Price of gas, and food getting so high
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| Well, I've got to eat and I've got to get gas... so I just live w/it, but I did notice a huge spike.
I have a receipt and my mom and I compared prices yesterday. Here are a few. She is manager at the commissary on post, so her prices are dead on to where we lived. In TX, red onions: .49/lb figi apples: .39/lb cilantro .33/lb broccoli: .99/lb in AK, red onions: 3.79/lb apples: 2.99/lb cilantro: 1.49/lb broccoli: 2.49 |
| im moving to texas!!!! holy cow are those good prices! |
Darcy wrote: im moving to texas!!!! holy cow are those good prices!
are you enlisting too? |
Have you seen the size of summer veggies in Alaska?  |
kerry wrote: are you enlisting too?
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Pepsi's Mommy wrote: kerry wrote: are you enlisting too? She's got the haircut for it  |
| We cut our cable bill in half (actually over half) by cutting back our modem speed and taking away a few channels.
Actually very few channels, we had to keep all the movie channels for the package! 
Anyway our cable bill went from like 190ish to 89 dollars! 
Next is to stop paying for AOL...25 bucks a month when we have another server is silly! Does anybody know how to transfer and address book from aol?? |
barney1 wrote: Pepsi's Mommy wrote: kerry wrote: are you enlisting too? She's got the haircut for it not yet  but soon, very very soon..... |
| I think I need to go shopping at the commissary in TX, lol. Our prices are higher than that, not as high as Alaska, just one more reason I'm glad we left, considering you are in the lower part of the state and we were in Fairbanks, I can imagine the prices there. I get aggravated over the quality of the produce. I figured once we left AK the produce would be much better, but its not, and the prices are continually climbing for poor quality stuff! Everything seems to go bad soooo quickly! By the way, how much is gas up that way right now? |
| I haven't been bothered by the price of gas until this week. Unfortunately I can't figure out a way to cut back, but fortunately a full tank lasts me about 10 days.
The best advice I ever heard about cutting your food bill is to eat what is on sale. That is, plan your menus around the stores' sales. Check the sale flyers and if chicken is on sale, that's the basis for your meals. Don't decide "this week we're having a pork roast" if pork roast is not on sale. Also, nobody will die if they eat canned or frozen veggies and fruit instead of fresh. |
Paula O. wrote: The best advice I ever heard about cutting your food bill is to eat what is on sale. That is, plan your menus around the stores' sales. Check the sale flyers and if chicken is on sale, that's the basis for your meals. Don't decide "this week we're having a pork roast" if pork roast is not on sale. I've always been wary for some reason of grocery store sales (not on dry goods, but on fresh things like veg, fruit, meats), but the other day I saw a cauliflower/brocolli precut mix on sale 33% off, so I decided to get it. I opened the package and it REEKED like it had already gone bad. So that was my one foray into grocery store sales! Needless to say, I'm not doing that again... |
Donner's Mom wrote: We cut our cable bill in half (actually over half) by cutting back our modem speed and taking away a few channels.
Actually very few channels, we had to keep all the movie channels for the package! Anyway our cable bill went from like 190ish to 89 dollars! Next is to stop paying for AOL...25 bucks a month when we have another server is silly! Does anybody know how to transfer and address book from aol?? You can quit using AOL for internet service and still use your email address and contact list from them at aol.com. I stopped using aol for dial-up when I got internet through cable a few years ago, but still use my aol email address as my primary one. You just go to aol.com and sign in there. |
Amanda P wrote: Donner's Mom wrote: We cut our cable bill in half (actually over half) by cutting back our modem speed and taking away a few channels. Actually very few channels, we had to keep all the movie channels for the package! Anyway our cable bill went from like 190ish to 89 dollars! Next is to stop paying for AOL...25 bucks a month when we have another server is silly! Does anybody know how to transfer and address book from aol?? You can quit using AOL for internet service and still use your email address and contact list from them at aol.com. I stopped using aol for dial-up when I got internet through cable a few years ago, but still use my aol email address as my primary one. You just go to aol.com and sign in there. As a matter of fact when you call tocancel they will 1) beg you to stay 
2) tell you they are doing you a great big favor and allowing you to keep your email address and account |
kerry wrote: Amanda P wrote: Donner's Mom wrote: We cut our cable bill in half (actually over half) by cutting back our modem speed and taking away a few channels. Actually very few channels, we had to keep all the movie channels for the package! Anyway our cable bill went from like 190ish to 89 dollars! Next is to stop paying for AOL...25 bucks a month when we have another server is silly! Does anybody know how to transfer and address book from aol?? You can quit using AOL for internet service and still use your email address and contact list from them at aol.com. I stopped using aol for dial-up when I got internet through cable a few years ago, but still use my aol email address as my primary one. You just go to aol.com and sign in there. As a matter of fact when you call tocancel they will 1) beg you to stay 2) tell you they are doing you a great big favor and allowing you to keep your email address and account I think I actually canceled online.  |
Quote: but the other day I saw a cauliflower/brocolli precut mix on sale 33% off, so I decided to get it. I opened the package and it REEKED like it had already gone bad.
That's because broccoli is the Devil's food and stinks even when it's fresh.
Don't let one experience put you off. If everybody gave up after failing once the world would be a sadder place. |
| I can't get away from driving, since I live 20 miles (one way) away from work, and the nearest grocery store to our house is about 5 miles away. But one thing I did last fall was to buy a Toyota Prius, and I just LOVE it!! I consistantly get phenomenal gas mileage, usually averaging around 42-44 mpg. Right now with the weather getting warmer, I'm getting more like 46-47 mpg.
Since we're only buying food for 2 now, it's now that bad. Cutting down on non-essentials (snacks) reduces the bill too. |
| glad hubby going to work.
Cut back on take out diet
walk more glad I live in a small town getting a wood stove again glad I live in small town wood easy to get. work more |
barney1 wrote: Paula O. wrote: The best advice I ever heard about cutting your food bill is to eat what is on sale. That is, plan your menus around the stores' sales. Check the sale flyers and if chicken is on sale, that's the basis for your meals. Don't decide "this week we're having a pork roast" if pork roast is not on sale. I've always been wary for some reason of grocery store sales (not on dry goods, but on fresh things like veg, fruit, meats), but the other day I saw a cauliflower/brocolli precut mix on sale 33% off, so I decided to get it. I opened the package and it REEKED like it had already gone bad. So that was my one foray into grocery store sales! Needless to say, I'm not doing that again... You have to get good at buying fresh stuff on sale. It's an art that you have to practice, lol. After doing it for awhile, you start to get a good eye/feel for what you can eat and when if you buy it on sale. I buy things like green beans and other fresh mixes, like with carrots and can usually just squish the bags and have a good idea if it'll be a good buy. Then again, I have a real problem with eating old/past the date food so my standards may be different! |
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