• Alpha71@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Just remember folks. If you see someone stealing food, No you fucking didn’t.

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    7 days ago

    Definitely a sign of an “A+++++++” economy: one where you condescendingly tell people how to eat cheap and then lie about the cost of the shitty meal you propose.

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    If you’re gonna tell us how to eat depressingly cheap at least suggest rice and beans. It’s healthy, filling, cheap, vegan, and capable of tasting quite good. It’s just also something you’d be pissed if was all you could afford to eat.

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      cajun red beans and rice (~1hr with prep):

      • two cans small red beans
      • holy trinity (diced onion, dice celery, and a doced bell paper any color). The better the dicing, the nicer the effect of the sautee.
      • meat protein (sausage usually, smoked sausage is easier to get, anandouillie is better, if you can avoid the pre cooked hotdogs hillshire farm stuff go for it). Sliced after cooking, not in huge chunks.
      • water/stock (optional, but kinda necessary imo)
      • a pot
      • rice (im filipino, I use what I have, which is jasmine)
      • spices
        • black pepper
        • garlic powder
        • cajun seasoning
        • I add on top of cajun seasoning, more smoked paprika, and cayenne

      cook the rice separately if you have a rice cooker or equivalent. im filipino, a rice cooker is more important than a microwave lol so I assume people got em but its fine if you dont, but then youll need another pot if you are looking for speed

      in your stove, just use a single pot. cook your meat first if not cooked then slice it. then add the holy trinity and sautee. Then add black pepper to taste (1 tbsp for starters). Then beans (dont let em stick) then your water/stock, and start throwin in that cajun spice, like 2tbsp. it should start smellin amazing. let the beans soften and I like mushin a few to thicken it up. then add those additional spices to taste. No one is gonna say “too much smoked paprika”. The stock should be salty already, but if you used plain water or if you want more nows the time as well.

      let it do its thing for like 30 minutes, dont let the beans stick to the bottom. squish beans as they soften if you want it thicker (I like it that way).

      taste your food as you cook it. Its okay to be imprecise with measuring as long as you are tasting while cooking. Dont overdo the cayenne or people will not like you. Smart with like a teaspoon and taste from there

      bone apple tea. This lasts me for a long while, I cook this and another long lasting dish like my grandmas cinci style chili, or a filipino rice dish like adobo/sinigang) and I am a full man for a long time haha. Once you ‘invest’ in the spices the most expensive ingredient is the meat, so how much you wanna spend on that is up to you, but meat is always going to be expensive because you have to grow an entire animal, feed it, and then harvest it.

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        6 days ago

        Damn. My main weekly lunches are Red beans and Rice or Cincy chili. Weird finding my Filipino doppelganger on here. Def hit me up with that Adobo recipe.

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        my grandmas cinci style chili

        You wanna hook us up with the recipe, or is that one a tightly guarded secret?

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    You see… the problem with food (and all other inflation) is those damn regulations! Imagine how much bigger piece of chicken you could buy if it was infested with avian flu, and our great American farmers could just make you buy it! If all of the anti-business commies stopping American from being great again, we could should empower (taxpayer giveaways to largest political donors) innovation that provides far cheaper food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_nNemsNT8

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    7 days ago

    With the amount of white people I’ve seen eat a corn tortilla and complain, you’d almost think this is satirically produced

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            You have to fold the ends of a burrito tortilla in to seal the filling. It’s a sharp fold that corn tortillas just can’t do. Burrito tortillas are often 12"/30cm or more, and I feel like corn tortillas aren’t strong enough for that (never tried, but also never seen them for sale).

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              Ah okay, that makes sense. Personally when I do something with tortillas, I just fold one end and keep one open. Idk if the exact shape has a name, it’s easy and I mostly care about the stuff inside rather than the (admittedly clumsy) shape.

              I should start doing burritos though. Seems like I’d spill less stuff out while eating.

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        As a half Mexican who grew up with my Mexican family, spent a lot of time in Mexico, and has celiac disease (meaning I cant eat flour), I actually disagree. It makes me sad that I cant eat flour tortillas anymore - especially because my grandma’s home made flour tortillas were the fucking bomb.

        That being said, street tacos only belong on corn.

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    This is probably the diet they recommended for the orange fatso who barely moves. A construction worker or lumberjack cannot possibly function on ‘A Piece of Chicken, a Piece of Broccoli, Corn Tortilla, and One Other Thing’.

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      6 days ago

      "We stand in longer lines than the Russians ever did,

      Selling our children’s souls to the highest bid,

      I can’t describe the way it feels"

      Electric Six, The Green Building

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      The way US is treating it’s allies it is soon to be debt to get all those aforementioned things.

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    6 days ago

    Are we at the “let them eat boiled chicken parts” stage? Probably better than most of their supporters get from Dollar General, so in reality, a step up?..right?

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    As someone living on a tight food budget, it’s still possible to stretch 3$ WAYYYY further. Prices are bad, don’t get me wrong but this kinda seems like performative bs

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      It’s starting to get really area dependent. At this point even rice from the Asian market and beans is pretty firmly out side of the 3 buck range for a proper portion for each meal in my area unless your actively starving yourself.

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        A floor on rice and beans should be drawn by online retailers (Amazon) which have the same price nation wide for bulk goods like rice and beans. Amazon currently retails bulk rice for ~0.06$ an ounce and pinto beans for ~0.07$ an ounce. 4 ounces of each is enough to get to an ~800kcal meal for ~0.50$

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The food situation has revealed to me the exact same thing that the streaming service situation has, I forgot just how absurdly easy it is to steal shit.