No way! If you told me in 2008 that a taco bell taco was going to be $3.65 I would have looked at you like you shot my dog.

    • bubbalu [they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      When I was on a bike trip, my budget was 600 calories per dollar. This is so wild to me.

        • bubbalu [they/them]
          hexagon
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          4 months ago

          Daily. I would make a loaf of sandwiches twice a week and have one every couple hours.

          I was out west and there was this one chain of discount grocers that felt like a casino to me. There were these like gas station pies with this battery-acid-tasting lemon pie that were a godsend. 800 calories and 80 cents. As a recovered binge eater with a weird complex about it, it was liberating to need to eat so much junk food. I tried to eat really healthy at the start of the trip and my stomach couldn't handle it; I was in the 0.01% of cases where my candy intake actually needed to increase for my health :p