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The closest hospital, 1 hour away, has a nice cafe. Their salad bar is organic and only costs about .80 cents a pound. Nice place to eat out for lunch, never crowded either.
$1 ramen packet (Sapporo Ichiban, not the crappy kinds) plus two eggs cracked in whole with runny yolks. Wing sauce (hot sauce with a little vinegar) to taste.
That's a lot, so typically I use 60% of the noodles and use the rest as a snack later.
The closest hospital, 1 hour away, has a nice cafe. Their salad bar is organic and only costs about .80 cents a pound. Nice place to eat out for lunch, never crowded either.
MARKDOWN BINS! At least at Ralph's grocery store...slightly overripe bananas, apples, avocados, mangos, etc dirt cheap. The bakery markdown bin for day old bread, etc cheap 2. Most Kroger brands cheaper...markdown salads $1.60 each, markdown gallon orange juice a few bucks, markdown half gallon kroger egg nog $1.35, a dozen eggs for a buck, lots of markdown meat too. The deal is you have to get stuff close to expiration date which is still perfectly good. Any meat/fish you can freeze too and it will last much longer as needed.
Even better, my supermarket, which has a whole section of prepared food, including complete meals, has two markdown cases at the front of the store near the registers where food with an expiration date of that day or the next is knocked down 30 - 70%. Sometimes they have nothing I want, and other times I really score.
Last night I looked, but meh. There were some containers of the gloppy types of sides like mac salad and whatnot that I rarely eat when it's fresh and don't want at all when it's not, and then there were cannolis and slices of various cakes that looked very tasty but my conscience said no. REALLY wanted those cannolis.
A couple of weeks ago, though, I got two large swordfish steaks with blackened seasoning, 50% off. Took them home and rewrapped them and into the freezer they went, and I enjoyed them the following week. Also salmon with pistachio "breading". One day I went with a friend and we decided to see what they had for a "Shoprite Markdown Dinner". We got store-made lobster ravioli and artichoke ravioli 70% off. She had her own homemade sauce in the freezer.
They store sells store-made containers of peel and eat shrimp with a thinger of cocktail sauce for $9.99, and sometimes these find their way into the case. I snagged a container the other night for around three bucks. Ate them with a salad. High-protein meal. Had a few left for a snack the next day, and they were still good.
I also have two turkey drumsticks in the freezer that were a dollar and change. It's fun to shop this way. You never know what you're going to find.
Also near these markdown cases is a rack with marked down baked goods. Breads, muffins, other bakery items. I don't usually buy anything there because if it's in the house, I'll keep eating it, and that stuff just blows me up like a Macy*s parade balloon.
Even better, my supermarket, which has a whole section of prepared food, including complete meals, has two markdown cases at the front of the store near the registers where food with an expiration date of that day or the next is knocked down 30 - 70%. Sometimes they have nothing I want, and other times I really score.
Our local Kroger has that section on the end of their Meat Cooler. That's the place I can find some really good deals on still fresh meets. I usually plan on using them within 2-3 days plus throw a few in the freezer.
The closest hospital, 1 hour away, has a nice cafe. Their salad bar is organic and only costs about .80 cents a pound. Nice place to eat out for lunch, never crowded either.
80 cents per pound?
I do not know what you use for transportation but two hours to eat at a hospital cafeteria would not be my thing.
Being mainly vegetarian is quite a bit cheaper than buying meat/poultry.
Beans, split peas, lentils/tofu cost quite a bit less than meat and have a goodly amount of protein.
Cooking at home is way less $ than eating out--and healthier.
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