Thread: Fighting the rising cost of groceries

Originally Posted by rovercare

Kangaroo is excellent meat, nice and lean

I usually have it once a week. You can by pre-marinated stuff ready for the bbq. I usually get that, then roast it with vegies,etc. Turns out very nice.

Originally Posted by BigJon

I usually have it once a week. You can by pre-marinated stuff ready for the bbq. I usually get that, then roast it with vegies,etc. Turns out very nice.

Used to eat it kinda fresh a fair bit Fresh= blam blam, cut off the backstraps fresh

Bah, sooking about germs, how will you ever build up an immune system

Originally Posted by rovercare

Used to it kinda fresh a fair bit

Bah, sooking about germs, how will you ever build up an immune system

I don't really understand this post at all .

Originally Posted by dobbo

Don't laugh my neighbours eat it at least 3 times a week. The only way a person on a senior pension can afford to live. It makes you stink though

Don't agree with this. My parents lived very well on the old aged pension. And they were/are happy. Never wanted for anything, and Dad was always saying how there was always more in the bank than he thought.

You....yourself.....personally, decide how you wish to live. Some do it frugally and want for nothing and others will never have enough.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Used to it kinda fresh a fair bit

Bah, sooking about germs, how will you ever build up an immune system

Was that directed at me??? I don't worry about germs at all - definitely toughen you up being exposed to a few.

I WOULD worry about these guys though Helminth Parasites of Man - if I was eating pet grade kangaroo (or at least I would make sure it was 100% cooked, which defeats the purpose).

I LOVE kangaroo - have it at least once a week, but I get it from a source I trust.

Dobbo - you are full of it - doesn't make you stink.

Originally Posted by BigJon

If you spent that much on a rental house you would get around $400 or more per week incoming, yet people keep saying "buy shares"...

PS I am stirring...

I know you are stirring, but if you could pay cash for the house, fine... but borrowing to create an income source in the current fiscal environment? no thanks...

if I had $20k to either put towards a house deposit or shares, right now it would go on shares or managed funds.

Originally Posted by BigJon

I don't really understand this post at all .

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Ace, re your short growing season, did you think of putting up a hothouse ? You could knock one up pretty easily with a frame and plastic. I don't have one but am thinking about it.

This is our practice to try and keep costs reasonable ;
1. go to the markets once a week and buy all fruit, vege, fish and meat. Much better quality/choice and half the price of supermarkets. (You probably do not have the big markets where you are, but there might be a Farmer's Market ?)
2. grow as many of our own veges as we can.
3. cut down on expensive meat cuts and try to have 2-3 non meat meals a week
4. "make our own" cleaning products the olde traditional ways using baking soda etc which are more environentally friendly anyway.

We're also looking at making our own preserves, just like the old folks used to do, and drying our own fruits. The plan is to go to the markets and buy cases of the produce when they're in season and preserve and dry them. All this is still only a plan.