Well I got out

I got out for about a half and hour around here.  Pluss now to get some things done around here and I think it will wait untill tomarrow.  So now lets see what else I can put on the list around here also while I am at it all.  Plotting is not all bad around here.  It maybe a good thing that I am plotting for tomarrow to say the least.  Pluss not only that I did get the paper for the coupons once again.  I still can not believe some folks refuse to use the coupons that are out there ready to be clipped.  And some just do not care to streach the dollars out with thier household.  Now this morning while I was watching the news the NY State budget is over 70 days over due as of this week.  Pluss the governer is still swearing that he will cut the welfare program around here if some vote against the little bills that he proposed.  When I see it then I will believe it.  Since some of us do streach out the budget around here I can get more groceries than alot of the folks that are getting food stamps anyway.  I know one couple that gets at least 4 cases of soda on the food stamps for thier household also.  All I could do was shake my head and walk away from them.  I see alot of things that go on while folks are wasteing money while they are on the system.  When I was the only one working in the can yes I asked for food stamps up here for awhile.  I also used coupons with the stamps.  The social worker that I had asked if she could use one of my recipts to show others in how it was done.  I said go for it.  Between the card and the coupons I did fairly well at the stores for what little that I did get in the food stamps.  That is why I shake my head at most of what goes on around here becuase most people will not go to Aldi or Save A Lot to get part of thier groceries also.  Between both stores it helped out so much that when I hit the other stores it diden't seem so bad.  They both help out around here even when I am not on the system anymore.  I can expand alot of things that I get and like it like that.  That is why I started searching for recipies over the net that were on the cheap side also.  I have always tried to streach out the food dollars around here.  When some folks start hollering about what I do I always tell them that this is how I do it if ya don't like what I put on the table then don't eat.  Also this is why I can not live without the bags of flour around here also.  It is one of the things that I can make 101 things out of and get by with it around here.  From gravies, to breading, muffins, to other breads and many other things for the can.  When I found http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/ I knew I hit a gold mine of recipies on the cheap and anyone can get a meal out from there.  Now with most of the NY State government jerking the budget around, I am not to worried about most of the people that are on the system that just plain out waste everything that they get.  I can sit here and say this is how I have done it and found out in my own way to streach everything out around here and will say this is how I do it all.  Is it totally right all of the time not always, will it work for part of the time more than likely in a huge pinch.  When I can say that I have been out of food altogeather around here been there done that also.  And figured out a way to feed the household with leftovers.  When I say when you are really broke and need food that is where the beans along with rice comes into play also for a household.  Also on top of it I have bought bags of beans, rice, flour, and a few other things for the place we ate well around here.  None of us starved at all and made it thru the dark times.  At this point I still have rice, beans, flour, powdered milk, onions, bakeing powder, a dozen eggs, garlic powder, pasta, margerine, and yeast in the can even as I sit here and write this today.  IF and when we move out of the can and into a real house I will use all of the things that I have on hand and go from there.  I can always make dinner with those simple things around the can or household eather way.  There are rice pancakes, hot rice and milk, bread, bread sticks, rice with beans, and a few other things to go along with it.  Now with today I found alot of things for a dollar at the Dollar General also that can be used in the household.  With that being said now I shop alot of the off brands at the dollar stores also while I am at it.  I know alot of folks that refused to get the off brands becuase that is how they are.  When the off brand is just as good as the name brand stuff if not better in alot of ways may as well save the money when you can without the coupon for the one product.  Just like with Cherrios I get the off brand over at the Dollar General and they are more flavorfull and sweeter than the cherrios.  At a $1.85 compaired to 3.00 if not more on where you shop at.  See what I mean about it.  Pluss keep the old box of the bigger Cherrios and transfer the Clover Valley into the box the family will never know the differance on it.  It is an old trick and it works like a charm.  Just like if you make to many pancakes for a meal put them in a zipper bag and freeze them for a later date for a quick meal.  There are alot of the tricks that I have done and have worked around here and will work in any household.  I was reading yesterday also if someone has a job loss then start cutting also around the house.  With that also said I still have the cell phone after the whole thing.  I had to becuase if I cut the phone off the cable then I need a phone for the can.  There are lots of things to do to cut the costs of the place.  I did also cut the cell down to where I did not have the extra 200 roaming min each month.  When do I roam except in the grocery store and by then I don't want to be bothered untill I get out anyway.  Now with some things if you can make it on half the income cool beans as I say.  With the cable is it really nessisary to have like 50 of the premium channals while your income is cut in half.  I took the HBO and others out totally off the cable along with a few other things.  I also have turned off almost everything also here in the can while my Hubby was laidoff.  I still do it today while he is gone.  Also I had a budget of 40 dollars a month for groceries here in the can.  Well I started thinking of ways that I could get dinner cheap and still splurge on some things.  Just look around the place and ask ok what can we all live without also.  When things start looking up again then add it slowly and if you can really live without something do not add it back on to the budget.  There are alot of ways to cut the fat out of the day to day grind in a household.