I’m lucky to live somewhere where I have a selection of supermarkets that I can walk to which all stock fresh foods for reasonable prices, sounds like you’re in a similar situation.
In America they have loads of these “food deserts” (old article now, but it’s gotten worse) where the only place you can buy food without having to drive an hour, is a Dollar General store that only sells shelf stable, processed rubbish. There’s no amount of money you can spend in those towns to get anything fresh, not that the residents typically have much to spend anyway.
Those residents also can’t often afford to live anywhere else, or they’d have already moved; so they’re kinda of stuck in a situation that’ll make their lives worse with very little they can do to remediate it themselves.
Pretty sure you can buy rice and beans at dollar general? I have to go off search engine previews though, because the website doesn’t work for me (and I don’t live near any)
Edit: missed they said veggies, I guess that’s where the issue is. But canned veggies are better than a lot of other foods you could be buying, even if they are “processed”.
yes, but they don’t taste good and take more time to prepare than processed foods. they require time and skill to make them tasty and they veggies go back super fast.
cooking, let alone good cooking, is a skill that you acquire with a lot of time and patience and practice. most people are not willing to put 100s of hours into a thing. they will try a few times, it will taste like shit, and they will give up.
So what tastes good then? Does it start with Mc and ends with donalds?
If you can’t get yourself to like veggies beans and rice, clogged arteries are always an option.
Stop being poor, buy real food, why didn’t anyone else think of this years ago.
Rice and dried beans and veggies are still pretty cheap, for now at least.
If you can get them.
I’m lucky to live somewhere where I have a selection of supermarkets that I can walk to which all stock fresh foods for reasonable prices, sounds like you’re in a similar situation.
In America they have loads of these “food deserts” (old article now, but it’s gotten worse) where the only place you can buy food without having to drive an hour, is a Dollar General store that only sells shelf stable, processed rubbish. There’s no amount of money you can spend in those towns to get anything fresh, not that the residents typically have much to spend anyway.
Those residents also can’t often afford to live anywhere else, or they’d have already moved; so they’re kinda of stuck in a situation that’ll make their lives worse with very little they can do to remediate it themselves.
Pretty sure you can buy rice and beans at dollar general? I have to go off search engine previews though, because the website doesn’t work for me (and I don’t live near any)
Edit: missed they said veggies, I guess that’s where the issue is. But canned veggies are better than a lot of other foods you could be buying, even if they are “processed”.
Don’t forget lentils!
They’re a great source of protein.
yes, but they don’t taste good and take more time to prepare than processed foods. they require time and skill to make them tasty and they veggies go back super fast.
cooking, let alone good cooking, is a skill that you acquire with a lot of time and patience and practice. most people are not willing to put 100s of hours into a thing. they will try a few times, it will taste like shit, and they will give up.
So what tastes good then? Does it start with Mc and ends with donalds?
If you can’t get yourself to like veggies beans and rice, clogged arteries are always an option.
Not nearly as cheap as they used to be. Vegetables are getting expensive.
Farro is my go-to cheap meal. Bags of 10 minute farro at Trader Joe’s for less than $2.