Fri, Sep-20-02, 14:33
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Senior Member
Posts: 177
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Plan: atkins
Stats: 198/177/167
BF:
Progress: 68%
Location: CA
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The prices where I live are outrageous (So. Cal). Chicken breasts - boneless/skinless or NOT are over $5. The kind I like, which I can just throw on my Foreman grill, are over $6. On rare occasions at the "cheap" store (where you bag your own groceries) I can get it for $5/lb.
I hate fish, always have. The only kind I've ever been able to eat is frozen, breaded fish sticks - only with LOTS of tartar sauce. This obviously isn't LC, and it's not something I'd want to eat often anyway.
I find I've been eating a heck of a lot of steak and hamburger. Steaks are cheaper than chicken - go figure - and sitr fry meat is usually cheaper still (on sale a lot). I can get a bag of frozen veggies and just over a pound of that, cook it in the wok and I have dinner for me & dh for around $7-8.
Add in the heavy cream, butter, mayo, oil, salad dressings, club soda, diet tonic water, cream cheese, "natural" pb, etc - it all adds up quickly.
Last month we spent $1000 at the grocery store. That includes some baby food and diapers (but not all of it). We can't afford to eat this well on a regular basis! And this IS looking in the ads for the best deals around, too. One would think I eat filet mignon 3 times a day! Fresh veggies are also really pricey. Oh well, the cost of being healthy. Maybe I'll switch to 100% hamburgers, every day. At least I'd save 30-60/month. Ooh. Wow. Then my bill would only be 900-something. Joy.
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