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On How Much Do You Spend on Groceries Every Week?
@echolikebells Try recreating some of your favorite eating-out lunches with ingredients you buy yourself. Like a salad with currants, goat cheese, balsamic vinaigrette and grilled chicken, or a veggie burger topped with honey mustard and avocado, or whatever. Salads made with grains like couscous, quinoa, barley, etc. are also easy to make ahead and the flavors really improve when they're sitting in the fridge for a while.
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On How Much Do You Spend on Groceries Every Week?
We come in around $65 per week on average for two adult vegetarians. We eat pretty cheaply except for spending $14-20 per week on yogurt.
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On Monday Check-In
Friday night: Took the Bolt Bus to New York with my fiance to spend the weekend with his family. Spent $5 on some bottles of water and $16 on LIRR tickets. Saturday: Stayed in and read my library book all day, then went to see Star Trek with the whole family. Future in-laws paid-- awfully nice of them! $0. Sunday: Party to introduce me to some of my fiance's extended family and family friends. Fiance's mom advised me not to buy a hostess gift, so $0 for that. Then we flew home and took the bus and Metro back from the airport, $7.50. That's a grand total of $28.50, but I still have to go grocery shopping tonight...
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On Open Thread
@cuminafterall A good morning in Federal Hill: go to AVAM when it opens, spend 2 hours there, then walk to Thai Arroy for lunch. PS Baltimore has Circulator buses just like DC, except they are FREE
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On Open Thread
@stuffisthings I also like walking around Bolton Hill (a lovely leafy neighborhood with F. Scott Fitzgerald's old house, among other things). MICA's in that neighborhood, and they usually has some interesting student art on exhibit. In Mount Vernon, I love the dog-friendly BYOB pizza joint Iggie's. Rye in Fells Point is a good place to get drunk.
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On Open Thread
@stuffisthings CANNOLI and all other Italian bakery items. Check out Piedigrotta in Little Italy.
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On Open Thread
OMG no please please please retire or else none of us younguns will ever get any JOOBBBBSSSS (although there have been several non-apocryphal instances in my "network" of people dropping dead less than a month after retiring)
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On Friday Estimate
@cuminafterall "this week's topic du jour" what a loser!
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On Friday Estimate
Going to glamorous Long Island this weekend for a party! Not a Gatsby party, but it will still be quite nice. I made travel arrangements last weekend (partially paid for with credit card rewards, this week's topic du jour) so this weekend won't be too spendy. Tonight: $20 on dinner at Union Station/LIRR tickets (I'll pay for one, my fiance will pay for the other). Saturday: hanging out with my fiance's family. I'll probably spend $40 on a hostess gift for the party thrower (I don't know her that well, but she offered to host a party in my honor! That deserves a really good bottle of wine, right?) Sunday: the party! $8.20 for bus and train fare to get home from the airport. Hopefully that's it. So that's $68.20, not including groceries I would've bought on the weekend but will get after work on Monday instead ($50).
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On Only Way to Get 1 Job Is If Someone You Know Gives It to You, But What Do You Give Them?
I vote dinner, and a nice handwritten note* *nice handwritten note may be substituted for nice handtyped blog post, if you happen to edit a blog with a readership large enough to be considered a "public forum," which this one must, since I read it despite not knowing you or Mike personally, so congratulations, you're covered. Unless you used dictation software to write your post, in which case you still have to write a note.