Americans are scared to touch a bean.
You kiddin’ ? I can’t strawman Americans like that, considering baked beans are an American creation…
Appalachia: “Am I a joke to you?”
Beans and rice go a long way to help the food budget.
No love for potatoes??
I heard they bite
Diabeetus be like: Don’t worry, it won’t be long to wait.
Don’t they have vegetables in America?
There’s corn in corn syrup
I hope so
This is what my Dad’s shopping cart would look like when I was a kid (well, less sweets and chips, more canned food). He would always work 68 hour weeks, so really didn’t have the time and energy to cook for me and him. He would only cook on holidays.
Luckily, he now has a stay-at-home wife that likes to cook, and I don’t have to work those kinds of hours, so neither of us eat like that anymore.
Russian DIY only!
Looks like around $30 - $40 worth of ingredients
Yoo that looks so good
Looks like a troll to me
Yeah it’s all garbage name brand junk food
No, you really can’t.
No wonder u guys fat and stupid. U eat exclusively junk food.
If anyone is actually on the struggle bus don’t get ramen. Get rice. Buy the biggest fucking bag of rice from the local Asian store you can find. You can make enough rice to last multiple days in one sitting and the bag will last you several months to a year depending on if you have family or not
Make sure to put the rice in a freezer if you’re going to store it for a long time. This is important to prevent bugs, especially in hot and damp weather. If that’s not possible, sprinkle some dried chilis or peppers.
As in the cooked rice or the dry stuff?
Dry stuff probably. You have to do the same with flour.
If you can spring for it buy some high protein beans or lentils or some other legume and mix them, almost every society on the planet no matter the geography invented rice and beans because it’s so damn easy to store for long periods of time and will get you the protein and calories you need to survive.
Is it fun? No. But it will get you fed and it’s an excellent base to throw in other things to spice it up. Get a little extra money and can afford a bit of meat and veggies? Sauteed them up and you get a full blown meal with a side dish and a porkchop/fish filet/chicken breast with your rice.
Half way into it I was like… “yeah yeah yeah that’s our staple food! It’s very ni…”
“Is it fun? No.” Had me question everything in life thus far. 🤣
No I genuinely enjoy rice and beans, but I feel like people I know have really high expectations for food being good.
Wait, rice and beans isn’t fun? It requires some extra seasonings but Carrib style rice and peas are my jam. Though it does have a Lotta aromatics.
Well… personally I think rice and beans can be delicious but it’s not most people’s idea of comfort food I suppose. At least where I’m from.
Then, lentils maybe ? If neither beans or lentils are confort food, then what is it ?
Lentilles-saucisse is a French staple and I’d definitely consider it comfort food. Lentils, sausages, with some carrots and little bacon bits (lardons) cooked into the lentils, heaven.
Je ne mange pas de viande mais les lentilles, c’est mon enfance. Je fais revenir un oignon dans une poêle, j’ajoute une carotte en rondelle et y fais cuire des lentilles avec un bouquet garni et j’ajoute de la crème fraîche à la faim… euh non à la fin et ohlala… bon, bin je sais ce que je mange demain.
The price of rice is pretty high right now. It’s still a good value, especially in bulk, but it’s not as cheap as it used to be.
Only gonna get higher, so buy now.
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Just buy the corn syrup and iodized salt direct from the manufacturer and skip all these middle men.
Average moderator shopping cart.
This is yet another one of those arguments where somehow EVERYBODY ELSE is guilty but NOT ME, ohhhh no not me. I’m perfect. Haha /s
I don’t see any food in that shopping trolley. Most of that is snacks and microwave meals.
Don’t be smug about it though. Cooking might seem like an innate ability if you were raised with it but intergenerational poverty is associated with a lack of education about things like this and also a lack of access to quality food.
If you’re time poor from working shifts or multiple jobs
If due to social class or race or intergenerational poverty you lacked an education about food
If contemporary race and social class segregation means you live in a “food desert” that simply doesn’t sell fresh produce
Have empathy. Obviously this person is suffering and needs help.
I used to cook every day. It was one of my favorite hobbies.
But then about two years ago my life started falling apart. Between divorce and a couple moves I’m barely making ends meet, in the cheapest apartment I could find (a one bedroom that I split with someone else.)
The kitchen is so tiny, the refrigerator doesn’t even open all the way. I barely have any counter space, and with a longer commute (and lots of overtime) I barely have time/energy anymore to cook. Plus, I don’t have a dishwasher anymore, so cleanup takes a lot longer.
I want to cook. But fuck, it’s so much harder to do now. I never realized how much I took cooking for granted, back when I had money.
guys, this is a joke post
Yet it is still bringing out all the bots and trolls.
Have you tried buying food instead of whatever the fuck this garbage is?
That’s my thought as well. They NEED to buy the name brand items as well?
There are PLENTY of corners that can be cut, as well as buying items that can be made into larger meals (soups, pastas, etc.) that reheat well.
Whoever this person was needs to rethink their wants and needs, then shop accordingly to their budget.
It’s a joke.
