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Post by KyleEl on Aug 19, 2022 15:37:06 GMT -5
I had to get a more expensive store brand of apple juice when I couldn't even find the large container of the other store brand.
I got nearly all my points this month but still have to buy several items. However, milk is cheaper at the store where I don't get points. I don't know whether it was incorrectly labelled or it really has gone down.
One restaurant that has sandwiches I like doesn't have them on Tuesdays. I don't know why they didn't tell me that until I asked why they never seem to have those sandwiches any more. But if I go on Wednesday, they should have them. Not sure whether they meant I could get them on Thursday.
My bread was on sale but I'm waiting a while since I have two loaves left. If I get it next Tuesday, I'll get the rest of my points.
With my cousin wanting to wait until the next week to visit, I may not make it back to where I get points in August. But maybe I have to, since Wednesday is the day I need to go to that restaurant.
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Post by KyleEl on Aug 26, 2022 13:52:37 GMT -5
Bread was on sale and I got all my points.
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Post by KyleEl on Aug 29, 2022 15:06:16 GMT -5
For the second week I burned my hot dogs. It was very minor for the hot dogs themselves, because I didn't even really notice the burned parts. But the glass pot gets really dirty. Putting it in the dish water, which I do just before throwing that in the yard, turns it a dark brown. It's too late by the time I notice what is happening. I even turned the burner down to 7 because high does everything so much faster than with the old stove.
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 5, 2022 16:05:32 GMT -5
I didn't burn my hot dogs.
One more loaf of bread. Hopefully it will be on sale.
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 9, 2022 15:52:14 GMT -5
Another brand of bread was on sale. And not for as low a price.
Furthermore, the store brand round crackers are no longer on sale and I forgot on Tuesday when they still were. Square crackers are and they're cheaper, so I may eat more of them.
Flavored water seems to be the latest shortage. I'm finding it but only black cherry tastes good, and I can't find that at all.
Also, I couldn't find a 24-pack of cheese and the 16-pack has gone up. I tried this stuff described as "American-flavored" which is cheaper even than the regular cheese was. I don't believe I'll be getting it again.
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 16, 2022 16:03:01 GMT -5
My bread was on sale.
I didn't burn my sloppy toms but they were stuck to the pan. It's a pain to clean up.
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 23, 2022 16:22:41 GMT -5
Forgot this on the Vent Thread. The mouse got to one of my snacks. I kept two packages of six crackers without the box they came in and that was easy enough to get into. So one package only had four.
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 26, 2022 14:43:55 GMT -5
I have one loaf of bread left. I'd better get some tomorrow. I also have two opportunities to get 30 points. I forgot to mention on the gas price thread that I finally got a response about moving my points. I was told they couldn't because I only had 70. So I responded by saying when I didn't get a response, I had to go ahead and use them.
I think I'm finally out of Cheez-Its. The store where I don't get points had them on sale but not the whole grain version.
I had the opportunity for dessert yesterday where I used to go to church, but the problem is the slices of cake are too big. I want small slices of all of them. That was just too complicated. If I hadn't been first to eat as a visitor, I could have waited and collected crumbs. However, I had to take my mask off to eat and as the first one, I was able to eat by myself before the tables filled up.
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 30, 2022 15:28:25 GMT -5
Nope, I had one more box of Cheez-Its. But I got two more because they were on sale. I was not able to find large whole grain square saltines and I couldn't find whole grain round crackers at the first place. I did at the second and they were on sale.
I have four loaves of my favorite bread now. Hopefully they will last.
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Post by KyleEl on Oct 10, 2022 16:34:54 GMT -5
And I still have three loaves of bread. Almost. I was looking for something else and found one I had forgotten about.
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Post by KyleEl on Oct 14, 2022 13:41:45 GMT -5
Now it's four. I found my bread on sale.
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Post by KyleEl on Oct 21, 2022 13:48:37 GMT -5
Found it on sale again and now it's five.
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Post by KyleEl on Oct 31, 2022 15:01:10 GMT -5
Four now, and I have pumpkin pie.
I ran out of silverware so I'll have to resume eating it tonight.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 4, 2022 15:18:59 GMT -5
I didn't look carefully at the package by I have rosemary and olive oil store brand Triscuits. I don't like food that spicy and there's an awful taste in my mouth until I eat or drink something else.
And no chicken salad yesterday at the restaurant that has it on Thursdays. Not enough chicken left over! This is getting frustrating. If I go to the hospital, I hope they'll have it. But I don't know whether I can go inside and eat. Probably by now I can. If they don't have chicken salad next time, I'll do what I did a month ago and walk in the park afterward, and cross the street and hope to eat in the middle of my walk.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 7, 2022 15:59:35 GMT -5
Two loaves of bread left.
And I finished the store brand Triscuits.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 11, 2022 16:00:20 GMT -5
I still tasted the store brand Triscuits so I washed the container. The crackers that were in there will probably still have the taste.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 14, 2022 18:01:56 GMT -5
I ate too much yesterday. Mostly too much dessert.
I also burned my tongue eating soup. It has recovered now but it was really sensitive there for a while. My stove heats things up more than the old one and usually the result is I burn things quickly.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 18, 2022 15:53:19 GMT -5
I didn't burn my tongue today.
Five loaves of bread after it was on sale.
However, I can't find flavored water.
I did go over 100 points and now I have to make it to 200.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 21, 2022 15:44:09 GMT -5
I burned the frying pan and the pot when making Sloppy Toms. The frying pan wasn't that hard to clean but the pot is non-stick and a Brillo can't be used in the same way. That's the first of three times this week (I hope) that I will have turkey. I know the family is getting together Thursday but I don't know whether my cafeteria will have turkey on Wednesday. Or if they are changing the menu in any way after the sale.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 25, 2022 16:35:15 GMT -5
The cafeteria had turkey but it was nothing like it used to be. I'm not even sure the dressing tasted like it was supposed to but there wasn't much of it. And the white meat on top--that was all the meat. The dark meat is always good but there wasn't any. I paid $9.99 plus tax but macaroni and cheese, slaw and a roll are $4? I got overcharged, or so I believed. $5.99 for that turkey and dressing? I knew that already before I saw what I was actually getting. And no cranberry. And no cornbread that I could see. But $9.99, the price for the turkey special, was actually cheaper than what I would have paid.
I should have had Speedway listed on the gas price thread but I never made it to my aunt's house. We can't be around her right now. I was concerned that my uncle came to be with us at my aunt's church, which was nice enough to let us use their facilities. I haven't been there in three years because the sanctuary is always too crowded and now is just not the time to be in a crowded place. But if my uncle wasn't sick and wasn't going to make us sick, I guess it was okay, Too many people were sniffling or coughing. But here's who was there besides him and me. Three of the four children and the spouses of at least two of them. Two children of one of those four, three children of another plus a spouse of one and ... wait, a baby? No one told me. And the two children of the other and the two children of her husband, plus one child of one of them, and the spouses and two children each of the two had had spouses. How many is that?
Six loaves of bread since it's still on sale. I will make it to 200 points since so much of what I needed was on sale.
I also have Christmas cookies.
I found flavored water for only slightly more at another store, where I don't get points. It was so much more there that I quit getting it there and got it where I get points instead.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 28, 2022 15:52:49 GMT -5
I didn't burn my Sloppy Toms. The pan was relatively easy to clean.
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Post by KyleEl on Dec 5, 2022 17:29:11 GMT -5
I burned my Sloppy Toms. By the time I know what's happening it's too late. Now I could take the pan off the burner but I forget to do that. Only a small part of it got burned but it tastes awful and it's normally hard to clean.
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Post by KyleEl on Dec 12, 2022 17:37:07 GMT -5
I saw that the water was almost gone today with my Sloppy Toms and filled the pan up in time.
I found a box of fish sticks I didn't know about when looking for something to put inside a hamburger bun bag. and I hope they're still good. I also found a package with one chicken nugget. I'm not optimistic so I threw it out. I'm hoping by letting the ice in the freezer melt that I'll be able to pry those boxes of fish sticks loose. I should have done that the minute I closed the door.
I found Ritz crackers on sale. I had a hard time opening my mixed nuts but since that was something that appeared in my Christmas stocking, I'll wait.
No typos this week.
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Post by KyleEl on Dec 19, 2022 18:21:57 GMT -5
No problem with Sloppy Toms.
I had a hard time finding my fruitcake and was afraid I had thrown it out by mistake. While looking I found evidence of a mouse but that must be quite old as none of the other food has been touched.
Three kinds of chicken--chicken salad in a croissant, nuggets, and stew--when I got together with my family. Also corn chips, chili, and Triscuits with pimento cheese. They put me at the same table with my aunt who is 90 and had the flu for three weeks. I can't eat with my mask on, so I was taking a risk. Someone said I probably shouldn't have been around her. Oh, and someone couldn't be there because of COVID. I didn't hear who and don't know if one of the people who was there lives with her. Even though it was the one time everyone could get together, some were missing.
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Post by KyleEl on Dec 23, 2022 16:09:09 GMT -5
I forgot to buy vegetable beef soup, or if I did, I forgot where it was. I knew I would have a hard time with the can opener because every can opener I buy ends up having problems. And yet I bought another brand of chicken soup on sale, which I thought had more vegetables than the other one. It didn't. and the can opener absolutely wouldn't turn, I had to use a fork and a knife to pry it open enough to get the soup out.
I finally used the coupon for Brach's candy. Rather than wait for Valentine's Day candy I got some Christmas candy. I didn't see this kind and it's a lot like jelly beans, but the coupon was going to expire next week. The coupon was sent after I said there weren't enough green jelly beans.
Still waiting on a coupon after I said Chips Deluxe doesn't have big enough chips any more.
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Post by KyleEl on Dec 30, 2022 17:24:48 GMT -5
I got a coupon for jelly beans. I don't know why. I thought maybe it was for the soup, which I still haven't opened because there's no can opener that works.
No chicken salad because the restaurant was behind schedule due to the holiday. I told them they wouldn't get another chance. I was only coming back when I wasn't tired of hot dogs. I was willing to eat one yesterday, and next time I'm just going to the hospital. I can't finish in time to get chicken salad, so the only way is to arrive early enough that they're still serving it. Which is only possible if it's not cold.
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 2, 2023 15:42:56 GMT -5
I forgot to mention bread was on sale. I have two slices left from the older loaves and the last slice in one loaf was starting to develop mold.
I did not burn my Sloppy Toms.
I finally opened my fruitcake. There is a date on it so buying another on sale would not have been a good idea unless I wanted to eat two this year.
No coupons from Vaseline, Keebler or Progresso. I'll have to call each one that has a number on Wednesday.
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 6, 2023 16:58:15 GMT -5
Four loaves of bread now, and the last slice of the last of the old loaves was starting to develop mold.
I did get an email from Vaseline asking for more information but I couldn't provide any, and now a pump has fallen off and I can't open it to get the lotion out.
Progresso sent a coupon. I looked up the information for Keebler and found out it's made by the same company that makes Brach's. So that explains that.
I got Chick Fil-A yesterday but they left off the cheese. I should have said something. I decided not to go to Popeyes because I'd have to remember slaw when I got home even though I have some. Next week I need to get cabbage because I believe the slaw will run out by next Saturday.
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 9, 2023 18:52:17 GMT -5
Still eating fruitcake and finished my Christmas nuts.
Can't eat four cans of soup without a can opener, still can't recycle fifth can because I can't open it enough to clean it.
Turkey burger nearly burned in the nonstick pot and it's a mess to clean up.
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 13, 2023 18:40:17 GMT -5
Correction to the above. Progresso didn't send a coupon, and yet I corrected the post to say they did. Keebler is the company owned by the same company as Brach's.
Two more loaves of bread.
Almost through with fruitcake.
I got tuna instead of chicken salad at the hospital after I saw both. However, it was too risky to go to the restaurant that has chicken salad on Thursday because of the rain chance, and then my cousin wanted to meet, which would have meant chicken salad. The restaurant in the town where we would meet (we eat separately) always has it.
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