Doesn’t really matter what your mental energy is if you don’t have the money to have any other choice. Few years ago I was comfortably living on under £100 a month after paying rent for a bedroom, then putting the last £75 or so of my income into savings.
Also half of Americans live in “food deserts” with limited or no options for fresh, healthy food/groceries. Often their only sources of sustenance are the dollar store and fast food.
For a while I got discounted veg at the end of the day and threw it all into a slow cooker that I kept running all week. Take a meal out and top up with more of what ever cheap ingredients I could get.
People I shared the house with had started to steal my food which is why I switched to storing everything in my room and the slow cooker in my room. No fridge/freezer but you can even store meat for several days in a slow cooker. 22:55 the local coop sometimes had sausages for pennies.
That is what I used as inspiration initially and it worked pretty well. A slow cooker is probably more reliable at keeping the temperature than a log fire too.
I’m disabled and homeless and eat veggies, fruit, pasta, bread, cheese and protein on a daily basis at about $7 a day. people eat fast food because they are lazy, not poor.
People will also eat at restaurants because they’re ashamed and embarrassed of their own cooking ability and don’t want to look bad in front of their peers.
I don’t think they mean it literally. I think they’re pointing out the irony of calling people lazy when your own situation is often reduced in the same way.
Beans, famous for not having any protein… Why do people look down on beans so much? They are great. Just bought a pack of broad bean seeds today as I plan to grow them and I ran out of the last pack. You don’t need to eat the weight of the average American in meat ever year.
Maybe stop doing that then. I can get a weeks worth of food for that kind of money and it tastes good.
I am fortunate we have enough mental energy to go to stores to buy ingredients to cook our own meals most days.
Its similar, to what is referred to as “adhd-tax” I am still in this picture more then i would like.
Doesn’t really matter what your mental energy is if you don’t have the money to have any other choice. Few years ago I was comfortably living on under £100 a month after paying rent for a bedroom, then putting the last £75 or so of my income into savings.
Also half of Americans live in “food deserts” with limited or no options for fresh, healthy food/groceries. Often their only sources of sustenance are the dollar store and fast food.
Maybe, but I hear the same things here and I am not aware of food deserts being a term in the UK.
I mean it matters in the sense that you just won’t eat if you can’t muster up the mental energy to make a meal.
E: this was me
What do you mean bread isn’t a meal?
I mean its not like there was a dark where i lived on a single bag of chips a day or the occasional cup noodles or anything.
Very affordable lifestyle, but you do feel even worse long term.
For a while I got discounted veg at the end of the day and threw it all into a slow cooker that I kept running all week. Take a meal out and top up with more of what ever cheap ingredients I could get.
People I shared the house with had started to steal my food which is why I switched to storing everything in my room and the slow cooker in my room. No fridge/freezer but you can even store meat for several days in a slow cooker. 22:55 the local coop sometimes had sausages for pennies.
Thats kinda cool,
Like a modern day perpetual stew.
That is what I used as inspiration initially and it worked pretty well. A slow cooker is probably more reliable at keeping the temperature than a log fire too.
I’m disabled and homeless and eat veggies, fruit, pasta, bread, cheese and protein on a daily basis at about $7 a day. people eat fast food because they are lazy, not poor.
Yes, with 1 other caveat.
People will also eat at restaurants because they’re ashamed and embarrassed of their own cooking ability and don’t want to look bad in front of their peers.
Food deserts are a thing.
People are homeless because they’re lazy, not poor.
Or unable to get a stable full time job, maybe none exists, or not enough for everyone.
I don’t think they mean it literally. I think they’re pointing out the irony of calling people lazy when your own situation is often reduced in the same way.
Yes, fight amongst each other. Ignore the billionaires, attack each other.
People are homeless because of mental illness and drugs.
That’s people on the street, the majority is people couch surfing or sleeping in their car. Where the only issue is money, not mental health at all.
Well, maybe one week, and you still have to get creatively frugal there.
But I see your point.
Yeah, this is beans and rice with little to no protein kind of money for a week, at best.
Didn’t used to be the case, but orange dipshit keeps causing inflation.
Beans, famous for not having any protein… Why do people look down on beans so much? They are great. Just bought a pack of broad bean seeds today as I plan to grow them and I ran out of the last pack. You don’t need to eat the weight of the average American in meat ever year.
That’s a good point, yeah, I was thinking like most Americans that you’d want some meat thrown in there for flavor.
Mostly a vegetarian as well so I agree with you is what I’m saying.
For flavour? Just add some soy sauce
Beans actually have plenty of protein in them. They’re also high in fibre.