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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of mine are food related:

EVERYONE gets a drink at a restaurant. Kids want a Shirley Temple? Fine. Get a refill!

We don’t often WANT it, but dessert is an option that’s always on the table. Same with appetizers.

I will splurge on expensive spaghetti sauce and nicer pasta. I buy REAL Parmesan. I spend a small fortune on good EVOO. We buy the expensive ice cream. We eat some form of meat almost every single day. I buy giant roasts or steaks for the weekend. Quality cheeses, fancy crackers, nice cured meats. Things like that.

But I also panic like you about “worst case scenarios”. I have a number I like to keep in savings and I panic if something take us below it. [/quote]
The meat hit home. We NEVER had meat growing up. If we did, it was canned chicken, those canned beef Chinese chow mein dishes, or canned tuna. And Spam. Or cubed steak. I didn’t have a real steak or actual chicken breast until I was in my late teens.

We also eat a ton of quality meat. [/quote]

Pp from 17:30. We had spam and cubed steak too — I hate cube steak! When my mom brought chicken she got chicken backs and cooked them as if they were regular chicken pieces. [b]She covered them in flour, baked them, and called it “chicken shake-n-bake.”[/b] We knew it wasn’t shake n bake like in a regular house, lol.[/quote]

It sounds like your mom tried really hard with what she had. Not a criticism or anything, I just thought that was sweet.[/quote]

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