I am fortunate we have enough mental energy to go to stores to buy ingredients to coock 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.
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Maybe stop doing that then. I can get a weeks worth of food for that kind of money and it tastes good.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 12 hours ago
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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
What do you mean bread isn’t a meal?
zeejoo@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Maybe, but I hear the same things here and I am not aware of food deserts being a term in the UK.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
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.
waigl@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can get a weeks worth of food for that kind of money
Well, maybe one week, and you still have to get creatively frugal there.
But I see you point.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.
oeuf@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Beans actually have plenty of protein in them. They’re also high in fibre.
Marthirial@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Food deserts are a thing.
metakrakalaka@lemmychan.org 10 hours ago
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.
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People are homeless because they’re lazy, not poor.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Or unable to get a stable full time job, maybe none exists, or not enough for everyone.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think they mean it literally. They’re just pointing out the hypocrisy of calling people names without enough information when your own situation is often reduced in the same way.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People are homeless because of mental illness and drugs.
InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 5 hours ago
That is slightly part of the problem but, no where near the totality of the issue. The broader issue is capitalism only works with the fear of homelessness and being cast out if you dont dance to their tune. Some of the population must be unemployed to keep the working class in fear. If you didnt have to work for housing, food, and healthcare, would you put up with the bullshit we do at a job? I certainly wouldn’t. They know that too.
As much as I was annoyed by the tone of the statement made by previous poster, we have to reach out and lift up. We cannot keep putting the boot down on people just because their life took a path or they are making choices we feel are incomprehensible and must require a defect of some sort.
We have to support each other cause the State ain’t coming over that hill to save the day.
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 1 day ago
I wanna say first that is a tragedy you are homeless and I wish the best for you in finding permanent lodging but your statement raises some questions. How are you preparing these foods? If you are as homeless as you purport, are you using a campfire, or a communal kitchen, or are your meals prepared for you? How are you procuring your groceries?