Comments on: Eating for Pennies – Part III – Lunch http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/2008/09/24/eating-for-pennies-part-iii-lunch/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:31:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Canadian Dream http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/2008/09/24/eating-for-pennies-part-iii-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-12035 Canadian Dream Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:09:26 +0000 http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/?p=525#comment-12035 Trena, No I haven't considered going vegan. I like my meat once in a while. So I tend to keep it more as a side dish than the main dish. I agree vegan eating could save a lot of money. Meat and cheese are budget killers for a lot of people. I don't dabble in investment properties directly. I instead have an investment that is partly made up of some real estate income trusts. I like getting the cheque, but I dislike having to deal with renters. Real estate in Canada has peaked in most places and on the slide down. Are we at the bottom yet? Perhaps not, it would depend on each area some what. If you can manage a positive cash flow on a rental property it might be worth doing it for the long haul. If you can't I won't worry about it and find another deal in the current mess on the markets. There are some deals to be had if you can get past the hype and be realistic about things. Tim Trena,

No I haven’t considered going vegan. I like my meat once in a while. So I tend to keep it more as a side dish than the main dish. I agree vegan eating could save a lot of money. Meat and cheese are budget killers for a lot of people.

I don’t dabble in investment properties directly. I instead have an investment that is partly made up of some real estate income trusts. I like getting the cheque, but I dislike having to deal with renters.

Real estate in Canada has peaked in most places and on the slide down. Are we at the bottom yet? Perhaps not, it would depend on each area some what. If you can manage a positive cash flow on a rental property it might be worth doing it for the long haul. If you can’t I won’t worry about it and find another deal in the current mess on the markets. There are some deals to be had if you can get past the hype and be realistic about things.

Tim

]]> By: trena irving http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/2008/09/24/eating-for-pennies-part-iii-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-12023 trena irving Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:26:30 +0000 http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/?p=525#comment-12023 Dear R@45, Have you ever thought of going vegan? My family and I are vegan (2 kids, husband and I) and you can save LOTS of money by not buying dairy, meat, chicken, fish, etc. You are also helping the environment, lowering your cholesterol which is driven up by eating animal products, and lowering your cancer/other diseases risk by not eating processed, expensive foods. Since we went vegan (3 years ago) we have saved lots of money on food. Big culprits in your food bill: dairy (cheese and yogurt, milk), any kind of meat or processed lunch slices, chicken (breasts used to be $23 for a bag of no name)...I could go on. I bought a "milk" maker (called a Soyquick, a Canadian product) and I make my own almond milk, oat milk, soy milk for 5 to 10 cents a gallon. It cost a hundred bucks and paid for itself in about a month, because milk where I live is $5 for 2 liters, dairy or non dairy. That's just a bit of what we do. As for how much we've saved on food, I don't know exact numbers. We also don't eat out except for maybe 2-3 times a month, all at cheaper, healthy places. And when we do eat out we aren't ordering sirloin so our bill is minimal. I only read a few of your entries. Do you dabble in real estate investment? What are your thoughts on the current real estate market in Canada? Are we going down or is a longer term (5-20 year investment) a good idea, with rental income to pay the mortgage? Dear R@45,

Have you ever thought of going vegan? My family and I are vegan (2 kids, husband and I) and you can save LOTS of money by not buying dairy, meat, chicken, fish, etc. You are also helping the environment, lowering your cholesterol which is driven up by eating animal products, and lowering your cancer/other diseases risk by not eating processed, expensive foods. Since we went vegan (3 years ago) we have saved lots of money on food. Big culprits in your food bill:
dairy (cheese and yogurt, milk), any kind of meat or processed lunch slices, chicken (breasts used to be $23 for a bag of no name)…I could go on. I bought a “milk” maker (called a Soyquick, a Canadian product) and I make my own almond milk, oat milk, soy milk for 5 to 10 cents a gallon. It cost a hundred bucks and paid for itself in about a month, because milk where I live is $5 for 2 liters, dairy or non dairy.
That’s just a bit of what we do. As for how much we’ve saved on food, I don’t know exact numbers. We also don’t eat out except for maybe 2-3 times a month, all at cheaper, healthy places. And when we do eat out we aren’t ordering sirloin so our bill is minimal. I only read a few of your entries. Do you dabble in real estate investment? What are your thoughts on the current real estate market in Canada? Are we going down or is a longer term (5-20 year investment) a good idea, with rental income to pay the mortgage?

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