housemousecooking:housemousecooking:housemousecooking: justacoffeeaddiction: cutthegordianknots: sir
housemousecooking:housemousecooking:housemousecooking: justacoffeeaddiction: cutthegordianknots: siryouarebeingmocked:chelonianmobile:through-thesilver-lining:sine-cosine: an-gremlin: periegesisvoid: theunicornkittenkween: medusaofthesea: scarlettstclair: thequantumqueer: ukeagent21: freejimmer: Why do they want us dead so badly stfu this price on food will keep me alive when I’m starving and putting quarters together to maybe stay alive until my next shift. rich people: why is unhealthy food so cheap? don’t they know we have no self-control and will eat this until it causes health problems? poor people: oh, thank god, something i can afford. Five bucks can buy you so much more though if you take more than five minutes to prepare it. Umm. Idk where you’re buying groceries, but $5 doesn’t get me anything. Lol they want u to live on salted pasta and nothing else. XDDD God forbid people want something cheap that TASTES good. Like- if u have more than $5 u can buy lots of things in bulk and per serving it’s cheaper. But for just straight $5??? Fuck outta here. $5 is like the cost of one spice at a grocery store ffs Yeah for just straight $5 I could maybe buy a bag of rice and a jar of peanut butter, and that’s honestly less complete nutrition than that fast food, which at least has some vegetables in it, some meat, etc. Rich people don’t get that being poor actually costs money. Terry Pratchett summed it up pretty well in one of the Discworld books:“But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.” In fact, it’s such a good example that one widely used term to describe this socioeconomic bullshit is literally ‘Vime’s Boots’ 5 bucks: a pound of hamburger meat and box of hamburger helper. Made it tonight. In a pot, on a stove, with accessible clean water, I presume. Try making it while living out of your car. I regularly watch videos of people who live in their cars doing precisely that. Some of them eat healthier than I do. Most poor people don’t live out of their car, and they have access to clean water. Camp stoves aren’t expensive. I’m sorry, I’m just struggling to believe there are people so strapped for time and money that they can’t slap together some sandwiches, but can stand in line for fast food. Just like the last time I saw this. There’s plenty of healthy - or healthier - recipes for people who live in “food deserts”. Which is itself about healthy foods, but sounds like it’s about a lack of food, period. Some of those specifically include “fresh fruits and vegetables”, when frozen or canned food can be just as healthy. If you don’t have access to clean water, you have a problem more serious than “what am I going to eat tonight?” I eat healthier out of the truck on around $50 a week. That’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner. AND I have to buy lactose free milk which is expensive as fuck. Meat, potatoes, and carrots are cheap. Cereal is cheap. Bread and cheese (god help me I’m not giving up cheese) are cheap. Git gud or starve. It always ticks me off when people are like $5 for a meal is cheap, I couldn’t buy groceries for $5. Like. Try keeping track of how much you spend a week on those $5 meals. It’s a LOT easier to buy groceries for the week with $45 Let’s look at what I could buy in the city my sister lives in for that much. This is if you have a place yo cook. This is for 1 person because that meal it for 1 person. You will need oil. 2.98Dozen eggs - 1.58Wheat bread - .98Peanut butter - 2.32(14 servings, so every other week)Bananas - 1.33That’s 6.21 for 7 days of breakfast. 575 calories 5 days a week and 505 the other two days(since 12 eggs would be 2 eggs for 6 days we split the last 2 into one a day)Whole wheat spaghetti - $2(because I LIKE noodles, technically a box is 8 servings and could last a week)Pasta sauce (3 jars, meat flavored sauce, this is double servings to go with double noodles ) - 2.64Green pepper - .77Can of Mushrooms - .88That’s $6.29 for 7 meals and 591 calories. If you don’t have Most expensive and varied meal. Dinner. We have 29.52 to work with . We are doing 6 rice+veggies+chicken meals and 1 chicken and rice soup. Rice (5lb bag, 50 servings, buy once a month) - 2.48Tyson grilled and ready chicken breasts- 7.32Frozen stir fry vegetables(7 servings) - 2.33Frozen pepper and onion blend(7 servings) - 2.33Frozen seasoning blend(7 servings)- 2.32Crispy Green beans (4 servings)- 3.38Crispy Broccoli(4 servings) 3.38Taco seasoning- .44Stir fry sauce - 2.68Vegetable broth (2 meals) - 1.94 BBQ sauce- .98Total for Dinner 30.56“SEE???? It’s cheaper to eat out” the neigh sayers are already sayingNo. Because those vegetables and rice are enough for the entire month. So next week you save 13.74. And you can use that to switch things up. Get 2 1-lb packs of ground turkey for 3.64, save one for your next vegetable buying week and use the other in your spaghetti. Get some salsa for 1.46 to go with your rice for the peppers and onion nights. Get egg noodles and carrots and make chicken noodles soup, or ground beef, and beans and seasoning for chilli. And if you can’t afford this, see if there are any food banks or churches near you that could help for your first week. Or message me your budget and I’ll come up with something just for you. Oops my bad. I typed $45 instead of $35 and then worked with that number. To make it the $35 drop breakfast for the first week, and one of the crispy vegetables. Not buying the other vegetables week 2 will give you the money to buy the 4th vegetable and the breakfast stuff. Week 3 when you also don’t need peanut butter still buy one and another bag of veggies to cut the cost down. Week 4 then also buy an extra bag of veggies. That way when the next month rolls around and you start over you can buy breakfast stuff still. Queen of Going Over Board I made a spread sheet to show this better. Sitting down I was able to really lay it out. This is 5 weeks and in my mind I’m using the envelope system to save the leftover change from each week. Everything is easy to make. Second link is the “Menu”. They no longer have the 5 for $5, they now have the 4 for $4 or the $5 biggie stack. The highest calories those can have is 1350. Keep in mind when you see the calories per day. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lUAlPmIPBgN2BPXFvX42fmXy_ecBex_ltzArXkAOnu4/edit?usp=sharinghttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qQ-kh2JQmEOjWmJYe1EVYKqne-0hKN18WnR-FN0KJrk/edit?usp=sharingToo sum up. Fast Food companies have convinced you that it’s more expensive to not eat their food. -- source link
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