Tacking on…

It can depend where you shop or what resources you have. Canned clams can be dirt cheap and still good if you have the right grocery store. Using spaghetti instead of lenguine can save money as it tends to be about half the price (clams over lenguine / spaghetti). A ~$2 meal at home that tastes better than a $20 one at a restaurant.

Regarding bread, the $1 Italian loaves at Walmart’s bakery are great for the price and freeze well (*yellow tagged even cheaper).

Chicken thighs are often $1-$2 a lb (cheaper than whole chickens), and are far more forgiving on over cooking. Learn to cook and pair them good (like thai peanut sauce or roasted veg or chipotle instead of Franks) and you won’t want white chicken meat. Deboning them yourself can save money and make for great sandwiches (I don’t know a store that sells deboned with skin on either).

Aldi has great prices on many kinds of sausages, and they’re pretty good.

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I’m buying off brand corn chips and adding my own flavors. -Supply and demand.

Silicon Dioxide? -I’ve only seen that in the knock-offs like at Aldi. Here’s why I avoid it (and notice it): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8289701/

-Some alcoholics can get leaky gut from drinking excessively and apparently let it through the stomach lining.

This is why I don’t believe in butt-chugging.

Conspiracy theorists use a scapegoat or analogue. Example: https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/The-Secret-Rulers-of-the-World---David-Icke-The-Lizards-and-The-Jews:7

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I’m sorry you don’t have a sense of humor?

Some people just need to not be told what it is and have it pepared to resemble something they’re familiar with. My family wouldn’t try calamari, but when I took them to a place that had it looking like noodles on a buffet, they tried it and liked it.

edit: Also, lots of people actually like anchovies and eat them on Caesar salad and in sauces without realizing.

Bench / pastry scraper next to the end grain cutting board on counter (that’s how I clean it most often). Microplane and pizza cutter (Italian chef knife) get hung. Funnel covers a teacup protecting it’s rare use from excess dust / atomized oils in the kitchen. Garlic press is a waste of money when you have knife skills. -Citrus juicer likewise (cut 1/3 slabs around the core using the geometry to make squeezing efficient).

As much as I don’t like Facebook, I was thinking to mention it. Yahoo locals chat used to be excellent for me. I’d just mock the other guys in the singles chat, and had a profile pic available. -Be nice to find something like that again.

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I used to believe all that kind of stuff. Our diets are so much more diverse and food more available than ever. We have fresh produce in the winter, and our meat is farmed instead of scarce and hunted. We understand things like needing vitamin C daily, either fortifying rice or not killing / stripping the b-vitamins on it. We can get far more nutrients than we need from food which is why people can eat so many empty calories and be fine.

-Was sick for years and in a lot of pain because of silicon dioxide (an additive commonly found in vitamins).