{"id":6309,"date":"2011-11-08T07:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2011-11-08T07:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T15:32:57","slug":"cheap-eats-lot-baloney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Eats – A Lot of Baloney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In light of the economy, readers have asked me to be on the lookout for cheap deals; everybody needs to stretch their food budget.\u00a0 I don’t know what kids pack in the brown bag lunches these days (do they even take lunch to school any more, is it allowed?), but for me, a half a century ago, besides PB&J, bologna sandwiches were a mainstay.\u00a0\u00a0 This doesn’t count the year my mother tried to poison me by making me eat (or so she thought) yogurt every day.<\/p>\n

Bologna<\/a>, “American style”, is a finely ground, large format pork (generally) sausage, similar to the Italian mortadella, but without the visible chunks of lard that is normal in the Italian version.<\/p>\n

In America, one can find bologna (baloney) made up of a variety of proteins, either singularly or mixed.\u00a0 Any of them are all rather flavorless, a mild, mass-appeal lunch meat commonly used in sandwiches.\u00a0 “An unrolled hot dog” some would say.<\/p>\n

In certain parts of the country, and certainly eastern Canada, you will find people that buy unsliced bologna, whack off a half inch or whole inch slab, and grill or fry it.\u00a0 I like that myself.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, at Winco, I was looking for some inexpensive food, and came across Bar-S <\/a>Bologna, which is a chicken, pork, and beef mixture (mechanically separated, the label says) – that is relatively low in sodium and fat, compared to other lunch meats.\u00a0 The 12 oz package was .99, and contains 10 slices.<\/p>\n

Bologna is the US is extruded into an artificial casing (peel before eating).<\/p>\n

While I am not generally a fan of Bar-S products, they are the largest branded hot dog seller in the U.S. (I’ve never tried them, oddly), but their bologna is OK, and a good value at a pro-rated price point of about $1.32 per pound.<\/p>\n

That’s cheap protein for your family, comparably priced to eggs, another source of inexpensive protein.<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to eat well in tough times, and one has to make sure their family gets as much nutrition instead of empty calories.<\/p>\n

One can look at any sales figures and see that the sales of empty calorie foods skyrockets in tough times, they are inexpensive and filling.<\/p>\n

I recommend you add Bar-S Bologna to your shopping list.\u00a0 In addition to sandwiches, or as a cooked breakfast meat, I’ve known moms who have diced it and used as a substitute in ham salad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of the economy, readers have asked me to be on the lookout for cheap deals; everybody needs to stretch their food budget.\u00a0 I don’t know what kids pack in the brown bag lunches these days (do they even take lunch to school any more, is it allowed?), but for me, a half a… Continue reading Cheap Eats – A Lot of Baloney<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35,26],"tags":[1040,1288,2177,2178,3108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}