re: #380 Lidane

Dear Gwyneth,

I have lived on $29/week. I did it while I was unemployed. I never, ever bought limes, much less seven of them. Get a fucking clue.

No love,
Me

On a side note, the advantage of having a Mexican meat market near my house is that they would have chicken legs for $.59/lb and chicken quarters for $.89/lb every week. I’d stock up on chicken, then spend the rest on staples like veggies, rice, and beans. Some of the chicken went into a pot for a massive amount of soup. The rest went into the freezer and got parsed out for meals. Living on $29/week for food CAN be done, but you’d better have some basic cooking skills and a tolerance for eating the same thing day after day after day until money improves.

A while back I saw where Gwyneth had said that she would rather die than feed her children cup-o’-soup. That’s fine for her, and I’m not crazy about the stuff myself. Nevertheless it is a top item at the food pantry at our church, which provides emergency supplies to people who can’t get to the food bank right away. The pantry managers always include it when people ask for advice on what to donate. The reason is that it requires no more preparation facilities than a source of warm water and it is therefore very popular with homeless people.