You turds mostly cook or order out?

[TVC15]

I said they do not exist in the Bible. Eat some carrots. Yr blind.

[agrajag]

I thought you meant "good nuns," you piece of shit.

[team filler]

homophobe chicken sandwiches 

[TEEEPO]

hogwash. 40 bucks per week equate to about 170 per month for groceries, which is already a good percentage points lower than the average budget for those at the lowest levels of poverty in the country. with a budget that low, you'll only be hitting the instant ramen section of the international markets, and you couldn't even afford the good shit.

/Shrug

. You're going to be living dried beans/grain/frozen veggies life with lots of soup, but I remember being able to snag massive bags of lentils and rice from the Indian store. All the info I could find on poverty line in the US kept redirecting me to Live Below The Line challenged where people try and live at the global line (15USD/week), so I'd like to see more sources on this.

gallup:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/156416/americans-spend-151-week-food-high-income-180.aspx

usda:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/food-prices-and-spending/

bols:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesmy.nr0.htm
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cesan.pdf

Btw is there something wrong with american supermarkets that you cant buy normal food for a good price?

I buy 95% organic (including meat) and we spend less then 600 bucks on groceries a month for a family of 3 (now).

https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-ppp.htm

[shosta]

When I was living on eggs, canned spinach, black beans, bulk oatmeal, and whole wheat tortillas, I was at... maybe $40 a week. In California. And I was getting so much nutrition that my farts were crazy bad.

[agrajag]

protein farts  I've been hotboxing my bed covers 

[shosta]

Yeah dude. Once I got a little more income after that I stopped min/maxing my nutrition-to-costs ratio and my health went back to shit. But at least the farts stopped.

Anyway the biggest issue with eating cheap and healthy is balancing enough diversity in your food to keep it interesting so you don't order out. Eating the same stuff gets old fast, which is totally a first world problem but yeah.

[agrajag]

yeah I pretty much eat the same shit every day. Once I start making that cheddar again I will eat out more

[nachobro]

$151 a week is pretty absurd but that seems to include restaurant spending too. One of the other links says the average is $85.50 a week for "make at home" only which still sounds absurd

Maybe that's just the difference between living in LA/NY and the rest of the country though.

[shosta]

It says family spending

[agrajag]

It says family spending

150 a week for a family sounds reasonable and works out to around the same math as I did per person

[nachobro]

151 is the average of all groups. For "children under 18 at home" its 173

[TEEEPO]

the income brackets for gallup are narrower than the ones from the usda/lobs...

also 151 is for individual adults, not families. scratch that, i thought you were referencing the young adult number

[nachobro]

our average per week is probably 50-60 a week for just grocery store stuff, but that's just for two people who rarely (once a week maybe) eat breakfast. so two meals a day i guess.

[Cerveza mas fina]

150 a week that's what we spend without any take out. Thats just groceries.

[headwalk]

it's mental how because people don't value the ritual hassle of the restaurant experience, takeaways and street food vendors have capitalised on it by basically charging the same prices.

the next food van that tries to charge me £9 for a burger and chips gets their tyres slashed.

[agrajag]

it's mental how because people don't value the ritual hassle of the restaurant experience, takeaways and street food vendors have capitalised on it by basically charging the same prices.

the next food van that tries to charge me £9 for a burger and chips gets their tyres slashed.

😳

[Cerveza mas fina]

Headwalk plz come to denmark and destroy all "streetfood" here

Not the hot dog stuff though, just the hipster shit that overcharges

[agrajag]

I was saddened when I heard that Putin (well, whatever mayor it was tbh, but he was taking directions from the big boss) cleaned up my home town and banned all street food. I didn't even care if it was made from dog or rat, shit was good.

[nachobro]

I just made some egg cups with bacon, cheese, and jalapeno, both easy and cheap.

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[headwalk]

Headwalk plz come to denmark and destroy all "streetfood" here

Not the hot dog stuff though, just the hipster shit that overcharges

polse is legendary and strangely sexual in its imagery, they will be spared.

[agrajag]

I just made some egg cups with bacon and jalapeno, both easy and cheap.

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lol they make this type of stuff in hotels for breakfast banquets and call them "fritatas" to make it sound fancy

[nachobro]

i just started making them cause my wife was raving about the starbucks egg bites that are like $4.50 for some tiny ass thing and i figured i could do better

[agrajag]

try cooking them with a water bath underneath for a heavenly and delicate cloud-like texture 👌

[Mr Gilhaney]

I want my antibiotics in my meat

[nachobro]

try cooking them with a water bath underneath for a heavenly and delicate cloud-like texture 👌

i actually just did that for this batch! they were coming out with shitty tops before and kinda flat. now, it's perfection

[Raist]

I just made some egg cups with bacon and jalapeno, both easy and cheap.

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lol they make this type of stuff in hotels for breakfast banquets and call them "fritatas" to make it sound fancy

Fritatas aren't fancy.


No italian food is for that matter.

[agrajag]

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lol they make this type of stuff in hotels for breakfast banquets and call them "fritatas" to make it sound fancy

Fritatas aren't fancy.


No italian food is for that matter.

didn't say it was

[naff]

go to osteria francescana and tell me italian food can't be fancy. modern italian cuisine ain't just nonna's home cooking

[agrajag]

go to osteria francescana and tell me italian food can't be fancy. modern italian cuisine ain't just nonna's home cooking

when Massimo Bottura was coming up, people in Italy talked mad shit to him, saying he doesn't cook real Italian food. I think putting close minded constraints on food is silly.

[TVC15]

Man if you could hook up a hose splooging alfredo sauce directly into my mouth, I’d be as happy as activated sludge on shit.

[Raist]

go to osteria francescana and tell me italian food can't be fancy. modern italian cuisine ain't just nonna's home cooking

Ah yes. I wonder where Bottura got that from 

[agrajag]

lol, my wife makes me a frittata in a cast iron pan almost every day for lunch

They are delicious;  different cheeses, types of peppers, mushrooms, etc. mix it up

tell her to get into tortillas espanolas, much better than fritatas imo

[TVC15]

Italian food is so good that I’m willing to forgive a few future Italian historical atrocities on credit.

[agrajag]

lol French elitism can fuck right off

[Raist]

 

[TVC15]

France is cool and all but Italy and Poland are it for European food. Trash food continent.

[agrajag]

 

why would I be mad? I'm not Italian, I have no horse in the race. I love all food equally.

[naff]

i'd argue the way italians use wheat flour traditionally is fancy a f and super innovative. pizza bases so soft they melt in your mouth but also have just a little crispy bite on the crust, the perfect conduit for toppings, pasta so good it's all you think about for days. i know it's not a diss per se to say it's not fancy, but it is actually super fancy especially if you put it into a fine dining context. the days of french dominance are over. welcome to the age of spanish, italian, chinese, scandinavian, japanese, lebanese, ethiopian, korean etc etc. french dining hasn't innovated in decades, the last great french food writer was an american, despite a lot of the revolutions in modern cuisine being inspired by techniques innovated by the french they are suffering because of their adherence to tradition. something italy and spain are doing an amazing job of eschewing/updating.

[TVC15]

My Dinner with Riotous

[bork]

Typically eat at home Sunday-Thursday and we tend to go for something "cheap" on Friday, then maybe splurge a bit for food from someplace nicer on Saturday night.  Rarely ever get delivery and have never had groceries delivered- there's a nice grocery store around the corner so never thought about it doing it once.

I don't "get" restaurant delivery services either- I'd rather just go pick it up myself and save some cash.  Guess it makes sense if you don't have a car.

The other day my boss bought me lunch at work.  The place I got the food from was like next door to our building so I figured I'd just go there and get it- instead someone from Door Dash brought it by.  This was like a one minute walk, if that.  Felt weird, lol.