Comments on: Eating Poor #2 — or, is that a 99 cent store in your pocket? http://www.mcgees.org/2008/06/19/eating-poor-2/ Website of Joshua McGee Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:56:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Amal http://www.mcgees.org/2008/06/19/eating-poor-2/comment-page-1/#comment-47709 Amal Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:43:24 +0000 http://mcgees.org/2008/06/19/eating-poor-2/#comment-47709 Just this week, the VONS in your area is advertising top sirloin (TOP SIRLOIN!) for $1.99/lb with VONS club. Buy several pounds, cube it yourself, and split it up into freezable portions. Now you have access to good, affordable meat in your freezer for pretty close to the best price you can get for good-quality meat. You don't need to stick to the 99cent store for food bargains. Your weekly grocery store advertisement is a great resource. The "Sausage Shop" Sausage is $2.50/lb this week as well. Also this week worth looking at: B/S chicken breast: $1.99/lb. Marinate and cook the whole batch at once in the oven, slice and freeze in 1 to 2-meal portions. It goes straight from the freezer to the microwave. Don't forget to get some vegetables and fruit for good health. Not doing so could cost you more $$ in the long run: Eggplant $1/lb grapes $1/lb Safeway brand frozen veggies, some varieties, $2 (for 20oz to 32oz bags) By the way, freezer bags are on sale at VONS this week as well. Just this week, the VONS in your area is advertising top sirloin (TOP SIRLOIN!) for $1.99/lb with VONS club. Buy several pounds, cube it yourself, and split it up into freezable portions. Now you have access to good, affordable meat in your freezer for pretty close to the best price you can get for good-quality meat. You don’t need to stick to the 99cent store for food bargains. Your weekly grocery store advertisement is a great resource. The “Sausage Shop” Sausage is $2.50/lb this week as well.

Also this week worth looking at:
B/S chicken breast: $1.99/lb. Marinate and cook the whole batch at once in the oven, slice and freeze in 1 to 2-meal portions. It goes straight from the freezer to the microwave.

Don’t forget to get some vegetables and fruit for good health. Not doing so could cost you more $$ in the long run:
Eggplant $1/lb
grapes $1/lb
Safeway brand frozen veggies, some varieties, $2 (for 20oz to 32oz bags)

By the way, freezer bags are on sale at VONS this week as well.

]]> By: Bob Mike http://www.mcgees.org/2008/06/19/eating-poor-2/comment-page-1/#comment-47705 Bob Mike Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:59:30 +0000 http://mcgees.org/2008/06/19/eating-poor-2/#comment-47705 I have no recollection of the Spam-based breakfast feast, but I've recently fallen in love with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feijoada" rel="nofollow">Feijoada</a>. If you have access to a slow cooker, the easiest and cheapest version that you can make will run you less than $10 for several meals worth of food. <B>Ingredients</B> 1 pound dried black beans 1 pound beef stew meat, cubed 1 pound sausage salt & pepper, to taste 1 onion, chopped <B>Directions</B> Soak beans overnight. Pour beans and water into crockpot. Brown beef and sausage. Drain excess fat. Stir ingredients into beans in crockpot. Cook on for for 6-10 hours. Check occasionally and add water if necessary. I've eaten this stuff over rice, on toast, wrapped in tortillas, and with a spoon. Depending on the amount of water you use, it can be served a lot of different ways, and you can make a lot of it for cheap. The key is really to get the cheapest cuts of beef that you can and cube them yourself. I tend to go for the one pound rolls of hot sausage and break it up rather than buying links and cutting them. It doesn't matter how tough or fatty the beef is; nine hours in the slow cooker will convert rubber tires into something that will melt in your mouth. This is also one of those dishes that works wonders with the Tabasco Smoked Chipotle. I have no recollection of the Spam-based breakfast feast, but I’ve recently fallen in love with Feijoada. If you have access to a slow cooker, the easiest and cheapest version that you can make will run you less than $10 for several meals worth of food.

Ingredients
1 pound dried black beans
1 pound beef stew meat, cubed
1 pound sausage
salt & pepper, to taste
1 onion, chopped

Directions
Soak beans overnight. Pour beans and water into crockpot. Brown beef and sausage. Drain excess fat. Stir ingredients into beans in crockpot. Cook on for for 6-10 hours. Check occasionally and add water if necessary.

I’ve eaten this stuff over rice, on toast, wrapped in tortillas, and with a spoon. Depending on the amount of water you use, it can be served a lot of different ways, and you can make a lot of it for cheap. The key is really to get the cheapest cuts of beef that you can and cube them yourself. I tend to go for the one pound rolls of hot sausage and break it up rather than buying links and cutting them. It doesn’t matter how tough or fatty the beef is; nine hours in the slow cooker will convert rubber tires into something that will melt in your mouth. This is also one of those dishes that works wonders with the Tabasco Smoked Chipotle.

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