/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Used to be able to get a 2-pack of Walmart frozen double bacon cheeseburgers for like 5 bucks, now they're fucking $9
At that price I could just go get freshly cooked ones from McDonalds for cheaper

>>19233172
2020 and the great reset killed everything enjoyable about being a fast food addict
I tried to go back to the crack recently and it's just all so disappointing
In-N-Out at least tried not to fuck themselves but the inflation is too unreal to even keep going back to them

>>19233196
too bad it didn't kill you too

>>19233204
I tried. covid did too. and yet here I am

>>19233172
pretty much everything's doubled in price
meat has tripled in price
even alcohol's gone up too

>>19233204
Do you have a funny half face?

In N Out isn't more expensive is it? I still find it cheap but then again I haven't been in at least a year and a half.

>>19233336
>In N Out isn't more expensive is it?
overall their shrinkflation/inflation ratio was among the best of them all god blesses them continuously

>>19233172
most fast food
canned soup

>>19233420
>canned soup
too expensive these days

>>19233420
>fast food
I ain't spending $13+ for a McDonalds meal.

>>19233420
>>19233456
>fucking $4 a can for soup now
what the fuck happened?
its almost cheaper to just buy a bottle of ketchup than it is to get a can of tomato soup

>>19233172
non-expiring meat
pre-made anything, even lasagna is never on sale
hot dogs
fruit

man i go to Aldi (it's ghetto in the USA) and I can still feel the sting. boxed and canned shit is pretty much the same price but hamburger, chicken, eggs, milk, cheese, it's all fucked.
and you know what else? It's women and poc's fault

>>19233542
>non-expiring meat

What like beef jerkey?

>>19233293
What the fuck are you talking about? Meat hasn’t changed much in price and I regularly find it on sale at prepandemic prices. Same with alcohol and most other foods. I’m convinced almost everyone who thinks all prices have gone completely crazy never actually went grocery shopping pre-pandemic and probably doesn’t now.

>>19233558
Aldi is a discount grocer, but I’ve never been to an Aldi that felt ghetto. It’s not like Sav-A-Lot.

>>19233526
stimmies brah

Wendys, spent 14 dollars for a baconator meal and it was a medium! Never again

>>19233172
basically everything. no more morning coffee, no more eating out for lunch breaks, no more takeaway dinners. even if i do feel like spending almost double the food is disappointing & i know i can make something better myself. ive noticed i just havent been eating the past few weeks which is kind of a plus.

>>19233578
In the 90s up through the late 00s it was much more Spartan in design, and here in Southern Illinois the original stores were kind of worse for wear.
But now they've revamped every store I've been into.

>>19233679
I can afford the fast food still, but like you I've started eating in and cooking a lot more where I would've done takeout before.
At some point it's worth it just to do it yourself.

>>19233684
used to be able to use the mcdicks app and get a $1 drink and a free basket of fries (2 mediums). now i go in and spend $4 for the same shit using the app coupons. after realizing how much they jew the prices i cant justify it any more

>>19233568
No, meat that isn't 50% off because it is expiring.

>>19233576
beef literally went from $12 a pound to $40 a pound, are you on meth?

>>19233172
fast food; I used to get mcdonars, miguel's jr, chipotle, little ceasars, canes, starbucks and del taco on occasion but cut those out completely. I no longer buy expensive cheese, whisky or beer. I buy frozen instead of fresh veg, and eat a lot less meat. I basically make everything from the cheapest possible ingredients i can without dying it's fucking lame.

>>19233785
oh and i don't even buy juice anymore but that's kind of backfiring because i find myself drinking more coffee now instead of just water. I still buy expensive coffee and make lattes out of it which is crazy inefficient and I use a lot more milk along for that which I never really bought in bulk before.

>>19233785
>I buy frozen instead of fresh veg
For what it is worth there are many veggies and fruits which are better or just as good frozen as fresh.

>>19233172
none as im not poor.

>>19233172
No more fast foods or chain restaurants. At the grocery store I only buy meat when it is on sale, and buy extra to freeze if it’s something I use a lot. I also have to make sure to get to the store early for sales because a lot of times they sell out. Some meats are so expensive I never buy anymore, even when “on sale,” like short ribs or oxtail. I’ve also stopped buying things like frozen entrees, canned soups, and no longer make impulse buys when there’s a new kind of cookie or snack food. I’ve noticed when shopping there is obvious growing food insecurity with seniors and younger working class just by looking at their carts. You can pretty easily tell who is on a full government ride because their carts are loaded up. EBT has received significant raises to compensate for inflation, whereas retirees and workers have not. A lot of those people also receive WIC benefits, which in addition to EBT gives them free milk, eggs, cheese, baby food, peanut butter, cereal, and a few other staples. It could be easily argued that the EBT/WIC shoppers have bigger food budgets now than many working people or retirees.

Don't really touch fast food outside of a dunkin coffee once in a while, but the price of fresh produce at the local mega stores has become equal or even more than the (superior) farmer's market produce that I can find around here from about May-September. Ditto that for meat and the local butcher. During the winter I'm kinda fucked, on produce but can fill a chest freezer with meat. inflation is a bullshit thing, but I'd call it a good side effect as my cooking has improved just from freshness and quality of ingredients alone.

>>19234212
>double dipping ebt+wic
didn't know this was a thing. how infuriating.

Eggs. I used to eat so many eggs. Now they're like $25 for 40 of them, I just can't justify that price when I could get so much more food for $25. Rice, beans, etc.

>>19233172
None
t.moderately rich old guy

>>19233799
Most are better frozen rather than fresh since they're frozen in the box truck over to the store. Unless you get it from a farmer's market, chances are it's probably been frozen. Same with meats. I don't buy the meats in the coolers when I can since the meats there are frozen and thawing all day versus meats that are just kept frozen.

never really went to fast food places but i have stopped buying canned soda. i feel like a 12-pack used to be like $5 and now it's around $10, not worth it

>>19234212
I really believe that EBT shouldn't cover things like chips and soda and cakes. Junk food isn't cheap, it's fattening, and it's wasteful. If EBT only covered things like vegetables, meats, cheeses, etc. then you can bet that poor people wouldn't be as fat.

Also a reevaluation of who qualifies for EBT so you don't have people get on EBT and then spend their ex-food budget on fast food.

>>19233526
The fuck... Here I get passable soup for 4 for £2

>>19234398
save the time and effort and genocide the poors, turning them into nutrient rich slurry to feed the new poor

>>19234398
This is because you are a retard. Dollars per calorie is the only consideration.
Welfare in any form exists to keep you from being murdered for food. Be grateful.

>>19234377
Oh yeah, that is all true and I agree entirely.
I was also thinking along the lines of how different foods hold up relatively in response to freezing, especially quickly frozen items from market like you mention.

>>19233172
Potato chips
Beef jerky
Cashews
Frozen meals
Steaks

>>19234398
You can buy monster energy drinks with EBT on amazon. The whole thing is completely fucked.

>>19234501
>Welfare in any form exists to keep you from being murdered for food.
Wouldn't be a problem without niggers.

>Be grateful.
Nobody should be grateful for niggers.

>>19234489
A modest proposal

>>19233196
>i'll pay you on monday for a burger today

>>19233724
>$40 a pound beef
What beef are you buying lad?

>>19234565
what the fuck lol

>>19234489
>Soylent green

>>19233196
This. You can still coupon max and get decent deals on fast food mobile apps in exchange for letting them harvest your data and track you, but even then its not worth it anymore because the quality has gone to shit too.

>>19233172
Nothing, food is something I'm not going to compromise on. However, I did stop buying chips completely, I only ever got them once a month or so cause I avoid them due to health reasons but with their prices so high I never get them anymore. I've also noticed I've been eating fewer eggs and buying less bacon

Nothings changed that much ive neen a prepper since 2014
I shop at costco more tho

>>19233182
>McDonalds
>freshly cooked

>>19234398
Yeah. I’ve been striking quite a few Amazon purchases from my list because of inflation. It’s always discouraging to see a treat I no longer indulge in pop up as a recommendation, with the text “SNAP/EBT eligible” underneath it. They cannot typically buy restaurant/fast food with EBT. I think maybe three states allow it. But they can buy as much “cold serve” as they want (frozen pizza) but what I find irritating is “cold serve” has been extended to cover cold deli items that require no additional preparation at home (cooking). I don’t know what your grocery stores are like now but once that became fashionable the $9 poorly assembled California rolls and other “sushi” drenched in sauce and fried crispies began to appear, as well as profoundly overpriced sandwiches. The way I figure it the grocery stores are trying to rip off the EBT shoppers who can’t spend their benefits in a restaurant. The entire system needs a major overhaul. As things stand the government just loads their cards up each month with imaginary money, quietly giving them raises to fight inflation, and with so few restrictions on what they can spend it on this does often mean grocery carts loaded with calories and little nutrition. The only real limitation on EBT at this time is hot foods. They can buy a bag of raw shrimp but they cannot pay for it if the grocery store cooks it for them. They cannot buy a slice of hot pizza at SAMs but they can take home a whole unbaked pizza from their deli. (Yes, SAMs accepts EBT.) It all needs revisiting. Beforehand it was an issue of it not feeling “fair” that some people received so much for free. But now with inflation coupled with increased free benefits to compensate while workers see no significant raises we’re approaching new territory where the EBT shoppers go home with a stack of frozen pizzas (shopping as though it were 2019) while the retires and working class are buying chicken thighs instead of breasts.

>>19233172
>What foods have you stopped buying ever since prices went to shit?
Rice, that shit went over my budget.

Used to buy a shit tonne of bulk stuff from wholesalers and Costco now my fat moms skinny my fat gf left bc couldn't afford to feedie her skitz as fuck i hate food prices here especially since they where high before all this shit

>>19234901
>fat gf left bc couldn't afford to feedie her
Sounds like a win.

>>19234901
>my fat gf left bc couldn't afford to feedie her
how heavy was she?

>>19234364
$2.12/dozen at aldi

>>19234398
>the poors should only eat what is required to survive, treats are too good for their kind

>>19233172
I eat less salmon but haven't really ditched anything

>>19234822
I think you're glossing over the fact that a large number (a much larger percentage than of the normal population to be sure) of the severely poor do not have a functional oven at home, or pots and pans, or maybe even a microwave. There is no functional difference between buying a cold sandwich and buying all the ingredients to make a sandwich, beyond effort. I've been on EBT before, and let me tell you, you're not going to find anyone spending their monthly allowance on $9 sushi platters.

I stopped buying eggs for a while. They were back around $3 yesterday so I bought some again.

>>19235021
yea i think it was a bird flu or something. it was like $9 a dozen in nyc a few months ago not sure where it's at right now

>>19235022
It was some schizo shit where all these farms were mysteriously burning down all winter supposedly.

>>19235013
I dunno, man. You’d be surprised. There’s a whole ‘nother class of EBT shopper that make grocery store checkers want to cry when they see their balances. The rules vary by state and by situation. People down on their luck receive very little, presumably to encourage them to get back to work. And I’ve had friends be there and seen it. I’ve been lucky and never been there. It’s largely the generational welfare crowd that gets serious benefits rained down on them and they’re smart enough to not talk about it. There are a lot of people living with their parents struggling through low-paying office jobs or retail jobs who would absolutely fucking riot if they knew how much better fed high school drop outs who have litters of illigitters are. Lately it’s gotten much worse with inflation. Full-time workers getting priced out of apartments and moving back in with their parents while non-workers get free apartments. Full-time workers trying to figure out how to budget for basic groceries while WIC recipients get the basics for free, before they even touch their SNAP/EBT.

>>19235187
yep. i have a cousin who has never worked a day in her life. she has 5 kids and she had all her teeth pulled at 24 because she never brushed them. she gets thousands of dollars a year in tax returns for existing, shes overweight and didnt finish high school.

she gets well over 1k a month in food stamps/ebt stuff and guess where all her actual cash goes? shit food. totally rigged. dont even bother. ive been debt free and busting my ass to get by since my early 20s and nobody gives a fuck about it. i was going to college and working part time to pay for my apartment and food and the government said i was too wealthy to get food benefits on my 25$ a month extra cash lol.

>>19233420
>>19233526
I'll one up that. Spam is literally more expensive than fresh ground pork. HOW THE FUCK DID THEY MANAGE THAT?!

I ditched almost everything.
My diet is like 60% potatoes and 30% chicken. Everything else is expensive.

>>19235375
im basically just eating russet potatoes, sardines, and eggs.

>>19235375
>>19235854
get some bananas bros
i started getting cramps from potassium deficiency after my food budget got cucked

>2019
>food plentiful and cheap, can feed an entire family on $5 at McDonald's
>$2/lb ribeye steaks at every grocery store
>food scarce and expensive, feeding one person at McDonald's costs close to $30
>ribeye costs $24 a pound
What happened bros

My grocery bill used to be $100 a month, now it's close to $100 a day. FUCK INFLATION!

>>19235872
potatoes (550mg) and sardines (592mg) have a fuckton of potassium, in fact more than a banana around 420mg.

>>19234991
it’s all they buy

>>19235875
rich people decided to starve you faster

>>19233172
i haven't eaten in a restaurant or fast food joint in nine months.

i mean really what's the point. i already spend so fucking much on groceries, paying the dine-out premium is just masochism.

i've reached some sort of enlightened point where i manage to turn random bullshit in my kitchen into decent meals, though.

Prices are going to get worse and you still won't blame the Saudis

turns out that I'm not actually poor but middle class.

>>19233172
I pretty much stopped buying eggs. 2€ for a pack of 6? Fuck that shit
And when I put them into boiling water half of them cracks too

>>19233172
All. I survive on house centipedes now. There are some really juicy ones

>look up inflation and food waste
>can only find information on household food waste going down
>commercial foodwaste is old numbers
How bad is it? These prices are going to kill them.

>>19233172
I stopped buying Burger King. Not because it's too expensive but because it's gone to shit by me. First and only time I've ever gotten sick from fast food was from them and I've eaten undercooked chicken and come out fine.

>>19233526
>>19233583
Where the fuck do you live? I got a can of Named Brand Progresso and it was only $2.18.

>>19236623
centipedes are land shrimp.

centipedes evolved from shrimp.

>>19233172
Steak unfortunately

>>19233172
>What foods have you stopped buying ever since prices went to shit?
none, I'm not poor.

>Go to mcdonalds for lunch
>A Junior chicken is $3.19
It was $1.29 in like 2019

>>19233182
Americans, holy fuck.

>>19235258
Oh, yes. This, too.
>be high school drop out female on Welfare and stay pregnant, never marrying to get best benefits (several already mentioned earlier)
>be required by government to file taxes, even though you don’t pay any
>report 0 income
>claim earned income tax credit
>claim dependent tax credit for each child you have
>receive a check for several thousand dollars due to your “tax credits”
>they’re not breaking the law; this is how it works
Meanwhile, the full-time checker at Walmart ringing up their free food lives with their parents because they can’t afford a place of their own, can barely afford groceries, and sees a $500ish tax refund if they’re lucky. The whole system needs a MAJOR overhaul. Inflation has tipped the scales so that workers are being priced out of affordable housing and moving in with their parents, some even picking up second jobs to try to make ends meet. Meanwhile, the welfare class does absolutely nothing and is given a free apartment, food, healthcare, cash, and other freebies. It is absolutely unsustainable and utterly unfair.

>>19234398
>means-testing works well
t. imbecile

>>19237249
>nooooo dont take away my gibs I might have to get a job

>>19233172
>Remember 2 for $1 McD's hashbrowns
>1 for $2.60 locally

>>19233172
Me and the little woman have gone from eating out a couple times a week to maybe once a month. We're probably better off health wise though. Still, fuck Bidenflation.

>>19237468
two mcgangbangers is 8 dollars where I live
I just can't

These are like $7 a box now in the grocery store. I’m not paying that

Thinking about becoming an immigrant in some Asian country. Which one won't murder me?

>>19234489
>nutrient rich
guess again

>£1 for a loaf of cheap brown bread
t-take that, Putin!

>>19233172
2x mcdouble
2x McChicken
$5 tax inclusive

>>19233172
>maccas coffee cost more than going to an actual cafe
>dollar menu completely shot, cheese burger costs like $4 dollars
>hash browns $2.80
Inflation sucks but this is literally just greed using inflation as an excuse, many such cases unfortunately.

>>19238191
bullshit what state are you in post receipt

>>19233172
Well just about everything has gone up but I have had to cut back on fish. Not canned stuff but either fresh or frozen fish

People have this mistaken idea that 'unemployment is 5%' and get irrationally angry at this small group they think they are losing money to.
In reality, 40% of people in western countries are not employed. The only place that might have 95% employment is North Korea.
Now stop and think for a moment whether or not 40% of people will all just passively die if they can't get food and how many will murder you in your home.
If you are so insistant that these people work you can do the right thing and cut your employment hours (and pay) in half. Then there would be enough for everyone.

>>19236148
(((Saudis)))
You're a fucking moron. The people who own your money printed 5x the monetary supply 3 years ago while distracting with the fake pandemic.
This means 500% inflation.


This means 500% inflation.


This means 500% inflation.
Holy fuck people are stupid.

>>19238312
This.

It's stupid how many people are blind to things that happen before their very eyes.

stopped buying bacon, canned soup, cheesey snacks... over priced and not worth the money.

i can still buy nice meat and cheese becuase i have a massive excess of EBT. i get random shit like fancy cheese and meat from the discount grocer and i get most of my staples like bread and veg from the local foodbank.
I try to do massive cookouts with my excess ebt where my friends hang out but most of the time theyre like "im just gonna buy myself lunch"

>>19234822
FUCKING MEXICAN GROCERY STORES WITH ATTACHED DELIS NEED TO START PREPPING COLD "grab-n-go" TORTAS
ive noticed four kinds of people who get ebt, the highly noticable ones who blow it all on gatorades and beef jerkey and top ramen at 7/11
the kind who just buy nice quality food with it (me)
the ones who buy $300 shopping carts worth of fresh produce/milk/meats other whole staples all at the same time (usually mexican)
and then the fat fucks who load their carts with processed, pre-made food and a fuck load of soda (usually ghetto-looking and fat white, blacks and really young, round shaped mexican ladies)

>>19235187
>while non-workers get free apartments
i dont work, how do i get this? afaik, only free apartments where for people who claimed homeless in SF during the pandemic

Every once in a while I would go full fatass and get my fav from arby's
>1/2lb classic roast beef
>large curly fries and drink
>4pc mozz sticks
It was a simple order but would really tickle my brain with how much fat was there. Used to be $12 and a couple weeks I went and it was $17. SEVENTEEN FUCKING DOLLARS. Before that I got a pizza from my favorite place (mom and pop place) and it had nearly doubled in price.

I simply don't get fast food anymore. Costco sells little personal frozen pizzas that come out to $1 each and taste better than a hot and ready. Almost anything I can order out I can make at home so I bulk buy shit and store it, like heavy cream frozen in ice cube trays and taken out as needed.

Other food is getting stupid too but I just keep an eye out for sales and budget more or buy it at Costco and find a way to preserve it

>>19238826
skip the fries and soda, drink water

When I moved to the Midwest in 2009, a case of Coke was $4.98. Pic related is what it's up to now.

>>19235013
This anon has never been in the hood where they use their open oven to heat their house in the winter. They almost all have working stoves and microwaves, they're just too dumb to know how to cook dispite THA SEASONIN memes

>>19236161
>30k is middle class in Hawaii
I guess if you're cool living in a leaf hut

>>19238830
Wow what a revelation, I will skip half of what makes the meal fun to pay the same price as what the whole package used to cost! Or I'll just not go there and drink water at home with homemade food you dumb point missing fuck

>>19238860
Remember to drink heckin' water Y'ALL

>>19233172
pretty much all goyslop. Processed foods with globalized production chains got out of control pricewise compared to local, in season produce, meat and dairy. Even when eggs got expensive they were still a good deal.

>>19238804
Stay pregnant and stay single. If you can squirt out a kid every 1.5 years or so you’ll be financially better off in collective benefits than in a minimum wage job or most white collar jobs.

>>19237212
Dude holy shit finally, why are you like the only other person that seems to have the same thoughts as me. The current system is so completely fucked for anyone working a regular job. There is no incentive to work at all. If you can't make over $100k it doesn't make sense for you to have a real job that pays taxes, especially when you consider all the time and stress a real job comes with. Between SNAP, free health care, tax credits, and 0% effective tax rates, it's retarded.

What's even crazier is that it penalizes you for having money in the bank. And I'm not talking about $200k or $50k, many assistance programs start cutting people off at $5-10k in a checking or savings account. Further incentivizing people to live and conduct business outside the system.

A part time bar tender making $20k a year and not claiming cash tips will take home around the same as someone making $60k working full time after benefits and assistance. Shit is fucked.

>>19233172
All fast food but taco bell

i'm smoking less weed to reduce munchy cravings

>>19238969
lol
fucking economy

>>19238958
>There is no incentive to work at all. If you can't make over $100k it doesn't make sense for you to have a real job that pays taxes
ive done some personal math and heres my work requirements
$30/hr for a job with no benefits, no room for growth/learning new skills, boring coworker
$25/hr for a job that has at least one of: benefits, fun coworker or new skills/growth.
$20/hr if it has two of those requirements
$15 and hour if it has all benefits, fun coworkers, and im learning new skills.

otherwise, ill just keep collecting foodstamps and free healthcare and working the occasional under-the-table oddjob a few weeks a year to pay my meager rent.

>>19237212
>>19238958
>There is no incentive to work at all. If you can't make over $100k it doesn't make sense for you to have a real job that pays taxes
ive done some personal math and here are my work requirements
$30/hr for a job with no benefits, no room for growth/learning new skills, and boring coworkers
$25/hr for a job that has at least one of these qualities: fun coworkers, new skills/growth, or healthcare benefits.
ill accept $20/hr if it has two of those qualities.
$15/hr if it has healthcare benefits, fun coworkers, and im learning new skills.

otherwise, ill just keep collecting foodstamps and free healthcare and working the occasional under-the-table oddjob a few weeks a year to pay my meager rent.

>>19238976
Yeah this seems like solid logic. Also explains why so many people opt for your last option. There's not a lot of jobs out there that meet your upper requirements available. If you were smart and in a hopeless situation you just wouldn't work. That's what's maybe most depressing about this, is that the most capable and critical thinking people at the bottom rung have probably recused themselves to just doing the bare minimum since they don't have hope they could make the necessary jump where it's worth it.

Only idiots are left to fill in the gaps making $15k a year extra from working full time only to lose just as much or more in benefits.

>>19238860
>half of what makes the meal fun

>>19233172
I stopped buying food over 2 years ago.
Just get it for free now. imagine paying for goy slot at all.

>>19237173
Hey can you go back to europe I dont really want to listen to what you think about my country

>>19234652
it’s tuesday you uncultured fuck

>>19237173
ikr?

>>19239077
lol, that line wouldve been 8 times as long in the usa

the entirety of Publix, pretty much
it was always expensive, but fuck me it's well nigh extortionate profiteering at this point.

>>19239083
Well yeah because we're not poor.

>>19239089
>Well yeah because we're not poor.
yet they cant afford to support local ma/pa resturants, cant afford local sourced food and cant afford american made products cuase its too expensive.
LONG LIVE WALMART-CHINA-ALLIANCE, HAIL THE (((MULTI-NATIONAL-CORPORTE))) NEW WORLD ORDER

>>19236847
yeah, but the quality of Name Brand Progresso has gone to absolute shit. It's like a few tiny shreds of woody chicken breast and maybe a carrot within an abyss of broth

>>19233172
Taco Cabana. They're good, but $3.50 for a fucking chicken fajita with some guacamole on it is insane.
Still go to McDonald's although I'm a lot more frugal about ordering, now. Unless I really want their tea, I don't get a drink.
Chick-fil-A a lot less, and I've since given up on their tea as it's like three-quarters ice now. "BuT iT's ThE LORD'S fOoD! MOMMA BEAR MOMMA BEAR!" *hand clap emoji* *hand clap emoji* No, I'm not paying premium fast food prices for off brown water, and waffle fries still suck dick half the time.

Also, gave up completely on Taco Bell. Fuck that shit. Their prices were already getting bad before the pandemic. Now I make my own tacos at home using super lean ground beef, Old El Paso shells and freshly chopped toppings, and it's not only ten times better but cheaper.
Fuck Taco Bell.

>>19239096
>local ma/pa resturants
Suck. I'd rather make Hamburger Helper.

>>19233576
My brother in Christ I used to be able to get Chuck and round roasts for like $3/lb and flank or skirt steak for like $7/lb
The roasts are now like $6/lb and the skirt/flank is now $18/lb. Even ground beef is like $7 now. All the things that were nice and cheap have skyrocketed. Don’t even get me started on the price of chicken wings lately. Even pork chops are like $5/lb now.

>>19239149
>54 KB
> Also, gave up completely on Taco Bell
del taco prices have risen like less than 50%, im kinda amazed. and unlike tcobell, they use fresh ingrediants, not rehydrated crap

DEL TACO IS GOAT

>>19239168
I've heard of Del Taco but we don't have them here. We have family owned taquerias in literally every abandoned retail location that used to be something nice back in the 80s/90s, but you don't dare eat at them.

I stopped getting uber eats they jacked up the menu prices and delivery fees too much.

>>19239208
Dude doordash prices are fucking insane. I had to quit that as soon as it became available in my area. Absolute waste of money, horrible.

I almost never go out to dinner with friends anymore. Used to be a once-a-week thing. The last $60 bill at the small ramen shop kinda closed the deal for me.
I didn't stop buying much but I steal almost nonstop now. Self checkout and burned out senior citizen employees make it easy. I'd be fine paying the prices if I was given any sort of government assistance to keep up with inflation like the poors or the rich. But since i'm a single middle class male who works full time I can go suck dicks or whatever.

So keep raising the prices i guess. I'll just keep stealing.

>>19239208
Everyone should give up on Uber Eats/Doordash, especially now with the inflation. You'll end up paying $30 for a McDonald's meal that still took too long to get to you while riding in someone's filthy car.

>>19233172
processed shit. All the 'cheap' things I used to buy because I was lazy. Chicken tendies, pre-made cookies, shit like that all doubled and tripled. Eggs went high for a while but they're been dropping like a stone. Kind of pissed ground beef is high, but really it's just not going on sale as often.

>>19233172
restaurants and fast food are high with their prices lately.

>>19233182
Or you could buy a pound of ground beef and a pack of buns and spend less time and money.

>>19239187
>but you don't dare eat at them.
why not.
del taco is where mexicans in the southwest go for fast food. in some parts of the SW there is literally a del taco every mile

>>19238958
Agreed. We’ve reached a critical tipping point in wages. All of these young workers who have to live with their parents aren’t dating, getting married, or having children. Currently 50% of adults age 28 or younger live with a parent. That is some pretty fucking bleak shit. Meanwhile, our media cries about our country’s “labor shortage” (it’s a WAGE shortage, you disingenuous pricks) and labels young people lazy. The ones who are working for peanuts get mocked for “living with mommy” (they can’t afford rent, you fuckheads). Oh, and they stay home and play video games “because they’re manchildren” (they CAN’T AFFORD TO GO OUT; just die in a fire already).

The only solution I see is if more continue to drop out of the official labor force, like >>19238998. This anon, like most people, has incredibly reasonable and even modest expectations for compensation. Nobody expects to drive a vette on their way to their job at McDonalds. What they would like is a working car, a place of their own, food, and a little extra for savings to build a future. Though, I suspect with our open border is an incoming mass legalization of either foreign labor or just outright blanket citizenship to glut the market with more workers if enough Americans drop out of the workforce.

>>19234791
>>19237173

I dont understand what's wrong about what he's saying. Could you explain it to me?
McDonalds cooks and sells hamburgers. Am I missing something. Is it NOT REEL D00D?

>>19233172
sushi

>>19238998
i forgot to mention. the freedom of a spare 40hrs a week, (minus a few days or weeks of oddjobs) is amazing i get incredibly lazy, though. i have a huge to do list and i havent done shit.

have money, or have free time

>>19239346
>>19238958
don't believe the mainstream news' lies. most people feel like this these days it seems

>>19239238
Grind your own beef. An electric meat grinder costs like 100 Euro. Don't get a mechanical one like in the good old days, those are crap. If you clean it straight away it's no hassle at all. I get all the trimmings from my butcher's dry-aged Rubia Galega at a ridiculous discount. Life is good.

>>19233172
I mean I spend like $6 at mc donalds if I go there because I just get 10 nuggets no fries or drink. I used to get 20 nuggets large fries and a drink. then i dropped the drink. then i dropped 10 nuggets. then i dropped the fries

>>19233576
You're either out of your fucking mind, lying out of your ass, or you live in the middle of Assfuck Nowhere, in Random Flyover State next to a farm where they sell you the old rotten cow meat leftovers for pennies on the pound.

the way i look at it now, i compare the old price to the new price.

99cent bean and cheese burritos from del taco are now $1.50... okay, not bad. still relatively cheap with this doubling of prices over the past 5 years.
99cent mcdouble is now $3.50.. yeah, fuck that, ill pass.

chipotle burritos are fucking massive and they used to be like $8 , now theyre less then $12
meanwhile ma/pa taquerias have had skimp ass burritos go from $6 to $12+ in the past five years

>>19233182
no bacon at mcdonalds

>>19239731
when I was just out of high school I kept my spending in check by imagining myself paying for things in piles of $1 tacos. Better times.

>>19239797
"is this $12 subway sandwich really worth 45minutes of my labor?"
and then when you factor in rent and other mandatory costs, your comfort spending cash gets cut in half
"is this $12 subway sandwich really worth 90 minutes of my labor?"

>>19239889

Anyone have any tips for getting on EBT? Do they count "assets" when determining your eligibility? I own my house outright and have a couple paid-off cars. Can I just quit my job and claim zero income? Can I drain all of my bank accounts and put it into monero and gold bullion and claim to have no savings? Help me get on assistance bros, I'm ready to check out of the goy race and retire

>Hungry Man TV dinner costs $8.50
It's almost as expensive as Taco Bell!

>>19240186
the requirements vary state to state. most states have the requirement that you are actively seeking employment, or are currently employed and receive a salary below a predefined limit. work requirements were waived in my state during the pandemic but that's over now. basically, just submit an application and they'll do one of two things: let you know quite quickly if you're ineligible, or schedule an interview, probably by phone. if you get an interview, you do that and explain your circumstances and you get a letter a few weeks later that tells you if you got in or not.

>>19233172
Can't afford luxuries such as chocolate, meat, cheese, etc. Now I can only have them rarely. I've stopped name-brand snacks and other processed stuff altogether.

>>19239380
First, this poster is so American that he has a tried and true history of buying 2-packs of double bacon cheeseburgers from walmart. These were his target and his favorite prey. $5 2-pack frozen walmart burgers.

Then, this American lodges his complaint. That the price of things double after they print double their money in one year.

Then, the American, in its anger at what it did to itself, announces that it will simply have to take its business to McDicks for something "fresh".

I would not eat any of this.

>>19240265
Thanks anon. In your experience, how much do they look into me "actively seeking employment"? Like if send a shitty resume to a posting I'm not qualified for once a week, is that good enough? How much discretion does the person interviewing me have in deciding if I get in?

Stopped getting frozen hash brown patties, they must have quadrupled in price.

>>19240338
>Like if send a shitty resume to a posting I'm not qualified for once a week, is that good enough?
I think that's the strat a lot of welfare queens use, but I've not tried it myself.
>How much discretion does the person interviewing me have in deciding if I get in?
a lot, generally. it depends on the rule.

>>19239731
I feel guilty eating anywhere other than Chipotle now because everything else is overpriced.

>>19240338
>>19240363
forgot to mention, I think you have to actually interview with prospective employers every now and then, rather than just queuing up applications. i doubt it matters if you intentionally fuckup the interview.

>>19239217
Normally thieving is considered degenerate, but under the current circumstances BASED.

>>19240186
In my state you could apply for unemployment, but if you own your home, no. If you have more than 3k in the bank it’s a no. If you’re living with friends or family and their “household income” is over a certain amount, then no. You will own nothing and you will be happy.

Nothing. Food is the last thing I will compromise on. I also make good money so dont really care.
I'm also unvaccinated, and went to the majority of the protests in my City. If you retards did the same, we wouldnt be in this mess.

>>19233172
I stopped buying sliced sandwich bread. Now I go to the bakery and get full loaves to eat with cheese and olive oil.

>>19233172
>What foods have you stopped buying ever since prices went to shit?

mostly fast food, especially since I work from home now. I can order a to-go burger from any regular restaurant and it'll cost as much as fast food burger but will actually be tasty. I'll go out to restaurants and eat, but fast food just seems utterly pointless now. It used to be, you could go to a fast food restaurant and eat well for $5, and if you spent $10 you could gorge yourself. Now it's basically going to be close to $10 minimum just for a basic double cheeseburger, fries, and drink. If I go to Whataburger and get the patty melt or whataburger meal, it's like $13. It's insane. And on top of that, they often close the lobbies early so you have to sit in the drive thru for 15-30 minutes anyway. The food isn't fast anymore, and it's more expensive. It's worse in every way than it used to be.

I've switched to buying higher quality restaurant ingredients, and going out to a decent restaurant once a week or so, instead of getting fast food 3-4 times per week

>>19238836
Just drink water instead. It's free, falls right out of the fucking sky.

>buy a 13 pound prime rib roast
>$95
This is terrible, my family is starving

>>19233576
>Meat hasn’t changed much in price and I regularly find it on sale at prepandemic prices

agreed, as far as I can tell, meat prices increased 15-20% at most. Stuff that used to be $4 a pound (like ground beef) is now 5 dollars a pound, and so forth. Even then, if I buy the cheap stuff, I can get ground beef for like $3.50 a pound if I go to sam's club. Flank stanks have gone up but they're only $9 per pound. The nice cuts of steak have gone up a lot, but regular shit isn't that much more expensive.

>>19239166
>>19233724


The biggest price increases I've seen are for processed shit. Potato Chips, candy, premade dip, salad dressing, bag dinners, canned food, etc has jumped in price. I think 2 liters of soda and 12 packs are basically almost double what they were pre-pandemic. But meat and many vegetables and fruits really aren't that much more expensive, maybe a dollar or two more per pound than before the pandemic. T. Missourian, maybe it really is worse on the coastal cities

>>19239728
>>19239728
>You're either out of your fucking mind, lying out of your ass, or you live in the middle of Assfuck Nowhere, in Random Flyover State next to a farm where they sell you the old rotten cow meat leftovers for pennies on the pound.

you must be a retarded nigger. Don't you realize most of the beef comes from flyover states like Kansa and Missouri and Oklahoma and North Texas? Those places get the best beef and it's also cheaper there than anywhere else because of close proximity to cattle ranches and farms and slaughterhouses.

>>19239166
Thanks to the internet and free time during the pandemic, lots of people learned to cook. Everyone knows how to make fringe/cheap cuts of meat into something that tastes good. le grandma's secret flank recipe isn't a secret anymore and costs more now.

>>19233724
what would this be in burger bucks? like $3.50/lb

>>19241228
also it's like +$1 more/lb if you don't want some beef above walmart tube grade beef

>>19241228
also it's like +$1 more/lb if you want beef above walmart tube grade mystery beef

>>19241232
You can regularly find great ground beef on sale for $3.50 pound.

>>19233172

There is not a single fast food restaurant that is worth it anymore. At least around here. The price has gone up while the quality of both the product and the service has noticeably decreased.

>>19234364
Where the fuck do eggs cost this much money? People keep talking this shit but they're only like $3 for a dozen large AA here. Sure it's a bit more than it used to be but its nothing insane

>>19233172
might as well be all of it. i haven’t felt this hopeless and suicidal since i was a teenager and i’m turning 40 this year.

To be honest, I buy less junk food but haven't really bought less of the good stuff. I buy less non-food items, and I go on staycations (i.e. vidya).
>normalfags tell me to go travel
No thanks, my autism is saving me money.

>>19239786
Yes there is...

>>19237483
>mcgangbangers

A preteen mcgangbang is much better than a thrown together mcgangbang.

>>19237483
>Gangbangers
Pretty sure they're just called mcgangbangs, but I won't be too harsh because that is the thinking man's choice when it comes to mcgoyslop.

>>19240265
>or are currently employed and receive a salary below a predefined limit
this one is hilarious.cuase if you work any minimum wage job for more than like 20hours a week, then youre above the qualifying threshold

>>19240417
>If you’re living with friends or family and their “household income” is over a certain amount, then no. if the rent/house isnt in your name, then just claim homeless. just say theyre accomidating you in a spare room for the time being

>>19240366
eat at del taco!

>>19239096
depends on the ma and pa restaurant. A lot of em are just heating up Stouffer's. The real ones do just fine.

>>19240355
>Stopped getting frozen hash brown patties, they must have quadrupled in price.
when i see the price increase in bottom-tier items, i imagine it is soley due to increases in fuel and shipping. like this product is so fucking cheap, its pretty much free and any profit comes off shipping and handling

>>19240366
>I feel guilty eating anywhere other than Chipotle now because everything else is overpriced.
i feel guilty eating anywhere becuase i have so much ebt and foodbank food waiting for me at home. ive been sitting on this chipotle giftcard for like 3 years now.

>>19238312
cool story bro

>>19237212
>>19238958
>>19238998

This is why I don't really care about work anymore. Why bother? I've been an IT corpo rat for the last eight years, and before that I was an insurance adjuster.

Basically, all those corpo gigs are rat races and the only way to stay on top is to make the job your hobby. So you spend time getting certified, polishing resumes, and negotiating and interviewing.

>>19239346
Again, why bother? We hit the Cyberpunk dystopia button in 2008, the pandemic just sort of accelerated it and we are on track to have an entire generation of young people who are not really building a future for anything but themselves, and that sort of degradation of family dynamics means the death of a society. You want healthy young people? Make sure they can get a job quickly, get a house with a backyard cheap, and get a woman/man to have kids with. I would literally sign a law mandating subdivisions be built with sub 250K starter homes for young people only, even if my taxes went up like mad. The externalities alone would skyrocket the economy back to the post-war era quickly. Then again, we are seeing Gen Z buying homes faster than millennials, but news articles are all over the place these days so who the fuck knows.

>>19233172

We mostly avoid premium shops now. Used to go to a nice grocer, but man oh man are they struggling. It's Kroger and a nearby Salvage grocer for us now, we buy the foods sthey have there, many of which are "expired".

Haven't yet bothered to go into a food bank, but we make enough not to. Might still though if it's no questions asked/no forms to fill out. Fuck them. I've paid into food banks for years when I was flush, now it's my turn and the whole food system is fucked.

Fast food has changed. I use coupons more and avoid certain places. I have no idea how McDonalds and Subway are still open; they both operate in a world where there are better options. And the options are not even far away. Every subway seems to be surrounded by four other sandwich chains that are better, and lunch being around 12-15 USD in my area goes much further at say, Del Taco or Chipotle or Carl's Jr than McDerps, where they want 3.50 for a double cheeseburger that is essentially unchanged from the shit I paid 1 USD for half a decade prior.

Sometimes I miss the before days, when I could eat junk that tasted decent and then full like shit an hour later. It was better times. Now though even if prices went back to how they were I’m not likely to go back to fast food because I learned how to make food so I could survive for longer on less.

>>19233172
>What foods have you stopped buying ever since prices went to shit?
KFC. I can't afford to spend $60 on 5 pieces of chicken.
Also, they have TERRIBLE customer service, and it takes half an hour or more to get your food.
I just get my fried chicken from Albertson's now. It's less than $10 for the equivalent of a whole chicken.

>>19237212
>>19238958
>>19239346
Whole system is a fucking racket. I used to work 60-70 hours a week making 30 bucks an hour, being worked like a fucking slave but still making decent money. Covid hits, my industry gets hit hard and hours drop to a trickle but we're "essential workers" so we're still going in every day - meanwhile, the unemployed got more money per week than most working people (myself included with the reduced hours) and the government didn't do a fucking thing to help anyone employed. Are you unemployed? Here's a few million! Still working? Get fucked!

I gave up. Quit and went on unemployment, which I qualified for due to the reduced hours under the special covid provisions. I'm tired of getting fucked for doing the right thing, I'm doing the bare minimum from now on to get by and everyone else can fucking suck me. You're either working 60 hours a week or on welfare, they don't want a reasonable middle ground.

>>19242619
I haven't bought that shit for years. Honestly, the service at KFC and Popeyes is almost as bad as Taco Bell, where you inevitably get some human pond scum detritus that can't be fucked to say "Welcome to Taco Bel, what can we make you?" or something semi-pleasant. Nope. "Whaddu want?" Is my usual greeting I get.
Del Taco is clean and the people are friendly and prices are good. We go there more often now because 15 bucks gets you a lot of food if you avoid the luxury items, but even those are reasonably priced.

>>19233172
Nearly all chips. Plain potato and salt is still pretty reasonable at $2.00, so I'll get that and drizzle them with hot sauce. Better than $4 for jalapeno flavored. No fucking way I'm putting $2 more down to add a flavor.

>>19234398
>Junk food isn't cheap, it's fattening, and it's wasteful
Thats the plan.

>>19239083
>Would've been
Lol already coping
>>19239096
Ironic that Rothschild Europe slave is saying others are jews

>>19242560
>…but news articles are all over the place these days so who the fuck knows.
Yes, and no. There’s a big difference between buying a home, and keeping a home. There are a lot of grants and government programs out there, with more bills waiting to be passed right now, that assist non-white first-time home buyers. The PROBLEM is they can BUY the homes (technically rendering the news coverage factual), but they omit the fact that they cannot afford to KEEP their homes. So they get handed money to buy a home, they can’t keep up on the payments, the bank forecloses, and sells the house again to another young non-white homeowner who was given a hunk of cash for a downpayment, they can’t afford to keep it either, the bank forecloses, sells the house again… banks are making more money selling the same homes over and over again to people they know can’t afford them then they make selling homes to people who can make the payments and keep their homes. So it is no surprise to me, at all, that there are two bills currently in the works that penalize people with good credit wanting to take out loans (they pay higher interest rates) while offering discounted interest rates to people with bad credit- the banks want to clear the way to selling even more houses to people they get to snatch that house back from to sell again. They call this “equity” (the new word for anti-racism) when they’re actively targeting black people to rip off.

>>19238958
>many assistance programs start cutting people off at $5-10k in a checking or savings account. Further incentivizing people to live and conduct business outside the system.
the issue is that these cutoff limits were set in the 70's and never raised. something along the lines of if youre vehicle is worth more than 3k, youre disqualified... back then that was the equivalent of a 18k vehicle. youre lucky if you can get a reliable vehicle for 3k these days, pretty asinine

>>19242634
>many assistance programs start cutting people off at $5-10k in a checking or savings account. Further incentivizing people to live and conduct business outside the system.
the issue is that these cutoff limits were set in the 70's and never raised. something along the lines of if youre vehicle is worth more than 3k, youre disqualified... back then that was the equivalent of a 18k vehicle. youre lucky if you can get a reliable vehicle for 3k these days, pretty asinine

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>>19242685
>junk food isnt cheap..
>Thats the plan.
i thought the plan was to make junk food cheap so people get diabetes and make money for the pharma industry

>>19233172
>What foods have you stopped buying ever since prices went to shit?
Reduced the amount of meat drastically but I’m not willing to compromise much more with food, I did stop buying things like cookies, ice cream and chips completely.

>>19243682
>Reduced the amount of meat drastically
You should buy that vegan "meat" instead. It might be more expensive, but just think of all the cute and cuddly whales that you will be saving.

>>19233724
Are you buying butchers select cut dry-aged beef?

>>19234991
Yes, I love poor people so much I want them to not eat actual shit. If they didn't eat like pigs maybe the money wasted on their extra health expenses could be used to improve their lives in meaningful ways.
We shouldn't enable single mothers and poors to buy shit food. Fuck their freedom, their fat asses cost billions of dollars extra.

my gf spends her ebt on $12 juices and vegan "me'at junkfood" microwave dinners from fancy groceries that she thinks look cute.

>>19233172

>>19234756
This. Although Wendy's is the only one that's worth it because unlike BK your rewards points don't expire and unlike BK and McD's you can combine rewards and digital coupons.

I'm on EBT since the USA makes being a non elite athlete impossible.
>>19234888
Nice trips. The rice situation is hilarious. California grown rice is 10x the price of oatmeal at every grocery store in a 20 mile radius, but I can find it at Costco for the price you'd expect to pay for a locally produced grain. Cheap-ish.

It's weird finding products at Walmart, Target, Costco that have stayed the same price but almost doubled at at local stores. It resembles price fixing, maybe by the distributors.

>>19234791
Your food at McDonalds is cooked fresh right in front of your very eyes, yes. The freshness of the ingredients in another story.

>>19233172
Actually McDonalds is one of the few that I continue to buy because it's consistent. Sure, I'll pay more like everything else but I know it's always going to be good. I think I just bougth my last Wendy's because I spent $11 on a cold, shrunken patty, half-filled carton of fries, and the wrong drink.

>>19233172
>$2.12 at Wal Mart
Also, potato chips are almost $5 for a bag. It isn't just inflation. They are intentionally raising the prices on junk food because they don't want to piss of Michelle Obama when she becomes president.

Meanwhile, I can go next door and buy booze for basically the same price it's always been. They have literally doubled the price on particular items because they want us drugged, drunk, and eating bugs.

>>19244327
>It resembles price fixing, maybe by the distributors.
More likely it's sheer volume/scale. Walmart, Target, and Costco are able to leverage more demand from their nation-wide market than the regional chains can, just like the regional chains like Meijer can leverage their markets better than the local grocery store can.
Incidentally, just noticed that the local small-town grocery store near me is closing up.
Coupled with their wider selection, higher throughput, and their corporate cash reserves, this means they can put a smaller markup on their products which they can get for slightly less cost in the first place without running in the red as a whole and weather what they might hope to be brief spikes in costs.

>>19233629
You say never again but you'll still go there again and again and again like a fucking punk and post about it again again and again.

>>19233629
You take cock up your ass but never again, yeah we know your game faggot.

>>19234212
Food stamps became a thing because of.....Demoncrats. They wanted to give "dignity to the poor." So instead of going to a soup and bread line, they'd give out food coupons so a man could feel dignity going to the local grocer to pay in monopoly money. Eventually it became a plastic debit card.
Fuck all that. There need to be strategically located soup kitchen in city. Bean and vegetable soup and hardtack-like bread all day. Fridays and Sundays will be some kind of processed meat type special, like processed meat chili with cornbread. Breakfast is from 4am-6am. Lunch10:30am-12:30pm. Dinner 5pm-7pm. Doors open an shut on the clock. You must be in person to eat on hard plastic re-usable bowls, spoons, and cups. You are expected to dispose of trash and place used bowls in cleaning area. No talking above a whisper in chow hall. No food to-go. 2nds are permitted if all food consumed. Must be showered or neatly kept. Shoes must be worn with belt. Belt must be showing with shirt tucked into pants. Women may wear a dress past the knee only with shoes. Break any of the rules and there will be varying levels of punishment. 1st offense 1 week banishment, and so on until banned for life on 5th or something. Have a few managers that get paid well to run it like a hard plantation. Have the workers all be on probation with the threat of immediate re-incarceration if they move out of line even slightly or do shitty work. Also make it to where any citizen can eat at one of these so students, hard times people, and others that want to save on expenses can eat there and try to get by. Management can refuse to serve for any reason, like you stink bad or look suspicious. And of course, terminate all food welfare programs.

>>19244405
There's no logic in your so called manifesto, try again fag boi.

Im just gonna start making my own junk food since it's obvious they are targeting "comfort" foods on purpose to piss people off.

>>19244387
That sounds rational but it's driven me out of the store for certain staples I know I can find in bulk at a normal price elsewhere. This is an affluent area, but I still find it insulting when they try to profit off of stuff like rice. It's one of the cheapest foods on Earth. It's as if ((they)) expect we'll buy into the high prices being out of their control by keeping EVERYTHING through the roof.

>>19244419
I can't imagine being as stupid as you are. It is an achievement. Now kys and stop bothering everyone. Go now.

This will probably freak some people out, but I've actually started buying and using Karo's dark syrup instead of your typical pancake syrup. It costs about the same (or less), and it isn't watered down. I mean, if you're eating breakfast, you probably want as much energy as possible, and literally what can compare to a literal pile of carbs?

>>19233792
hahahaha, seek therapy before you shoot up a school

>>19244455
Yet you're the faggot with a manifesto.

>>19238855
>leaf hut
brick-challenged house

>>19238958
welcome to /pol/

>>19243927
nope, that's the literal cheapest shit cut of tough sinewy beef
cant even get silverside anymore, shit was $12/kg a month ago, then when it spiked in popularity (cuz people are broke from shit going up in price) its gone up to $32/kg
the meat section in most supermarkets goes completely untouched these days, supermarkets keep raising prices because they interpret it as "hmm there's no demand".
even fucking packaged sliced ham and salami doubled in price just last week.

>>19244362
>potato chips are almost $5 for a bag
fucking pringles are $5.80 a can now
ive had to switch to rice crackers because you cant get chips under $5 a pack

>>19244430
shipping and handling cost have gone up, moron.

Its shocking how many people still believe inflation is real. Inflation is just their term to excuse greedy price gouging and you all are too stupid to see through it.

>>19244797
>Inflation is just their term to excuse greedy price gouging and you all are too stupid to see through it.
That literally is inflation you fucking retarded excuse for a white person.

It'll probably just be a matter of time before chocolate or vanilla flavored bug protein becomes more popular than whey.

>>19244802
An excuse to price gouge is not inflation. Its purely out of greed because they feel they can get away with it.

>>19233172
taco bell. not worth it anymore. i can get real mexican food for the same price at this point

>>19244722
How can Pringles be even more expensive than chips? They're literally inferior reconstituted potato starch

>>19244942
>How can Pringles be even more expensive than chips? They're literally inferior reconstituted potato starch
Ugh. I know, right? And they don't even use enough salt. I shouldn't need a salt shaker for my chips.
I did like the ruffled version a few decades ago because they were loaded with salt. Nowadays, meh.

I made a decent amount of money last year and quit my job. Since then I've been watching my budget so I can coast as long as possible. I've always been frugal-minded but lately I'm on that poverty diet.

Oats, flour for bread, chicken stock, bananas, peanut butter, potatoes, and onions are my staple foods. Walmart also has some really cheap frozen chicken which I eat sparingly. For the most part everything I've eaten for the last few months has been these few things. I even skip lunch most days just to eat less.

As for drinks, I found dirt cheap matcha on Amazon which has lasted me months, and besides that I only drink tap water.

I refuse to go to restaurants anymore, and spend less than 3 dollars at McDonald's the one time a month I go there.

>>19245143
ebt has been keeping up with inflation and pretty much doubled they amount thyve been giving people since covid started. find someone with ebt and get 2 for 1 on groceries. also if you dont work, you have plenty of time to hit up th foodbanks for staples. some foodbanks fucking suck and others just re-distribute qaulity groceries from quality grocers (most of the corporate groceries shove their excess in the food then lock/compact it)

>>19245143
ebt has been keeping up with inflation and pretty much doubled they amount thyve been giving people since covid started. find someone with ebt and get 2 for 1 on groceries. also if you dont work, you have plenty of time to hit up th foodbanks for staples. some foodbanks fucking suck and others just re-distribute quality groceries from quality grocers (most of the corporate groceries shove their excess in the dumpster then lock/compact it)

^^^hmmm, does this qualify as a poor person thread? mods should probably delete/prune this thread

>>19246108
Yea mods are so fucking stupid on this board they should absolutely keep deleting threads that are worth a damn

>>19246103
Def do what this guy says. Food banks are solid, but you get a lot of junk too. For example

> canned tuna from mexico that is 10% soy cake
> peanut butter that has had all its peanut oil drained and replaced with...... snoybean oil

Just sort through the BS and find whats good.

>>19246108
>anons in poverty discuss the various factors driving inflation, and exchange tips on how to survive by what to cut out of their shopping, how to qualify for government benefits to get free food, or how to effectively use food banks
>(You): “MODSSSSSSSSS!!”
This is a FOOD and cooking board, ya’ dingus. Maybe some people want to, like, I dunno, not starve to death?

>>19246237
idk, all my dumpsterdiving threads get deleted pretty quickly

>>19246247
Because the mods here are fucking stupid.

Note:
my local foodbank used to have a huge excess of all sort of great amazing interesting stuff, often had meat and lots of fancy cheeses and stuff. lots of prepackaged meals, junkfood, superfoods, common staples and alllll sort of random shit

i left for a year and came back and everyday its been the same shit, potatoes, zucchini, celery, apples and stale bread and maybe one or two semi-interesting items.... im starting to worry

>>19246283
Well, I used to donate a local food bank fairly regularly, then stopped when I had to begin tightening my own belt. Most people I knew who donated were middle class. Never saw a lot of rich folks contributing. So…. I hadn’t thought about it until now, but my thinking is demand is up and donations are down. It’s the middle class that’s been the backbone of most charity in my area, my guess being because we’ve all either been poor ourselves or went to public school with poor kids.

>>19246307
But isn’t it the rich that pay like 70% of the countries taxes and start all businesses?

>>19246322
The rich just accumulate wealth and trickle-down economics is not real. Businesses are just a front for borderline slavery, they do NOT have your best interest in mind. Also the 1% has a history of dodging taxes via "loopholes" (corruption), resulting in actual billions of taxes that should have been paid to just get swept under the rug.

>>19246307
it appears most the donations at my foodbank are from buisnesses that have excess product.

its usuallyt the churches that redistribute middle-class peoples leftovers. those church foodbanks usually tend to fucking suck ass on what they give out. cheap low quality versions of everything (THAT THEY PAY FOR)

>>19246346
i remember i was scrapping metal for some wealthy-looking lady and she had me sign a piece of paper valuing her scrap stove as being worth $500. i didnt think anything of it at the time as i was getting a free $15 worth of scrap (minus shipping and handling). she was white.

>>19233172
Those meme buldak ramen I love are like 6$ for 4 packs now. Son of a bitch.

of course no one ever talks about the environmental cost of food and the sustainabily of food supply for future generations, wasnt that some sort of 1488 thing? idk but bubba needs a bigger truck and hes not gonna be able to pay for it growing carrots and tomatoes

>>19246434
Water doesn't go anywhere. Its all here. None of this information matters at all. Water cost for food is basically fake information that doesnt change anything. You could probably make a graph like this for fertilizer etc. and it'd look similar. Honestly posting info like this is a sign that your IQ doesn't reach high 70s really.

Even with almonds, the shells are reused for things. Every part of a cow is used from the bones to the hooves. Beef also enrich the soil big time, so you could argue that they could use 3X that water and still be worth it without much difficulty.

Not only that, but the graph doesnt show anything related to climate or growing conditions/methods. It's basically like me posting

how my tummy feel when i see plants grow
appler - 45
pear - 98
poison ivy - 48327
rices - 99

so, as you can see we shouldn't grow poison ivy and i like apples more than pears too, so we should grow more apples.

>>19246477
you could extraopolate information from there and deduce that maybe its not a good idea to grow almonds in a fucking desert with a finite and dwindling underground water supply

I had some guy rant a me for an hour about almond recycling. he ran a buisness that recycled their almond shells. he says its very profitable at all but hes able to pull money out of it and stay afloat. this was about two years ago. he was also complaining he cant get anyone to process his almonds since all the plants are full from processing trees that the state of califnoria is culling to prevent more fires.

he ranted and ranted about how almonds dont need to be in every cheap cerial bar and ice crea (half of which gets thrown out by the grocery stores)

just cuase every part of the cow can be used/reused doesnt mean we should produce it in over abundance. i mean you could make 1000 cakes of the finest, most resource intensive ingrediants and then eat one cake and throw the rest into a compost pile. "well it didnt go to waste since i used the leftovers to grow more food"

how about americas over abundance of corn? well thats not a waste since we can put all the excess high fructocse corn syrup into all the goy's prepackaged food!

^^^hes says its *not* very profitable at all*
*he cant get anyone to process his almond *shells*

>>19233172
Eggs

>>19243940
Honestly, if you are on EBT, it should be controlled. We absolutely could have more limitations on EBT purchases, such as having a government run store that would be then only place you could use EBT (the public can buy there too) that sells surplus/damaged foods. We'd also need to implement basic identity checks like photo ID and Hardware based tokens + 2FA on phone so crackheads don't sell EBT for fentanyl.

If you are on the dole, you submit to the whims of the state.

>>19244797
I think the real thing that made me laugh is that we are not in a recession, supposedly. We absolutely are in a shock from the pandemic, they just change the metrics and the goalposts so we don't have to say it.

Nogshim spicy black. It's almost $5 a cup now.

>>19247026
If the election starts going bad for the establishment and they can't stop Trump we'll skip right over Recession. That's what all the recent bank stuff is about.

>>19239285
>Just do your own cooking like a third worlder
Realistically all of human advancement can be seen as a steady progression towards working less - from hand tools to beasts of burden to simple mechanical tools to the internal combustion engine. Our societies are formed the same way - with slaves, poors, or women pressed into service doing the cooking, cleaning and menial work.

What in the actual fuck makes anyone think they want to do more cooking or cleaning? Why would you aspire to living like a third worlder, whether it makes you more self-sufficient or not? People will literally buy robot cooks before the majority of civilized people (Read: Westerners) ever go back to a model that requires them to work more than they do today.

Convenience isn't a side-effect or a detriment, its the whole fucking point. Everything we have ever built or done has been in service of this. No exceptions.

>inb4 lazy
Do you think there's ever been a King, an Emperor, or a Senator in history that doesn't understand using money to hire people to do things they don't want to do? Seriously, I'm asking. You can bet they don't mow their own lawns, cook for themselves or vacuum.

>>19247053
Why not pay your servant cook to get cheaper food then

>>19246434
Where do you think the water the cows consume go? They arent a black hold void that erases the water they consume. COWS PISS AND SHIT THE WATER THEY CONSUME and where do they do it? onto the fields where they eat grass and makes things grow faster.

>>19247097
This is my favorite anti-meat argument. We learned about the water cycle in elementary. Most of the water they drink, they breathe out straight back into the atmosphere where it hang out until it rains, then back in the reservoir.

>>19247076
Realistically, people are just going to start pressing hard for elimination of everyone in station beneath themselves so that they can have more for themselves, same as they always have in history, anon. First they'll start walking back special privileges for minority groups and fifth column interests, then they'll start deporting immigrant labor, then eventually press into law a means to deport naturalized citizens from other countries (E.G. Anchor Babies) and finally fall on each other arguing over who's American/European enough to deserve rights.

The gravy train is over and now people are going to start pushing each other off, starting with the Captial-O Other. This is human nature. It was not a matter of 'if' but a matter of 'when'. The answer, as always, is...
>They'll do it when they have to

I just straight up can't afford meat anymore. I'm Canadian and it's fucking awful.

>>19233172
Beef. Like a bad steak is $11/lb and a good one is $15+/lb, and meanwhile pork and chicken are at like $4/lb. Like even salmon is cheaper than this at around $9 or $10/lb. IDK, and another weird one that got me was the spike in ketchup prices and I'm tempted to just try making some on my own. Like it's not super expensive, but the price practically doubled. Decent cheese on my watchlist, b/c it's just right at the cusp of unaffordability for even the lowest-tier 'decent' brie or cheddar.

>>19247174
This is completely backwards. They want the intelligent people who can oppose them gone.

>>19233172
fast food and snacks are about it. Already used to having a tiny budget for food.
>>19234565
Over 10 years ago Texas curbed that shit. I know because I tried buying a can in Walmart with ebt. Unless shits changed since then. No I'm not on food stamps currently. I'd rather have a fucked budget and survive on coffee and one meal a day than sign back up for government assistance

>>19247174
>The gravy train is over and now people are going to start pushing each other off
That's why republicunts started using child labor.
Everyone I know has turned on republicunts, restaurants, and fast food chains that use child labor.

>>19247526
Child labor is good for kids.

>>19247514
Fast food is more expensive then cooking your own meals, tubby

>>19238958

No shit. SSI cuts people (legit disabled and mentally impaired) at a $2000 bankroll despite the fact you cant even to live normally, anywhere, with that little cash. Obviously you cant make even a tiny bit of money either.
Fuck it all to hell and back.

>>19233172
Regular price for pork back ribs unironically tripled in price in my area. I've been able to buy 4 racks since the start of 2020 that have been reasonable prices during a sale. I could buy them more often if I stopped buying beer or something, but it also just pisses me off because I know that it's a bullshit markup. Lean hog prices have barely moved in 15 years.

>>19247937
EXACTLY. Are you hungry enough to own nothing? No? Well I guess you ain’t hungry enough for Uncle Sam’s bennies. Tighten your belt, faggot.

>>19247498
>oppose them
No one will oppose anything as they have grown soft and docile. The lockdowns and mandates have shown enough.

>>19247999
Shalom rabbi

>>19244942
production got outsourced to fucking MALAYSIA for no reason
cans got smaller and less flavoring on them too

>>19248536
>roduction got outsourced to fucking MALAYSIA for no reason
the fuck? lol

>>19248539
GDP MUST GO UP

>>19248586
That is fucking insane. It's literally potato starch in a plastic tube.

>>19234364
1 a dozen for my current eggs. Alot of you are shopping noobs i can tell.

>>19237212
You cant claim eitc with 0 income lol. And the child and dependant care credit also has an income phasein again now but it didnt for tax year 2021. But you are sort of right in that ppl with 4+ kids could get over $20k from just those two credits if their earned income and agi were just right (both had to be around $20k iirc.) But this year they mostly reversed the kung flu buffs on the credits but you can still get up to like 18k from them... Again were talking in an ideal situation where youre claiming 4 kids and are low income but not too low.

>>19238297
Thats gonna be because 40% are either children retired students or disabled.

>>19233172
I have stopped eating altogether, fuck the caloric jew.

>>19233172
I basically eat everything that this board calls reddit, and use cookware that this board calls reddit. I also have sex with the opposite sex frequently.

I limit myself to 50p per 100g, anything above that is no-go. That basically means all brand foods are out, most meats are out, most dairy are out, most crisps and chocolates are out. Ironically, this has made my diet a lot healthier as I can no long afford most junk foods.

>>19249015
I always want to tell poor bros about a cheap meat source, but hipsters will find out and make it the most expensive meat source so I stay silent.

>>19249015
If you were doing bongbucks per calorie the junk food would go back on the list though and vegetables would be hella off.

>>19249018
Did you used to enjoy oxtail stew?

>>19249018
Yah i try to run over geese sometimes too.

>>19249018
A fishing pole and a couple of lures that piss off bass and trout, fishing license is optional if you are starving.

>>19233172
inflation hasn't affected whole plant ingredients much, at least from my U.S. perspective

>>19233680
Northern Illinois here. Until fairly recently shopping at Aldi was not socially acceptable and people would think less of you. We have a few other chains up here too like Food 4 Less and Woodman's that still have that stigma.

>>19249031
because that is about the only thing that we produce domestically that wasn't fucked up by the supply chain fiasco from covid lockdowns in california.

>>19234337
Black girls, man.

>>19249034
Literally we are letting a communist antogonist state hold the country hostage instead of liberating and occupying them like we did in Baghdad.

>>19249034
>forgot about all of the chicken and beef farms just burning down out of nowhere for reasons.

>>19234901
Can 4chan have ONE thread without mentioning tits?

>>19249018
I still eat meat, but it is limited to unpopular cuts like your said and processed things like sausages and nuggets.

>>19249019
Maybe, but I don't think it will be as filling/sating. I think I've found a nice balance between cost and feeling satisfied throughout the day. I really miss cheese though.

>>19249042
That was literally white supremacists trying to starve our beautiful diverse culture that the media just underreported as a footnote and buried, until poor joggers couldn't afford eggs with EBT/SNAP

>>19235881

>>19241167
>le free flavorless beverage is just as good!

>>19233172
OP you are going to spend the rest of your life being sad and angry if you don't learn what inflation is.

>>19233172
I just don't buy fast food anymore, I went twice a week now I just eat at home and cook. I didn't lost much. To be specific I don't go to BK and MC anymore.

>>19249046
eating processed meat =/= eating meat

>>19249109
I know, but it's still better than no meat at all.

>>19249022
The price of oxtails pisses me off. What the FUCK happened there, and who the FUCK is paying $18 for a pack of 5 little oxtail cuts? Not me. I used to buy them all the time to make bone broth. Not anymore. But seriously. Who is paying that??? It’s a trash cut.

>>19238312
first, currency deflation doesn't have a 1:1 linear relationship with money supply
second, price inflation is infinitely complex and currency value is only part of it (potentially a huge part but still only a part). rising oil costs definitely has the ability to cause systemic price inflation

that said, it is almost certainly largely from money supply in this case, since oil prices are still below late Bush/early Obama, yet everything is obviously several times as expensive now. there's also some price gouging because nearly every industry in the global economy is oligopolized by its cartel

Hardly ever get fast food anymore. When its not cheap its just not worth it for me anymore. You used to get an entire sack of tacos from Taco Bell for $5 and now it only gets you a soft taco and a bean burrito. Arbys doesn't have their 2 for $4 deals anymore. Little Caesars raised the price of the hot n ready plus made it smaller and the crust bigger so you get less toppings. If I'm going to spend $15-20 on what is basically luxury food, I'm going to go get something local or something like sushi that I can't make at home.

Energy drinks were a vice and I've scaled back on those a lot now. Walmart has energy powder that is $2 for like 12 packets and it works just as good and even tastes better than half of the energy drinks.

I hardly ever buy booze anymore.

>>19247966
>but it also just pisses me off because I know that it's a bullshit markup.
Eggs are also a bullshit markup, you can't ever justify $6/dozen Saw some farmer's market asshole trying to sell duck eggs for $7/dozen, and don't get me started on the pork prices there, even offal was bad. I think the price spikes are to scam hipsters/folksy LARPers, which outnumber the sensible shoppers 10:1.
>Verification not required

>>19249733
It’s interesting to see how drastically FOOD has gone up as opposed to most other things. I saw this shit coming back in 2020 and bought several pairs of shoes, duplicates of clothes I knew I would want to replace later, and many other items I use and replace on a fairly regular basis. The pais of pants I bought have only gone up a couple of dollars. The shoes cost the same. HOWEVER Suregel and Mason jars have more than doubled in price (glad I stocked up) and of course we see how eggs are double, milk double, etc. If this were truly an issue of currency inflation, EVERYTHING would be up 100%+. I thank God that it isn’t, but clearly something fucky is going on with food prices.

>>19247514
>fast food and snacks are about it.
They're not going to let the manufactured crisis of Covid go to waste. They're using it to go after junk food the way they went after cigarettes only instead of using taxes they're letting the manufacturers inflate the price. All this because if your average nigger eat a cheeseburger he gets the sweet blood and strokes out at 50. This is why we all are fucked.