Good People of DU....

[DearAbby]

"By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over." -- Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) I read that and you know, I think we can help this family.

I plan on sending the congressman some friendly
tips on how to save on a food bill. You know send him pointers how I scrimp and save in this economy.

I will send him Mom's Depression recipe of "SHIT ON A SHINGLE" its cheap and filling, takes little preparation time. He does it right he can pick up the hamburger at 'the meat markdown bin'.

Maybe tell him about the concept of COUPONS? Give him some pointers how to save money...you know what we have been doing for YEARS NOW!

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. +1

:evilgrin:

[livetohike]

2. Great idea!

Dessert can be Crisco on a piece of white bread with sugar sprinkled on top! Another Depression era goodie my Dad taught me.

I am going to send him this tip.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. I like this but some contact info would give it more legs.

[bread_and_roses]

4. ROFL. Great idea - why not start a FB page on it?

Give the notion some publicity - maybe it would go viral, and make of him the public laughing stock he so well deserves.

[HappyMe]

5. lol!

I might mail him some coupons. I'm wondering if the have Aldi's where he lives...

[midnight]

6. K&R

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Hmmmm. If you can find a construction site, and that's a big IF

sawdust makes a good soup thickener.

[xchrom]

8. Recommend

[asjr]

9. We could give him a map to the

nearest bread line.

[Octafish]

10. I suggest members of Congress should be compensated at the minimum wage.

In doing so, our Representatives and Senators would quickly find the impetus for finding myriad ways for improving the national economy.

As for Mr. Fleming, he'll be surprised at how much value there really is in the dollar value menu at McDonald's. Burgers. Fries. A nice soft drink. Pretty soon, he'll be watching his waist line along with the rest of us.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. And high health care premiums that they won't be able to afford on their

minimum wage pay. :evilgrin:

[Octafish]

15. That's only fair.

If they don't like it, they should remember that the poor here are richer than most of the people in the world.

[DearAbby]

12. Dollar stores too

Everything IS....wait for it.....A DOLLAR!!!!

[Octafish]

16. That is an amazing concept!

Tastful applications of dozens of the beautiful plastic hangars and elegant rubber tub mats mean Congressional home decor will never be the same.

[Hotler]

19. +1 n/t

[formercia]

13. Biscuits and white Gravy with a side of Grits.

Now, there's a healthy diet.

[Warpy]

14. I'll send him my mother's slumgullion recipe

and let him know that Tuesday and Thursday are the best days to find burger in the markdown bin, but he'd better get to the store before 9 AM to do it.

He can make half a pound of burger feed 6 people well and 8 people with sides like day old bread (more like week old bread now that it's full of preservatives and trans fats).

I'll also send him my own Depression Coffee recipe. It won't give that caffeine jolt but it's a hell of a lot cheaper and will fool your tastebuds into waking you up for the day.

Maybe I'll send his wife one of the darning eggs I inherited. There's no reason for the poor baby to go around with holes in his socks the way Wolfowitz did. Some really minor effort can repair his clothes just like new, no need for the poor thing to go around in rags no matter how little he has left over from that $600,000 he takes in.

I mean, honestly, we do need to help each other out in tough times, right?

[DearAbby]

20. Get to the store early enough so the day old bread

mark downs are still semi soft. But if he cant make it, and gets the hard crumbly bread, he can toss a damp dish towel over it and Nuke it for a few seconds, comes right out of the microwave like fresh oven baked bread for a few minutes, the SOS will soften it to where you can chew it.

[Warpy]

36. Steaming also works for rock hard dinner rolls you find in your purse

a couple of days after a dinner date (yeah, I'm shameless).

[MadinMo]

29. I actually would like some of those recipes.

I wonder if your slumgullion is the same as my mother's Mess --- ground beef and macaroni noodles with tomato sauce?

Uh oh, though, rumor has it that ground beef will soon be so high no one can afford it.

Seriously, I would like your depression coffee recipe.
:hi:

[Warpy]

34. My Depression coffee came about by accident

I was drying some soaked garbanzo beans in an oven for crunchies and spaced them. Since the dark brown beans smelled a lot like coffee, I ground them up and brewed them. I'm not a coffee hound, but my ex said it tasted better than any substitute on the market. It became the caffeine free standard for his late night coffee. Later I found out Depression Coffee was usually navy beans or great northern beans. Garbanzos just worked better.

Just watch them carefully, they can go from dark brown to black very quickly and black isn't good.

Slumgullion is the name for any watery or brothy chopped meat stew stretched by serving it with starch, lots and lots of starch. My mother's used Campbell's tomato soup and was seasoned with curry.

[MadinMo]

38. Thanks!

I love the idea of curry in the slumgullion! Thanks for the coffee substitute recipe. Great idea.

[Tsiyu]

17. If I could afford to, I'd send this asshole a case of catfood

(No lousy, measly $400,000 hanging around here with nothing to do after my friends buy me groceries.)

How could any sane person, knowing that he lives in a country where people are losing their homes and their wages, make such a "woe-is-me" statement?

How callous can you get?

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. Same way Romney did when he told a bunch of local guys

" I know how you feel, I am unemployed too".

[DearAbby]

18. America step up and help another make ends meet

Show John Flemming how to live on a shoestring..

Contact info:

http://fleming.house.gov/Contact/OfficeInformation.htm


I am sending him an application for a Kroger Sooper shopper card. savings adds up yanno.

[livetohike]

21. Thanks for the link. I am sending him the dessert recipe now

:hi:

[EC]

22. The hell with that

wouldn't he save money if he ate at his sandwich shops? The product is already paid for and comes out of expenses for his business, so it would cost him nothing.

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. I thought the same.

:thumbsup:

[DearAbby]

23. Stretch Ramen noodles

ADD MORE WATER!!!!

[SoCalDem]

24. Carp caviar?

:rofl:

[DearAbby]

27. Spew

:spray: :rofl:

[formercia]

30. That's disgusting

I cut open a Carp once. It was gross, like a Sewer.

[DearAbby]

25. Twitter #RepJohnFlemming

add your tips and savings there

[bobthedrummer]

28. K&R n/t

[DearAbby]

31. Ronald Reagan Ketchup Soup

Just add water.

[Hissyspit]

32. I'm hoping he and his family starve.

Lose their medical insurance and then die.

But then, I'm an oblivious right-wing asshole.

(At least for the purposes of this one post.)

[DearAbby]

33. Send the good congressman a copy

Whitney vs. California, 1927: The state has the power to punish those who abuse their rights to speech "by utterances inimical to the public welfare, tending to incite crime, disturb the public peace, or endanger the foundations of organized government and threaten its overthrow."

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. That is brilliant

also tell him that at times he will have to chose between meds, food or heating... oh wait.

I am still fuming at this guy.

It takes chutzpah

[sabrina 1]

37. Poor guy, my heart goes out to him!

:eyes:

[butterfly77]

39. K&R..

[NaturalHigh]

41. When I was in the Air Force, I did pretty well on peanut butter.

Maybe PB&J in a brown bag for a couple of lunches every week?

[hootinholler]

42. Tell him about coupons? NAH!

Why don't we mail him coupons?

Now *that* would be helping him.

Especially for items like cat food.

-Hoot