http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/healt hfitness/story/6F7535A6B63B2C6D86257309006796C3?OpenDocument Great article, Pip...good advice for anyone, working poor or not. Thanks!!
In all fairness though, I must admit I'm not much of a sale shopper, and I don't clip coupons. My bad.
Me too Gale. I hate getting stuck behind a coupon clipper at the grocery store.
Katie...I just read something about Publix...are they giving away antibotics?
OMG...especially the coupon clippers that argue when their coupon is expired and the grocery clerk won't accept it! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!yes certain types mostly penicillian basedWhat do you mean giving them out? I'm confused....Giving what out??? Now you have me confused Katie! I was confused after the 3rd post or so.........no wait, that was mine..........CRAP! >.<Mmmmm.....brown rice and beans, one of my favourites! Although I don'tBrisen, YES!!! And it seems like they always have some bone to pick. Or they have to shuffle through a whole pile of coupons that's crammed into a little wallet.
Pip - nice find, thank you. I still haven't had anything happen on the AP therapy, except I took my MTX last night, waited about three hours on an empty stomach, took the Minocin, and got a little nauseous for the first time. But that's it so far, except for this horrible low back problem I have suddenly developed. I just cannot sit, period. Everything else is okay - standing, walking, lying down. I think its my new dx of osteoporosis and if this doesn't go away, I am in serious trouble. Well, I already am in serious trouble, but I just went back to work, and if I cannot work, that is serious trouble on a different plane. I bought a back support belt yesterday and that helps a little. I am going to give it the full ten days to resolve, and if not, I will start with the chiro, then work up to the medical. Its always something.
I do already buy most of the things on the list in this article. I don't clip coupons. I find most of the time coupons in the paper are for things I'll either never eat or that is too high priced even with the coupon. I shop at Pricerite which is a discount food chain. I find a lot of their foods are better than the ones I can buy at Stop and Shop. You have to bag your own groceries however that works for me because I can bag them as light as I need them.
JustSayNoeMOre, for the last 3 weeks I get severe lower back pain everyStep we shop at a grocery store like that also. Its called ultra foods and you save 20% off most (about 90%) of what other stores charge. We just went there on Friday and spent about 0 for the 3 of us but it will last us a good 2 weeks or so. But you have to bag your own groceries which is fine with me cause i am a little OCD about that
I sent you an email after you posted that yesterday. Did you get it? My computer is dying. I mean really dying. Bad! We're doing finances right now to see if we can get me another one. It dies after almost every post.
Friend on the RB writes of 'referred gut pain' when starting AP. If either of you have leaky gut - the Mino might be heading there first. Have either of you tried Kal Brand colostrum? I have some I'm starting on with my new anti-yeast-to-be-determined-by my new nutritionist on Thursday diet. That colostrum really helped me when starting AP. So...why am I such an idiot and stop what is obviously working for me?
Pip
Go Go - I hadn't started the AP minocin yet, the back started up the day before. My primary and I think its the osteoporosis she just diagnosed. I am going to have my chiro take some xrays - it might be a fracture and she and I agreed there is nothing I can do about that, thats osteoporosis. We shall see.
Pip - no, I have not gotten any emails from you recently.
I just finished a great healthy meal !!!! Hope everybody is hanging in there. Cathy
For those of you wondering what stores do with their outdated food, my company throws it away, unfortunately. Now a days people are so sue happy my company is afraid of donating the food to foodbank etc. they do donate food that isn't outdated and give giftcards for groceries to help people. I do alot of cooking at home and am trying to keep it that we go out very rarely. I use the crockpot alot you would be amazed at what you can cook in the crockpot and when I make a big meal I make enough to make several more meals down the road. I even brown ground chuck, and place it in 1lb pkgs for the freezer that way it is ready and cuts down on prep time. I do this with chicken, pork, and beef also. When I do a roast I make sure it is big enough to make another several meals. During the winter we have alot of different soups for dinner, with a fresh loaf of bread and a salad we got a real good meal. I also chop up onions, peppers, and even mushrooms. Freeze them on a cookie sheet and when frozen place in plastic bags in the freezer then I have them ready to throw into soups, skillet dinners etc. You can take tomatoes freeze them and just throw them into your meal while it is cooking the skin will come off and come to the surface and the tomato will mush itself up into the dinner. I even dehydrate veggies place them in jars and toss them into soups, gravies, so forth the liquid in the meals rehydrates them . I try to cook as healthy as possible and try different styles of cooking my hubby and daughter are really good about trying something new. meme
PS I come from a family of nine and I learned to stretch a meal real well.
Meme - Costco has a 100% guarantee. People bring back food, it goes straight into the trash by State law as they have no idea how it was stored, if somebody injected something into a ham, or whatever. Its disgusting. People bring back whole shrimp trays and say they were too big of shrimp, they really meant to buy the smaller sized shrimp trays, but what really happened is they over bought for their fancy parties. Or a Christmas time, somebody will buy two dozen of the large poinsettias then return them on Monday - they used them for decoration, rented them for free, got their money back. People also bring back empty wine bottles and say it was bad. Alcoholism.
The food part tears me apart. Donate to a food bank you idiots. You could afford to buy the food, let someone eat it, not let it get thrown in the trash. And I hear you about making food money stretch LOL Cathy
Tell me about it we have to throw away everything that is returned in the food area, but I swear to God some of the reasons they return it. The best was the little old lady who returned the carcass of a rotesserie chicken, just the bones mind you. she returned it because the bones were bloody no meat was left mind you. she got a full refund!!!