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Old 05-10-2008, 11:49 PM
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Default Re: How much do you spend on groceries a week?

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Originally Posted by heba View Post
fatima: theres this place in dearborn my parents go to on wednesdays sometimes. i cant remember what its called but everything is like diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirt cheap. like they literally bought like 10-12 packs of cherry tomatoes for 2 bux (and they were deliciousssssness)
haha heba i know exactly the store youre talking about...greenland. (i actually live like a block away from it) i avoid it like the plague on wednesdays, its crazy in there...way too many arabs in one place looking for sale items! lol

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Originally Posted by Caramel_Candy View Post
There's a ton of supermarket coupons in the sunday paper. Anyways my mom saves a lot of money by having a vegetable garden in the backyard. She grows the basic things she will consistently use like tomatos, green and red peppers, cilantro, green onions, cucumbers, okra, etc. Its a big garden so our neighbors come over and pick what they want as well. At our old house we had a peach tree, plum tree, orange tree it was awesome and it saves a lot of money in the long run.
my dad loves growing vegetables too. he loves the summers when he can just spend the whole day outside taking care of his garden. and he loves telling anyone and everyone that comes over that the food theyre eating was grown in his garden. its cute, he gets really excited about it


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Originally Posted by displaced View Post
you're not going to reply because you don't know what to say *shrugs*
its one thing to make little jabs at people...its another to be just plain rude.

inshallah, i hope im just misreading your tone...and if i am, my apologies
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