推 chung:用和比我賢慧多嚕...:) 194.80.33.169 04/22
推 liverworts:Because I'm poorer.....:P 12.221.92.1 04/23
Seems like I should say something about food in US...(1 USD=35 NTD)
For health and taste reasons I have abandoned fast food for a long time, but
in general McDonald, KFC, Taco Bell, Or Wendy's would cost about $5 for a combo
meal. A burger or a sandwich itself is about $2-3.50, I think. For the
disgusting Americanized greasy and unauthentic Chinese food, a combo meal would cost
$4-6. Subway is more expensive, but the most edible.
So you can imagine that I cook all the time. The cost of food/groceries for
someone who eats at home a lot is about $100/month. When I was really poor,
I'd buy pieces of chicken, make a pot of soup with vegetables, and eat the soup
with rice for the entire week. Next week I'd reuse the chicken bones to make
another pot of broth with different vegetables, then eat the soup with rice/noodles
for another week. I call this "poor people soup" "poor people rice".
For bread...I bought a bread machine for $20 and with that I can make any kind of
homemade bread with whatever combinations/ideas I like, from fruits to herbs,
from sweet to grainy. This kind of homemade bread would cost 3-4 times more to
buy in markets. Yes, I don't buy bread anymore. With the bread machine I even
make pizza and buns by myself.
Since I can't afford meat and seafood, soy products are extremely important
for protein. This kind of soy products are extremely expensive in organic/health
food stores, so....I bought a soymilk machine for $50 that I can enjoy homemade
soymilk all the time for as much as I want. Otherwise soymilk costs 2-3 times or more
than skim milk.
About dairy products, milk is cheap here but dry milk powder is even cheaper :P
Yougurt costs a lot, but I've learned to make homemade yougurt for large amount.
I love dessert and snacks, but we all know that Americans put way too much
sugar/butter in their pastry, so I have to make pies (my boyfriend makes great pie
doughs), brownies, cookies and cakes all by myself. If anyone knows how to
make homemade cheese and cream cheese please tell me!
Finally, by watching big fat Americans on street will remind you over and over
the importance of good diets, lots of exercise and the cheap food in Taiwan....
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