https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millennials-gen-z-rebelling-against-221614374.html
"The change in food choices is partly attributed to high inflation, which may be causing people to buy lower-cost food."
Me eating 4 $2 meals a day instead of 2.5 $10-20 meals: dude I hate feeling full and eating full meals I totally do this out of my own free will
I bet you crazy kids are into non-binary poly-work-cules (filling out 1099s for non-self-employed labor for multiple jobs in shared office spaces)
The change in food choices is partly attributed to high inflation, which may be causing people to buy lower-cost food
But probably mostly attributed to millenials picking up anti-parent messaging from watching too much Nickelodeon as a kid or whatever dumb shit we made up
which may be causing people to buy lower-cost food.
I work at a discount grocery and this is absolutely the case, and the people I hear it most from are actually gen x/boomers.
Salesman: "Everything you see in this store is a snack."
"Everything?" Stares at the salesman's ass.
Under his breath: "Everything."
:volcel-judge: Citizen, I need you to come with me for questioning
No not like that NOT LIKE THAT, I NEED BACKUP
Store brand pretzels are the cheapest dollar per calorie item at my supermarket. I wish that someone would actually make a cheap snack food that was reasonably healthy. Most snack foods strip all the nutrients out of the grains they use, its annoying because i dont have the energy to cook most of the time
Dip your pretzels in peanut butter comrade. Transcend the artificial boundaries imposed on you by snack packaging expectations.
True fatty things have a ton of calories. But its like 2$ for a 1600 calorie bag of pretzels
Only a matter of time before someone makes dog food but for people.
Shit, it's probably out there right now and I just haven't heard of it.
That would just be breakfast cereal with added protein. The only reason kibble for people isn't a thing is because it doesn't need to be a thing since people already eat basically the same thing but with less nutrition and more attractive branding, while "efficient nutrient and protein content food" is its own genre of grifter slop, mostly in the form of "meal replacement shakes" which companies charge a premium for.
Past that, there's the fact that nothing is ever going to beat raw ingredients on price efficiency: if you're not buying luxuries like meat or any pricier ingredient that gets used in large quantities at once then raw food is still very cheap. Things like flour, rice, potatoes, onions, tofu, oil, etc are all very cheap per meal a given amount goes into. At the price point where premade slop worse and cheaper than junk food would start to have a place, it's having to compete with people performing the barest minimum amount of food prep labor to make something better and cheaper themselves.
Low wages, high food prices, working 2 or more part time jobs, 30 minute or more commute one way... yup, we've got all the time and money in the world to buy, prepare and eat a proper meal.
"Everyone cooks" forgetting the disabled and executively dysfunctional I guess. Not that thats surprising. They are always forgotten when someone wants to scold people for not being "normal" and doing chores.
Nah, I'm le "high functioning" so everyone thinks I should be able to accomplish things I can't on my own. I get disability services these days but still like. Until my thirties I had no help. Plus really noone in my family was equiped to help me with these things, or were outright abusive. So really family support wasnt going to be the way.
Hahaha I'm in my mid 30s and I'm still portrayed as rebelling against my mom.
Me, trying to get my own son to eat spaghetti and broccoli:
:anarxi:
Should I get frozen spanakopita, feta, hummus, and pita bread for 15$ or should I go out to a restaurant and get the same exact thing, but a smaller serving size for 55$? Please tell me what to do Yahoo! Finance.
I eat way too much of that garbage and I kind of hate it and dream of eating only proper food like a functioning adult. But the crisps and the candy and the soda satisfies the reptilian brain and it's so easy and convenient.
It's literally an addiction. Unfortunately, I am not a stranger to it either.
this is a tangent to the story, but the snack thing is a source of me feeling alienated from burgerland. when i was younger, obviously, it's snack time 24-7. sodas, treatos, yumyums, give me everything. i could absent-mindedly obliterate a bag of chips/crisps and a bowl of candy easily. i used to joke that the two food groups were "sweet" and "salt" and a fulfilling snack session meant having both.
from 12 to my late 20s i was very much a plumped and swollen treat king. in my late 20s, i got an outdoor heavy labor job and became more appropriately husky, but still ate like a child... though i started trying to make better decisions so i wouldn't feel like shit at work. less sugar in general / no sugar drinks, less salt. but pretty much all snacks are just sugar and salt, except healthy snacks which are expensive. and i was broke. anyway, somewhere in there, i just stopped snacking. i stopped buying snacks. like i would maybe have some apples available and peanut butter on whole grain toast is available. there are always components around to make a little something. but i purposely removed crappy snacky items from my surroundings. over the years, i just don't snack really. i have options that are satisfying, but take a little effort. like frozen strawberries + water + peanut butter = a little smoothie. less water makes it more like a half-melted ice cream consistency.
anyway, people come over to my house to hang out and like, i forget to have snacks? onetime somebody yelled at me because i don't have any chips or pretzels. "how could you not have any chips?" this was a grown woman who was like 35 with a phd. i offered her an apple and she acted like i was playing a prank. i probably sound like some kind of austere freak. i don't look like a health nut. i don't have any hard-rule dietary restrictions, though i tend to skip any dessert situation. i totally appreciate junk food, but i try not to make it a constant intake. i have high blood pressure and was diagnosed diabetic in my 40s, so in my estimation i'm just being sort of responsible.
anyway, my point is, i don't have snackies in my house. i don't buy them or keep them. i have stuff to make a light snack, but it's not in a crinkly bag. there's no ice cream in the fridge. and people my age, older, and younger ... even my own family who has similar health issues, they come over and are like annoyed at me for not having chips and candies and shit. and when i hang out at anyone else's house, they all have snacks and stuff everywhere. like the pantry is full of this stuff. it's just all snacking until its time to eat. like that's what we're doing: watching/interacting with media while snacking, sitting in chairs and snacking. everyone, everywhere eating lots of salt and sugar and washing it down with alcohol.
like no shit we all have metabolic disorders and organs struggling to perform their functions.
I dunno man, I didn't have those experiences at all. Sure there were some cookies or chips around the house, but not like that. I remember going to this man's house to play board games and he opened this cabinet and there was a full suite of snack foods in there. I was impressed. He had everything. Up to and including several 2-liters of unopened unchilled cokes for backup in case we needed them. I selected a box of Wheat Thins and poured myself a Dr. Pepper. 10 minutes later I was full and kind of sick from all the coke, and I closed the box. He was a bit put out and wanted me to eat more. No thanks, I'd just like to keep playing Merchant of Venus. It was my first introduction to this world.
