.
My wife and I eat well and spend less than $200 a month on groceries. We buy good quality fruits and vegatables and meat when it’s on sale. We cook our food instead of buying precooked meals. We don’t shop at expensive grocery stores like Whole Foods because they simply aren’t worth it. It isn’t hard.
Larry J,
we spend well over that and eat well doing as you do with cooking from the ground up. But we’re stocking up for the impending ZA too so that’s part of my costs!
Actually we stock up because I go weeks on end and I’m too sick to drive to get to the grocery. My better half works OT every week in her job. so she doesn’t always have time to shop. In 2011, I couldn’t drive for 7 months due to various maladies.
We had canned goods, dry goods and most of the meat needed to cover our needs. I managed to snag rides to various doctors, and then ran to grocery stores to fill prescriptions. While the filled my drugs, I ‘shopped’.
If I hadn’t been stocking up for the ZA, it would have been on Mrs Der Schtumpy to get to the store after her 10 or 11 hour days. My way worked better for her, than what most folks do, shopping for a few days at a time.
These clowns are being intentionally ‘grocery dumb’.
I get that most of them were successful lawyers / business people before getting elected, and they probably pay someone to shop for them. But they’ve most likely had to struggle some getting through college or in starting their various careers.
And how can you look at ANY grocery or fruit / veggie and NOT be able to do the math of cheaper buying? […how stupid am I to think anyone in Congress can do math?!] I trust you, those of us with sufficient money who shop, know how to cut costs. It’s a skill we learned when we DIDN’T have sufficient money.
And it’s insulting [and racist considering who they’re pandering toward] to act like the people on SNAP are as stupid as they are acting. If the (R)’s were doing this to prove that you CAN live reasonably on SNAP, and they spent like this on stupid stuff, the NAACP, DNC , et al would be going insane.
How ironic that their job title is “Representative”
They are. Morons representing morons.
$135 a month for a single person would cover a lot of meals. Maybe not enough for all meals in a month but enough for dinners and some sandwiches. Getting more money for children or a spouse would make things a lot easier.
A simple box of oatmeal (like I eat almost every day) costs a few bucks and will be enough for weeks. If you have to have your morning coffee, you can buy a 3 pound can at Costco for about $12 and it’ll last for months. Brown bag your lunch (like I’ve done for 30 years) by making yourself a sandwich and packing some fruit. Most of my lunches don’t cost more than $1.50-$2.00. They’re much cheaper than eating out and healthier. Dinner is wide open with a lot of possibilities. Tonight, I’m cooking a couple salmon fillets with brown rice and broccoli. The bag of frozen salmon fillets cost $18 at Costco but there’s enough in there for many meals.
Since my wife and I found an Aldi near home (never heard of it until last year), we do most of our grocery shopping there. It’s an extreme no-frills store whose prices make Walmart seem like Kroger. The products are off-brands but we’ve found very little that we didn’t like.
The trick to cutting grocery bills is to stockpile when you find a sale of something you were going to buy anyway, then shop for meals. We found a good pack of ribs on sale last Saturday ($6) and I smoked them on Sunday. That’s enough for 3 good meals for both of us. A pound of hamburger ($3) sauteed with onions and mushrooms makes multiple meals when eaten with brown rice and a lot of vegatables. My wife and I both like leftovers so very little food is wasted.
One of the reasons they have children when on welfare (millionaires will discuss having kids with their spouses, but those on welfare?) is to get a bigger piece of the welfare pie.
Food stamps will buy a lot of cigarettes ya know (even with the 50% cost of doing the transaction.)
“Not only did I buy a week’s worth of food on what Democrats claim is too little, I have money left over,” Ferguson said.