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First off this isn't a joke; I know it's April Fool's but I'm absolutely serious here. And this may seem like a stupid question to some, but I can't find the answer elsewhere. Note that I'm very much in poverty. Also, please don't say "get a job"; you don't know my situation. I often end up in with next to no groceries... typically "last resort", non-nutritional junkfood stuff will be the main thing left to feed off of for days when my grocery supply is exhausted and I wait for the money/opportunity to get something to eat. When I can, I have to ask others to buy me food. It's really made my health spiral downward, and I'm steadily losing weight. So today this idea hit me... what if I were to gather enough money to get a bunch of various vitamins, minerals, and even other pill-based supplements (healthy herbs and all that); would that make up for the nutrition I lack because of my eating habits? Or instead would it make me sick or be bad for me otherwise? Also, would it affect my hunger at all?
Answer
Food would be a whole lot cheaper. Protein & fat are essential for health & not provided in vitamins & herbs. Call & get emergency food stamps.
If I only had a few bucks and nothing to work with at home (no basics) I'd buy cheapest per pound of rice, dried beans, bag potatoes, pasta, tomato paste, salt & 10# chicken leg quarters. (you could render chicken fat and use on potatoes instead of buying butter or margarine and use in cooking instead of buying oil) You should be able to get all that for about $10+ I might consider skipping the potatoes to buy larger rice, beans, pasta & tomato paste. Usually (not always) you can get twice as much for very little more money. Consider quantity for $ versus cheapest unit price.
If I had less to work with I'd buy 10# chicken quarters ($4-5), lots of pasta ($3), salt ($1) & several tomato paste ($1) would be a little less than $10 but hopefully the chicken can be stretched for long time - use bone stock and a little tomato paste to make sauce. Chicken cacciatore (chicken, tomato sauce over pasta) was our main meal when we were broke. Chicken could really be stretched with more pasta and tomato sauce. Add bone stock & greens to the sauce for extra nutrition. The next buy could be rice & beans.
I try not to buy anything over .50 a pound when I'm watching pennies. Most stores sell 10# of chicken leg quarters for $4-$5 (less than .50#) and well worth it for the bones alone. Do not waste the bones & fat, render the fat & use for cooking, chop up fat chunks left over after rendering and add to soups & sauces with some of the meat. Don't eat the meat alone, add it to sauces and soups to stretch it. You can use the bones 3-4x to make bone stock (add vinegar and simmer a couple of days) Do not include meat in the long simmering. I add my old bones to my new bones and store in freezer. Use the stock to make soups and add to everything for more nutrition. Eggs are sometimes cheap. Buy lots if they are less than $1 dozen (wash egg shells with vinegar and add to bone stock for more calcium) Store brand processed cheese is usually half cost of hard cheese (this may be a luxury item at this point). Buy the huge (gallon or more) plastic container of mayo, it may be a lot to invest at one time but it's half cost of smaller bottles. Use instead of buying salad dressing. You can make egg salad or chicken salad and stretch it with lots mayo (added calories) mix with thinly shredded cabbage & carrots for more body.
Fresh cabbage is about the cheapest most versatile veg. Carrots are usually cheap and nutritious also. Canned collard, turnip and mustard greens are all highly nutritious and fairly cheap & can be added to soups & sauces for added nutrition. Canned tomatoes, watch the per ounce prices, don't just grab. You would probably be better off just using tomato paste and adding water or bone stock. A little tomato paste will make a lot of tomato sauce or you could make catsup with it. Sometimes you can get huge gallons of pickles fairly cheap (couple bucks) Make sure you have apple cider vinegar on hand.
Peanut butter & tuna seem cheap but for a quantity per pound, they are pretty pricey (using a .50# measure)
Food would be a whole lot cheaper. Protein & fat are essential for health & not provided in vitamins & herbs. Call & get emergency food stamps.
If I only had a few bucks and nothing to work with at home (no basics) I'd buy cheapest per pound of rice, dried beans, bag potatoes, pasta, tomato paste, salt & 10# chicken leg quarters. (you could render chicken fat and use on potatoes instead of buying butter or margarine and use in cooking instead of buying oil) You should be able to get all that for about $10+ I might consider skipping the potatoes to buy larger rice, beans, pasta & tomato paste. Usually (not always) you can get twice as much for very little more money. Consider quantity for $ versus cheapest unit price.
If I had less to work with I'd buy 10# chicken quarters ($4-5), lots of pasta ($3), salt ($1) & several tomato paste ($1) would be a little less than $10 but hopefully the chicken can be stretched for long time - use bone stock and a little tomato paste to make sauce. Chicken cacciatore (chicken, tomato sauce over pasta) was our main meal when we were broke. Chicken could really be stretched with more pasta and tomato sauce. Add bone stock & greens to the sauce for extra nutrition. The next buy could be rice & beans.
I try not to buy anything over .50 a pound when I'm watching pennies. Most stores sell 10# of chicken leg quarters for $4-$5 (less than .50#) and well worth it for the bones alone. Do not waste the bones & fat, render the fat & use for cooking, chop up fat chunks left over after rendering and add to soups & sauces with some of the meat. Don't eat the meat alone, add it to sauces and soups to stretch it. You can use the bones 3-4x to make bone stock (add vinegar and simmer a couple of days) Do not include meat in the long simmering. I add my old bones to my new bones and store in freezer. Use the stock to make soups and add to everything for more nutrition. Eggs are sometimes cheap. Buy lots if they are less than $1 dozen (wash egg shells with vinegar and add to bone stock for more calcium) Store brand processed cheese is usually half cost of hard cheese (this may be a luxury item at this point). Buy the huge (gallon or more) plastic container of mayo, it may be a lot to invest at one time but it's half cost of smaller bottles. Use instead of buying salad dressing. You can make egg salad or chicken salad and stretch it with lots mayo (added calories) mix with thinly shredded cabbage & carrots for more body.
Fresh cabbage is about the cheapest most versatile veg. Carrots are usually cheap and nutritious also. Canned collard, turnip and mustard greens are all highly nutritious and fairly cheap & can be added to soups & sauces for added nutrition. Canned tomatoes, watch the per ounce prices, don't just grab. You would probably be better off just using tomato paste and adding water or bone stock. A little tomato paste will make a lot of tomato sauce or you could make catsup with it. Sometimes you can get huge gallons of pickles fairly cheap (couple bucks) Make sure you have apple cider vinegar on hand.
Peanut butter & tuna seem cheap but for a quantity per pound, they are pretty pricey (using a .50# measure)
HYUNDAI TIBURON your opinion?
anonymous
what do you think?
pros and cons?
anything
Answer
The pro is that it is a Hyundai and the con is that it is a Hyundai. Hyundai is a ship builder, they transport 90% of the worlds freight. It is for this very reason, they have deep pockets giving them the ability to offer the Hyundai Assurance Program. Hyundai is a diverse company specializing in global commerce. Since their introduction to the world of automobiles this company has shown grit in building solid economy cars with a 10 year 100,000 mile warranty; now they have the audacity to challenge the world's best premium cars with a non-premium name.
Hyundai is based in South Korea, also the home of Samsung and LG TV. I would say South Korea has something to offer the world when it comes to manufacturing product as evidenced by their line of products, they can compete anywhere on the globe. The South Koreans are more technologically capable than most countries and have demonstrable best practices in manufacturing. This too spills over into automotive manufacturing.
The thing to watch with Hyundai, is to keep a close watch on the even level of manufacturing quality. What they have to do is establish quality controls, too. This would be benchmark workmanship which directly connects brand owner experience to perceived quality; much like the Apple brand is to computers, the Mercedes brand is to luxury cars, the Samsung brand is to cell phones and the LG brand has been to high definition television.
This automaker's design language is a little Lexus, a little Mercedes and a little Hyundai. The performance specs on the 08 and 09 model years are in line with the best in the business.
You will not have the prestige name plate, but you will definitely look the part for thousands of dollars less. Lexus pulled this same strategery on Mercedes and Cadillac in the late 80's early 90s. At the time, Toyota was not viewed as having the business acumen and marketing savvy to build a rival luxury car line, named Lexus. The Japanese snatched market share from their new rivals and laughed all the way to the bank. This is the same risk approach Hyundai is taking, minus the upscale name and reputation.
Recently Volkswagen tried to pull off a similar feat with the Phaeton. The Phaeton has Bentley bones and will be a collectors item, but it did not help the overall upscale efforts of Volkswagen. A valid question is this. Can Hyundai "that rhymes with Sunday" sale the buying public with a previous well known budget economy car name? This remains to be seen. Volkswagen could not pull it off.
How important is a name? Elijah Wood played Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings. He has been type cast as Frodo, to have a future as an actor on the silver screen, he must be perceived beyond his very frumpy flat foot character in Lord of the Rings. Despite his award winning performance as Frodo, Elijah Wood cannot suddenly be a convincing big screen comic book hero like, Spiderman. Will the Hyundai name be type cast as the venerable automotive equivalent of Frodo Baggins, the notable hobbit from Shire? If not, how can "Hyundai which rhymes with Sunday," make the market leap from being perceived as a mid level acceptable economy car manfacturer, to pursue the analogy, to a muscular premium brand that gives the market impression of a super hero?
Hyundai arguably is offering the best value in it's class of vehicles. The risk may be, just like every auto manufacturer in this tumultuous climate, will Hyundai be boom or bust. Hyundai has put their money where their mouth is with the Hyundai Assurance Program. A would say, they are a pretty good bet. Cheers.
The pro is that it is a Hyundai and the con is that it is a Hyundai. Hyundai is a ship builder, they transport 90% of the worlds freight. It is for this very reason, they have deep pockets giving them the ability to offer the Hyundai Assurance Program. Hyundai is a diverse company specializing in global commerce. Since their introduction to the world of automobiles this company has shown grit in building solid economy cars with a 10 year 100,000 mile warranty; now they have the audacity to challenge the world's best premium cars with a non-premium name.
Hyundai is based in South Korea, also the home of Samsung and LG TV. I would say South Korea has something to offer the world when it comes to manufacturing product as evidenced by their line of products, they can compete anywhere on the globe. The South Koreans are more technologically capable than most countries and have demonstrable best practices in manufacturing. This too spills over into automotive manufacturing.
The thing to watch with Hyundai, is to keep a close watch on the even level of manufacturing quality. What they have to do is establish quality controls, too. This would be benchmark workmanship which directly connects brand owner experience to perceived quality; much like the Apple brand is to computers, the Mercedes brand is to luxury cars, the Samsung brand is to cell phones and the LG brand has been to high definition television.
This automaker's design language is a little Lexus, a little Mercedes and a little Hyundai. The performance specs on the 08 and 09 model years are in line with the best in the business.
You will not have the prestige name plate, but you will definitely look the part for thousands of dollars less. Lexus pulled this same strategery on Mercedes and Cadillac in the late 80's early 90s. At the time, Toyota was not viewed as having the business acumen and marketing savvy to build a rival luxury car line, named Lexus. The Japanese snatched market share from their new rivals and laughed all the way to the bank. This is the same risk approach Hyundai is taking, minus the upscale name and reputation.
Recently Volkswagen tried to pull off a similar feat with the Phaeton. The Phaeton has Bentley bones and will be a collectors item, but it did not help the overall upscale efforts of Volkswagen. A valid question is this. Can Hyundai "that rhymes with Sunday" sale the buying public with a previous well known budget economy car name? This remains to be seen. Volkswagen could not pull it off.
How important is a name? Elijah Wood played Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings. He has been type cast as Frodo, to have a future as an actor on the silver screen, he must be perceived beyond his very frumpy flat foot character in Lord of the Rings. Despite his award winning performance as Frodo, Elijah Wood cannot suddenly be a convincing big screen comic book hero like, Spiderman. Will the Hyundai name be type cast as the venerable automotive equivalent of Frodo Baggins, the notable hobbit from Shire? If not, how can "Hyundai which rhymes with Sunday," make the market leap from being perceived as a mid level acceptable economy car manfacturer, to pursue the analogy, to a muscular premium brand that gives the market impression of a super hero?
Hyundai arguably is offering the best value in it's class of vehicles. The risk may be, just like every auto manufacturer in this tumultuous climate, will Hyundai be boom or bust. Hyundai has put their money where their mouth is with the Hyundai Assurance Program. A would say, they are a pretty good bet. Cheers.
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