/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>50484201
i bought crypto, lots of crypto from 2017 until 2020 so I really don't care about anything I lost 70pct of my networth but im still richer than 95pct of people around me

>>50484237
...and have you been buying food?

>>50484248
? you are very poor isn't it ?

I've been just paying more attention to what I buy, I guess. For example I used to buy this one type of cereal to have for breakfast some days any it's gone from $3/box to $5 at my local store. Don't buy it anymore. Meanwhile this 1 lb package of smoked salmon I love has only gone from $10 to $10.49. My food budget for 3 has gone from $450/mo to $600.

>>50484392
ESL?

>>50484201
rice and beans

bought a 10 pound bag of rice and 25 pounds of pinto and 25 pounds of black beans.

>>50484201
Needs to be higher.
American comfort has gotten too high especially with debt reserves
An extreme recession humbles people and shows what they really are.

>>50484431
THIS NIGGA EATIN BEANS

>>50484201
I've stopped getting fast food, carryout or sitting down at restaurants and started cooking every meal at home. I'd rather spend $30 for 5 days worth of food than $15 for one meal at a restaurant.

>>50484201
I've been stealing food as long as I've been out of my moms house (15 years) just one thing each time I go shopping but the savings add up.
>>50484248
I have 8 months of freeze dried food in the basement and my yard is all berry bushes and root vegetables

>>50484636
>berry bushes
good idea, that shit just keeps growing, what do you got freeze dried?

>>50484201
bullshit. food increased from last year on by only 5%, 10% at most. There is non of the products I buy that has significantly increased in price

>>50484691
>NO, THE INDEX IS LYING

>>50484528
You're not eating good on 30 for 5 days. Nigga you already in the depression.

>>50484691
No it's 30% minimum. I paying around 250 a week when I used to pay 180ish.

I've got a good amount of food. Aiming for a month of food, maybe a week or so of water. I figure I live in the city do if SHTF I'm probably toast anyways and won't make it a month. I have 6 #10 cans of sugar though so I can probably barter with it if I can find myself in a community of autists. I'll probably make those connections and just hope they are frens and not glow niggers

>>50484674
pretty much any brand I can get delivered with my sams club , so primarily augasin farms "food vault" 45 day supply boxes. it's just meal kit slop but I got kids so my prep is mostly slop and vitamin supplements.

>>50484776
good idea, i should stock up on those

>>50484201
I just eat half as much. It‘s literally that easy

>>50484705
I buy these things once a week:
Milk
Chicken
Eggs
Bananas
Mushrooms
Kimchi

Once a month I buy:
Beans
Oats
Rice
Coconut oil

>>50484691
Your mother still does your grocery shopping for you, huh?

>>50484201
>How are you guys dealing with food prices
I'm down to 3-5 takeout meals per month, eating less meat, more rice and lentils. Grocery bill is down ~$300 to $500/month for 2. That's buying top quality.
Longer term I'll be adding battery backup and a second freezer. Once I've got that taken care of I can hunt and fish seriously.

i buy reduced price items as much as i can, always have. sometimes i can get 2 or 3 chickens, or a few steaks, half a dozen packets of prawns, loads of mince etc. it all goes in the freezer. if you keep doing this you eventually get to know on what days certain stores put the reduced stickers out. we live very well indeed

>>50484201
I make enough for this not to be a problem for me, but I can imagine how it must be affecting most if not all poor people in my country, cuz I was poor as rats some 5+ years ago
even worse, politicians aren't doing much to stop this fucked up inflation/devaluation. I'm still wondering how people survive, and how restaurants haven't pushed prices up that much. it's weird...

>>50485135
>No red meat
>no onions
>no olive oil
>no sardines

Not gonna make it bro.

>>50486084
I get all of those things too I didn't write my entire grocery list. I get skyr, broccoli, potatoes, peanut butter and and butter as well

>>50484201
By not being fat.

>>50486580
noooooo

>>50486018
I live around a lot of poorfags. They are using their savings for basic necessities and when their savings run out they resort to credit card debt. The only light in the end of the tunnel for them is that prices might go back to normal before they have maxed out all their credit cards. That obviously wont happen so they are fucked

>>50487860
Credit card debt first as a poorfag, but not beyond what you can pay off before interest pours in

Doesn't matter plan on killing myself here soon anyway, can't even afford rent anymore.

My income is 3x what it was 3 years ago

>>50487956
anon please dont

>>50486084
I can't stand sardines, sorry eurobros.
love me turnips, love me beets, love me beef.
simple as.

>>50488142
Maybe if I had a small savings to look forward to things woulda been different but there's no gas left in my tank brother.

>>50484431

>>50484431
>>50484498
I'll never understand why preppers buy dry beans. What a waste of time, energy and water. You can just buy canned or precooked beans and spend very little energy and time heating them instead of washing, soaking and cooking them for hours.

I'm just planning to engage in cannibalism the second there's no food on the shelves

>>50485135
Pretty much same here. Weekly, we buy:

Bananas
Strawberries
Carrots
Onions
Frozen spinach
Eggs
Cheese
Salmon
Orange juice
Lemons, oranges, apples
Bread
Lunch meat
Sausage

Monthly we stock up on:

Canned chicken
Rice and pasta
Cereal
Flour
Oats
Canned pineapples
Beans
Sauces
Cooked bacon
Spices
Coffee
Condensed milk
Tortillas
Butter
Peanuts or cashews

Some things we just order to keep the supplies well stocked:

Flour and pancake mix
Sugar
Yeast
Freeze dried veggies
Sparkling water
Spam
Smoked oysters
Corned beef hash
Potato flakes
Powdered milk
Raisins

We have tons of food. We don't worry about it. When you only buy it on sale and you buy enough, you don't blow it on over priced immediate needs. We eat like kangz

Oh, also we grow potatoes, tomatoes, basil, peppers and more. Sometimes we buy golden or purple potatoes and a variety of fresh vegetables to mix things up. Oh and ice cream!

I manage a grocery store and get a discount, and am privy to any upcoming sales. I only buy chicken or meat when we’re literally losing money on it to get people in the door, then I buy as much as possible and freeze it in quart size bags and store it in my chest freezer. Likewise, I stock up on rice or cans when they’re on sale, like 40 lbs at a time.

That’s pretty much how I do all my grocery shopping. Any household furniture, gadgets, pots or pans, clothes or anything like that I buy at Goodwill or something.

I always stack my cash back credit card with any other discounts I have to get an extra 1.5% back on top of my company discount, then just pay it off immediately from my phone same day.

>>50489643
you should let your credit charges ride until the bill closes and the credit agencies take snapshots of your usage

>>50489543
ice cream will make you fat if its store bought most likkley

>>50484201
lol i literally didnt notice a change. guess i make too much money

>>50484201
I got chickens right before the price of eggs mooned. Feed is up too of course but in summer they get a significant amount of their food off the land. It used to be just for fun but it is actually saving money at this point.
Potatoes and eggs are enough to make a filling and nutritious meal for any time of day. I got a blender from the thrift store and make smoothies with peanut butter and frozen fruit almost every morning, quick and cheap and nutritious. If you work in an office be on the lookout for food people put out, birthday cake or little courtesy snacks from HR. Just throwing out ideas

>>50489722
Thanks for the tip.

>>50489833
potatoes are carb which is bad
unless im wrong

>>50489873
i forgot to mention but most credit cards give you a 20-25 day grace period after the statement closes before they start charging interest. I did the same as you, but when I started letting it ride 5-10 days after the statement closed my credit score went up quite a bit. still havent paid a cent in interest, ever.

>>50489904
You need some carbs for energy. Oats are best, potatoes are excellent, rice is easy to always have handy in a rice cooker.

>>50489935
some
we get too much

>>50484201

I'm dealing with inflation by:

>stopped volunteering, used to pick up and drop off prescriptions for the disabled and elderly at a less than min wage reimbursement through a non-profit, gasoline, parts/repair and used truck prices have made it so I can no longer feasibly do this
>stopped donating to causes, used to donate to the local library and children's summer camps
>stopped dating and taking women out for expensive experience, like-wise have stopped ordering out food at higher end places
>stopped giving customers on fixed incomes special rates to help them
>doing a shit job at work cause I feel like my wage no longer represents a good job done

I've basically become a hermit since covid.

It's just the reality of inflation I must say. make the right investments (ticker hbar) and you will flow with it. It sucks but it is the way it is.

>>50489904
some carbs of the complex sort are good, but not as much as that food pyramid dumb shit goes
majority of calories should be from protein and fat, and lower in carbs- vs how they recommend of majority carb, lower in protein and fat

>>50484201
My grocery bill is up maybe 30%
Don't know what you're yacking about
Truth is, inflation isn't that bad
When hyperinflation hits, you won't be able to afford anything

>>50490080
Yeah, low carb/keto diets are how you get rid of most illnesses

>>50487956
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

>>50490148
intermittent fasting, and outright fasting for a few days at a time, is underrated as well

>>50490279
yeah, about to finish up a 48 hour fast, its tough stuff but worth it to prepare for tough times when they come. as well as the health benefits that come.

>>50487860
just live under your means. these retards spend every cent they get in their ugly little hands, become housepoor and carpoor and TVpoor and clothingpoor and petpoor, and then complain. they get fat and beetus and have to pay $1500 a month in medical care for preventible illnesses and then complain. they buy 5 pets and then complain they can't afford the vet bills. they buy giant brodozer lifted trucks and then complain they can't afford the gas and car note. not only is the average american a fat slob, they're also really fucking stupid and greedy. and lazy. they eat out all the time because they're too fat lazy and stupid to learn to cook for 1/20 the price of eating out. they order doordash every day. they go shopping and buy shit they don't need as their "hobby". i've lived around poorfaggots all my life and it's the same story every time. 95% of "poverty" is just wasteful habits.

>>50488510
>there's no gas left in my tank
Get a bike you fat shit.

>>50489495
>Canned chicken
>Potato flakes
>Powdered milk
Actual flyovers. I wouldn't feed that to a dog.
Literally just stop being fat. I spend $50 a week and could halve that if I cared to. And no peasant boomer depression-era shit like the abomination that is "canned chicken" has ever passed my lips.

>sparkling water
>spam
>lunchmeat
And you're stupid and wasteful on top of being fat and trashy. Learn to cook you fat shit.

>>50484636
based, do you steal teh same or rotate items in? self checkout or standard theft?
>t.stealer

>>50486018
i play a fair amount of golf and noticed golf has unironically not changed prices at all, which sure seems odd as its a high priced game to begin with

>>50489932
interesting, not the store manager but i also pay my cc balance literally every single day

>>50491600
I don't know how that Anon does it but I mark everything as onions in self checkout.

>>50491653
i pay mine off continuously every 3-4 days, but leave like $50 bucks on it at statement end, since the kikes like it when you show you're "utilizing credit" to some extent, yet also pay it off constantly
then day after statement i pay that down and owe zero
literally had a credit card 10 years now and haven't paid a single cent in that "muh 25% apr" kike usury yet, but showing small credit utilization improves the good-goy score

>>50491653
>>50492583
you guys are deranged boomers. it's called autopay, you dumb fucks.

>>50493243
automated shit still fucks up some times
and i'd rather it fucked up after having paid the minimum, and only having less than $100 on it

>>50489722
All those immediate payments down the drain lol

>>50484201
i'm engaging in rampant self-checkout barcode tomfoolery

i ordered take out 4 times a week, so if i eat normally now i'm still paying the same as usual

>>50491381
Metaphorically you fucking dunce.

>>50484341
This is pure bullshit. Eggs, meat, and poultry have all roughly doubled in price or more

Bump

>>50484744
3A25bu2 is a 12000 calorie one inch block of pure caloric intake. Primarily a carbohydrate, you can make them with tallow or fat crusts with removed variants of triglycerides. That way, you can have a huge amount of calories stored with very little space occupied. Be warned though, they are extremely dangerous to eat consecutively or whole, and should only be rationed when starving or burning a huge amount of energy. Diabetes Type II is known to develop with prolonged used. Heart attacks, blindness or stroke are extremely likely if you cannot find alternative, healthier food sources and need to keep eating 3A25bu2. But 3A25bu2 allows you to not starve, and to find additional nutrients later on, leading it to be one of the best food parcels you can accumulate.

>>50495569

No more doordash, buying groceries that last longer

>>50484201
I’m fat so I just went on a diet.

>>50484201
>when the stores go empty?
This won't happen in America. Bread and circuses are the only things holding the country together. If store shelves were bare citizens would put down their differences, rise up, burn the cities to the ground and overthrow the political system in a matter of days.

>>50484428
fuxsakes.
were loads of cunts got into baking own bread mid-Covid (when flour wasn't unobtainium) but I cant imagine with gas price now, its any less than double or treble the cost of just buying the shit.

>>50493330
>boomer is terrified of computers
that's a lot of words to say you are a stupid fucking retard.

>>50495284
metaphorically lose weight you fat shit
eat half as much, your food costs half as much
bike instead of drive, your gas is $0
losing your gunt is just a side benefit

>>50484201
I have to buy less than I used to while still somehow paying more. Are food prices ever going back to normal?

>>50499572
hopefully not

>>50498833
>no bug has ever existed in any computer program ever
you numbnuts

>>50484201
I steal the things I can either pocket or self checkout misscan

>>50484201
I started growing microgreens and growing kitchen scraps, now my greatest expense is meat.

>>50498833
You’re the one who can’t remember to pay your bills unless a computer does it for you.

>>50485135
Imagine the smell.

gayest thread ever, btw

>https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/food-price-environment-interactive-visualization/

>>50495840
>3A25bu2 is a 12000 calorie one inch block of pure caloric intake

Even at 1 cu. in pure fat (hydrocarbons) are only about 120 calories. This volume can't be reduced. Starch is 1.5g per cm^3, or 22g for the same volume which only comes to about 88 kcal. I think your 3A25bu2 is pretty amazing.

Alright I'm going to bed kids, keep winning son

>>50489273
Feminizing chemicals in beans. I still eat them canned but wish I wouldnt. I dont really eat beans that often tho. Imo canned shit should just be backup food and when u feel lazy. Like fast food u shouldnt eat it regularly

>>50497780
HE KNOWS

>>50500825
>.gov
oh totally honest, right?