How do you cut costs? Go where the food is!

From: harley (cpe-139-168-195-246.sa.bigpond.net.au)
Subject: go where the food is..
Date: April 21, 2007 at 4:20 pm PST
In Reply to: How do you cut costs? posted by herbi on April 19, 2007 at 4:30 pm:

i watch the parrots in my area. i follow their calls and feast on fruit with them. or is it that they follow me on my bike?

i had grapes off the vine yesterday, persimmons off the tree for lunch and a salad mix at wholesale price cos i did some painting at my organic groccers shop. and i also give him tips on optimum eating and trainig from the skills i learnt at dougies events. everybody wins.

this lifestyle is so cheap. i have people on this board that life in my area. they complain that its too exspensive to be raw. yet i feast on free fruit daily..i guess people will look for excuses to justify doing what they really want. my excuse for not eating cooked food is that it takes up too much time, resources, money and makes me feel like the cooked goop it really is.

i hear oats are cheap from the pig farmer co-op. same thing but we pay 10-100times more for it at the shop.


And here's what I posted, about my bulk buying experience in Colorado:

From: Bethany (host-72-174-33-204.gdj-co.client.bresnan.net)
Subject: Just one of me...
Date: April 22, 2007 at 11:09 am PST
In Reply to: Re: can you buy in bulk? posted by herbi on April 19, 2007 at 6:57 pm:
I just moved to a small agricultural town in Colorado for the next 5 months. I immediately made friends with the owner of the local grocery store, who is quite helpful and was happy to order produce by the case for me!

I got a case of organic bananas (40 pounds) for $22! That will take care of much of my breakfast and lunch calorie needs for the better part of a week (I'm pretty active...I train a bit and now I'm working on a farm). He also got a good deal on those tomatoes-on-the-vine from his distributor, which he passed on to me and gave me an 11-pound box of tomatoes for $7! Also, he gave me a box of 18 ataulfo mangoes for $9 (which was half of what he was charging if you bought them individually)!

Since he is giving me such good prices by the case, I will continue to buy by the case. When I placed my next order, I made sure to thank him profusely =).

If I don't QUITE make it through all that food...there are plenty of other people here who eat produce, and I can pass along my savings to them, too!

Hope this helps...