With cooking

Well I also realized that in what I have been doing for part of going cheaper around the place is the cooking real meals around the trailer and the house here as of late.  Between the salt pork, bacon, and chicken taking over the freezers around here with other things to go along with it all I noticed since I have been dogged as of late around both places that I started really pinching the food budget even more as of late.  It drives some folks up the wall and that is ok by me now for my place.  I have not got to the grocery store as of yet and will get there sometime soon when I get the list up for that around here.  This is why I either read or take a note book with me to the doctors office because i have to wait sometimes to get in so it makes me take a break on somethings that I have to do here and the mind from racing around.  With the grocery stores I will tell you what my Momma always told me and would still to this day if she was still around that stores will try to get money out of you no matter in how ya turn and be wise about it all.  I will say this that my Momma could cook but, not very well and that I made it off of what was called food.  I can laugh about it now only because I make some of the things that she did in her kitchen without the pressure cooker.  Ok the question is going to come up I have to go to the food pantries and what happens when I get 12 cans of veggie beans along with 10 bags of rice and other useless things that we don't heat in the household.  All I can say is tough it is food and guess what eat or starve on alot of things.  Gee rice and beans with tomatoes if you can get that many cans of maters where you are at.  Try little tricks in the household because I have been there and then some when I had food and did not know what to make with what was left and that I got out of the pantries years ago for the trailer.  Also the off brand store helped along with the coupons at the regular stores at the time.  Yes I have said it before and will again that I have been on the system at one point or another in time over the years and go very little to help out I may add on the last go around.  This is why I tend to freak out when some are on the system now that they are getting the expensive cuts of meat and fish off of what the government gives them when some of us are struggling to put food on the table since we are a dollar over to get any kind of help at all.  So here I am doing alot of the cooking from scratch and going the very cheap route that I can to streach the dollars out for food and other things in the household.  This is part of the reason of why I am really mad about NY State as of late is becuase of some folks abuseing the system and have not been caught nor ejected out of the game they play at all.  So this is why I say to get at least 3 bags of flour, onions, garlic, 3 packs of the non butter, bakeing powder, chicken, yeast, soup mixes, rice, instant milk to mix up, eggs 2 dozen if you can, cheap soups, pastas, and block cheeses for the household.