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trof

(54,255 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 07:00 PM Apr 2013

The New Senior Diet: Much cheaper than cat food.


Dried beans.
Red beans, navy beans, black beans, butter beans.
Buy in bulk for lower prices, if you can afford it.
Rice.
Buy in bulk, if you can afford it.

I'm talking 10 pound bags, if you can handle that 'one time expense' for food that will last you for weeks or months.

Water.
Of course you'll need water to cook your rice and beans.
Hopefully you have access to clean water and can pay the water bill.

Oh yeah, you'll need some source of heat to cook your meals.
Hopefully you can pay your gas or electric bill.
If you have a wood cook stove and access to free wood, all the better.
Hey, you could even try a solar oven.
Don't plan to eat on rainy days.


Rice-and-beans isn't the best diet, but it will keep body and soul together for quite a while, and although it may lack in nutrition, it's very filling.
And you won't ever be constipated again, but do expect an increase in flatulence.


You may supplement your diet if you have dandelions growing nearby.
Free for the taking and some folks may actually pay you to get rid of them.

Dessert?
Blackberries grow by many roadsides, at least here in the south.
Free for the picking.
Watch out for the thorns and take a stout stick in case you run into rattlesnakes.

Good luck to all of us old, retired, no-longer-able-to-work citizens.
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The New Senior Diet: Much cheaper than cat food. (Original Post) trof Apr 2013 OP
don't forget newspaper pancakes Voice for Peace Apr 2013 #1
Blackberry Newspaper Pancakes. trof Apr 2013 #3
you can get bulk grains from the feed store Voice for Peace Apr 2013 #2
I wish I could pick Blackberries like I did when I was a child. Autumn Apr 2013 #4
Beans, beans, the magic fruit! bananas Apr 2013 #5
Yes, if they just add a few links to that chained CPI I'll be able to dance around it. HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #6

Autumn

(44,761 posts)
4. I wish I could pick Blackberries like I did when I was a child.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 07:44 PM
Apr 2013

We would pick buckets and Mom would make jelly and cobbler. But you get older and it's hard to get around.

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