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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is wrong with egg noodles? Someone here is making them sound as if they are on par with cool ranch Doritos.

Hey what's wrong with Cool Ranch Doritos?? Those were a childhood staple for us. Mmmmmmmm

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is wrong with egg noodles? Someone here is making them sound as if they are on par with cool ranch Doritos.

Hey what's wrong with Cool Ranch Doritos?? Those were a childhood staple for us. Mmmmmmmm

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is wrong with egg noodles? Someone here is making them sound as if they are on par with cool ranch Doritos.

Anonymous wrote:Not the $2,000 PP, but we recently started tracking our spending and were horrified to learn that is what we are spending for our family of four. That is obviously changing NOW. Here is how we spent so much:
- Bought most things at MOM's or Whole Foods, including paper towels, trash bags, and toilet paper.
- Bought organic everything $vanilla for $9.99!)
- Bought free range meat ($17 for one night's steak!)
- Only loosely planned meals.
- Bought things without regard to price because they looked "interesting."
- Bought pre-packaged gluten free snack foods (one box of nine cookies for, like, $6).

We're making big changes, including reducing meat consumption, using coupons, shopping at Aldi, and going to the Dollar Store for things like paper towels. We think we can do this while still accommodating health issue (celiac, multiple food allergies). A book by the Economides family, Cut Your Grocery Budget in Half, has a chapter on organics.

Anonymous wrote:You guys are all assuming that all of the anti coupon people are the same. I'm not anti coupon. I wrote exactly what we buy and why coupons wouldn't be worth the hassle for us.

Coupon lady became unhinged and accused non coupon shoppers of flaunting our wealth and attacking posters for buying specialty foods and ordering from farms. The horror.

But okay. Think what you want, this is anon anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

Oh hush, this is the DCUM way, you're just pissed off that you are in the position of being judged for your choices.

DCUM is weird. You all boast about how superior you are to "flyover" country because you don't drive and live in walkable areas, but you are walking to restaurants and cafes and coffee shops and throwing slop on the table for your families because you're all too tired to cook.

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apparently you also have a lot of time on your hands. what local farm delivers dairy??

Why do I have a lot of time on my hands? Because I make a loaf of bread every week? I've had the same breadmaker for 17 years and I actually use it, it takes five minutes to put in all of the ingredients and push the button. Graham crackers takes about the same amount of time as making shortbread cookies, and it makes your home smell amazing. Sorry PP 21:58, but we are not rich and have no wealth, we do the best we can like everyone else and prioritize certain things. Just like you.

We have dairy delivered from a farm in MD called South Mountain Creamery.

You spend $300 a week buying specialty food products for your small family and consider coupons dirty. That's not "doing the best we can," that is some pretty extreme food snobbery. Your whole post is dripping with judgment. OP's question is about "general" grocery store bills and you pop in to gloat about your -- what you surely know is -- completely unique (farm-delivered dairy! spelt flour!) grocery list, and write it up in the bitchiest way possible. Why, I don't know.

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apparently you also have a lot of time on your hands. what local farm delivers dairy??

Why do I have a lot of time on my hands? Because I make a loaf of bread every week? I've had the same breadmaker for 17 years and I actually use it, it takes five minutes to put in all of the ingredients and push the button. Graham crackers takes about the same amount of time as making shortbread cookies, and it makes your home smell amazing. Sorry PP 21:58, but we are not rich and have no wealth, we do the best we can like everyone else and prioritize certain things. Just like you.

We have dairy delivered from a farm in MD called South Mountain Creamery.

Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

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apparently you also have a lot of time on your hands. what local farm delivers dairy??

We have our dairy/eggs/meat delivered from an Amish farm in PA. Its out there if you look for it.