Eating cheap
Low cost, nutritional eating, with less fuss
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Tl;dr What follows is a poorly formatted write up of the process of trying to get product information out of New World. I succeeded! A lot of it is trying to simplify the process. You don’t need to understand it. The end goal, is to scrape grocery store sites to list products by a custom…
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I was wandering through a Sunday market here in Cromwell – you probably know the type. Incredibly expensive cheeses. A coffee cart that’s inexplicably about 50% more than the coffee shop a stone’s throw away. Someone selling hand-knitted tea-cosies and polished gemstones. The odd stall proudly owning a “witchy” label selling incenses, stones, and herbal…
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Humble pie. That which we are forced to eat when humiliatingly wrong. But also one of my favourite foodstuffs! The secret to a great pie lays in the secret ingredient of… pie. It’s hard to get a pie wrong (although if you serve it with mashed potatoes and/or peas on top – congratulations, you’ve managed).…
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I was doing some shopping today and stopped to check my choice of sour cream, which I use to add an energy boost to my salads. Astounded at leaving with 6 items having spent nearly $90 (although I do have 3 weeks worth of chicken lunches in the freezer now) I went back over my…
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Hello, and welcome to Eating Cheap. I’m Mike Young and this is my attempt to feed myself for as little as possible, and stay healthy while I do it. I hope this may be of use to you, too! I’m a mechanical engineer-cum-software engineer on hiatus and traveling. I’m privileged enough to say I’ve never…