For now:
Over the years
we have gotten sorta lazy. Now we buy our popcorn in bags. Stick it in the
Microwave and ‘voila’, in a couple minutes you have your snack. No pot, no oil etc.
I like nuts,
now you can buy any nut in at least 3-5 different ways. I am hooked on honey roasted almonds. I like
honey roasted p-nuts too. The other day
I grabbed some coconut coated almonds; I wasn’t crazy about them.
WE
definitely pay for the tasty treats and quick snacks. It has been a while since
I have bought a t-bone, or higher cut of Beef. I just read that Beef (At Publix here) has climbed to actually
about $50 a pound for the TOP of the line, that was about $18 per when I did
buy it. I used to cook stew beef weekly, now it has been awhile, the last I
bought was about $9.50 per, it is soaring up towards $15 a pound.
We can afford
the prices, but I feel sorta ‘cheated’. I may be living in my mind, 10 yrs ago,
possibly.
WE have now
found our nitch, mostly ideas from our Batchelor sons. WE love chicken
sandwiches. WE pick up a Rotisserie chicken. I slice it and clean the bones. It
actually gives us 3 days of great sandwiches and 2 days of super chicken soup.
LOL That is up to 5 days for less than $12, total.
WE do not do
that every week, I could, but Sherry gives us some variety. Still our weekly or bi-weekly trip to the
Grocery store is $150 a trip for 2 and it was around $100.
That includes normal
cleaning stuff, some vitamins, supplements, and red wine. Dr. suggested more oatmeal
& small glass red wine nightly for cholesterol. I got very upset when I
lost a muscle to deterioration in my right arm while on statins! (Junk is my
opinion, not his)
Enough.. I just laughed big. A car or truck near by just started the
engine, it is LOUD. I told Sherry, I loved that when I was 16-17 years old, it
was COOL. NOW? It is just noise. LOL
Another view I like:
Stopping for a while, this was our diesel pusher, we drive a gasser now, I sorta miss that diesel, LOL
PS. Burger
King up the road, We decided to splurge and stop by the drive thru and get a
whopper. WE do love that big hamburger, BUT it is now right at $8 each.
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5 comments:
Went to Publix the other day and the steaks were $30. It would be cheaper to go for steak! One thing that has not changed and may have gotten worse is the price of groceries. Rotisserie chicken sounds like a good idea.
Your grocery shopping sounds like ours. We can’t afford a steak and when we do splurg on one, its just not as good as they used to be. With just the two of us, it is cheaper for us to go to the steak house and get a steak.
We eat a lot of chicken too. I like to get a rotisserie and make chicken salad with the left overs.
I never heard that about red wine but I do believe it has some healing factors.
Happy new Year
Lisa
Yes prices are going up all the time and we have to economise. Now I have a bath fully clothed so that I now wash the clothes and myself at the same time. Saves on water and soap.
God bless.
I've been craving steak for a while, but at the current prices, that craving will have to wait. Yes, we do the Rotisserie chicken thing too. And we eat more pork than beef. I still buy ground chuck and do a lot of things with it, but it's not a cheap meal anymore! Haven't had a good pot roast in a while either. I enjoyed your pictures. The first one, somewhere in Maine, would be a favorite for me. We love Maine and NH. Used to live there. Just didn't like the winters. Especially since we both grew up in Florida and we knew how much better winter was here, so this is where we settled back down. I still would love to go back to Maine and NH in the Fall.
I'm thinking our prices at H.E.B. in Texas must be better than Publix is, we do enjoy steak once in a while. But yes, as a whole groceries are costing more than they used to. I used to be able to feed the whole family for what I feed myself now.
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