Isn’t ultra processed crap like that normally pretty expensive though? I find its always cheaper to make a cheese sauce and some pasta myself and doesn’t require ultra processed ingredients.
Great Depression: Part Deux
Submitted 5 months ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/83b55224-8ff0-451a-b8f9-cc756b2b8c4a.jpeg
Comments
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re forgetting time. Cooking from scratch takes time that many ppl can’t afford. I think we forget how closely linked freetime and wealth are
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Never really been convinced by this. Even when I was on apprenticeship wages (way below regular UK minimum wage) along with also having assignments to complete, I still had enough time to cook food every day.
I certainly wasn’t wealthy but if you are poorer than I was you would be working so few hours that you have loads of free time. UK specific of course but I hear the same argument here all the time.
I can see how having only part time/zero hour contracts sucks financially, but that is because you have too little income from not being able to work enough. At least you do have a lot of free time in this situation though, so you have the time for cooking.
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
daringgourmet.com/homemade-hamburger-helper-chees…
This probably takes about as much time as hamburger helper out of the box does. And yes, I know not everyone is going to have those ingredients on hand, but most people who keep their pantry stocked with the basics are going to have everything.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Seems weird calling the weiners hot dogs instead of calling just the whole hot dog the hot dog
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 months ago
I think usage is regional. Although I’ve never lived in a region where anyone actually used the term wieners. I’ve heard franks used sometimes. But mostly it’s brats, sausages or dogs. Brats are only bratwurst. Dogs are only hot dogs, it doesn’t matter what kind of meat or even vegan, but it’s unseasoned. Sausages are any other seasoned meat in a casing.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Aneb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is my easy hamburger helper recipe in case people want real food. I skip the box and throw paprika and onion and garlic powders on my ground beef, brown it. Add ziti noodles, or anything I have, add beef stock and water. Let the pasta become tender, abt 7-8 mins. And throw in a huge glob a sour cream and mix it in. Salt as needed, skip the sodium spike
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
By hot dogs, they mean dog food.
Jerkface@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And by dog food they mean food made out of dog.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
And by dog, they mean raccoon.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cheaper if you grind up your nearest billionaire and share with your community
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I want to know which billionaire. Some of them literally stew in their own shit for years.
MTZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ooooh, do you have a nice recipe that you could share?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They don’t actually do work so their meat is already tender like veal, just marinate well
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What is the word for laughing and crying at the same time?
Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
What is the word for laughing and crying at the same time? Pseudobulbar affect which could be caused by a psychotic break since they’re driving us fucking crazy.
daannii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also related to Emotional lability. Sometimes this can be a response to high stress of prolonged stress.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The comments are teaching me I grew up poor and still eat poor.
I mean I knew the second part. But those damn canned mixed veggies were disgusting.
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Ew, are you talking about those canned mixed veggies that had the little red pepper in them too? Like red bell pepper or something.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The one I remember is corn, carrots, and peas. That mixture is why I thought cooked carrots were the most disgusting thing… And I think the corns’ flavor took a hit as well because the only good canned corn was creamed corn.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My youth prepared me for this and my post-schooling education helped me minmax for it.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I still have a sweet spot for canned corn, especially creamed, as well as canned green beans.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Creamed corn and green beans are amazing agreed.I also picked up a love of canned sweet peas.
Some things can way better than others.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Canned green beans are great. I don’t care how many fancy meals I eat, there’s always gonna be a place for that nostalgic flavor.
And canned corn is basically my preferred method of adding corn to soups.
rothaine@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Canned green beans have such a nostalgic taste, love them
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Coming in 2029 - SkwrlHelper!®
whatevercomeon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hyper processed shit. I feel sorry for children who are fed this.
1984@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Wtf are you guys eating over there… Jesus christ, I wonder why Americans seem so crazy. Artificial food, artificial media, Artificial work culture…
And two weeks vacation, maybe, on a full year of work… What? And still no money in the wallet at the end of the day?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
They eat shit and buy 85" TVs .
daannii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah but the TVs are like $300. And one week of groceries is like $300.
It’s not really fair to say people waste their money on tvs
Legom7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I get 40 hours of sick time off per year that I can use for vacation. This is the New York State minimum that had to be fought for.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Highschool needs to teach financial literacy. $200 a month for insurance is insane. I pay that for 3 vehicles on full coverage (older trucks and suv, but damn).
Not saying this guy is wrong to be pissed but I see a lot of people who just don’t understand how to shop around for shit and just eat the cost.
djehuti@programming.dev 5 months ago
$200 a month for insurance is peanuts if you have a teen on your policy. Our premiums tripled when we added our 16yo. He’s 24 now, so pretty soon we’re going to remove him from our policy and enjoy the savings.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Insurance rates change depending where you are and who you are. 250 a month per vehicle for full coverage where I am. We just dropped coverage to minimum on one of them and it went down barely 15%. Shopping around found only higher rates somehow. I think insurance agencies are colluding to fix prices.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How tf do you shop around for insurance.
My employer: you have 3 options. The high deductible HSA plan, the medium deductible plan, or the low deductible plan.
Even if there are other options that aren’t subsidized by my employer, you can’t change your plan most of the year because of fucking open enrollment.
How is this user error and not America being America?
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 5 months ago
people who just don’t understand how to shop around for shit and just eat the cost.
The problem is, you can shop around and find a good deal, but that good deal is “introductory”, only for new customers, so after a while the price goes back to “normal” and you have to do it all over again. Then you have to do that for every damn thing, it gets pretty tiring.
Damage@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I tried reading the rest of the comments on this post but I think my soul broke, I wanted to reply to multiple of them but the words just didn’t come to me
1984@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I also feel deep sadness over it because its just so incredibly unfair and evil.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Two weeks? If you’re middle to upper middle class, sure. If you’re lower middle to lower class, you’ll get a week, if anything at all, unpaid. Sick? Unpaid. Spouse died? Unpaid. What, give people welfare? Not on my tax dollar, that’s communism!
The US stopped being the land of opportunity two generations ago, and only now people are starting to realize.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“You can have the funeral in the alley behind the restaurant during your lunch break. Throw your wife in the dumpster after you’re done.”
-Your manager
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have had 1 week off the whole year. I have some PTO coming up. I feel guilty using it (even though I shouldn’t).
MTZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean, yeah…a lot of people here have it very rough. I am lucky in that I work for the federal government and get 10 weeks plus holidays off. A lot of people here do not get that.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am definitely doing life wrong, mind if I ask the field?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I had that once, turned out the head of my department was a sociopath though. Never been unhappier at work in my life. I had managers that handled themselves better at a car wash than this lady did at a public library.
MTZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
daannii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I ate a lot of hamber helper growing up. Often with weird meat we would get from food pantries. Like bison. Emu. And my dad would hunt deer some times or a relative would so we would eat it with ground venison. Which apparently is considered gourmet meat but I really do not like it. It always tastes like blood to me.
Anyway, when I was lucky enough to get it with ground beef, I recall actually loving it.
As an adult I haven’t really eaten it so I went and bought a box a while back.
I think the cheeseburger king.
Jesus. It’s so gross and bland. Like salted cardboard. It also only had like 3/4 of a cup of fried noodles in it.
I remember a box of it feeding all 3 of us kids easily. With leftovers. There is very little yield after it cooks now. Shrink-flation.
Now I will say the box casseroles that Aldi sells are decent.
I like the orzo cheese broccoli one and the hamber one , which I cook with peppers. It has a strong cilantro flavor.
But the Hamber Helper brand ones are just so gross. I don’t know if the flavor has changed or maybe they were always that bad.
I swear so much food I thought was good as a kid literally just tastes like salted cardboard. Tostitos “pizzas”. Pizza rolls, McDonald’s food.
I’m pretty sure they have stopped putting seasoning on a lot of food to cut costs.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 months ago
water pie all over again, but who can afford hotdogs?
x0x7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was about to say, hot dogs are more expensive per pound than ground beef.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Lips we hope. Honestly never got the aversion around what parts go into your processed meat, its a good thing to not waste meats.
Openingmoment@lemmy.world 5 months ago
if you are looking into something to do, i will advice AI data labeling, here is what you gonna do ,you’ll need a verified U.S. profile account to access most of this tasks. Without it, opportunities are limited. If you can’t create one, you may need to buy a verified account. I use a Labelbox U.S.A profile, switch the location to the U.S.A using your proxy or vpn then add your payment methods PayPal,Stripe wall. Tasks are usually paid weekly, every Friday. With focus and consistency, it’s possible to earn $800–$1,000 per week. Do your research if you’re new to freelancing it will help you before getting started and do not rush to it
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Fill that freezer with ground beef, salmon, steaks, etc
python@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sorry, I’m European, could someone explain what Hamburger Helper actually is?? I’ve heard the brand name before and assumed it was just some kind of seasoning powder for making hamburgers, but this image looks more like it’s more like powdered sauce base for a whole range of random meals?
daannii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A box meal. Like a cake mix. It comes with parts of the meal, the pasta and the sauce, and you add the meat and milk, water, butter. Whatever else it calls for. These are cheap. And don’t take very long to make.
They are mostly eaten by poor people and kids. They have very little nutritional value and are high in carbs, sugar, and salt.
The high carbs and protein (if you are rich enough to add meat) make the food very filling though. Some people call this type of food “comfort food”. It definitely will make your stomach feel full and content.
But it’s not good food for you.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lasagna, except way grosser.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 5 months ago
it’s the kit to make the meal in the front, just need to add the hamburger… or hot dogs…
but yea it has the seasonings and the macaroni, and instructions, and that’s it
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thickeners too. Modified corn starch. Less objectional ingredient really since starch as a sauce thickener instead of reduction is pre industrial and modified starch is frankly a good innovation. I don’t want to sit there and stir.
python@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ooh, hamburger as in, ground meat? For me a hamburger is always the round puck of meat between buns, makes more sense if it’s just the generic name for the meat itself!
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Given how strong the link is between cured meats and cancer and how that is quite public knowledge now days, I interpret this as Hamburger Helper telling me to get cancer. “You don’t actually want to live long enough to enjoy retirement, right?”
rami@ani.social 5 months ago
What retirement?
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Care to share a link to a study for those “strong links”?
Everything gives cancer eventually, my hitlist is not a steack but processed food.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It’s a very high confidence in the statistical significance, but a relatively low effect (in that the difference between eating cured meats every day and eating no cured meats ever has roughly a 1% chance of making a difference in cancer incidence).
Basically, about 4% of people who never eat cured meats get cancer in the GI tract (from throat to stomach to colorectal) at some point in their lifetimes, whereas people who eat cured meats every day get cancer in the GI tract about 5% of the time. On the one hand, that’s like a 20% increase in cancer risk, but on the other hand, that makes a difference to only about 1% of the population.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Huh, I thought it was common knowledge given the news headlines about it a few years ago. The World Health Organization considers it a Group 1 carcinogen.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re not quite there yet. It still says ‘real cheese’.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“made with” real cheese.
They throw a one ounce cube in with each batch.
MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 5 months ago
or they just place a block of cheese near by as a shelf or counterbalance for the chopping board for the actual ingredients.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not “real cheese” it’s “Real Cheese™”, it really tastes like cheese.
daannii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pretty sure fake cheese is made with vegetable oil, no?
Also the other day I bought a small block of kraft brand Colby cheese. A little treat for myself.
I always buy whichever brand is on sale. I’m not a cheese snob or anything.
Anywho. I got it out to eat it.
It’s super soft. Like. … well like fake cheese. Just like their kraft singles.
Floppy oily yellow cheese.
I got swindled. It says it’s Colby. But it’s not ! It’s the fake cheese !
Not happy. Won’t ever buy it ever again.
They just started doing this. It was real cheese not that long ago. I suspect it’s been “cut,” with fake cheese.
Like it’s not 100% fake cheese. But like 60% fake cheese.
I checked packaging to make sure I just didn’t buy the wrong stuff. Nope. It definitely says Colby cheese.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ah, Real Cheese brand cheese flavored product.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Minimum viable product kind of cheese
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
“Minimum viable product” describes a lot of the items that end up in my grocery cart these days – produce especially.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Last time I checked ground beef was $6 a pound. It is now a luxury I no longer buy.
TheTurner@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Whenever I’ve been going to the local Kroger, I try to find discount ground meats. You can usually find some good deals and you can freeze them.
chetradley@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For anything that calls for ground beef, I usually sub TVP or green lentils. Both are cheap, shelf stable and healthy options.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dont use hamburger helper, learn to make goulash. Its a pretty good recipe for beginners
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Don’t use Hamburger Helper, switch to the store brand Lasgana Skillet Meal. It will taste much better. The people who make Hamburger Helper have seriously cheaped out on their ingredients, speaking as a childhood fan.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
The Poor People Useful Tips Recession Index
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Clearest recession indicator I’ve seen so far
rockstarmode@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t know why, I’m pretty sure hotdogs are more expensive per pound than ground beef at my local shop.
I think this labelling is just marketing. Given the name of the product contains “hamburger” they can assume anyone buying it already knows they can add ground beef. I think they just added hotdogs to the label to give people ideas about other proteins they can use.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean the CS skin market tanked today so I still think I’m on to something.
It’s wild that trading skins for a video game had a market cap of 3 billion. It’s ridiculous that speculative trading has infected videogames.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Les pieds de raccoon, such a delicacy
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Protip: “hamburger helper” has always been the most expensive way to do this. Buy the raw macaroni and one of those seasoning spice packs (e.g. taco mix) if you’re not good with measuring seasoning or have none at home.
elbiter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
American food makes British food look yummy.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Great Depression? Shit I was serving that shit with hot dogs in the 90s.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
How soon till it says roadkill?
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also FYI hotdogs roughly contain about 2% human DNA in them.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
This is FAKE NEWS because Trump said the Economy is doing GREAT!
-Free Thinking TM Republicans!
JayFonduh@lemmy.org 4 months ago
Que nós dobles?