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A Boring Dystopia
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Literally this week I cut back to one meal a day... Groceries DOUBLED in price over the last 12/18 months...
Wages stay flat, insurance goes up, rent goes up, food goes up, electric goes up... The only things I have control over are food and electric...
Is this serfdom with extra steps?
Serfs had more vacation days
Do you have an Aldi in your area? I've been exclusively shopping there and saving a bunch.
I don't unfortunately. Part of the problem for me is limited options for shopping. Thanks for the suggestion though!
My guy you shouldn’t be skipping meals when rice and dried beans are insanely cheap. You mentioned lack of cheap local stores but dried lentils and beans can be shipped to you and still be insanely cheap.
I'm already doing something similar, but I've been concerned about blood sugar getting high so I had to stop eating too much rice. I just get a can of mixed vegetables, mushrooms, and chickpeas that I throw into a slow cooker with chicken breast and mess with seasonings so it's not always exactly the same. That's pretty much all I eat all week now.
What I had to stop was getting anything "extra." So that meal I make has to make it through the week, but before then I was also getting whatever meat was on sale and frozen veggies to have for dinner. If I replace that with more of the same stuff I have during the day then I'm just trading one thing for another and the cost isn't much different. Also the $15-20/week to feed my cat isn't helping, but she shouldn't suffer just because food corpos are too goddamn greedy! lol
Groceries double in price, and various talking heads argue about whether inflation is 7% or 15%
"We just need to shut down the world economy for over two years. Nothing bad will happen."