I to start worring about food with my limited diet.

[fooferdoggie]

My body only lets me eat protein and maybe veggies once or twice a week. Meat eggs cheese a few nuts thats pretty much my diet almost every day no seasonings or spices. I just spent 120.00 on meat and it is only al little over 1 weeks worth if it was all I ate. I cant handle cheap meat since I have to eat it so plain. I cant extend meat and my body wont let me experiment much with other meats like salami and such like it used too. I am stuck with one brand of bacon I have been eating 25 years I eat 3.5 pounds of it a week and about 2.5 pounds of cheese and maybe 7 pounds of meat. I hate having to spend so much on food it eats into my budget and its not like I really even enjoy eating like this. but it is what it is no matter what I like and it is not changing any time soon.

 

[rich c]

I'm not a lot different for eating habits and health. I saw this coming and bought a 7cuft chest freezer and a food saver vac sealing system. The freezer is around half full. I eat strictly gluten free, but was able to find GF products at Target for pickup at the door. Also stocked up at Aldi a couple weeks ago. Around here, they are having senior hours or senior mornings at the grocery stores. I also have a good friend with a well stocked fishing pond. I'll soon be making some trips over there to put fish in the freezer. I was born on a farm in the early 50s. I couldn't leave that life fast enough when I reached 18. But I've grown more grateful for those life lessons as the years have gone by.

 

[J.R.]

Spring turkey season is coming up in many regions. Like Rich, I find fishing is a great source for food I like. Trout stocking here in PA has not been cancelled. Fishing is a lot cheaper to do than hunting. My rural independent grocer has 6 meat sales a year. One coming up before Easter. You have to buy in bulk, but prices are great. We also have farm to table markets. They have good sales that beat national chain prices. Better meat too. Checkout some rural markets. You might find more availability too.

 

[fooferdoggie]

my money was low the last couple weeks getting caught up on bills. I should have some nice checks in the next couple of weeks. I hate spending what I do on food that I don't really enjoy. my food is dull and repetitive and it costs way more then I would like to spend but I don't really have a choice. I could not even go off my diet 3 days without getting sick and it would just keep going downhill.
we live in the middle of the city and I only have a bike or the bus for transportation. I usually only eat fres cooked meat because I cant add anything too it its just plain that roasts and such are goof for the first meal bu not afterwards. so the cuts are limited to the time I have to cook them.

 

[fooferdoggie]

the worst part I have slowly become really picky about the flavor of my meat. thats limited what I eat too. sometimes if cook a roast with some water the smell can really turn me off. or like if I roast some beef ribs the smell of the fat cooking can really turn me off. I hate thinking and planning what I can eat I hate spending what I do for something I don't enjoy I hate hte stress it causdes me to have to be so careful eating to keep my health somehwat in tact.

 

[Ebiker01]

A live animal market has good prices.

or with a permit and if able to do so can go hunting deers, and game meat..

 

[rich c]

Restricted diets are hard, the alternative is worse.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Restricted diets are hard, the alternative is worse.

yep its horrible and it has taken the joy of eating out of my life.

 

[Mike_V]

Sorry to read this, good food is expensive and now scarce.
Could you find a farmer who will raise you beef and pork, 1 quality animal at a time, working with a butcher could deliver I think.
I live in the country, with plenty of local beef, llama, pork, and , probably a horse if you eat it.

 

[fooferdoggie]

A live animal market has good prices.

or with a permit and if able to do so can go hunting deers, and game meat..

well that did not work for china (G) I live in the middle of the city not exactly practical.

 

[indianajo]

You are unfortunate. I eat mostly carbohydrates kale & lettuce, with 1.5 oz of meat at lunch and 2 oz of tuna at dinner. No-sugar PB sw both meals. I figured a pandemic was inevitable as long as people were flying around, so I filled up the panniers the last 3 trips to the grocery, ending 3/12. Have 4 cans of Spam lite or Spam turkey after the sliced turkey & chicken run out. I'm good til the 2nd week of April, except kale & lettuce. I loaded up on baby food peas to replace salad, since it is the only way to buy peas without a candy bar in every serving. Or boil the dry peas, takes 2 hours to soften them and I usually forget to stir or add water and burn them to the bottom of the pot. If people deliver food (I'm senior), I probably shouldn't eat it since most foods have so much sugar in them. If the low sugar bread runs out I can fry pancakes out of self-rising flour (no sugar), but those are awfully thick to replace corn tortillas for melted cheese sw.
I'm going to have to go to the store between April 9-12, since the diabetes pills run out then. Or change pharmacies to the one that delivers. $$
I'm really missing diet soda, but I can't get my brands off e-bay and I refuse to pay Amazon delivery prices. Twice UPS surface charge for same day delivery! Who said I wanted it the same day? When I tried Slift(? The target service before Target bought them) after arm surgery 2017, they said half the foods I ordered were "out of stock". I'm sorry to be weird, but I needed those things. Meijers can be out of one or two things, never ten. Foods like Wonder Bread. Jif PB and Sloppy Joes would push me onto injecting insulin and run my cloresterol up, too. You start the injections, there is no coming back. I HATE poking my finger with needles, don't have to do it now.
On everybody's panic list, I have 8 rolls of toilet paper in the closet. Mega package has 12 rolls, has to ride on top of the book-rack. Should keep me til September.