I noticed there is mass agreement that the "fast is the only affordable food" myth is just that. Therefore, I'm genuinely curious. You got 7 dollars and 50 cents. Make a meal with ingredients that cost under this amount with a picture of the receipt. I thought of this in the morning so I'll post mine later tonight. Also, if you need to use basic ingredients, let's make it a little easier and say that you already have salt, pepper, oil, and onions. Post ideas as well.
Cheap meals
Logan Edwards
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Joshua Flores
For dollar to calorie value fast food is absolutely cheaper
Here in australia I can get a maccas hamburger for a dollar, which equals 250 calories. Apart from drinking home brand olive oil I don't see any way to obtain this amount of energy for less money from a supermarket.
Kayden Gray
I agree but calorie intake doesn't necessarily equate to nutritional value. This is more of a challenge of how creative people can get with this, not necessarily to prove anything about one side of the debate. I just used the general consensus to get the ball rolling.
Samuel Torres
Not it isn't, one pound of rice is .50 cents on my local supermarket and it has 590 calories. You just need to look for the cheaper option and buying in bulk.
Jaxon Peterson
It's cheaper in a period of a month or so. You buy food in bulk and the price of a serving in a mea comes down exponentially.
Fast food is cheap and calorie dense though. Definitely
William Murphy
Buy bulk items as previously stated. Buy a large container of multivitamins. Used saved money to buy drugs because you're a filthy degenerate who already eats at mcdonalds.
Ethan Sullivan
The problem with this meme is because McDonald's food tastes good and since we have warped out basic animal need for energy into this hedonistic pleasure center blow-out desire, people assume you can't get AS GOOD OF TASTING food as this, which is what they feel they deserve because it gives them some elation in their otherwise worthless joyless lives.
In reality you are not entitled to a "good" meal as far as taste goes. You need the energy. You don't need the sexual experience that's served to you in all the FF commercials.
Jonathan Williams
If you want to play the calorie game, flour is about 3,500kcal per kilo and should cost you about a dollar or so.
Make some flatbread (just add some water) and fry them in a pan, the oil is calorie dense per dollar as well, and there you have an extremely cheap alternative to rice or whatever.
That's unless you want to spend just another dollar or so for the ingredients required to make an actual bread.
The bread can be eaten as a side with a generously spiced lentil and vegetable curry, and I'd serve with some creme fraiche to counterbalance the spiciness even though that's about a dollar extra.
Isaiah Bell
Too right, comrade. Flavor is nothing but a soulless capitalist distraction from the pure fulfillment of providing labor to the state.
Samuel Edwards
1kg of flour 1$
12 eggs 2$
------> 15-30 servings of pasta
that would be 0,1$-0,2$ per serving, basically you could add aged pecorino,truffle and a good oliveoil to each and still be way below 7.50$ per serving.
another super simple thing would be stews,soups and congees:
1 chicken 3$,some garlic,ginger,springonion 3$, 2 cups of rice 0,50$ --->chickencongee for 10 servings
People arguing fastfood is good value are semi-retarded, i mean anybody should be capable of some basic fucking maths