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Entries from March 2008

Frugal Foodies

March 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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What is it about frugal recipe sites on the web - the ones I find are like bad knock-offs of Sandra Lee almost homemade (or whatever) on the Food Network (or is that rip off the other way around?)

Sandra Lee’s formative culinary experiences were around subsistence living off of food stamp/WIC foods that she could get at a CONVENIENCE STORE .. her mom, it seems, was couch-bound and not into feeding the kids so little Sandra Lee had to walk to the local Slurpee-Burpee convenience store to get something for her and her sister to eat. My heart aches for the thought of that little girl taking on so much responsibility. Thing is, now she is making big bux off of presenting similar foods as something more than the stop-gap food that it is.

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