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01 Apr 2015, 7:17 pm

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Ha im bugeting off $200 but that includes beer too, so....

how much are the suds by themselves?



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01 Apr 2015, 7:31 pm

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Ha im bugeting off $200 but that includes beer too, so....

how much are the suds by themselves?


$2.45 (I buy "tallboys" (tall cans) )



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01 Apr 2015, 7:44 pm

$2.45 EACH? :o



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01 Apr 2015, 7:46 pm

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$2.45 EACH? :o


yup, and you can only buy them from government approved outlets - friggin liqour control.



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01 Apr 2015, 7:49 pm

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$2.45 EACH? :o


yup, and you can only buy them from government approved outlets - friggin liqour control.

how much are the 6-packs?



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01 Apr 2015, 8:10 pm

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$2.45 EACH? :o


yup, and you can only buy them from government approved outlets - friggin liqour control.

how much are the 6-packs?


Don't remember but:

Mac n Cheese with cut up hotdog and cup of tea (Disability dinner)

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01 Apr 2015, 8:14 pm

^^^
that looks yummy :chef:



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01 Apr 2015, 8:19 pm

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^^^
that looks yummy :chef:


Yummy - yes, healthy - no, affordable - yes.



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01 Apr 2015, 8:20 pm

^^^
two out of three ain't bad, as they say :) much of life is like that. reminds me that w.c. fields like to say "all the good things in life are either illegal, immoral, or fattening."



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01 Apr 2015, 8:34 pm

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two out of three ain't bad, as they say :) much of life is like that. reminds me that w.c. fields like to say "all the good things in life are either illegal, immoral, or fattening."


ha ha, accurate enough. I am thankful for my disability support money (not for my disability, but the support) I can pay my rent, my phone, and possibly a bus-pass and still have money for food and random things. I also have my parents who are just in their mid 50's. But If I didn't have my parents then: me + disability support = sheltered and fed, me - disability support = homeless.

I do also have cousins who are studying to be lawyers and teachers so I think if worse comes to worse they would take care of me, I don't want to assume but I wouldn't see why not. I have a ahrd time imagining them being like "you're my autistic and stuttering cousin - go and starve and freeze: :P

Thanks to disability supporrt I live on my own an hour away from my parents in a historic town and I can get everything I need. I'm good and am learning fiscal responsibility. Sleeping in, wasting time online and doing nothing is not as galmorous a life as thought though, it does drive you crazy sometimes which is why once my semester ends, Im gonna look for a part-time job.

So while on the original topic, the government should "help" people with aspergers/autism because some like me, can actually be helped by the support - Unfortunately drug addiciton is supported by income as well here, which I see as a problem because, well, what do you think a drug addict will do with $1000-ish dollars a month? (over 1000)



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01 Apr 2015, 8:40 pm

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Why should everyone who pays taxes and actually works pay for people who cannot work. With all the money raised by autism charities every autistic would get more money from them than they would from the government if the government would reform the tax loophole for charities to make what Autism Speaks does illegal therefore they would clean up their act so they continue to pay no taxes.

The government's job is explicitly said in the Constitution as to protect the public and maintain infrastructure, not to steal from the rich and give to the needy. By the way for all those socialists here who say big corporations steal all the money from the poor, the poor have the choice to buy from big companies or not. Also who pays the middle and lower classes. Taxes on the other hand are involuntary, the less of them the better, taxes giving to someone for nothing in return sounds a lot like theft.


Are you really 15? Your profile says you are.

If so, why the rant? You're not paying taxes yet.


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01 Apr 2015, 8:51 pm

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noodles - 25 cents, mac n cheese 78cents, microwaveable pastas, mac n cheese etc - $1. f**k I love it.

please take it from this old fart, aspie to aspie- if you continue eating such foods for much longer, you WILL have health problems later in life, I know because it happened to me and nobody [sufficiently] warned me.


I eat a lot of cheap food too. is it just that he mainly only eating pasta that concerns? i eat $1 tv dinners, pizza, hamburger helper when i can afford it. hamburgers, chicken patties, nuggets, strips, chickens bit cheaper then beef, potatos lots of potatos. lasagna once in a while. only have 150ish each month for food.

from one brother aspie to another, I have only about that amount to spend on food each month also. what I was saying, is that the choices one makes in what food one eats, has real health effects that I experienced. I ate a typical SAD [Standard (north)American Diet] for decades until I was about 50# overweight, high blood pressure/cholesterol/triglycerides/arthritis/fatty liver/CRP/metabolic syndrome/chronic infections etc. came to a head about 5 years ago. was on the edge of having ticker trouble/heart attack. the choice in front of me, was keep on going and start on having heart attacks and all the rest and end up just like my dear old departed dad [who had 5+ heart attacks until he had quadruple bypass surgery which almost killed him], or change my diet. I opted for the latter because it was cheaper and easier than bypass/chronic disease which is very costly here south of the border. so out went the ramen and white rice and white potatoes and white sugar/starch/wheat of any kind/white anything, for that matter. replacing such with brown/wild rice, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, veggies, veggie juice, inexpensive nuts and seeds, tomato sauce [contains lycopene]. within a year my overweight, hypertension/cholesterolemia/chronic infections went away. and it didn't cost me any more food money than I was spending before, I am just spending more discerningly for healthier food choices. healthy doesn't have to cost more. and it will save in the long run via avoidance of typical middle-age diseases like I just mentioned.


I've been doing a bastardized version of the Paleo Diet, with mostly meat, and salad (I do cheat more than I ought to with sweets, but not nearly to the extent that I used to). Gone are the fries that I used to have with every meal, as is pizza, and I hardly ever touch chips anymore. When I got married almost fourteen years ago, I was close to 350, while today, I'm about 244. My doctor tells me I have cured myself of diabetes, which I had been developing during the days of my bad eating habits.


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01 Apr 2015, 11:34 pm

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auntblabby wrote:
$2.45 EACH? :o


yup, and you can only buy them from government approved outlets - friggin liqour control.


in usa you can't buy liquor or hot food. I get the liquor, but hot food. its meant to encourage parents to make home cooked food, but for single people its lame, still you can buy hot food that stores put in fridge. o.O

oh dear gosh you mixed the hotdogs with the mac

disturbs me.



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01 Apr 2015, 11:35 pm

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auntblabby wrote:
sly279 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Canadian1911 wrote:
noodles - 25 cents, mac n cheese 78cents, microwaveable pastas, mac n cheese etc - $1. f**k I love it.

please take it from this old fart, aspie to aspie- if you continue eating such foods for much longer, you WILL have health problems later in life, I know because it happened to me and nobody [sufficiently] warned me.


I eat a lot of cheap food too. is it just that he mainly only eating pasta that concerns? i eat $1 tv dinners, pizza, hamburger helper when i can afford it. hamburgers, chicken patties, nuggets, strips, chickens bit cheaper then beef, potatos lots of potatos. lasagna once in a while. only have 150ish each month for food.

from one brother aspie to another, I have only about that amount to spend on food each month also. what I was saying, is that the choices one makes in what food one eats, has real health effects that I experienced. I ate a typical SAD [Standard (north)American Diet] for decades until I was about 50# overweight, high blood pressure/cholesterol/triglycerides/arthritis/fatty liver/CRP/metabolic syndrome/chronic infections etc. came to a head about 5 years ago. was on the edge of having ticker trouble/heart attack. the choice in front of me, was keep on going and start on having heart attacks and all the rest and end up just like my dear old departed dad [who had 5+ heart attacks until he had quadruple bypass surgery which almost killed him], or change my diet. I opted for the latter because it was cheaper and easier than bypass/chronic disease which is very costly here south of the border. so out went the ramen and white rice and white potatoes and white sugar/starch/wheat of any kind/white anything, for that matter. replacing such with brown/wild rice, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, veggies, veggie juice, inexpensive nuts and seeds, tomato sauce [contains lycopene]. within a year my overweight, hypertension/cholesterolemia/chronic infections went away. and it didn't cost me any more food money than I was spending before, I am just spending more discerningly for healthier food choices. healthy doesn't have to cost more. and it will save in the long run via avoidance of typical middle-age diseases like I just mentioned.


I've been doing a bastardized version of the Paleo Diet, with mostly meat, and salad (I do cheat more than I ought to with sweets, but not nearly to the extent that I used to). Gone are the fries that I used to have with every meal, as is pizza, and I hardly ever touch chips anymore. When I got married almost fourteen years ago, I was close to 350, while today, I'm about 244. My doctor tells me I have cured myself of diabetes, which I had been developing during the days of my bad eating habits.


see now i'd starve on that.

what's your height?
I'm 260 at 6'2" still waiting on gym to open.



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01 Apr 2015, 11:44 pm

sly279 wrote:
Canadian1911 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
$2.45 EACH? :o


yup, and you can only buy them from government approved outlets - friggin liqour control.


in usa you can't buy liquor or hot food. I get the liquor, but hot food. its meant to encourage parents to make home cooked food, but for single people its lame, still you can buy hot food that stores put in fridge. o.O

oh dear gosh you mixed the hotdogs with the mac

disturbs me.


What do you mean you can't buy liquor? like they wont let you? or what?



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02 Apr 2015, 1:18 am

sly279 wrote:
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auntblabby wrote:
sly279 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Canadian1911 wrote:
noodles - 25 cents, mac n cheese 78cents, microwaveable pastas, mac n cheese etc - $1. f**k I love it.

please take it from this old fart, aspie to aspie- if you continue eating such foods for much longer, you WILL have health problems later in life, I know because it happened to me and nobody [sufficiently] warned me.


I eat a lot of cheap food too. is it just that he mainly only eating pasta that concerns? i eat $1 tv dinners, pizza, hamburger helper when i can afford it. hamburgers, chicken patties, nuggets, strips, chickens bit cheaper then beef, potatos lots of potatos. lasagna once in a while. only have 150ish each month for food.

from one brother aspie to another, I have only about that amount to spend on food each month also. what I was saying, is that the choices one makes in what food one eats, has real health effects that I experienced. I ate a typical SAD [Standard (north)American Diet] for decades until I was about 50# overweight, high blood pressure/cholesterol/triglycerides/arthritis/fatty liver/CRP/metabolic syndrome/chronic infections etc. came to a head about 5 years ago. was on the edge of having ticker trouble/heart attack. the choice in front of me, was keep on going and start on having heart attacks and all the rest and end up just like my dear old departed dad [who had 5+ heart attacks until he had quadruple bypass surgery which almost killed him], or change my diet. I opted for the latter because it was cheaper and easier than bypass/chronic disease which is very costly here south of the border. so out went the ramen and white rice and white potatoes and white sugar/starch/wheat of any kind/white anything, for that matter. replacing such with brown/wild rice, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, veggies, veggie juice, inexpensive nuts and seeds, tomato sauce [contains lycopene]. within a year my overweight, hypertension/cholesterolemia/chronic infections went away. and it didn't cost me any more food money than I was spending before, I am just spending more discerningly for healthier food choices. healthy doesn't have to cost more. and it will save in the long run via avoidance of typical middle-age diseases like I just mentioned.


I've been doing a bastardized version of the Paleo Diet, with mostly meat, and salad (I do cheat more than I ought to with sweets, but not nearly to the extent that I used to). Gone are the fries that I used to have with every meal, as is pizza, and I hardly ever touch chips anymore. When I got married almost fourteen years ago, I was close to 350, while today, I'm about 244. My doctor tells me I have cured myself of diabetes, which I had been developing during the days of my bad eating habits.


see now i'd starve on that.

what's your height?
I'm 260 at 6'2" still waiting on gym to open.


I'm five feet, eleven inches, and weigh in at two hundred forty four pounds. And in all honesty, I get more than enough to eat, as meat fills you up pretty well.


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