I miss the good ol days where inflation was so low, you could pick fruit off a vine/bush/tree and it was free
Blaidd@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s so sad how many posters would rather blame OP for spending an extra dollar on better bread and veggie patties rather than actually acknowledge the blatant price gouging on food. The idea that everyone should only be buying the cheapest ingredients is just stupid. No one is living a fulfilling life eating nothing but cheap beans and rice everyday, and food prices have been ridiculous for a while now.
s1nistr4@lemmy.world 11 months ago
PatFussy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nowadays, you have to pay HOA just to get a smell of that community cherry tree
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The point is that it’s all processed and premade, that’s why it costs so much. Make your own beef patties with ground beef and some seasonings, just bake a damn dessert for once and stop getting the fancy artisanal bread and just go with whole wheat.
Nothing about that requires eating rice and beans, you just don’t want to accept that some shit requires effort and when you outsource that you pay more.
Yeah food costs an insane amount, but you don’t have to buy the “we did the work for you” tier of food if your income can’t handle it. You’re not entitled to having everything done for you. Learn to goddamn cook.
AnotherRyguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can rarely find a pound of ground beef for under $9 now unless buying in massive bulk. Even produce has gotten insanely expensive in the last few years. Sometimes the raw ingredients are so expensive it’s cheaper to buy the processed shit… Idk how anyone less fortunate can stay sane in the grocery store. Buying raw ingredients and cooking isn’t a cheat code to save money at the store.
maryjayjay@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t know where you are but a one pound package of 90% lean ground beef at my supermarket in Denver is $4.97
AnotherRyguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m in the SF bay area. Like I get that it’s high cost of living and high wages, but even so doesn’t justify such a huge price difference.
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There is nothing unfuflfilling about beans and rice. This is the staple diet of almost a billion people. We are just so far removed from reality that we think of a healthy diet as a terrible punishment.
Blaidd@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You did not understand my comment very well. Beans and rice are great staple foods, I love them. A well rounded diet involves more than just beans and rice.
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Beans and rice yummy
fartsinfarts againmyoh another onetummyChocrates@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When a bad hunt means your kids starve plants seem like a much safer option.
Human ancestors had a varying diet that was regional and included bugs and wild plants and yes some animal protein. There are some estimates that they regularly consumed like 100g of fiber a day
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Literally all modern evidence points to the healthier tribal and nomadic humans having animal-based diets.
Healthier teeth, healthier skin and hair, longer lifespans, better musculature.
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean that was my original point but I don’t think I portrayed that correctly at all early humans lived hunter gather life styles I think that’s quite obvious at this point with all the scientific evidence pointing towarda it plus moving around alot across continents and having to go out and hunt fish and forage for there food meant that they were way healthier stronger and fitter as you said as there getting a healthier diet and lots of exercise
what op said that for billons of years we lived of “beans and rice” which makes no sense whatsoever although I could be wrong