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trekrider520 wrote:

We used Gustazos quite a bit and got good deals on snorkeling trips, hotel stays, etc.

I totally forgot about that one too. I use Gustazos all the time. For my anniversary a few months ago we stayed in El Conquistador Resort in Fajardo with extras for less than聽 $350 for 3 nights. You could also add extra nights!

Gary wrote:

Here out in the boonies we eat a lot from what is grown by several people around like pana, yautia, 帽ame, bananas, platanos, avocados, mangos.
We grow and share bananas, platanos and pana ourselves. Yautia is on our list to start growing.
Some neighbors have chickens and sell or give away eggs, others raise and slaughter a pig every now and then and sell meat, sausages etc.
There are road stands where locals sell what they grow for very reasonable prices.

Lol....I'm not a vianda guy but I love mofongo and tostones. In utuado or in the country side you could see that alot. You could save alot of $$$ by growing your own stuff. PR has the best land, in facebook you could find different groups where they cultivate, gives tips and also tell you where to buy great seeds "no monsanto".

annabfalter wrote:

What are the "boonies"... outside of San Juan or middle of nowhere?聽 Just curious...聽

Middle of nowhere..

adlin20 wrote:

Also, we have plenty of iguanas around the property, so may start selling iguana meat. LOL

The iguanas are not eating your plants?
What sort of stuff the iguanas usually go after?

ReyP wrote:

adlin20 wrote:

Also, we have plenty of iguanas around the property, so may start selling iguana meat. LOL

The iguanas are not eating your plants?
What sort of stuff the iguanas usually go after?

They're eating my parcha plants and the wife's flowers. BUT I got my revenge today, my new pellets gun arrived yesterday, now I am iguana hunting!!

13 and counting.聽

adlin20 wrote:

Also, we have plenty of iguanas around the property, so may start selling iguana meat. LOL

Not a bad idea聽 -- someone told me that in parts of central America the iguana is becoming rare due to harvesting of the "tree chickens"聽 聽Could it be true??聽 聽

annabfalter wrote:

We are still waiting to close on our property which has bananas, plantains and a big avacado tree.聽 聽Hoping to grow tomatoes, too.聽 Has anyone had luck with tomatoes?

You need to plant several plants so they stimulate each other's. If you have iguanas, and most of us do, you may want to enclose them since the iguanas love the flowers and leaves.

Spencerazac wrote:

Costco is by far better,聽 聽Better products better customer service that are shopping experience, of course that's my opinion.

I agree. Costco is a better shopping experience in my opinion and volume purchases of necessary products do indeed save money...such as toilet paper, laundry detergent...etc. and not so much because of discount but in repeated transportation costs to purchase lesser quantities of the same products. It took some doing to convince my woman of that fact.....besides I was sick of being sent to the store for dish washer detergent, toilet paper, garbage bags & Midol.

As I have repeatedly told most beloved wife:聽 " The best way to save $ is to not spend $".....which has (sadly) been advice futility-received.... for 40 looooooooooo...ng years.

ReyP wrote:

you can use leaves instead of toilet paper馃槀

Actually done that Rey ( I am an outdoor-type) but find that even large tough leaves such as Sycamore tend to be quite scratchy and not as effective as I like.聽 They easily punch-through at the index finger point....resulting in...well...you can imagine.
Socks and underwear work far better when without T.P.聽 (when one is not in a civilized location)....unless one has a聽 secluded swimmable body of water nearby....such as a stream or the ocean.

Spencerazac wrote:

You can always harvest聽 iguana,聽 i've never had it before, but I've been told it's good meat,聽 and it seems like they're everywhere,聽 raise chickens grow your own food, be completely self-sufficient,聽 collect the water that falls on your roof into barrels for water storage, ECT....with a little imagination you can discover many ways to save

"Harvest Iguana". Funny.

They say Iguana "tastes like chicken" but every time I've eaten something that is said to "taste like chicken" but wasn't actually chicken....tasted really really really nasty. Like decayed old goat.

Personally.... chicken prepared P.R. style doesn't even taste like chicken... to me.
By the way - anyone living in Culebra that starves to death is either extremely lazy or very stupid because there are chickens everywhere....and Iguanas....which of course to those that like eatin lizzard-meat that "tastes just like chicken".

annabfalter wrote:

According to my husband, iguana is good if you like greasy, gamey chicken.聽 Not sure how he knows this, but he was a sailor for many years

Never tried it, weird that it would be greasy unless it was due to how it was cooked. I assume in a stew it would be different.