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A quick bit of price comparison at Safeway shows that if I bought a brand that's on sale, I could buy a tub of hummus for less than a quarter of the price of buying the ingredients to make hummus. I'm glad you've been fortunate enough to never be a place where an extra ten dollars on groceries in a week would actually break your budget, but for a lot of people that is their reality. $3 for a tub of hummus on sale can be squeaked out far more easily than an extra $14 to buy the ingredients, even though the latter would make more financial sense in the long run.[/quote]

I really think some of you posters aren't getting where the rest of us posters are coming from.  WE ARE POOR.  (Or on a budget).   We know how to do this.

When people who always had plenty of money are suddenly short on cash, they don't know what to do because they haven't lived that life.  We can help you.

Like, the poster above who sarcastically reacted "Sure, there are all those free community yoga classes in PG county -- why don't you post a list?"   Those of us who don't have a lot of money know how to look for resources like that.  Because EVERYTHING we do is free, basically.  We don't have the money to sign up for $50 Mommy and Me classes at Gymboree.  We are always looking for the free activities.

And we know that buying prepared foods from a grocery store will break your budget.  You need to build your pantry and cook from scratch.  I know you guys are sick of the hummus recipes, but it is indicative of the whole lifestyle you need to adopt if you are suddenly broke.  You need to cook from scratch.  The ingredients you added up, PP, can be found even cheaper at Aldis, making it more like $8 than $14 and here's the thing -- you can use those ingredients right now for other meals.  You need to stop thinking like a rich person and just buying what you want whenever you want it, for convenience.  Buy a bag of chickpeas and some olive oil. Learn to make hummus, make roasted chick pea snacks, make pasta e ceci for dinner; make chick peas and rice the next week.  Don't just buy things one time for one recipe; use them the whole week.

https://smittenkitchen.com/2017/10/quick-pasta-and-chickpeas-pasta-e-ceci[/quote]

There is a difference between "on a budget" and "POOR." I really hope you're not the same person who posted below about how her $150k income means she knows poverty. I grew up in true poverty, where you couldn't afford to replace ruined clothing and had to scrape together every penny from between the couch cushions to pay the electric bill. If you have the flexibility in your budget to do things like buy in bulk when stuff is on sale, you're not "poor," you are on a budget. A person who is truly poor, especially one who is suddenly thrust into that circumstance, doesn't have the budget flexibility to just "build a pantry." If you buy all of the ingredient to make a big batch of soup, you're not going to be able to freeze that for future meals, you'll end up eating it for two meals a day all week until it's gone. And if you skip buying breakfast foods to get a bottle of olive oil, what are you going to do, drink the olive oil for breakfast? These are the things people who live "on a budget" don't understand about being poor. [/quote]

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