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I salute you, good sir!
1kg Kellogg’s cornflakes = €4.79
1.5kg Aldi porridge oats = €1.19
If I’m eating a cereal product for dinner I’ll go with the more filling and versatile oats
Careful where the oats come from. Remember there was an article about oats in canada being grown with chemicals that were shown to decrease fertility. The U.S banned the product but not crops purchased elsewhere using the product.
Grains loaded with added sugars for your largest meal. Surely that won’t contribute further to this country’s health crisis, like it didn’t already do that by marketing itself as healthy for growing children.
Like anybody reduced to eating cereal for dinner is buying fucking Kellogg’s when they can get the Aldi version for like a third of the price.
Thats Kelloggs too but without the name. You cant get rid of greedy Corporations because they are their own competitors after buying them.
Yeah but it’s still a third of the price
I don’t think that’s actually true for Kellogg’s, who made a big deal of advertising the fact that they don’t make cereal for other brands.
The Aldi ones are supposedly made by Malt-O-Meal.
No fucking way did this dude just say the 21st century verion of “Let them eat cake”
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Last time I checked, corn flakes weren’t that cheap. My go to is still rice.
And rice is delicious! I like sticky sushi rice myself. Throw some chicken on there and you’ve got a meal!
The green Knorr’s flavored rice packs are only $1.25. Makes enough for 2 days.
lol that is some bougie rice… I usually get whatever long grain rice that comes in those 20lb bags for under $7. $1+ per LB is a no go.
Jasmine rice is worth the extra cash, bro
Rice is also expensive. My go to is bread and butter/margarine.
Dude, a 20lb bag is like $17. I use that shit in so many dinners and I still haven’t opened the 2nd bag. Makes any dinner with veggies and meat feel like a feast.
I live in Europe: rice, beans, lentils, meat and vegetables are way too expensive here. Eggs were okay until the pandemic hit and prices went up. Now they’ve come down a little and I can afford them again. That and cheese is my stock now. Pasta is okay, but I can’t eat much of it every day because it really fattens me up.
I’m in Portugal.
A quick search shows most beans, dry, to be about €2/Kg - $2.17/Kg at todays’s USDEUR cross-currency rate - in 500g bags from the supermarket (which is about the most expensive way to get them if dry as bigger bags and different sources are cheaper). That stuff doubles or triples in size when you cook it, so one such bag is 5 - 10 individual meals if you eat nothing else (which I don’t recommend, though it would still be a lot healthier than just rice or pasta because beans actually have a much wider variety of nutrients that the other ones).
(Granted, searching for the same thing in the site of Albert Hijn in The Netherlands shows them to be twice as expensive and less common there, though checking Morrisons in the UK shows them mainly cheaper than NL but more expensive than PT, though some are cheaper than what I saw in my searches of PT supermarkets)
More in general, for maximum savings and if you’re in Europe (specifically the EU), you can order them via the internet in large quantities from some other country as easilly as from your own, especially since dry beans are absolutelly fine for shipping as they have really good weight to nutrition ratio, won’t spoil and require very little packaging and no special protection for shipping. Whilst Portugal is big on beans and chickpeas, some countries favour other pulses such as lentils.
However you should get a pressure cooker if you’re going to be using dry beans as they take a lot longer to cook otherwise so gas/power costs are about 3x higher if you cook them in a normal pan.
I don’t have to worry about foodprices nowadays but if I was going for maximum savings in it whilst not risking my health too much it would be relying heavilly on pulses in general (so beans, chickpeas, lentils and so on).
If we’re talking breakfast: 2 eggs, 1/4 cup egg whites, 2 oz breakfast sausage and a dollop of heavy cream.
Brown sausage over medium heat with a bit of oil or butter. Whip eggs, whites and cream together and add to pan with browned sausage. Finish with shredded mild cheddar cheese (optional). If you get it in a block it’s cheaper and melts better.
This comes out to around $2 a meal and nets 54 grams of protein if consumed with a glass of milk.
If you’re into Kombucha or Kefir, drink a glass 30-45 minutes after a meal like this. No, scratch that. I forgot probiotics feed on carbs, so if you’re a rice eater or cereal for that matter – take your probiotics, preferably from food or beverage, after a carb heavy meal.
Look at fancy ass over here! 2 boiled eggs, 1 banana.
I wish I liked boiled eggs, they’re a great source of protein. I used to work demolition with a guy that popped them like Pringles.
Did he work demo so no one was sure if it was explosions or his farts?
Salt, my friend.
Just eat cookies. Fat, sugar and flour with an egg or two. Cheap and delicious with a shitload of calories.
Rice + lentils is the ultimate poverty lifehack. A well-stocked spice drawer (expensive, but lasts a long time) plus those two ingredients can provide like 80% of your food indefinitely. Don’t waste your time or money on ramen
Spices are expensive, but very easy to shoplift because they are so small.
It REALLY depends on where/how you get them. The tiny McCormick bottles are a ridiculous scam, charging like $6 for a thimbleful. Meanwhile, a lot of health food stores, if you just bring a mid-sized jar (just clean out an old pasta jar or something) you can put a bunch of spice in it for maybe $3 or less.
Don’t waste time on ramen? Ramen is a good base. Toss in some fresh veg, boiled egg, maybe a bit of meat or tofu.
Pretty quick and easy.
Though, I’m not talking about the maruchan stuff. Even the cheapest Asian ramen gonna be better than that.
You could also put those things in rice instead for much cheaper calorie/dollar. But it can be good to switch it up for sure
Quality instant ramen is pretty delicious, but it’s not that cheap or healthy
Get an appropriately sized rice cooker, it’s a super easy and cheap staple food that’s endlessly versatile.
Want Mexican food? Fry up some beans, veg, and/or eggs with cumin or taco seasoning and you’ve got a burrito bowl. Want fried rice? Toss it in too and season it. Want a simple breakfast meal? Fry an egg sunny side up and toss it on top. Feeling lazy or putting off a grocery store run? Pack it together and you get onigiri
You can even turn it into porridge (I’ve never tried it, my friend said it’s good)
(Sponsored by The Rice Gang🍚)
By ramen do you mean just regular pasta? Cause I’m not familiar with ramen so I had to Google it and you can’t possibly be talking about the ramen I saw there.
Cheap instant ramen, not the nice bowls of ramen.
The stuff that’s $.25 per package.
This is what I was talking about. $0.25 per package but no nutritional value and full of sodium. It can be dressed up pretty easy or be a cheap meal in a pinch, but it shouldn’t be eaten every day like some (college) kids recommend.
I’ve heard one story of a college student getting actual scurvy from a lack of nutrition in their exclusively ramen diet.
… lentils? 80%? What are you smoking
Lentils are great dude. I meant 80% of your food volume, not 80% of your meals, which I do acknowledge is pretty arbitrary
Let’s eat him, instead.
What a piece of shit CEO. I wish they people would feel unsafe saying this type of stuff to struggling people.
That’s where we come in. We can start with harsh words, but there’s a damn good reason so many are making allegories to the French Revolution. Times like this are to put the wealthy on notice, that they too may fear finding themselves staring up from the bottom of baskets to a crowd cheering the waterfalls of blood coming from their neck stumps.
So when do we pull out the guillotines?
Name brand cereal has gotten so expensive. I swapped to store brands and haven’t noticed a huge difference. Probably better to stop eating cereal in general.
I guess we have to reinvent the guillotine, version 2024. History will talk about let them eat cornflakes. It’s so ridiculous because cornflakes here is more expensive than a loaf of bread.
The picture is depicting Special K, not Corn Flakes. Some “adult” cereals like Special K and Total (do they still make Total?) actually have 100% or more of certain vitamins and minerals, so it’s a totally viable option as a “meal replacement”. I don’t know Gary Pilnick from Adam, but it wouldn’t surprise me that some rich dickhead said something that comes off as completely tone deaf.
I watched some video on YouTube where they tried to tackle the question “what one thing could you eat day-in and day-out and survive the longest on without suffering some kind of malnutrition.” I think they ended up on Subway’s Veggie Delight or the Cold Cut Combo with all the fixings, so that you’re getting at least some of your USRDA of vitamins.
See how you almost sound credible and then readers slowly realize that the average bowl of Special K cereal contains more sugar than a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Nutritional information on cereals is often misleading because its based on unrealistic serving sizes as displayed (people will often eat larger portions of food they perceive as “healthy”).
I’m people and i tend to eat 3 times the suggested serving, not because i think it’s healthy it’s because i’m trying to not lose more weight.
I’m already bodybuilder stage ready low bodyfat, their serving sizes seem to be aimed at lazy office workers who sit on a chair 10h a day and not the commute to work by bicycle 40km a day and have a physically demanding job for 8h lifting heavy shit and running around.
I need more food to survive. Make it more affordable if you’re not going to adjust my wage to your demands of my body.
Well, if I still ate cereal, I would stop eating kellogg’s.
Besides, that breakfast cereal was created because Kellogg thought that it would stop people from masturbating.
Besides, that breakfast cereal was created because Kellogg thought that it would stop people from masturbating
W-what? I mean late 1800s I’m not too much in disbelief, but considering I didn’t find a single word of this theory mentioned in wikipedia (and there was a completely different origin story) so this kinda sounds like a moon nazi theory
Not as catchy as let them eat cake.
“Let them eat flakes.”
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