Llamedos

I shop at HEB, a Texas regional supermarket. 

Yes, I made the switch to their store brands a few years ago to keep within my budget.
Slowly the store brands have risen in price.
And now you can get some better deals on the national brands..who would have thought ?

You have to be a savvy shopper these days. 

I have even seen where buying 2 smaller packages on sale was cheaper than the larger package (where the 2 smaller contents equaled the size of the larger).

And I still laugh when I see people stocking up on those 12 pack sodas that go on sale 3/$12.
They are $4 a 12 pack when they are NOT on sale..so where is the sale pray tell ?
They used to go on sale at 4/$10 and then even I stocked and that was only 2 years ago.

The lemmings see "Sale" and think they are getting a deal.  They don't even bother to do the math.

We deserve everything that is coming to us if only because of our stupidity and gullibility.

IF it doesn't contain any wheat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, peanuts, cashews, or pistachios.  Yes, the household allergy list just got longer again.  (sigh).

"Allergies" are mostly total bullshit. It's all in your head. Don't be one of these hyper-annoying assholes who go out to eat and list your phobias, allergies, and problems to the waiter like a whiny nerd. It doesn't impress anyone.

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IF it doesn't contain any wheat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, peanuts, cashews, or pistachios.  Yes, the household allergy list just got longer again.  (sigh).

"Allergies" are mostly total bullshit. It's all in your head. Don't be one of these hyper-annoying assholes who go out to eat and list your phobias, allergies, and problems to the waiter like a whiny nerd. It doesn't impress anyone.

L4L, allergies can kill with anaphylactic shock.  You'd have to feel it or see it to believe it.  Those hives and full body eczema aren't in the head.  Which is why I don't go out to eat.  I don't do it to impress people.  I do it to keep my family alive, and I don't give a damn what you think about my whiney nerdiness, as my children surely can whine louder than I can.

I've found that the freeze dried food and dehydrated food, even in superpails, is always more expensive than the generic store version, though the quality varies sufficiently enough to sometimes be worth it.  I also use coupons, stacked with sales.

Perhaps one day you will develop an allergy and not know it. We can all watch you turn blue as your throat constricts and tell you it's all in your head.


and it can happen too
I've seen several cases
most recent was a guy in his 60's who'd been eating seafood all his life with no problems
he took the wife out to a local restaurant,ordered some shrimp
and damn near died when his throat swelled shut

had another case when an adult developed a peanut allergy after eating them for decades

ya never know...

Right off the top of my head, what if L4L suddenly became allergic to:

asbestos
coal dust
tobacco

??

Well, as long as he only eats these as appetizers and not main courses he should be fine. 

"Allergies" are mostly total bullshit. It's all in your head. Don't be one of these hyper-annoying assholes who go out to eat and list your phobias, allergies, and problems to the waiter like a whiny nerd. It doesn't impress anyone.

It's becoming abundantly clear why you have employment issues.

And people who have allergies or food intolerances rarely eat out.  It's just not worth the trouble and it's too easy for mistakes to be made.  I have digestive issues and I don't think I've eaten in a restaurant since last summer and then I pick off the menu carefully and would never bother the waiter with it; they often have no way of knowing what's in the food or any cross-contamination that may have occurred anyway.

As someone who used to own a restaurant, the whole 'allergy' thing was a nightmare for me.  I lived in fear that someone who was allergic wouldn't ask the right questions or a mistake would somehow be made.  We once had someone ask if 'there were nuts' in the chocolate hazelnut ice cream.  The server thought she meant nuts, as in crunchy things, and said no.  Turned out she was allergic to nuts and didn't read the label right, thinking it was only chocolate flavor.  We had warnings all over the store that the stuff was made with a machine that processed nuts, too. (!) I got a call the next day from the teenager's mother saying that she spent the night in the ER but we finally figured out what had happened.  Just a misunderstanding on both sides.  Close call, though.