I have a feeling that the people who do this for the purpose of donating have some psychological issue that makes them addicted to the couponing, and not the philanthropic act. In other words, they are obsessed with extreme couponing but are reasonable enough to realize they can't possibly use all the stuff they get. Rather than draw criticism, they deflect it by donating it to charity. In the end, sure I suppose it's good that the needy get donations but I find it very odd.
crap, you mean the bread that my bakery sells isn't food because it comes from an oven?None of those things look like food. Food comes from outside, from the garden, the orchard, the field, the sea. Not from factories. Donating these things is somewhat like giving someone a present of diabetes.
It depends where the flour came from and what was done to the seeds . And you know what I meant. In many ways, natural systems are types of factories. I referred to overprocessed and modified foods.crap, you mean the bread that my bakery sells isn't food because it comes from an oven?
After coupons final cost of $9.90 and received $10 cat
what does "$10 cat" mean?
my dad's devoted the entire basement of their house to grocery storage.
when I was still living there, the basement had a play room (that I took over as my bedroom), a workshop where the previous owner had all of his tools, a laundry/bathroom, and a small pantry.
pretty early on, the workshop got utilized for grocery storage... after I moved out was when things really went off the rails, though. he had my old bedroom gutted and installed shelves around the entire room to store groceries on.
I don't know what they'll do if they ever have to sell that house, they turned a perfectly serviceable playroom/third bedroom into this weird walk-in, private grocery store.
they've also got 2 full-sized refrigerators (in addition to the one in the kitchen) and 2 chest freezers for storage.
my mom is a clean freak, thank god, so they don't have to worry about pests/bugs, but it's still kinda gross because my dad is not good about cycling out expired products. the last time I was over there and needed a bottle of ketchup, I ended up going through about 5 expired bottles before I found one that was still good.
The fuck is wrong with these people? 125 boxes of each variety of pasta? What do they do with this shit?
i saw that episode. she had major problems with her coupons and it took hours to check out. eventually, they paid next to nothing for their boatload of crap. like they need hundreds of candy bars and pounds of pasta.
I have a feeling that the people who do this for the purpose of donating have some psychological issue that makes them addicted to the couponing, and not the philanthropic act. In other words, they are obsessed with extreme couponing but are reasonable enough to realize they can't possibly use all the stuff they get. Rather than draw criticism, they deflect it by donating it to charity. In the end, sure I suppose it's good that the needy get donations but I find it very odd.
The store doesn't care! Coupons are paid by the manufacturer.
- Product normally costing $5 is on sale for $2.50.
- Customer presents a coupon for $3 off which doesn't specify to be capped at sale price.
- Customer leaves with 50 cents.
- Store gets $3 from manufacturer minus 50 cents paid to customer, net $2.50.
- Everybody wins!
dude, you have countless people in THIS VERY THREAD who practice extreme couponing.
one coupon doesn't mean shit, but 50 coupons @ 50 cents each + money back from the store via promotions (cough CVS/RiteAid/Walgreens cough) = real money
not gonna lie, it's fun as FUCK to walk out of CVS with $50 in goods for $15, with $15 additional (free) dollars to be used on the next visit.
DAYUM
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/extreme-couponing-amandas-coupon-game-day-plan.html
Yeah shopping is seriouz bizness.
Aside from being way to fat,... why is her face as red as a beet? Alcoholic? Medical condition?
where can i find whole episodes of couponing? from the tlc website, all it shows is 1-2 mins clips.
where can i find whole episodes of couponing? from the tlc website, all it shows is 1-2 mins clips.
My ex-wife was like this. Maybe not to the degree on that show, but she'd frequently get tons of free stuff. It actually caused a lot of problems in our marriage. She'd spend a great majority of her time clipping/researching/trading coupons. We'd get the extra sunday papers from the minimart up the street, to get all the coupon inserts from them (they just throw them out). She'd get all excited when something is on sale, and she has a coupon that can be doubled, so she'd make 5 cents or something by buying the product, and buy like 30 of them (or however many coupons she had). I was embarassed to shop with her.
However, it did help out sometimes, as I eat a lot of oatmeal, and oatmeal was one of the things she frequently got for free. Paper products you could always get cheap/free too - so we'd have a 6 month supply of paper towels, toilet paper, etc in the basement. As well as more toothpaste, soap, etc than anyone could possibly use. She didn't have a job (stay at home mom), so it was her way of helping out, as saving money is the same as making it really since we'd be buying groceries anyways. Though a lot of the stuff she bought we didn't really need, and the clutter from all the coupons and surplus items was a bit annoying.
Yes it does from what I remember.
Um.. It took like 10 seconds to find this post on slickdeals:
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=43963800&postcount=1591
I don't think I'd eat any of that though with a few exceptions. Mostly junk food.
It depends where the flour came from and what was done to the seeds . And you know what I meant. In many ways, natural systems are types of factories. I referred to overprocessed and modified foods.
Absolutely; both its absolute denotation and the meaning I implied here, which is that in many cases, food as found in nature comes balanced to work with metabolic systems to provide wholesome nutrition. In the case of cereal seeds, for example, wheat seeds are balanced because they cause a lower insulin spike when consumed. Old world cereals such as spelt and emmer are even better in this regard. In the overprocessing of cereals, this balance is removed because in white flour, only endosperm is left. And not too many people realize that nutritionally, it is not a positive outcome to process food to this degree."Overprocessed" do you even know what that word means?
I appreciate your perspective, but it seems to me that there are other issues involved. For example, the lack of diversity in that so many soy products and corn products are used in food production, the use of processed canola oil and associated a-linolenic acid oxidation, the poor quality of animal fats due to reduced pasturing opportunities for ruminants, etc. The various means used to take food from its raw origins into various products and additives, those means have degrees of processing. In many cases, the processing winds up producing harmful consequences... and this I call overprocessing.Bad food is bad because usually it has either too much of one of the following. Sugar or Salt.
This is new to me. Perhaps you have developed a new process. The way I have seen xanthan gum made is by culturing Xanthomonas and then removing the shell around the bacteria, and purifying the polysaccharides. Corn is sometimes used in the culturing media. Is this what you mean?Things like Xanthan Gum. It's the thickening agent from corn.
Not at all. Where do you find evidence of this in my writings?People like you must see that word and think aliens are pooping in our food to process it or something.
If a food in its raw state provides better nutrition for the body than a modified version, or if an additive contributes to poor functioning, to me, that is unnatural. And I have provided a few examples of when it is so; there are many more.There is nothing "unnatural" "alien" or "unholy" about what they are doing to the food. So stupid.