Beef is unaffordable and hamburger helper is more expensive than buying the basic ingredients.
Can’t afford hamburger. It’s tuna helper now.
The good tuna isn’t cheap either. I don’t want the quasi cat food from a can.
The bad tuna is out of reach due to price, Beef is about $5 a pound here (the amount needed for a box of helper) and even the bad tuna is almost $2 a can now. You need about 3 cans to make the amount needed so even the quasi cat food is more then beef.
If you have a restaurant supply store in your area, and you can deal with enormous quantities of food and have ways to freeze what you make, they sell 4 pound cans of white tuna that are 2/3rds the price per pound of smaller cans. Or split with friends, I don’t know. Or try Walmart, they stepped up their grocery offerings, at least in Montreal, and boycotting the USA and Israel BAD aside, we gotta look out for ourselves first.
Is this some marketing campaign or something.
Why am I suddenly seeing so many posts mentioning some cheap American junk food I’ve never even heard of before?
Might be that it’s because Lemmy is such a small place. We had the hamburger helper meme in all yesterday and now people are posting about the general concept.
That is more expensive then beef! And an abomination so foul that even god would look away.
Try with Soylent Green!
but I hear it’s peeepulll
Maybe even peo-pulp!
Try with acorn shells!
I hear a acornmeal is pretty healthy. Hard to make though
Just put all the neighborhood squirrels on leashes and dig up the ¾ of the nuts they forget about.
As long as it ain’t Avocado Toast, the right people will eat it all up.
Hamburger helper is good yes, but I’m in the mood for eating the rich yum!
Fuck Reddit
almost like you need to seize the means of distribution to have democratical rights upheld
Life is so fucking fair
Powdered Cheese is ass. Eat the rich.
You say that like the two are mutually exclusive.
I’ll enjoy mixing the meat of the rich into my artificially-cheesed hamburger helper, thank you very much.
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You haven’t had the right recipe. You need a lot of acidity to cut through the richness.
I say we’re gonna get a revolution and things are gonna look very not pretty if the capitalists don’t back off
Hell who can afford hamburger meat anymore?
We use tofu now. It’s cheaper
Plenty of Soy around I hear.
Red lentils would be a good replacement, and you can still get them in bulk at a somewhat reasonable price. For now.
If you want them to taste more like ground beef, give them a pan quick fry with a bit of soy sauce and worcestershire before incorporating into whatever you’re making.
Thanks! I appreciate the tip!
I’ll try that soon.
you technically don’t need the hamburger to have the helper. 🤷♂️
It jumped 30% in three months in my area.
wtf is a hamburger helper and how is it helping me making hamburgers
It’s basically mac and cheese with cut up hotdogs in it. Or like carbonara, with beef instead of ham. You brown some ground beef (hamburger meat, if you have never cooked anything fancy before and only know it as “that stuff you use to make hamburgers”). Then once it’s browned, you add some water, maybe milk or butter if the particular box calls for it, and the pasta+seasoning mix from the box. It basically turns into some variation of macaroni and cheese, with ground beef added.
TBH, it’s actually not awful in terms of taste. It’s as “peasant food” as peasant food can get; cheap, filling, easy to make, absolutely loaded with calories, and hopefully not awful tasting. It’s awful for you, and you’ll probably feel awful after eating it. But it checks most of the boxes that a broke and overworked parent needs to be able to feed their kids a hot meal 15 minutes after they get home from work. Just swing by the store on your way home, grab a box of Hamburger Helper and a pound of ground beef. Now you’ve fed the whole family for like $8 total.
It…. Doesn’t help make hamburgers.
Hamburger helper is a boxed spice mix, you also need ground meat, then you brown the meat and add the seasoning mix. You end up with sorta a taco meat (different flavor of course) that you can then eat, mix with pasta.
It’s…. Fine? But it’s pretty depressing in this context.
it sounds depressing tbh but i never had it so take my opinion with a big bag of salt
It can be okay. I like to add peas and depending on the type beans. Just to make it a bit more nutritional
Goulash is better, and just as cheap. Fuck national corpo scum.
The problem with goulash (and soups in general) is the time commitment. A struggling parent often doesn’t have an hour to wait for soup to boil. Hamburger Helper comes together in 15-20 minutes, tops.
Have eaten it. It’s depressing. I think it’s like 1600 kCal for the mix and ~0.5kg of Lean Ground Beef.
Edit: Big bag of salt included. You will feel bloated for days.
So it helps hamburgers?
It’s because Americans on the whole think “ground beef” is “hamburger”. Like the lettuce is “salad” thing.
They need an anthropomorphic glove to sell them on the idea of adding a protein to a carbohydrate so they can manage to feed their families.
Lmao this is the sickest roast I’ve ever seen of my college ex, thanks
Hopefully he’s finally learned how to cook.
I only eat greens cause if I don’t that green giant will go from jolly to angry and nobody wants that
Hamburger Helper is a boxed pasta mix you add to ground beef to increase the volume and “make it go farther”.
TBH, it’s not awful.
It is a shelf, stable pasta and cheese mix that you are supposed to mix with a pound of ground beef to make an easy stove top meal. Tldr it’s kind of like Kraft dinner but different cheese.
In Finland, there is a dish called “Nistipata” or “Junkie’s pot”. It’s the cheapest macaroni with the cheapest mincemeat. Gourmets add ketchup.
Nice assumption that people can afford the hamburger needed. Boxed mac and cheese is more likely, or if milk and butter is also too costly, ramen.
Must be with they started putting “try it with hot dogs” on the package.
America is a rancid and failed country. 99% of their population don’t see the empire crashing before their eyes, but the rest of the world has noticed and China will come out as the dominant fiat currency for decades
I’d argue that about half of the population sees it. But most of them didn’t vote, because they were either disenfranchised or just didn’t think it would be this bad, this quickly. And they can’t afford to take time off of work to protest, because they’re all already living paycheck to paycheck.
China will definitely win out as the #1 world power while Russia will have the satisfaction of knowing they were the architects of the US collapse.
What about the Euro? That’s also a good contender for reserve currency. Maybe they won’t be one but 3 or 4
That raises a question - what’s better, easier commerce with a financial powerhouse, or easier commerce with the country that makes everything?
No one’s gonna have the prominence america had, relative to other countries. So a basket of currencies is possible, or even different currencies for different industries
Americans would sooner switch to Bitcoin than Chinese money.
You can’t afford to have your cake, so you can’t eat it.
I mean that was the case back then too
