The Old Folks Home

[Sally PB]

Somehow, I'm still staying around $100/week for groceries at the local store and around $200/month for Costco.

One thing that helps is having ____ night. Tuesday is tacos, Wednesday is spaghetti. Vermicelli pasta is cheap. Home made spaghetti sauce (home grown/canned ingredients) is cheap.

Hubby likes black beans mixed with the taco meat, so that cuts the price quite a bit, as a can of beans is around $1 (organic beans from Costco).

Another cost cutter: we drink a lot of water from the tap. We have a reverse osmosis filter, and the water tastes great.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I buy most the meat at Costco.
I like the cuts they have quite a bit better.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Somehow, I'm still staying around $100/week for groceries at the local store and around $200/month for Costco.

One thing that helps is having ____ night. Tuesday is tacos, Wednesday is spaghetti. Vermicelli pasta is cheap. Home made spaghetti sauce (home grown/canned ingredients) is cheap.

Hubby likes black beans mixed with the taco meat, so that cuts the price quite a bit, as a can of beans is around $1 (organic beans from Costco).

Another cost cutter: we drink a lot of water from the tap. We have a reverse osmosis filter, and the water tastes great.

Hubby had a filter put in, so instead of bottled water we drink our well water. It has a high flow rate, and tastes great. Glad we are generating less plastic waste.

 

[sourland]

I have developed a strategy for dealing with sticker shock. I just get what I want and just ignore prices.

That's how the Princess shops.

I buy most the meat at Costco.
I like the cuts they have quite a bit better.

We get our meat there too. Prices at the Amish Market have gone sky high - except for poultry.

 

[pertnear09]

It feels like 103° here now. 93° on our porch. I have a feels like "staying inside". I really need to see if I can put the belt back on the mower and at least mow the area over the septic drain field before the storm cell hits us just a bit after 6pm.

Seems like that belt comes off that mower quite often if I'm recalling right. Something must be out of line or a guide isn't in place.

 

[Nomadicus]

We went to the farmers market Saturday morning. It's peach and muscadine season. I know the lady that has the peaches and muscadines and didn't ask how much they were. I told her two baskets of peaches and 1 of muscadines. We rarely buy beef. Tonight we had beef. Ground beef. Smothered beef patties in Golden Mushroom soup. Since I lost my taste buds for steak our food bill has really dropped. Sad that I lost them for fresh pork and poultry too.

 

[Nomadicus]

Seems like that belt comes off that mower quite often if I'm recalling right. Something must be out of line or a guide isn't in place.

It more my fault. l mow over things it wasn't made to mow. Like those electric fence posts made out of rebar.... I just don't see stuff in time to stop. Sometimes I don't see stuff at all. It's usually things that kill the engine dead in a split second that throw the belt off. I ask one of the guys that works at the repair shop and he said all it takes is a small limb getting under the belt and it can happen. I need to rough cut with a Bush Hog and then do a fine finish with the John Deere. In another year or four I'll have this place trimmed up proper maybe.

 

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight Old Folks.

 

[pertnear09]

Good night, Larry.

 

[Sally PB]

Good morning!

Today is Freya's annual vet visit. I have to take in a stool sample. Our morning walk was not to our usual area; I didn't want to walk by the poison ivy or stinging nettle to retrieve her morning offering. She didn't understand.