Comment on The fuck is the point
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoI 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.
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 10 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 8 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 22 hours 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 15 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.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
Thats kinda cool,
Like a modern day perpetual stew.