Comments on: I’m Avoiding Grocery Shopping – Day 65: Eating Well On $1 A Day

By: Coupon Crocodile

Coupon Crocodile — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:23:07 +0000

Again, I realize this is over. But I assume you still cook for yourself. Instead of using raw onion, try microwaving it for a bit to soften it and take the edge off the raw flavor. Just a minute will make it taste a lot better.

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:59:06 +0000

I think if you’d fried the onions (to mellow the flavour) and wilted (fry for just a minute) the spinach before adding to the salad it would have been awesome and still really quick and easy.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:37:14 +0000

Personally, I just climb the trees to get the out of reach fruit and gently shake branches if necessary.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:23:01 +0000

One contraption my grandparents use is a metal rod with a metal can attached to the end. They reach avocados high in the tree but for smaller fruit try a regular sized canned good, remove the top, eat the contents obviously, cut a small notch in the edge to form a V. Then attach it to a rod like a broom handle and push the can up. Capture the fruit in the can, use the V notch to cut the connection to the tree and the fruit is easily caught in the can.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:36:36 +0000

I had one of those grabber things. the Gopher is what’s it’s called. We use to to grab things out of the dumpster; usually pop cans. but it would probably work on fruit too.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:46:16 +0000

To get at fruit higher up in the trees – I’ve seen in Toronto Dollarama stores (and originally on TV infomercials years ago) a long plastic stick (guesstimate 3 ft long) with a claw/hand at the end of the stick that you can manipulate with the handle to grab at things really low or really high. It was only a $1 at the dollar store.

By: Lostinbrave

Lostinbrave — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:47:26 +0000

For a picker. duck tape a can(large enough to hold the fruit) to the end of a pole and just put the fruit you want in the can and push up or shake. you might also be able to put it on the working end of a garden rake with enough space and pull down.
First started doing this to pick apricots, and have since had success with many variety of fruits.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:36:29 +0000

when you’re chopping onions to eat raw, cut them very finely, they go much further and distribute more evenly.

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:59:04 +0000

@Shannon

Definitely wait for a Kelloggs catalina coupon deal – you’ll do great on it with those coupons

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:54:45 +0000

The local CVS has a “buy 3 boxes of cereal @ $10 and get $5 back in extra bucks” deal going on.

I’m not in your league, but I had $1 off coupons for three of the cereals in the deal. Three boxes of cereal for $2 is plenty cheap enough to make me happy.