Re: Don't Get Robbed at the Supermarket

 


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This  is  a  myth.   Google  "eight  glasses  water daily myth" or check
snopes.com.

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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down
without one.
--William Penn
  
When  a  group  of  Oxford  undergraduates  heard  that  Rudyard Kipling
received ten shillings for every  word  he  wrote,  they  sent  him  ten
shillings  by telegram during their meeting: 'Please send us one of your
very best words.'  Back came the word a few minutes later: 'Thanks.'
--Marshall McLuhan, 'Understanding Media'
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Joe Negron from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY, USA

 




    Joy; just what we need: Another self-appointed "expert" repeating
obsolete and inaccurate "advice" from a WWII-era pamphlet she found in a
Friends of the Library store. Much of it is purely mis-information and
simply incorrect. Other of it is directed toward those benighted souls
who place greater value on pinching a few pennies than they do on
qualitative and sensory factors.

 

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:11:45 -0500, Balvenieman

Actually all that information should be common sense and used by
anyone who has a brain. Apparently grocery shopping now has to be
taught to people (like cooking, cleaning and checkbook writing). If
you have a wee bit of sense though, there is no reason you can't buy
groceries for $175 a month (for two people), like I do. That's not
pinching a few pennies in my book.

 



It's hard sometimes to know what people mean, because so many people use
words loosely and common usage varies over time, but "groceries" means food,
not paper products, soaps, etc.

For a family of two in the 19-50 year old bracket, the USDA estimates food
costs fell between $79.50 and $158.20 for November of 2009 for a nutritious
diet where all meals and snacks are prepared at home.

I don't know what Napolean's definition of groceries is, but at $175/month
for two people, it seems doubtful that non-food items are included.

 




It includes non-food items. But I will add an extra 20 a month for
additional milk, bread, or cat food at times. So that is about $195 a
month, including all non-food items. I only go to the grocery store
every 3 weeks (trying to stretch it to 4 since I hate grocery
shopping) and at that time we spend $125 max. Add another $45 for the
4th week, plus MAYBE another $20 if I run out of milk, bread, or cat
food as stated above, and you have $175-195.

The key is common sense, planning, a freezer, lots of leftovers, and
knowing how to use products frugally. That's it, it can be done.