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Not sure if my cat likes them or puts up with them

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I have done so much meal prepping these past two days and I'm not sure if it's me trying to cope with anxiety, or the fact I'm trying to figure out what foods I like to eat on the regular

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Pottsville, PA. This might look like two photos, but is only one. The top section shows St. Patrick's Church and Yuengling's Brewery on Mahantongo Street. The lower section shows Trinity Lutheran Church and part of Third Street.

Francis Otterbein, Beautiful Pictures of Pennsylvania FB group

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Alright, with this being the early 2000's again here's some food tips for when the grocery prices inevitably go up again

Don't make meat the main course in your meal. Make rice, pasta, or potatoes the main course and keep meat as a side dish

Buy produce in season and freeze it

Large chunks of meat are cheaper. Separate out into servings and freeze

Potatoes will be a lifesaver. They are filling and add to meals to make it spread further

There is nothing wrong with eating "unhealthy" food. Food is food

Buy in bulk if you can

There is no shame in using food stamps

This one is for my country folks, start fishing and hunting. A whole deer can feed you and your family for an entire winter, and invite some friends over to go fishing and have a fish fry as a cheap fun activity that feeds you

If you live somewhere with Mennonites and/or Amish, time to start checking out their stores

Start making sauerkraut. It's shelf stable and cheap especially if you buy cabbage from a local vendor

Spices will be your best friend. Cheap and can make the same five ingredients taste completely different

Be prepared for a lot of canned meat and pasta concoctions

Check to see what food is grown in state, it is usually cheaper

Unfortunately feeding yourself cheaply is a lot of work so be prepared to spend a significant time cooking

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My dad confuses me

We got into a screaming match

He apologized a few hours later

Then we talked about how much cheaper it is to buy a whole chicken compared to chicken breasts

Like... What was that????

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I'm realizing on some level I'm a very jaded person because when I got the notification of the news my first thought was, "Welp, here we go again" and went back to meal prepping because not like there's anything you can do

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I find it slightly amusing every conversation online about Appalachia is just people from Pennsyltucky fighting for their lives in the comment section to be included. Genuinely not sure why they aren't included in the conversation, because the Pennsyltucky region experiences the exact same kind of classism and harmful stereotyping as the rest of Appalachia, they just say "Appalachia" differently

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What if there was a cow that could fly?

um. uhh um. fat bumbalbee

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Excuse my outburst

Fucking hell! Fucking goddamn hip injury I have been in so much fucking pain all day! Why can't this injury just heal up! I injured it in August! How does it still hurt!

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I'd show the article but I can't without doxxing myself, but I found a newspaper article from the coal mining days (around 1940's), of one lady writing an article in the paper (paraphrased)

"Those big-wigs from Philly don't have the right to trash talk MY village! Shame on them for writing shit about us and never coming here! There are good people here and this is my home! Those idiots from Philly have no right to call us impoverished stupid coal miners! And shame on the rest of you for not sticking up for our town! If you had any pride you would march down to Philly and let them know we are NOT dumb coal miners! Shame on all of you!"

And honestly, good for her. I admire the spunk. I would have liked to meet this lady if she wasn't long dead so I visited her grave

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Damn... never had a book say my thoughts out loud before

(Demon Copperhead)

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I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

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PMDD sucks!

I chugged, like CHUGGED, an energy drink this morning and was like, "If I die, it might-as-well be by energy drink."

So that's where I'm at today

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How can my parents be anti-immigration when they both had immigrant grandmothers? I'm so confused

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Everytime a biologist not from around here says there aren't mountain lions around here anymore I find it funny how everyone just looks at them skeptically and goes, "Uh-huh..."