Even if she would just tell people you could save even more if you ___________________. That would be better. I know she knows how to make things herself.
For instance if she is buying a store bought pizza crust mix for 1.99, let people know if they bought flour and yeast it might cost a little more, but you get 5 crust instead of one.
If I buy flour at Sams I can get 25 crusts and make other bread items as well.
Guess maybe I was a little hard on her, and I know there are people who would get a lot of information from her show. I guess what I have a hard time with is my mother use to cook from scratch when we were growing up and then she went to fixing box stuff from the store, love my mother dearly but she got lazy, and was the dinner any faster to prepare seemed like she spent more time in the kitchen and running back and forth to the grocery store, than she did when she was cooking from scratch. To me what Sandra offers is an easy way out, instead of learning how to make your food, she showing us how to open boxes and add premixed spices to add some flavor, which does not say much for the boxes. I know some will say it is a time thing, sorry that does not fly, I come home from work, and cook most everything from scratch and have dinner ready by 6:00, 6:30. Yes it takes some planning, and maybe a little more work but it is doable. anyways will watch to see what she is going to do and if she has improved any over what she is offering now.
__________________ prepared with passion and served with love !
True, but some people just feel more confident using pre-made items.
You are right. Making dinner from scratch doesn't need to take long.
Last night I made the steaks within 20 minutes, put the potatoes in the hour about a half hour before starting the steaks and used Green Giant Steamer Peas in the microwave. Those are fantastic and only take 4 minutes.
Doesn't get much easier and it was absolutely delicious!
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I think she's doing well with the low cost part. The sad thing is that the cheaper you go the more fattening the food seems to be. That's one of the problems here in WV, people can't afford a lot of fresh quality ingredients so 1.) they are hard to find and 2.) it's part of the reason so many are overweight.
Ain't that the truth. You know it is strange I caught the ending to a program where, the customer was talking to the grocery store manager (in the old days) who probably was your neighbor. Now days if you even can find a manager let alone the store manager it would be a shock. It use to be produce in the store came from the local farmer, just down the road, meat came from the local ranch or farm and was butchered on site. But today, we have labels to tell us which country it originated in, and most of it is not anywhere near where your at. I think it is sad we have reached the point to where we have become so big we no longer even know the person at the end of your street, some even the person in the next door apartment. We grown bigger, faster, alone, and it has gotten costly, physically and mentally both. I remember going into town, and the guy behind the counter would ask how your mother doing, he actually knew, who I was, who my parents were, even where my Nana worked (she was a teacher), and would ask if grandpa had caught any fish (they lived on the lake). The thing it was not just one store, it was almost all them I walked into, the hardware, the grocery store, the local drug store, the feed store,and even our local paper the office girl knew. Yes times are really different now days, I wish some of the old days would return. I know they were not perfect, but some of it was good.
__________________ prepared with passion and served with love !
A lot of it was great! Yes, we had a 'town' where everyone knew each other. My mother had a local 'charge' card for all the local stores. Credit cards were not even offered back then.
The local grocery would deliver the groceries to the house, if Mom couldn't carry all of them on the bus. She never knew how to drive, nor did many ladies drive in those days. One car per family and the dad took it to work.
Those were such sweet times.
However, one thing is the same around here. We used to grow our own vegetables and sometimes stop at a local farm for corn. I still do the same thing. Thank goodness some things haven't changed.
From experience, saving on meals depends on how you shop for your meals. I used to make a week's menu, i would check my cabinets/refrigerator and make a shopping list,and use the list while shopping, I would use coupons and check newspapers ads to compare sale prices at various supermarkets. It's not only the use of spices instead of herbs.
That's great if you have various supermarkets. Kroger is the only chain here that has a big selection. There are smaller Mom and Pop places but they really can't afford to mark things down as much as the huge chains, occasionally but not often they will have a better price . Walmart has groceries, but I don't care for their meat section. It all comes in pre packed on a truck. And the prices are usually about the same as Kroger on most things. If they weren't the union would try to run them off. I like Sams, but only for some things. Others are too dificult to store or would go bad before I used them.
When I lived in Virginia we had Giant, Foodlion. Winn Dixie and a couple other large chains competeing for the business and keeping prices lower. I wish we had that here.
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