JusticeJaunt

JusticeJaunt t1_j9yhp4a wrote

Reply to Move over... by JS_NYC_208

"passing lane up to speed limit only" is always an odd comment. If everyone's going speed limit, no one's passing anybody.

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JusticeJaunt t1_j60yq4l wrote

I spend for my wife and I about $80 average per weekend with my bi weekly bills budget is about 600. When I need to get multiple staples at once (soy sauce jug, peanut oil, vinegar, etc) it can go to about 140.

I go to the ShopRite in Woodbridge.

Biggest cost saving measure is to buy items that can be used for multiple meals. Cost per use has become my main metric for anything such as food or clothes. Groceries are probably the only thing in my financial life I have under control.

Value pack thighs for lunch meal preps. 1 pack is good enough for both of us. 1 pack of sweet potatoes, bok choy for greens. We have rice but my wife is the only one that eats it with lunch so usually just leftover from the night before.

A whole chicken can be good for at least 2 or 3 meals.

1 pork shoulder is good for at least 3 meals. Cook at 275 until about 205° and you have pulled pork. Great to stir fry with eggs on the weekend, tacos, mixed with greens and shit.

I really try to limit the single meal items and almost never buy beef because the cost is unjustifiable unless I'm getting a brisket from the butcher for a family gathering.

This may have been way more than was necessary but it is what came to mind so I'm sorry.

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JusticeJaunt t1_j29palw wrote

Fewer COVID restrictions, people got gift cards to burn. Menlo may be the bigger mall compared to Woodbridge and is more centrally located to a bunch of towns.

I was at Menlo the day after and forgot how much of a madhouse these places can be. Some woman lost her kid but was luckily found a few minutes later but that shit was scary.

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JusticeJaunt t1_it2byli wrote

Looking at the toppings, it doesn't seem as bad as I thought. Kabucha and caramelized onions sounds pretty nice.

Pumpkin spice candied bacon? Not sure that sounds great but I think that's because I find hazelnut nutmeg in most commercial products a bit nauseating.

Edit: thank you for the correction, I am obviously not a pumpkin spice person or I'd have remembered what it was called.

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