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This place called almost perfect opened near my house, it sells package defective cheap food, now I rarely eat out anymore. I can eat well from there for well under 10$ a day. I'm what I would describe as a gram nazi, I look at the quantity of everything I buy, they sell this delicious beef lasagna cassarole for 5.99 for 1.8 kilo, last week it was on for 3.99, friggin cheap, let it thaw a bit, throw it in a pot and heat it up and good for 5 meals or so, ready made, add spices as you like. I bought 3 for 12 dollars and will eat for a week or more.

I would always run to wendy's or bk when hungry, but now I'm in the groove of making my own simple meals. Walmart has cheap ceasar salad with good size quantity to change it up every so often. How often do you eat out?

All kinds of heat and eat stuff with large portions, friggin awesome. No I don't work there.

http://www.almostperfect.ca/monthly-specials-2/
 
Once or twice a month. I mostly cook at home.
 
The more processed the more chemicals, preservatives, sugar and salt.
I almost exclusively cook from scratch.
It's cheap especially if you shop the flyers.
You know what's in it.
I go as far as making my own sausage, jam, tomato sauce and freezing and preserving stuff when in season. I bought a dehydrator for fruit rollups etc.
Cheap processed food is just bad news.
Don't bother saving your money, you probably won't live long enough to enjoy it with a processed food diet.
 
I eat out about 5 times a week, usually breakfast. It's a nice treat for myself.
My parents probably ate out 5 times total in their lives, they were very frugal.
 
I would put it at once every two weeks, its always high end restaurants. I have no tolerance for chains or fast food.
 
notthemama said:
The more processed the more chemicals, preservatives, sugar and salt.
I almost exclusively cook from scratch.
It's cheap especially if you shop the flyers.
You know what's in it.
I go as far as making my own sausage, jam, tomato sauce and freezing and preserving stuff when in season. I bought a dehydrator for fruit rollups etc.
Cheap processed food is just bad news.
Don't bother saving your money, you probably won't live long enough to enjoy it with a processed food diet.
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Good point, I should try from scratch, see where it ends up, garbage or stomach.
 
I love to cook so I don't eat out very often. Unless it's sushi or a nice Indian buffet or shawarma i.e. something I can't make at home.
 
Once a week.

Going to St. Lawrence Market today to stock the freezer and pantry with meat and other staples.

I'm steadily on the road like notthemama. Learning about rice and pasta sauces now and experimenting.
 
When at home I cook a good meal, lunch time on week days I eat in good restaurants but 60-70% of the time at fast food places. Week ends cook a good meal or nice restaurant. Get away from prepared foods it is not good for you. There is excess sodium and MSG as well as fat in prepared foods. Pre-washed salads often have salmonella contamination.

I am cutting down on cold cuts and canned soups, but once in a while I make a quick meal out of a can of soup and dried pasta. Put a can of soup in the pot and throw in a can full of dried pasta. Bring to a boil and turn down the heat to a simmer. In half an hour you have a pasta casserole. Throw in some frozen vegetables if you like. Shredded chicken meat or ham if you have it.

On the matter of fast foods, one burger that came out recently is quite good. The A & W chicken buddy burger. The saving grace at A & W is that their buns are always fresh. The chicken meat is very good. I recommend at least a try.
( stay away from all artery clogging fries )

MissCroft said:
I love to cook so I don't eat out very often. Unless it's sushi or a nice Indian buffet or shawarma i.e. something I can't make at home.
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That is not what the delivery guy at Swiss Chalet told me. He also said he would rather have a tip than a flash.
 
I do not know the store, I am sure all the stuff they sell is still good but very close to the best before date. The canned stuff may be a couple of years old and the frsh prepare foods will expire soon. That is the only way they get it cheap to sell to you cheap.
 
Never heard of the store before but I checked the site. They definitely seem to have some solid prices. Even though they block out the brand name you can tell what many of them are.

I have a hard tome believing a small chain store can have such low prices going toe to toe with the No Frills and Food Basics of the world, but as Ceiling Cat suggests, I agree.

Likely deals on shipments with tight expiration timelines. The food may still be fine, but it's cutting it close.

As a tip for you all, mainstream retailers will deny taking in (or will ship back) foods which a supplier ships that cross it's expiration threshold. It all depends on the product as stuff like Dairy may have a 2-4 week time on shelf, while crackers may be 1 year.

For stuff that has long shelf life (let's say a year), a store may not accept any cases which have been sitting around and only have let's say 120 days left.

Chances are this store is getting deals on stuff food companies can't ship to the mainstream chains, but still good enough to sell to close out type stores. If that fails, they'll trash it.
 
Much prefer to eat at home vs eating out since you really have no idea how clean (or not) the restaurants are. I'm extremely careful when I cook by cutting up veggies first before any raw meat touches the cutting board. One time I saw a waiter use the toilet and didn't bother to wash his hands. Never went to that place again. I also think there was a recent incident where a guy ended up with worms in his stomach after making salmon sushi at home. The scary thing is that the salmon came from Loblaws!

I still go out, but only once per week and limit the amount of sushi that I have.
 
The place has hamburg,hot dog, and 6 pack bagels for 1.29 to 1.49. Not sure about the expiry dates, they told me there was just package defects. For a single guy who doesn't cook well it's a great place. Would they really want to mess around with expiry dates for insurance reasons, or can they legally operate that way, I guess as long as they're not expired.

Most of iy is frozen food, even the chocolate almonds are cheap which I try to walk past, Walmart is 1.29 per 100g, they are .85c roughly. Big bags of ready made Orval flavoured popcorn 3 bags for 5$, had to ween myself off of those too.

For anyone who isn't a health freak it's pretty good place, good soup selection with large portion sizes.
 
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