Things rude houseguests do, a vent:

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Anonymous wrote:Needing two people to put the baby to bed - you deserve being robbed of leftovers

I had a C-section two weeks ago and still am not back to 100%, so fuck you.

Sounds like you need a nap.

Why were you hosting Thanksgiving 2 weeks after a C-section?

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Anonymous wrote:Pulling up in a new Mercedes SUV with their 4 kids and all they brought was a cheap-o Kroger pumpkin pie. My husband and I spent over $1000 on this spread!

Buying a new Mercedes SUV probably leaves very little disposable income. Try to have more compassion and understanding.

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I hate you all.

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Anonymous wrote:Pulling up in a new Mercedes SUV with their 4 kids and all they brought was a cheap-o Kroger pumpkin pie. My husband and I spent over $1000 on this spread!

Buying a new Mercedes SUV probably leaves very little disposable income. Try to have more compassion and understanding.

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:I would never eat $8 lasagna. I would never serve that to guests either.

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Anonymous wrote:$8 lasagna lady, what is your HHI ?

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Anonymous wrote:I hereby nominate this as a dcum classic - the $80 lasagna thread.

I think it should be called the "$8 lasagna thread" but I agree with you

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Anonymous wrote:I was raised frugally. But when we had guests we gave them the best. No frugality then.
That is the right way.

Yes. Shows respect for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Heck, it's costs me $80 to make a delicious lasagna.

That's really odd and kind of sad.

Why is that sad?
Lean meat, four cheeses, all the other stuff
Yummy

Yeah. The crowd pleasing lasagna that I make costs closer to $8 per x-large pan.

What kind of lean meat are you using ?

That sounds terrible. You will get cancer eating bad things.

It's lasagna for crying out loud. It's a treat not health food.

Even if I make it using zucchini or eggplant it isn't that expensive. What on earth are you putting into an $80 tray of lasagna?

It may be a "treat" but there's a hell of a lot of difference to how your body will handle mass produced parmesan "cheeze" and how it will handle local cheese from grass fed cows, for example.

I would love to hear exactly how one's body handles these differently.

(And by "exactly" I don't mean "google is your friend" or "if you're too stupid to know then I won't tell you" or "it's common sense!")

I hate to do it but... google is your friend. Seriously, all the info is out there... trot your ass to a search engine.

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Anonymous wrote:Heck, it's costs me $80 to make a delicious lasagna.

That's really odd and kind of sad.

Why is that sad?
Lean meat, four cheeses, all the other stuff
Yummy

Yeah. The crowd pleasing lasagna that I make costs closer to $8 per x-large pan.

What kind of lean meat are you using ?

That sounds terrible. You will get cancer eating bad things.

It's lasagna for crying out loud. It's a treat not health food.

Even if I make it using zucchini or eggplant it isn't that expensive. What on earth are you putting into an $80 tray of lasagna?

It may be a "treat" but there's a hell of a lot of difference to how your body will handle mass produced parmesan "cheeze" and how it will handle local cheese from grass fed cows, for example.

I would love to hear exactly how one's body handles these differently.

(And by "exactly" I don't mean "google is your friend" or "if you're too stupid to know then I won't tell you" or "it's common sense!")

I hate to do it but... google is your friend. Seriously, all the info is out there... trot your ass to a search engine.

So in other words, you have no idea. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:I was raised frugally. But when we had guests we gave them the best. No frugality then.
That is the right way.

Yes. Shows respect for them.

Yeah, I pay $$$$$ for the same exact food and wine that I could get at Costco for cheap. Makes perfect sense, right?

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

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Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. A respected tomato sauce?

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For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

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Anonymous wrote:Heck, it's costs me $80 to make a delicious lasagna.

That's really odd and kind of sad.

Why is that sad?
Lean meat, four cheeses, all the other stuff
Yummy

Yeah. The crowd pleasing lasagna that I make costs closer to $8 per x-large pan.

What kind of lean meat are you using ?

That sounds terrible. You will get cancer eating bad things.

It's lasagna for crying out loud. It's a treat not health food.

Even if I make it using zucchini or eggplant it isn't that expensive. What on earth are you putting into an $80 tray of lasagna?

It may be a "treat" but there's a hell of a lot of difference to how your body will handle mass produced parmesan "cheeze" and how it will handle local cheese from grass fed cows, for example.

I would love to hear exactly how one's body handles these differently.

(And by "exactly" I don't mean "google is your friend" or "if you're too stupid to know then I won't tell you" or "it's common sense!")

I hate to do it but... google is your friend. Seriously, all the info is out there... trot your ass to a search engine.

So in other words, you have no idea. Got it.

So in other words, you're being lazy and expect others to do the work for you... Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

But it wouldn't be a FUCKING LASAGNA then would it?

Do you go insane when you see people spending large amounts of money on pasta at Cafe Milano too? After all, they should be eating ragu and barilla, right?