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On 2/4/2025 at 4:56 PM, renoskier said:

I know most folks don't like this but I don't mind eating the same thing for several days in a row

That is what we do. We make big batches of stuff on Sunday and then we are good to go for the work week. 

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my 17 year old son made this for dinner last week...

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Beef Bourguignon on mashed potatoes...from a NYT recipe.

He loves to cook and I can see him pursuing it as a profession. He turned a 2.5 lb piece of Chuck Roast, that was on sale for $3.99/lb, into an amazing dinner for 5 that cost a little less than $30...not including the wine. Granted, it did take him all afternoon but he was very proud of himself.

 

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On 2/4/2025 at 4:07 PM, renoskier said:

my 17 year old son made this for dinner last week...

image.thumb.jpeg.7d8fb9f13f18cfe3beb6527d29596a39.jpeg

Beef Bourguignon on mashed potatoes...from a NYT recipe.

He loves to cook and I can see him pursuing it as a profession. He turned a 2.5 lb piece of Chuck Roast, that was on sale for $3.99/lb, into an amazing dinner for 5 that cost a little less than $30...not including the wine. Granted, it did take him all afternoon but he was very proud of himself.

 

That looks great!

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On 2/4/2025 at 4:58 PM, bornontheblue said:

Any other person here I will try to  do that with. Not that guy though. 

You - We have literally wanted to kill each other and then worked it out

BSU TOP 25  - We have had a few moments I think we are good now 

Retro  - We have had several dustups, most of them my fault. I think we are good now 

Joe From Wyoming and all the other iterations  - I am hoping we are cool when he gets back from timbuktu 

HappyCamper - There have been tons of angry exchanges with that guy. I respect him though, and I think we are good. 

Alpine  - I have had several angry exchanges with him. We are fine. I just texted him last night. 

 

AA has had a plethora of opportunities not to be a total shitbag, and he fucks it up every time. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go ahead and try to act like you don't instigate things. You are the instigator 90% of the time. I sent you an olive branch through a DM after you were being attacked by the brothers. You ignored it. I don't like you, and you don't like me. Cool. 

The funny thing is how you're suddenly buddies with people who have personally attacked you when they attack me. Let me know when I go two days straight with multiple posters throwing death wishes at one another. You accuse me of being a victim? You play that card all the time. "All I did." Complete hypocrisy. 

Let's see how long you can go without starting shit with me or someone else. The odds say it won't be long. 

Have the last word, I don't give a shit what you think. You're trash and a complete fraud. 

 

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On 2/4/2025 at 4:07 PM, renoskier said:

my 17 year old son made this for dinner last week...

image.thumb.jpeg.7d8fb9f13f18cfe3beb6527d29596a39.jpeg

Beef Bourguignon on mashed potatoes...from a NYT recipe.

He loves to cook and I can see him pursuing it as a profession. He turned a 2.5 lb piece of Chuck Roast, that was on sale for $3.99/lb, into an amazing dinner for 5 that cost a little less than $30...not including the wine. Granted, it did take him all afternoon but he was very proud of himself.

 

That looks great! He should be proud of himself. My mother was a great home cook. Through her, I became interested in cooking. My first prep was making dinner for the family (six of us) for my 10th birthday. I’m sure she did most of the work, but I was at the stove cooking and probably chopped up some stuff.

Like your son, becoming a professional chef interested me for a number of years. I ultimately detoured from that path as a 16 year old busboy at La Strada—first iteration of the restaurant in the Eldorado before their large expansion. I saw how hard the line cooks worked making the same food night after night and lost interest in a career of cooking, but never in cooking itself. 

Which leads me to agreeing with Halfman about cooking impressing the wimmens. While I can’t say cooking got me laid all that often, it definitely left an impression on the most important woman in my life and helped secure that relationship (and sex, of course). My wife of 32 years still talks about how much she loved that I knew my way around a kitchen and was adept at plenty of other domestic chores.

Having a mother who imparted those skills to her children, and parents who expected my sisters and brother to pitch in cleaning the house, indoors and out, plus taking a middle school cooking class all plays into the man I am today. I don’t believe my sons had a similar class in middle school, but both got kitchen training with me and their mother and both are pretty decent home cooks with very happy about it partners today. 

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On 2/4/2025 at 5:40 PM, AztecAlien said:

Go ahead and try to act like you don't instigate things. You are the instigator 90% of the time. I sent you an olive branch through a DM after you were being attacked by the brothers. You ignored it. I don't like you, and you don't like me. Cool. 

The funny thing is how you're suddenly buddies with people who have personally attacked you when they attack me. Let me know when I go two days straight with multiple poster throwing death wishes at one another. You accuse me of being a victim? You play that card all the time. "All I did." Complete hypocrisy. 

Let's see how long you can go without starting shit with me or someone else. The odds say it won't be long. 

Have the last word, I don't give a shit what you think. You're trash and a complete fraud. 

 

I forgot to add @tailingpermit to my list

We have sparred, and sparred hard recently. 

TP I am sorry I was a total dick. You didn't deserve that. I will go to Costco to stock up for my super bowl party just for you, unless @halfmanhalfbronco wants to invite me over for whatever he is making that is probably gonna be better than what we have. 

 

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On 2/4/2025 at 5:40 PM, AztecAlien said:

Go ahead and try to act like you don't instigate things. You are the instigator 90% of the time. I sent you an olive branch through a DM after you were being attacked by the brothers. You ignored it. I don't like you, and you don't like me. Cool. 

The funny thing is how you're suddenly buddies with people who have personally attacked you when they attack me. Let me know when I go two days straight with multiple posters throwing death wishes at one another. You accuse me of being a victim? You play that card all the time. "All I did." Complete hypocrisy. 

Let's see how long you can go without starting shit with me or someone else. The odds say it won't be long. 

Have the last word, I don't give a shit what you think. You're trash and a complete fraud. 

 

Oh and I forgot @Posturedoc

I am sorry for making fun of your profession. I have never used a chiropractor before, and I don't quite get the whole thing, but your profession is important to people, and you help people. I will try to be better. 

Anybody else

@stanfordchef. I respect you. You are an amazing attorney, and @halfmanhalfbronco says you are a great artist. I would like to see that sometime. 

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On 2/4/2025 at 7:11 PM, bornontheblue said:

Oh and I forgot @Posturedoc

I am sorry for making fun of your profession. I have never used a chiropractor before, and I don't quite get the whole thing, but your profession is important to people, and you help people. I will try to be better. 

Anybody else

@stanfordchef. I respect you. You are an amazing attorney, and @halfmanhalfbronco says you are a great artist. I would like to see that sometime. 

Asshole…

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On 2/4/2025 at 4:07 PM, renoskier said:

my 17 year old son made this for dinner last week...

image.thumb.jpeg.7d8fb9f13f18cfe3beb6527d29596a39.jpeg

Beef Bourguignon on mashed potatoes...from a NYT recipe.

He loves to cook and I can see him pursuing it as a profession. He turned a 2.5 lb piece of Chuck Roast, that was on sale for $3.99/lb, into an amazing dinner for 5 that cost a little less than $30...not including the wine. Granted, it did take him all afternoon but he was very proud of himself.

Looks fantastic. 

And To be fair, I think we were both arguing different things that are true at the same time.

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On 2/4/2025 at 5:40 PM, AztecAlien said:

Go ahead and try to act like you don't instigate things. You are the instigator 90% of the time. I sent you an olive branch through a DM after you were being attacked by the brothers. You ignored it. I don't like you, and you don't like me. Cool. 

The funny thing is how you're suddenly buddies with people who have personally attacked you when they attack me. Let me know when I go two days straight with multiple posters throwing death wishes at one another. You accuse me of being a victim? You play that card all the time. "All I did." Complete hypocrisy. 

Let's see how long you can go without starting shit with me or someone else. The odds say it won't be long. 

Have the last word, I don't give a shit what you think. You're trash and a complete fraud. 

 

FFS… go sleep it off

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On 2/4/2025 at 12:33 PM, halfmanhalfbronco said:

It's true.

A whole ball top sirloin costs about 70 bucks.  Butcher it up you get around 20 steaks and a coulotte.  A big bag of frozen veggies is about 14 bucks, and contains 20 or so servings.  A 10 pound bag of baked potatoes is about 11 bucks after tax.  Congrats, you fed a family of 4 a steak dinner with steamed veggies and a baked potato for about 4 bucks per person.

A whole chicken is about 5 bucks to 8 bucks depending on where you buy it.  Feeds a family of 4.  Then you can use the carcass for soup the next day.

Pork tenderloin is about 3 bucks a pound (2.25 at Costco right now).

A 20 pound bag of rice is about 25 bucks.  Contains around 500 servings.

 

 

You pay taxes on groceries where you live? Wherever that is, none of the residents should be allowed to pile on California regarding taxes. Aside from a Breathing Air Tax, taxing basic nutrition is as regressive as it gets.

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On 2/4/2025 at 3:12 PM, halfmanhalfbronco said:

 

I hate that logic so much re Fast Food.  It is NOT cheaper than eating healthy, too many Americans just can't take care of themselves.  They don't know how to shop and cook.  It needs to be taught in school.  

1. I ran out the math homie

2. what you are all ignoring is that in general it is cheaper to eat unhealthy at home vs healthy at home. furthermore it takes a lot (A LOT) more time and effort to cook healthy meals than to buy ultra processed food which is cheaper or as cheap per calorie. Finally we have a pretty huge body of evidence that points to environmental factors being a major source of obesity. 

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On 2/5/2025 at 6:50 AM, happycamper said:

1. I ran out the math homie

2. what you are all ignoring is that in general it is cheaper to eat unhealthy at home vs healthy at home. furthermore it takes a lot (A LOT) more time and effort to cook healthy meals than to buy ultra processed food which is cheaper or as cheap per calorie. Finally we have a pretty huge body of evidence that points to environmental factors being a major source of obesity. 

Food deserts are also very much a thing.

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On 2/5/2025 at 6:50 AM, happycamper said:

1. I ran out the math homie

2. what you are all ignoring is that in general it is cheaper to eat unhealthy at home vs healthy at home. furthermore it takes a lot (A LOT) more time and effort to cook healthy meals than to buy ultra processed food which is cheaper or as cheap per calorie. Finally we have a pretty huge body of evidence that points to environmental factors being a major source of obesity. 

Yeah it's not like I am just pulling sht out of my ass on this argument.  It is fairly well known why we are the most obese first world country.  It's easier and cheaper to go to a drive thru.  End of story.

Then again, I think I could post that the sky is blue and I'd get a bunch of posters refuting that. 

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On 2/5/2025 at 7:06 AM, CoachKenFTW said:

You pay taxes on groceries where you live? Wherever that is, none of the residents should be allowed to pile on California regarding taxes. Aside from a Breathing Air Tax, taxing basic nutrition is as regressive as it gets.

We get a grocery credit back of $120 per person in a household on our state tax return, So if MFJ with two kids then you get $480. This is to offset the sales tax on groceries. Kinda a dumb way to do it IMO , but the state legislature is either looking at increasing the credit to $150, or eliminating the grocery sales tax entirely. 

 

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On 2/5/2025 at 10:43 AM, bornontheblue said:

We get a grocery credit back of $120 per person in a household on our state tax return, So if MFJ with two kids then you get $480. This is to offset the sales tax on groceries. Kinda a dumb way to do it IMO , but the state legislature is either looking at increasing the credit to $150, or eliminating the grocery sales tax entirely. 

 

I am of two minds on grocery taxes. On the one hand, not having them helps everyone afford groceries. On the other hand, everyone buys groceries and we definitely use the services they fund - road, water, etc. 

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Fast food may be easier but aint cheaper.

 

Here's a prime example.

These are actual prices at my local McDonalds and my local Kroger.

 

4 Quarter Pounder with Cheese Meals (medium) -  $31.56 (4 @ 7.89)

 

1/2 pkg hamburger buns (kroger) - 0.90

1 lb ground beef (Angus 80/20) - 5.99

4 slices American Cheese (Kraft) - 1.15

condiments - 0.75 (est)

1/2 bag shoestring French Fries (Ore-Ida) -  2.50

1 2 liter bottle Coke - 3.49

Total - 14.78  (which, BTW, is still less than 4 $5 McValue meals)

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My family members were in the restaurant business all of their working lives. The utilities to run the restaurant were about 8x compared to the utilities for our home. But the restaurant produced thousands of meals per month. So that's a at least a 100x reduction in carbon footprint, supply chain, resource consumption, etc... So restaurants are the more ecological and environmental choice, by a landslide.

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On 2/5/2025 at 8:28 AM, InnZoneU said:

Yeah it's not like I am just pulling sht out of my ass on this argument.  It is fairly well known why we are the most obese first world country.  It's easier and cheaper to go to a drive thru.  End of story.

Then again, I think I could post that the sky is blue and I'd get a bunch of posters refuting that. 

It's not cheaper.  I just proved it.  Easier, yes.  Which is what everyone said

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