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the strander
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: openmind]
#26825793 - 07/15/20 07:10 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I find that the organic meats tend to taste better to me, and I feel like I'm doing the right thing by paying a bit more to show my support for better conditions, so I usually buy organic meat.
Used to be beef and seafood from the farmer's market but the lines on the one day a week they're open are crazy now that we have to socially distance. I go out of my way to a grocery store that carries organic chicken, and a seafood market I'd never been to before Covid but found is pretty good. When I don't feel like making the longer trip and go to the closer grocery store for meat I always regret it.
I also buy locally roasted coffee beans even though they're more expensive.
And organic flour and sugar and eggs and milk and rice and bread... so mostly organic come to think of it. Produce I don't care as much, and Goya beans are most common in my hood.
And hipster small batch alcohol? Fancy single malt scotch? Yes please.
You can still pay quite a bit extra for fancy organic groceries and still pay way less than restaurants or delivery every night (fast food is criminally hard to beat on price). I come to learn what I can eat for an entire week or make things in batches and freeze them to not waste food. These days I throw hardly any food away.
I cured salmon with pastrami seasoning last weekend and it was totally worth the $10 I paid for the pound of fresh (farm) salmon. It was so rich and salty I froze half of it for later.
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JDogg666
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: the strander]
#26826163 - 07/16/20 12:18 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was always taught to look for a deal and shop smart, but I've never been overly willing to buy low-quality stuff. I know a few people who are a-okay with living on food that's lacking freshness and quality, and I don't think they fully understand the ways that it effects them and their bodies.
Hard to feel ripped off if something's the real deal. I'd say quality is usually represented pretty fairly, more often than not. It's great to shop hard and get deal on a bunch of solid stuff, then use one's own skills to turn it into an awesome meal.
I do love wonderfully trashy fast food, but I haven't had it since the Covid hit. Kind of miss it, but not really. Ha.
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Tripsurfer
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Patlal]
#26826309 - 07/16/20 03:38 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nah man
We spend an easy €800/month on food for 2 adults and 2 kids (who only eat pasta and cheese)
-------------------- Ach en wee ben ik de klos, met mijn boog schoot ik een albatros... A philosopher is a person who knows less and less about more and more, until he knows nothing about everything.

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Simisu
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26826474 - 07/16/20 08:01 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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my ideal would be to answer no but reality is i've always been very reluctant to spend money on ANYTHING! there are a few exceptions though.
so i buy the cheapest fruit and veg i can find. i hardly every but fish or meat. i do buy chicken from the supermarket (which i feel really bad about)
cheapest eggs and butter, sometimes milk sometimes soy milk (for porridge as i don't drink coffee), honey.
the only thing i value and spend more money than i'd like to is on bread! i used to make my own bread and i can't go back to any common bread so i spend quite a lot for a good loaf of bread once a week.
and recently i started eating oats so i do spend some money on stuff like coconut butter, cacao (pure), natural peanut butter, sesame seeds, linseed, almonds (local), some dried fruit sometimes, grated dried coconut... all this bulk where i also buy most of the spices, legumes and rice i eat.
in general i try to avoid processed foods but i do eat out a single slice of pizza twice a week or sometimes a shawarma wrap when i need to.
i think i have a pretty good diet all things considered but it is pretty boring.
the only things i'd change if i had the money is buying good chicken, fish and meat once in a while and eating some sushi once in a while as well...
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pirate-blues



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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Simisu] 1
#26826517 - 07/16/20 08:39 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nope! I love to cook, so fresh high quality ingredients are the butter to my bread yo - I have a veggie and herb garden and while I did plant it hella late and am only just starting to get my first harvest, it's nice to not have to buy herbs constantly and be able to pop outside and go grab a tomato if I want one. Very gratifying, cheaper - I also budget hunt like a fiend. Shopping for the best and freshest at Whole Foods would be ridiculously expensive, but there are things like Misfits Market that sells fresh perfectly good produce that happens to be kind of ugly for super cheap.
I get my meat from local farmers(not always, but I am having a harder time sticking my head in the sand with whatever the fuck happens with the meat I get at grocery stores - so I'm trying to switch to local farmers with small operations competely), and there is a restaurant around here that has shifted to selling ingredients as groceries during the pandemic, and they do sell some amazing filet mignon so once in a blue moon I'll grab some from them. I eat less meat, for health/environmental/ethical reasons(factory farming, specifically), but also because it is a bit more expensive to get the good stuff. I think it's worth it though .
I do like to shop smart though. But I did just buy a $12 box of frozen mac and cheese claiming to be the best in the world...so... I'm probably not as good at it as I think /
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Sugabearcrisp
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: pirate-blues]
#26826538 - 07/16/20 08:58 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I do not cheap out. The difference between a low end steak and the best steak from the same supermarket is huge. I also am willing to pay for organic when I know the inorganic option is soaked in glyphosates as is the case with oats and kale.
On the other hand I have worked my way down to appropriate portion sizes, so while the maine farm raised salmon may cost more than the vacuum packed frozen ones from south america, I am only eating 4oz as opposed to the 6 or 8oz pieces in the vacuum packed frozen option. Buying a kitchen scale and weighing my portions has been huge in getting to a healthy 15% body fat me.
Edited by Sugabearcrisp (07/16/20 08:59 AM)
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