Gold Price

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Those that remember from way back
I am daily talking to seven of eleven and weekly to Whadda

It looks like gold is going up again

First target 1450 1500 dollar in sept oct time frame

I am going to sell a years worth for food and wine 

[Goose]

A year's worth? Remember your priorities -------10% for food, 90% for wine.

[Paint Your Wagon]

A year's worth? Remember your priorities -------10% for food, 90% for wine.

We have 11 and 21 months cycles so that the best is to sell for a years worth

I am a bit more balance 20% for food cause I like to eat
30% for white and red wine
40% for whisky and rum and cognac and four roses
10% discretionary like underwear etc 

[Pocketcoins]

10% for underwear.  Just what kind of food are you buying with that 20% Might need a little more cheese in your diet. 

[Goose]

PYW, You almost have a perfect budget.....10% for discretionary? THAT is OVERSPENDING on your discretionary items.

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My food is much season depending I just ate 18 times in 10 weeks white asperagus
cooked n backed n egg shreaded etc
Price went from 6 euro a pound to 2.5 euro a pound since all the farmers now planted asparagus

Now I am on northsea cockles and mussels with white cellery and onions cooked in half a bottle of white wine

T bone steak and lobster for BBQ season

Hare and boar for hunting season

All year around
Confit de canard (duck in its own fat cooked for 8 hours and then put in tin cans ) for all seasons
as well as Gambas ( giant prawns )
Also since this year we got Ocean King Crab
Eals in a green sauce
Snails in garlic
Veal kidneys in porto sauce

My all time favorate is still steak au poivre flambee a la creme
that is chateaubriand meat baked rare and then pour italian sweet marsala and brandy over it and flame it
take the meat out and pour pure cream and round green pepper in it and let simmer
serve with french fries

Under discretionay is also new pots and pans which I wear down very much cooking every day

[Paint Your Wagon]

10% for underwear.  Just what kind of food are you buying with that 20% Might need a little more cheese in your diet. 

When I was born and for 18 years on my mother had a cheese and milk and butter shop
I like very old Dutch Gouda cheese ( eaten without bread as desert or snack )
I like Camembert ( the more it stinks the better )
and Roquefort ( the one with the green mold in it )
Swiss Gruyere cold in cubes or molten as raclette or molten and grilled in sauce
I really am not into the dozens of new cheeses

Since most people here only got money for ground meat or sausages or lard or whatever cheap my
favorites do not cost all that much
Rabit for instance is like 6 euro per kilo which is barely more then the 4.5 euro for chicken

[Pocketcoins]

I've got to say your diet sure is a lot different than what I eat. When I was growing up we ate soup beans (Pinto bean) and corn bread. When we could get them Pork chop  and fried potato's. I never eat a beef steak or had pizza until I went into the Marines. As time went on and money got a little more easy to come by our foods changed and we began to eat a lot of different things. My wife for instance loves almost any kind od sea food. Now days though it seems like about all I ever get is salad. Sometimes I have so much lettuce I think I'm going to turn into a rabbit.  I do love hearing about all the exotic foods you eat though.     

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We all lived above the dairy shop with a well to do grandfather who made lots of money speculating in congolese mining shares and getting out right before they collapsed
His friend the grocer lost all his money

So cheese and milk and eggs were for the taking
On sunday they allways got a 4 pound roastbeaf with peas and carrots and french fries for the 6 of us
grandparents parents and me and my brother

My favorites were pork kidney and mussels which I did not get often because that was too cheap and my mother
was very much afraid people would think we could not afford real meat . She learned me to eat raw oysters
when I was 12 by serving plenty of cold white wine with it . ( We had a walk in fridge were no one else had fridges )
Eating oysters is very much an acquired taste I still love oysters

Sofar I only met two kinds of food that I realy dont like
One is cow s heart in red wine yuck and it was described as very good in my french cooking book
The other is raw new england clams

On the other hand sofar I never could make spare ribs such as you can get anywhere in the US
A food specialist told me there is too much sugar in our ketchup another told me you have to heat them for 8 hours
at 45 C and then BBQ them .

On one of my many visits to the US I was served lobster and steak a most excellent but strange combination I had never seen before .