Brother, can you spare a dime? Or more like $10.40? Depending on your income bracket, you may or may not be getting some relief from the government once you’ve figured out your income taxes. Regardless, you should avoid wallowing in self-pity on April 15th, and enjoy the company of others by grabbing a value-oriented dinner.
McCormick & Kuleto’s in San Francisco, and Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley will be offering some Tax Relief 2009 discounts.
Over on YouTube there’s a series of cooking videos hosted by a 93-year old grandmother, who makes recipes she learned while growing up during the Great Depression.
This one seems tasty — Poorman’s Meal — which is sort of like hash browns and sausage.
She takes 3-4 brown potatoes, peels them, then cubes them. Slices up an onion. Sautes it in the pan with some (well, a lot of) oil until brown, then adds in 4 sliced up hot dogs. (You could easily substitute yuppier sausage here if hot dog contents gross you out.)
IKEA’s doing it again. Get a free breakfast at participating IKEAs, which includes a $0.99 cup of coffee, too. The value of the meal is $0.99, too.
Now that it’s hip to be cheap, CNN has some food-saving tips to lower your grocery bill. Many of these are common sense to the GrubCrowd, and the main tradeoff is your time:
Watch the video on CNN.com (since I can’t embed CNN videos into WordPress.)
Some key points / reminders:
