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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.

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apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What do you mean bread isn’t a meal?
  
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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.

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Maybe, but I hear the same things here and I am not aware of food deserts being a term in the UK.
  
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Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨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.

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thats kinda cool,
    
    Like a modern day perpetual stew.
    
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    Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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.
    
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