• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    Maybe stop doing that then. I can get a weeks worth of food for that kind of money and it tastes good.

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      9 minutes ago

      I’m disabled and homeless and eat veggies, fruit, pasta, bread, cheese and protein on a daily basis at about $7 a day. people eat fast food because they are lazy, not poor.

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      5 hours ago

      I am fortunate we have enough mental energy to go to stores to buy ingredients to cook our own meals most days.

      Its similar, to what is referred to as “adhd-tax” I am still in this picture more then i would like.

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        3 hours ago

        Doesn’t really matter what your mental energy is if you don’t have the money to have any other choice. Few years ago I was comfortably living on under £100 a month after paying rent for a bedroom, then putting the last £75 or so of my income into savings.

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          Also half of Americans live in “food deserts” with limited or no options for fresh, healthy food/groceries. Often their only sources of sustenance are the dollar store and fast food.

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      5 hours ago

      I can get a weeks worth of food for that kind of money

      Well, maybe one week, and you still have to get creatively frugal there.

      But I see your point.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah, this is beans and rice with little to no protein kind of money for a week, at best.

        Didn’t used to be the case, but orange dipshit keeps causing inflation.

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          3 hours ago

          Beans, famous for not having any protein… Why do people look down on beans so much? They are great. Just bought a pack of broad bean seeds today as I plan to grow them and I ran out of the last pack. You don’t need to eat the weight of the average American in meat ever year.

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            3 hours ago

            That’s a good point, yeah, I was thinking like most Americans that you’d want some meat thrown in there for flavor.

            Mostly a vegetarian as well so I agree with you is what I’m saying.