Thursday Notes : dispelling myths

The internet is full of myths.....wives tales, ......people’s perceptions .....

Grated cheese costs more than buying a brick and grating it yourself.

Cheese is cheese .   A pound of cheese is a pound of cheese.   Check the price per pound.   Often, grated cheese is cheaper than the brick.   You can freeze grated cheese and that allows you to buy it when its on sale.  We toured the tillamook factory.   They make cheese is huge bricks.   It goes to a chopping block where a cutter comes down and cuts the blocks of cheese into two pound bricks.   The cheese that is left over goes into what looks like a buss boy tray and is taken to the shredder.

Its hard to make bread from scratch.  

There are easy ways to make bread.   Peasant bread is a good start because the hardest part is taking the temperature of the water and dealing with a 450 degree oven.   Then, you can go on to other breads.   Peasant bread takes 10 hands on minutes and they are spread between two days.

You can’t eat good food on 4.00 a day.

 Yes, you can eat good food on 4.00 a day.   I was trying to cut our food bill down as far as I could because I write this blog.   It was a game.   I was shocked when I stopped to write a grocery shopping class and discovered  that we were actually eating on less and had been for 15 months.   This also covered feeding  grandchild some ( she eats at home and at our house) and grew a pantry..    We eat good, old fashioned food.   Three squares a day.  Salmon, pork loin roast and chops, 7 percent fat hamburger, boneless skinless chicken breast from Washington.   We dont just eat beans, and we dont shop at the whole paycheck food store.  There is a happy medium.

Clipping coupons takes a lot of time and you get a whole quarter back.

It takes about ten minutes to print coupons the first day of the month.   Cutting time and putting them in a binder can be done watching TV.   Ditto flipping through an insert from the paper and cutting what you are likely to buy.   It saves up to 25.00 a month if you aren't a prepared food buyer.

Ibotta and such apps profile you and you loose your privacy.

The truth is, none of us is immune to being profiled. .   Everything we do we are being watched —everything  from being on Facebook to using a store loyalty card.  We don't live in a box.