save money, buy generic, maybe not

[IMADreamer]

I'm trying to keep expenses low. With farming on hiatus until spring, and only working very part time at my old job because winter is the slow season, I don't have much income right now. I don't want to dip into savings so I've been cutting back on everything. Not to mention I now have to pay the full electric bill, TV, internet, etc. So I've been trying to find ways to save a little money here and there.

While at the store yesterday I decided to get the generic cheese instead of Kraft. HUGE mistake. This stuff is not cheese. First it's super greasy, like I'm pretty sure you could put it in a grease gun and use it as grease. Second it will not melt. I put it on top of this casserole thing and put it in the over at 400 degrees for 30 minutes and it did not melt! So I tried the microwave. Nope, no melting. So I decided I was going to have to eat it as is. It's awful. Worst tasting anything I've ever eating.

So pro tip. That 100 single slices for .99 cents deal. Not so good. Looks like I'll be splurging for the the $2.45 Kraft from now on.

[Leroy]

I buy generic rubbers at $2.50 a gross and those [expletive] won't melt either!

[Fat_Bulldog]

Cheese is fun

[Arthur Dent]

Are you talking about generic American cheese? I don't think that stuff is technically cheese whether its branded by Kraft or Schnucks or whatever. Isn't it just like coagulated oil or something? Blech. I used to love it as a child, though, especially the neeto individual slice wrapping. Now, it seems like a relic from another era what with the excessive packaging and the unnecessary processing to "improve" a better existing item.

I say make yourself a conservative budget based on reasonable expectations and go ahead and use the savings. I'm a fairly aggressive saver precisely so I can use the money in times like yours. What's the point otherwise?

[jim]

I'm trying to keep expenses low. With farming on hiatus until spring, and only working very part time at my old job because winter is the slow season, I don't have much income right now. I don't want to dip into savings so I've been cutting back on everything. Not to mention I now have to pay the full electric bill, TV, internet, etc. So I've been trying to find ways to save a little money here and there.

While at the store yesterday I decided to get the generic cheese instead of Kraft. HUGE mistake. This stuff is not cheese. First it's super greasy, like I'm pretty sure you could put it in a grease gun and use it as grease. Second it will not melt. I put it on top of this casserole thing and put it in the over at 400 degrees for 30 minutes and it did not melt! So I tried the microwave. Nope, no melting. So I decided I was going to have to eat it as is. It's awful. Worst tasting anything I've ever eating.

So pro tip. That 100 single slices for .99 cents deal. Not so good. Looks like I'll be splurging for the the $2.45 Kraft from now on.

LMAO at Kraft being cheese. Double LMAO at splurging on Kraft.

I'm sorry dreamer but if you decided to save money from buying KRAFT, you got what you had coming to you.

[jim]

But don't feel too bad dreamer, I once bought generic beer to save a few bucks on a case of Meister Brau. It was a white can with "Beer" on the side in black lettering. I also at that time bought a bunch of generic mac and cheese because it was $.09 a box, and I figured I could eat two boxes a day (no butter, no milk - just the noodles and packet of dried whatever that was) for a week and only spend $.18 a day on food. That would leave me with about $20 to spend on beer for the weekend. I about puked after the fourth meal, went out and spent most of my beer money on other food and tried to salvage the weekend by buying two lottery tickets because $2 wasn't much to drink on, and I thought maybe I'd get lucky. I didn't.

We all live and learn.

[IMADreamer]

Yeah I'm talking about the American Cheese that comes in individually wrapped slices. It's good on mac n cheese and hamburgers.

[jim]

Once you have gone down to the level of Kraft dreamer that's about as far as you should take it. It's ok for burgers and what not but I sure as heck wouldn't mess with going any lower on the scale that Kraft. It's like the bread they sell .. the American style soft/wet bread like Butternut and Wonder is almost unedible to me - but for a few things like toast I'll eat it. But then you go to the store brand and they somehow take a horrible product and make it infinitely worse. It sinks to level below where any man should have to go.

[IMADreamer]

There is bread other then Wonderbread? I'm asking because I seriously don't know.

[jim]

Wonder and butternut and that soft white moist stuff is bread in about the same way kraft is cheese. American white bread is disgusting. It's like when you are out fishing and you drop your sandwich in the stream.