RunningMan

After years of Mint I’ve decided to look for other options. Im considering doing it myself in a spreadsheet but before I go that route (not ideal) I thought I’d see if anyone had recommendations on good basic family-budget apps. Would be great if it could link with bank accounts but I’m open to anything at this point.

I’m not a fan of zero-tick or flying machine farms and a lot of SMPs don’t allow zero-tick anyway so this video caught my attention.

Using six dispensers per bamboo to simulate a zero-tick-like speed. Obviously, as they build it here, and at this scale, it doesn’t have long term viability but if one was to build 1-2 modules and feed a high yield bonemeal farm into the setup would this be an effective alternative to the highly temperamental flying machine farm?

A caveat: We don’t eat meat from factory farms. Your actual value may differ.

We have found that the cheapest way to purchase chicken is whole. (Sometime chicken quarters are similarly priced)

As we’ve tightened our budget we’ve opened up to new ideas. So, instead of buying just breasts or thighs we got a whole chicken and to our delight it’s been super easy.

I’ve added a link as an example but basically layer some veg (or not) at the bottom of a slow cooker. Place your whole chicken inside and cook on high for about 4 hours. I’m telling you that’s it’s. If you want some crisp you can broil for 5 minutes at the end.

We usually have this with rice and veg the first night. Then, after the meal we pick off the extra chicken to us for a casserole or burritos. Then you can even boil up what remains to make a broth or chicken soup base. That’s 3 meals!

I’m looking for something besides the standard comparator reading a bees nest set up. I’ve used this setup for years now but it’s hard to keep empty bottles topped off correctly especially when you try to scale.

I know ianxofour has the “Next Gen Honey Farm” design and I’ve been considering this build but turned off by the constant noise. (Minor issue) Anyone know of any other options to consider??

This tip is for Kroger stores, specifically Dillons, but I’m sure other stores do something similar and I’d love to know.

At Dillons, nearly all I’ve been too, somewhere near the “back” of the produce section around the bananas there is a wooden rack with net-type bags filled with discount produce. In my experience it’s just slightly misshapen or off-color produce marked down to $0.99.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1229201

As the picture shows, most (all??) grocery stores will show the price per ounce on the item’s price tag.

It’s usually on sales tags too.

I was FAR too old before I realized this and it’s made price comparisons in-store much easier.

Note: Not my photo. Just generic photo from google.

6 large Servings

Total $5.16/meal or $0.86/serving

This is one of those “end of the week, what do we have left in the fridge” type meals. This is a basic version of a recipe you can do just about anything with.

Basic Expenses:

Crust:

• Flour $0.26
• Butter $1.40
• Water ??

Filling:

• Eggs $0.80
• Spinach $1.59
• Cheese $1.00
• Milk $0.11
• Salt/Pepper ??

At the end of the week we ended up with some extra eggs, some garden spinach and a bag of frozen chopped spinach. Throw in some cheese, make a crust. Voila! Frugal Meal!

Basic Directions—

Make (any old) crust: Combine 2 cups flour, 10 tbsp butter. Then add 5 tbsp water one at a time. Spread into pie plate.

Make filling: Combine 7 eggs, bag of chopped frozen spinach (or your choice of others filling), 1/2 cup of cheese, dash of milk, salt and pepper. You can adjust the ratio of fillings/egg as needed to accommodate more or less extras. We went heavy on spinach and light on egg. Add mushroom, left over cooked meats…you name it!

Pour filling mixture into crust and bake for around 45min to 60min at 375°. It’s ready when it’s not runny.

Most of us know mud blocks are in the game but did you know they’re not a full block? And did you also know you can plant sugarcane (and bamboo) on them?

You no longer have to lose 50% of your harvest to drops not making it to the line of hoppers in front of the pistons. When making a piston-style sugarcane farm, plant your sugarcane on mud blocks and place your hoppers directly under the mud. Lossless!!

Example: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZFtpizbfcKU?feature=share

Note: I know large scale flying-machine style farms exist but flying machines and chunk loading gets finicky not to mention the output is often overkill. Also, yes, minecarts would work but…it’s more to craft and I like simplicity!

As the picture shows, most (all??) grocery stores will show the price per ounce on the item’s price tag.

It’s usually on sales tags too.

I was FAR too old before I realized this and it’s made price comparisons in-store much easier.

Note: Not my photo. Just generic photo from google.

Something I’ve been toying with in the last year on my preferred server is the idea of using my alt accounts as a way to work around server restrictions like “no tnt duping”.

The idea started when I wanted to make an AFKable tree farm and needed a way to destroy the trees. I considered a wither cannon and just making the tnt by hand but then it hit me…bring on an alt to stand under and harvest the piston-fed line of logs. No mod needed, just use F3+T to keep the alt swinging while I use another about to place the saplings.

If you didn’t need a renewable source of saplings you could do all of this without any elaborate setup but I wanted the leaf crushers to keep the supply going.

I’d love to hear if anyone has other uses for alts in regards to server limitations or farm simplification.

TLDR: A 5lb bag of white rice comes out to $0.10/cup cooked.

Doing the cost breakdown for the last post left me a bit shocked at the price of rice per cup. Especially when you think of the $4.00 or more companies charge for premade rice cups.

The breakdown— Kroger sells a 5lb bag of white rice for $3.69. You can get it for $2.99 on sale but for the sake of argument let’s use retail pricing.

5lb of rice = 12.5 cups dry rice ≈ 36 cups cooked rice. Based on this, each cup of cooked rice costs about $0.10/cup cooked.

As the title says any advice on training for and/or running a backyard ultra for a first timer?

Background: I’m one of the “started running during covid”people. No longer morbidly obese and enjoying the hobby a lot! After my first marathon last October I decide to try a 50k in 2023 but have now transitioned to the idea of a backyard ultra with an 8+ lap goal.