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Cake day: September 24th, 2023

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  • Vac sealer. Bulk.

    I understand, for alot of people living in apartments or room sharing situations this is difficult. But, taking advantage of sales and utilizing a vac sealer can go a long way.

    If you don’t mind pork, it can be extremely budget friendly and is a good source of protein. Here in Canada it can sometimes get to $2 or under a pound for pork chops or shoulder. Same with whole chickens or dark meat cuts.

    When this happens. I often buy $30-60+ worth, take it home, portion it to family meal size and vac seal/date/label it.

    After doing this for a while, even with beef products. My chest freezer slowly fills up and eventually, we get to the point where we don’t buy much meat during our weekly grocery visit, unless of course, I see a really good meat deal.

    In addition, learning to process and prepare you’re own meat products like sausage, burgers, raviolis, meat balls, jerky can also go a very long way. My family doesn’t buy any frozen processed crap meat products. We do everything from scratch, and it’s soooo much better. Last year I bought pork shoulders only on sale and kept them in the freezer. I would only buy under $2 a pound. I ended up making around 50 pounds of sausage (Italian and brats) that sausage lasted us almost 10 months.












  • My province’s official sub had essentially just become an echo chamber and literally was shadow banning and straight up just banning people who opposed the mods. It got really bad during the pandemic when they were simply banning people for even questioning some of the mandates and rules that didn’t make sense (not activax stuff, simply pointing out flaws in the rules and mandates).

    Anyway, eventually an alternative sub was made. It got pretty big since basically everyone who was banned and everyone who didn’t want to browse what had essentially become a /r/Torontoleftists migrated over. It got pretty big, to the point it had come under the targets of a few subs simply cause the sub allowed for discussions to take place, regardless of political slant.

    It was alot of fun. Users could actually explain why the felt how they felt and on occasion we’d even find ourselves conceding points or changing our stance on things after discussions.

    It was when this sub and it’s successor were shut down by the neck beard brigade that I had already figured I’d probably take a step back from reddit and then the whole API bullshit happened and knew it was time.

    I’ve been real happy with lemmy tho! I’m not the average user at all, but I still have fun.







  • Lol so the official Ontario sub got kind of out of hand during the pandemic, where they were simply banning any users who even questioned silly rules or mandates when it came to Covid (Ontario had many rules that simply didn’t make sense or outright seemed counter productive in preventing spread).

    It got to the point where an alternative sub was made, and it surprisingly got decently active. I think around 20k users at one point. The banter on that alternative sub was hilarious and was the only sub I really miss.