I’m not saying this is always the case, but the fact that it’s the case at all is fucking insane.
Things are indeed fucked, but I’m hard pressed to get my hands on a sandwich for less than $5. And I can churn those fuckers out at home for half that.
I am perpetually annoyed at how expensive any kind of fresh fruit or vegetable is, though. Why can I buy a pound of chicken for less than a pound of blueberries? When did onions start running over $1/lb? Why is a bag of rice at the asian market twice the size and half the price of its equivalent in Kroger?
Still so much cheaper to dice up some potatoes and carrots, season to taste, throw them in a baking dish, and wait an hour than to go out of pocket $10-15 literally anywhere outside my home. And holy shit, breakfast tacos! Basically free in my kitchen. I can’t find anyone willing to sell them for less than $4 outside of my home.
This is pretty believable in food deserts. Some places don’t even have like cheap dry bagged rice and beans, it’s all processed or name brand stuff. Think gas station convenience store selection and prices.
I feel like this can only be true if you’re trying to get real fancy with the home cooking. I don’t see how eating out consistently could ever be cheaper or even close to as cheap as cooking yourself rice and beans at home. Dry rice and beans in bulk are pretty cheap
Fuck rice and beans I don’t know of any situations where this is true.
Me and my partner haven’t gone out to eat more than a couple times in the last year because the options are either pay $30/ person for dinner and drinks we could have cooked better at home for 1/3rd the price or paying $80/ person for a dinner we could have cooked as well for half the price.
Unless saving yourself 2 hours of cooking and 30 minutes of cleanup is worth nearly $200 with a tip were grilling at home and getting drunk on the porch.
But my gf is also strictly gluten free so the places we could go aren’t exactly cheap (although neither are the ingredients)
I priced it out once, because I got way into dry goods earlier this year. a massive serving of rice purchased by the bag is like 12 cents, a belly busting amount of dried black beans is around 25 cents. there’s also kidney beans, and a world of lentils. I prefer red lately.
straight up unflavored beans and rice is kinda buttcheeks, but there are several routes to go with it: creole/cajun, meijicano, cuban, etc and it’s all just a nickle and dime worth of seasoning and actually buying a fresh pepper, onion, etc, which to be sure is gonna be a few bucks.
it takes stability and an investment of time, effort, and money (spices, equipment) to build up the kitchen infrastructure to support making “beans and rice” from scratch a few different ways or to holster few basic lentil-based curries, but they’ll stretch meals way out. and, I dunno, even when I eat too much beans and rice, it’s never made me feel like shit afterwards, lol.
It’s still like 1/2 or 1/3 the price here if I buy vegan or non-vegan chicken nuggets and any sorts of fries and soda at the grocery store than it is to go to McDonalds (just getting a soda and a large frie(s) at McDonalds is like $10). And definitely cheaper than the even more expensive restaurants like A&W (it’s $35-40 for two people to eat there now). And that’s the expensive pre-made food. Making real food is even cheaper.
Remember all the neoliberals crowing about how capitalism produces abundant cheap food?
It’s still expensive, but now it’s expensive and it’s poisonous and destroys biodiversity. Monsanto products are made of science, after all. Why are you such a Luddite?
BMF-tier rant? BMF-tier rant.
Proleslop is just sushi for reactionaries. They want to pat themselves on the back for being the brave, open-minded ones that are able to enjoy whatever abomination Monsanto decides they won’t lose sleep over the human livestock eating. Anyone who shows any skepticism is just a dumb, uncultured rube. Unlike sushi, which is hardly proleslop: Rice + Vinegar makes my monkey brain happy.
You’ll take the salmon from my cold dead hands. Fucking love fish. Best food in existence.
Definitely not the case in my area. The price of eating out is completely wild and the quality has decreased at the same time. Might not be possible depending on where you are, but costco + asian markets is pretty much the only way I’ve found to keep the grocery bill reasonable.
well, still not reasonable but better than the alternatives.
If i just want slop in my gut i can get cheap slop cheaper than buying ingredients for a prepared meal but if we’re comparing equal quality foods then no, it’s not cheaper.
Grocery prices where i live are insane though so that helps the ratio
If you ever use a grocery app to order for pickup a really painful activity is going back a year or more and hitting “re-order” and comparing the totals.
It really puts the single digit inflation numbers into perspective. My groceries almost doubled in price but yeah inflation is only 5% or whatever
Yea it’s really telling that the super serious government entities have decided to exclude housing and food from inflation numbers.
Deeply unserious country.
If you don’t count the money I spent on pot and booze I’m the most fiscally responsible motherfucker in town.
