• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Lack of free time to cook healthy food with a busier and more expensive life with salary raises that don’t keep up with inflation or layoffs for many people definitely doesn’t help. Healthy food ends up costing twice as much, if not more than unhealthy food. It’s a multi-faceted problem and should be treated as such.

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      I don’t think healthy food is necessarily more expensive, at least not if you know what you’re doing. My personal experience is actually the opposite.

      The problem, as you mentioned is the time, and the emotional and physical labor of figuring out something the whole family will want to eat and cooking it. Those things are all expenditures in their own ways, but not financial.

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        Tell me a healthy meal I can make for the same 5 bucks that I can feed 4 people with by buying a red baron pizza.

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          You’re not feeding 4 people on a red baron pizza and no one is getting fat from sharing one with 4 people. Fast food is expensive, and so is pre packaged meals. To many people get home from work and just eat shit instead of learning to cook.

          Steamed veggies are cheap, rice is cheap, beans are cheap, grab some seasoning and a pack of chicken breasts and you can eat good for a few days for less than a single trip to McDonald’s for 2 people now.

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            Ok, yes on everything but damned if Chicken is cheap. Just noted as $6+/lb the other day…

            Maybe I gotta take advantage of being out in the farm fields and get some of those yard chickens.

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            You’re not feeding 4 people on a red baron pizza

            I guess the dinner I served saturday night was just a drug induced hallucination then, afterall… You seem to clearly know what I do and have done better than I do.

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              8 months ago

              Cool, then everyone in your family must not be what they’re talking about in this thread since you probably don’t eat 5000 calories a day.

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                8 months ago

                Funny how the goalposts shift from “its easy and cheap to eat healthy” to “You’re not who we’re talking about, we’re talking about other, more convenient and strawmannable people”

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                  That’s not shifting the goal post, it’s calling out your bullshit that somehow a $5 red Baron pizza for 4 people is enough to make people fat. 380 calories is 1/4 of a red Baron Pepperoni pizza, if you ate one 3 a day, that’s less than most adults can survive on, you’re going to lose weight. So no I’m not the one moving some goal post or creating a strawman, that’s your doing.

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                    Literally no one said a red baron for 4 people will make you fat. I asked for a healthy alternative that can feed a family for the same exceedingly low price. Nothing more, nothing less. Certainly nothing to deserve your insane aggression and bullshit over.

                    So now you are not only shifting goal posts, you are doing the classic internet bullshit of replying to your own imaginary idea of what people said.

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          8 months ago

          Ingredients: rice, black beans, eggs, onion, garlic.

          The night before, let the beans soak. Before cooking, change the water on the beans. Heat until boiling, change the water again, add salt and let the beans boil slowly for 1.5-3h.

          Slice the onion and garlic in small chunks. Fry in a shallow pot, in just a bit of olive oil. Add some oregano or whatever spices you enjoy. When it is fried to your taste, add the rice. Mix it for a bit, and then add 2.5 cups of water for each cup of rice.

          Let it boil until the water doesn’t cover the rice, then turn the heat down until it’s just evaporating water (I like my rice dry). Meanwhile, fry a couple eggs, use a strainer to get the beans out, and add everything to the rice (or you can serve the eggs on the plate).

          • 1kg of rice: 2€ • 1kg black beans: 4€ • A carton of eggs: 2.5€

          YMMV but this is tasty and pretty inexpensive, if you don’t count the 2h of boiling beans, but I prefer them on the soft side :P

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          Black bean tacos with onion and bell pepper.

          Pasta and homemade tomato sauce

          Basically anything lentil based

          Rice and beans

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          Tacos and burritos.

          Pre marinated carne asada or pork is fairly cheap. A pound can go pretty far, at least 15 tacos.

          Pre marinated pork for tacos is $3.29/lb Tortillas $2.49 Premade Salsa $3.99

          It comes to about $0.54 a taco. So two tacos a person it’s a bit over $4. 3 tacos and it’s $6.50 for a family of 4.

          Serve refried beans and rice instead of another taco and it’ll be even cheaper.

          You could get that down if you marinated your own meat.

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          Beans and rice. (Red beans and rice, black beans and rice, garbanzo beans in curry on rice, you can make probably a hundred delicious variations on beans and rice)

          A can of pureed pumpkin and a can of white beans with seasoning and a little chicken broth, heated and blended, makes a healthy and delicious soup.

          A can of tomatoes, an onion, a couple dried Chiles and a can of pinto beans also makes an incredible pureed soup.

          Up until recently I’d have said eggs and toast, but eggs are expensive lately. Still probably under $5 to feed 4 though.

          We bought a frozen turkey cheap after Christmas and my God that made so many meals, I still have 3 quarts of stock too.

          I don’t think a frozen pizza is a good deal in terms of nutrition but we do sometimes have that or the Little Caesars one if I can’t cook that night.

          None of us are fat, husband is overweight but fit, and the rest of us are on the thin side.

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          Love how everyone is like “beans and rice!” and totally ignoring the energy and time it takes to make such things. And not everyone is a fan of beans and rice. At the end of the day being able to have a slice of pizza may be the only bright spot when you’re living paycheck to paycheck.

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            and some combination of beans and rice is the only example they can come up with.

            Who wants to eat beans and rice every single day for the rest of their lives?