The Glade 4.0

Mmmm...Chipotle...

There's one near my office, and one opening up close to our apartment. Too bad Phe can't eat there.

Why for?

When I finally get you guys to come visit, you should try the local burrito joint that opened up down the street. It's a chain local to Dayton, and won a few "Best of" awards in Dayton. They've got a couple jalapeño-less options.


I think she swells up and dies.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Kaffis got it. Phe's allergic to jalapeños. The anaphylaxis started with stomach aches/problems, but she's now up to swelling and breathing problems.

That sucks. Poor Phe.
Gotta be careful down here....lotsa folks like to bake jalapenos into their cornbread and you can't tell until its too late.
Is it just jalapenos or can she have other hot peppers?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Wow. Just the Jalaps or the entire peño family? Can she just skip the salsa, or does she have to avoid all places with peppers?

All other peppers are fine...it seems to just be jalapeños. But salsa, food cooked in jalapeño juice...any kind of ingestion is right out.

Also, LK's right...I have to test certain foods to make sure they're safe. Green beans are the most insidious use of jalapeños...at least you can see them in cornbread!

Ahh, so I guess you're the royal taster, eh 'Sky?

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

You have no idea. She has to pass on the Strawberry Salsa I offered to get her from my town's annual Strawberry Festival. The I've never seen a look of disappointment the likes of which her face displayed when I confirmed that it does, indeed, have jalapeños in it.

Hmm. I wonder.. Strawberry salsa with a preemptive shot of epinephrine...?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Don't encourage her. I already have to talk her down from proactive epi-pen self-stabbings in order to eat salsa.

I spend between 400 and 500 in food a month for just the two of us. In Colorado it was more like 250/month but Maryland is hellishly expensive if you don't want premade food and buy non-canned fruit/vegetables (also, Fort Meade's Commissary is disgusting, so we can't shop there). We only eat out about once or twice a month and it's usually Five Guys or Chipotle, neither of which is very expensive.

If it's just jalapenos it would be pretty east to make strawberry salsa with some other pepper for her. Sounds fantastic with flour tortilla chips.

Yeah, there are plenty of other peppers out there that would make great salsa's.

If it were me making the salsa, yes, this would be a non-issue.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

So make the salsa so she doesn't have to worry about an epi-pen!

$100/month? I easily spend over $100/week most of the time

I forgot what we were talking about and when I came back to the thread I read "epi-pen" as "epeen."

Aw shucks. I miss Monte.



If it were up to me, and we could afford it, I could easily spend $100 a week per person on nice yummy foods!! Budgets suck.
All you single people enjoy your eating habits now, lol!!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Woops, misread the question and voted per week.

My correct answer should be ~$500/month. I am trying to find ways to cut that back, tho.

Another thing to keep in mind is the economy of scale. Feeding a family of four is not 4 times as expensive as feeding one. A single adult can't take advantage of bulk buying and may rely more on expensive prepared foods.

Phe and I have resolved, as we have more time now to focus on cooking at home, to eat better foods as well. We still buy the bulk stuff at the Walmart Neighborhood Grocery (hey, a box of name brand whozits is the same as it would be at a more gourmet grocer, and it's lower-priced), but we're buying more organic and fresh fruits and vegetables at Fresh Market and Whole Foods. If we can find a good supplier, I'd like to switch to locally sourced/organic meats as well.

Easily less that $100 per person... EASILY, and I only use quality ingredient. The trick is planing your meals in advance up to 2 weeks, and but meats in bulk when they are cheap. A medium sized vegetable garden and large indoor herb gardens will also help.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

When I was living out at college, I'd spend something like $50 every two weeksish at the grocery store, though I'd get a meal at Subway a week which was something like $9 a week right there.

I don't know how I'm still alive, but I was happy enough!

I've started cooking since I last lived on my own, however, so I suspect my grocery shopping costs have gone up. I'll even need things like spices now!

For the two of us, we usually spend about 100$ average a week at the grocery store. That does not include any eating out or fast food, I would estimate another 50-100 for that depending on the week.

However, we are trying to eat healthy right now, so it's entirely fresh fruits and vegetables, bakery bread, meat, etc. As soon as we stopped shopping in the frozen aisle entirely (other than the ice cream section) our grocery bill skyrocketed. Our balance of food in this country is so effed. I could eat totino's pizza every day for a dollar (one of the things I survived on for a long time as a bachelor), but to eat healthy I spend ten times as much.

Of course, that's not taking into account the 3 heart attacks I would have by the time I'm 40 eating totinos megafat food substitute instead of real food.

Since this made me curious, I looked up the nutritional information for Totinos (the three meat)

Serving size HALF pizza (mmhmmm)

Calories 350 Calories from Fat 162
Total Fat 18.0g 28%
Saturated Fat 4.0g 20%
Cholesterol 15mg 5%
Sodium 870mg 36%
Total Carbohydrates 34.0g 11%
Dietary Fiber 1.0g 4%
Sugars 3.0g
Protein 13.0g
Vitamin A 0% • Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 15% • Iron 10%


Wow, so to eat one totino's pizza (which was the amount I ate) I was only consuming 36g of fat, or 56% of my daily value of fat. (not to mention 700 calories).

I wonder why we have so many obese children running around?

Hmmm, my food bill always goes up when i'm not single, not down, lol

While I am not 'easily' less than 100... I am right around 100 per person. This particular month has been bad... as we have been doing a lot of eating out of the house.

But we have even been down to eating well and only spending 300-400 a month on a family that fluctuates between 5 and 6 people.

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