@RickiTarr I feel so seen we just skimp on other things for food and catfood mostly. All fresh not much processed costs us more but may as well have a better chance.
@RickiTarr the bar has been set sooooooooo low that eating vegetables is only for the rich, while it used to be meat was for the rich.
"A lethargic population is the key to our control
Who'd rather watch someone's life on tv
Than participate in their own
Mentally they feel helpless
Physically they just give up
We priced the healthy food so high
They can only buy soda pop
A house broken bee colony
That goes home after 5
Too burnt and glazed to threaten us
With purpose in their lives" - Jello
@RickiTarr I'm on my own, and I spend about $250/week on groceries.
Apart from occasional dark chocolate which is actually factored into my diet, I don’t eat any snacks whatsoever, I don’t go out to eat, I never do takeaways, almost never drink (and even then it's maybe one or two drinks perhaps once every four to six months), and I only drink water and my morning coffee, no juice or anything like that. So no extra food or drink, just meals and other essentials.
This is how much it costs to eat healthy food here. It's insane.
@RickiTarr I think their perspective is because millennials and Gen Z do everything wrong (as far as we all are told that boomers and Gen X believe). So millennials and Gen Z would do best not to exist because every single other option for them has negative feedback, including nothing.
@RickiTarr I mean, the article says they are buying higher end products. The reality is kids don't feel like they HAVE to buy store brand cereal to save a couple bucks.
@kamikat One of the examples was people buying soda water, which isn't some fancy luxury item. If it was like the youngsters are buying $50 Ribeyes 4 times a week, then sure, but they are buying soda water and snacks
@RickiTarr And also, if they want the Ribeyes, who cares? They work just as hard for their dollars as the person writing this piece. I hate that we, as a species, enjoying judging each other's choices
@RickiTarr Laudable that, in these sustainability-conscious times, headline-writers have found a way to recycle their mountain of old avocado toast headlines.
"Splurging once meant spending money on buzzy restaurants, expensive vacations, and designer clothing. These days, what's considered splurge-worthy falls into a more humble category."
Or maybe we just can’t afford as much as we used to and COVID made many of us wary about eating out. @RickiTarr
@RickiTarr is it really a plan to 'splash' on groceries or are we just so screwed that 'food taking up a huge % of income' is billed as some kind of generational choice =_=
@RickiTarr Wait until they figure out there's two whole generations and a third on the way that just kind of mill around their houses, eating snacks and learning how to cook for themselves.
I know the out of touch do not understand this, but when you push generations into poverty they stay home to cook and garden.
This is because they can no longer afford to go out and if they would probably wouldn't just because it's now normal.
They've spawned a planet full of koala children and can only look on in horror as they just kind of relax instead of getting shot at at night clubs, and stopped trying to buy a new phone every 6 weeks.
The old god of consumerism is dying simply because it choked to death on hubris.
@RickiTarr this is also probably a consequence of not eating out as much, something we're also blamed foe despite not being the ones who set the prices too high
@RickiTarr
They are owning the sourdough, meal prep., and gardening spaces. I'm so happy to see this. My daughter sends pictures of her loaves. And the garden.
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My husband killed our starter, so we used the backup dried starter from the Bay Area daughter. It worked great! We made another batch of dried starter, "just in case". 😊
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