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5 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

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I have been there.

I'm pretty sure you need to add the caveat "with the train and car on different bridges". Otherwise two level bridges like the Houghton - Hancock Bridge in Michigan would also meet the conditions as listed.

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  I got yet another frozen turkey from the food bank today... I already had one in my freezer from Christmas that I haven't gotten around to cooking yet.

 

When I went downstairs to put it in the big freezer...

 

I realized I had FOUR MORE turkeys in there...  :blink:

 

Gah.  :wacko:

 

Calling friends and family now to see if anyone wants one...

 

 Maybe @Dilvish the Deliverer and his horde of little D's will take one off my hands...

 

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1 hour ago, Mad Jack said:

 

  I got yet another frozen turkey from the food bank today... I already had one in my freezer from Christmas that I haven't gotten around to cooking yet.

 

When I went downstairs to put it in the big freezer...

 

I realized I had FOUR MORE turkeys in there...  :blink:

 

Gah.  :wacko:

 

Calling friends and family now to see if anyone wants one...

 

 Maybe @Dilvish the Deliverer and his horde of little D's will take one off my hands...

 

 

Welcome to the club! The first part to becoming a food hoarder is admitting you are a food hoarder. #trueconfessionsofafoodhoarder

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6 hours ago, Great Khan Artist said:

 

Welcome to the club! The first part to becoming a food hoarder is admitting you are a food hoarder. #trueconfessionsofafoodhoarder

 

 But I'm not hoarding food - I may have six turkeys in my freezers, but my refrigerator and cabinets are largely empty... I've ended up with multiple turkeys because I'm a one-person household, so I don't need a lot of food per week. And I keep being given turkeys faster than I can possibly eat them. (Hell, I don't usually bother to keep butter or milk in the house because they'll end up going bad before I can go through them.)

Most weeks I spend less than ten dollars on food, since I go to the local food bank on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. About once per week, I throw whatever meat and vegetables I happen to have into a big pot of rice or pasta (whichever I happen to have) and I eat that for dinner for as many nights as it lasts. For breakfast, I eat peanut butter and jelly on four pieces of toast, which means that I buy two loaves of bread for $1.50 each every week, and I spend $1.25 at the Dollar Tree for the squeezable bottles of jelly, and $4.59 for the off-brand jars of peanut butter at Big Lots (and also usually get little jars of it from the food bank). On days when I decide to eat lunch, or when I don't have time to eat dinner before going to bed, I buy 6-packs of ramen noodles at the Dollar Tree for $1.25.

When I have a job, I buy a case of a dozen cans of corn for $10 or so and I heat them up for lunch at work.

 

Because I almost always end up with enough food from the food bank to take care of my needs (I currently have enough rice and pasta for the rest of the month), I rarely ever have a reason to bother cooking one of the turkeys piling up in the freezer...

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Mad Jack said:

 

 But I'm not hoarding food - I may have six turkeys in my freezers, but my refrigerator and cabinets are largely empty... I've ended up with multiple turkeys because I'm a one-person household, so I don't need a lot of food per week. And I keep being given turkeys faster than I can possibly eat them. (Hell, I don't usually bother to keep butter or milk in the house because they'll end up going bad before I can go through them.)

Most weeks I spend less than ten dollars on food, since I go to the local food bank on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. About once per week, I throw whatever meat and vegetables I happen to have into a big pot of rice or pasta (whichever I happen to have) and I eat that for dinner for as many nights as it lasts. For breakfast, I eat peanut butter and jelly on four pieces of toast, which means that I buy two loaves of bread for $1.50 each every week, and I spend $1.25 at the Dollar Tree for the squeezable bottles of jelly, and $4.59 for the off-brand jars of peanut butter at Big Lots (and also usually get little jars of it from the food bank). On days when I decide to eat lunch, or when I don't have time to eat dinner before going to bed, I buy 6-packs of ramen noodles at the Dollar Tree for $1.25.

When I have a job, I buy a case of a dozen cans of corn for $10 or so and I heat them up for lunch at work.

 

Because I almost always end up with enough food from the food bank to take care of my needs (I currently have enough rice and pasta for the rest of the month), I rarely ever have a reason to bother cooking one of the turkeys piling up in the freezer...

 

 

A roasted turkey could provide many meals of supplemental protein when added to your pot of pasta, the breasts sliced for sandwich meat or frozen and used when needed at a later date.  The turkey breasts even if frozen whole [also the drumsticks] take up a lot less space than  a whole frozen bird and would increase your larders supply of available protein for a long time.

Sounds like you have a handle on how to have enough nutrition while living with budget constraints.

GEM

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