Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🐈‍⬛💦🎒🧼 Tuesday, June 4, 2024

• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a mod on there. @TinyBreak@aussie.zone is a mod on there. If anyone makes fun of you then they get banned. You’ve got our support. We’ve got your back.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks. It’s silly, living conditions being what they are, but poverty and frugality are still quite stigmatized and some might turn their noses up

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll be putting my recipe for braised steak and onions on !foodaustralia@aussie.zone in a couple of days. I’ll make it into a cheap eats post so you can add a few things on there.

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sweet! I’ve got a pantry staples casserole from my grandma and a pantry staples pizza I worked out myself

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks. It’s silly, living conditions being what they are, but poverty and frugality are still quite stigmatized and some might turn their noses up

    Hard agree. I’ll admit I havnt had a lot of time for the community lately. I will try put some more time in.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You do what you can.

      I probably shouldn’t have spoken on your behalf so I apologise for that.

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      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        nah your right, it was a good call.

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No shame here.

  I’ve had to do really cheap meals myself such as 2 minute noodles and peas or frozen veggies or Devon sandwiches for a week at times.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait until I break out the meals to use Spam ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    Or the Vegemite pasta. Perhaps even sketti

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve also done pasta. 89c for a packet of 500 gram pasta with a bottle of pasta sauce 1.89 a jar spread over a few days.

      Add some cheap stuff like frankfurts and some veggies which are cheap.

      That might have been my cheapest frugal eats that I’ve made.

      I don’t mind spam!

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve got a one pot pasta that uses generic tomato sauce, cheap mince, and frozen veg or whatever veg is in season

        The inexpensive sausages and franks are also good, you can even cut leftovers into coins and put them in a casserole

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I spent about $3.50 on food today. Porridge, lentil curry, beans on potato, two eggs on toast. Maybe $5 with trimmings.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That actually sounds quite tasty. I wish my stomach would stop being a jerk

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had jerk stomach for about five years after I got back from India. I did the fodmap routine over about six months and it seemed to restore my gut somewhat. I still get heartburn with too much white flour.

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve done it all and have now discovered it may be something related to disability

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah nah bro, not in this economy no ones gonna be making fun. My mortgage is +1k greater when I moved in, power bills through the roof, council is knocking on my door for rates. I’m about to propose to the mrs we introduce 1 or 2 “Pov” nights for dinner, where we see what we can make for a capped price.

  We all get it! Though I am gonna raise an eyebrow if you’re reusing teabags for the 4th time 🙃 I legit have been wondering about reusing some of the expensive tea bags a second time. 47 bucks for a box of tea is taking the piss!

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Heh, I use generic instant coffee so there’s no waste, and generic teabags. I don’t tend to reuse teabags but… if it’s still sitting in the cup from having been left in there… 🤔

    There might be more tolerance now, sure. I just see people who are uh, perhaps a little new to being skint. I think what’s been happening is that working class (and underclass) have been forced to be frugal for a very long time so people’s expectations are lower and adaptability is higher. But conditions are now getting so bad that they’re starting to hit the middle class and it’s causing a real culture shock.

    Like you suggest an occasional treat that can be made with leftover amounts of stuff you already have/buy in bulk - so they go out and buy large sizes of new ingredients they don’t have another use for, and then tell you that it’s not working out cheaper than bought :|

    Or this weirdly rigid handholdy article about recipes you can use if you can’t afford olive oil anymore… It’s like darls, those aren’t the only recipes you can use now. There may be specialised uses like animal fat or peanut oil for extremely high heat/deep frying but for general cooking you won’t explode if you substitute a more affordable oil. It’s usually just a spoonful anyway. Even canola and sunflower oil have essential fatty acids so there is still a little of a health benefit there.

    Or news articles will come out with the most obvious cost cutting tips presented like nobody has thought of them when… it’s something everyone you know has been doing forever.

    It makes me feel weird to say stuff like I haven’t bought olive oil in years, have never had a Netflix subscription, I don’t buy takeaway, grew up wearing op shop and hand me downs, I would always darn socks and replace zips or elastic rather than buy new clothes, I would use dried or tinned foods… Poor shaming has been such a thing for so long that something very normal for me might be a bridge too far for someone who hasn’t quite adjusted to ‘the new normal’.

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Poor shaming and class divides have been such a thing for so long that something very normal for me (even preferred to ensure more financial stability) might be a bridge too far for someone who hasn’t quite adjusted to ‘the new normal’.

      I also LOVE that its a way to stick it to the man! Cause fuck coles and woolies for screwing us for years. Screw fast fashion. Fuck the economy that requires us to buy buy buy. The planet is dying and society is too stuck in the status quo to see it. Being cheap is a great way to “fight back”. Kind of.

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That too, that too 😏 There’s even a perverse pleasure to deliberately being a povo gremlin sometimes.

        I’ll see the price go up on something I can do without and be like, ‘you know what, I’m good.’

        Oh, your sales are falling? Less discretionary expenditure? Nobody’s buying as much stuff anymore? Well maybe it’s because the workers can no longer afford to buy the goods they produce, mf. Between low wages and inflated prices you killed the golden goose and nobody can afford shit anymore. I will proudly wash my hair with bar soap and pay my cat’s vet bills rather than pay you shysters any more than I have to.

        Unfortunately physical disability = needing delivery, otherwise I’d have long switched to a supermarket that wasn’t Woolies or Coles. But my genetics fucked me over there

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