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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 56 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Poor people can’t afford canned soup, not since covid. Campbells was was 2/$1, $.79 at most. Now it’s $2. Progresso was 3/$5, maybe $1.50 per. Now it’s $2.79 each.

Crockpot or instapot and a freezer is the way, now.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess Instant Pot really fucked up by not calling their product "Instapot," huh?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I always thought that's what it was, then I googled "instapot" and found it's not actually a thing. TIL!

...I'm still gonna call it that, though.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Blame English for being unpleasant to say "nt" followed by a "p" sound.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who likes making weird sounds with their mouth

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Or pretty much any consonant, hence instacart?

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is how the English language works.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure I've ever been accused of such a thing before.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That's awfully helpy! Thanks for the thing you said I wasn't knowful about.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Crockpot with beans, rice, lentils, chopped veggies, a few bouillon cubes, spices, and whatever meat the grocery store has on clearance. The entire thing will average out to like $1 per bowl, and a big crockpot will keep a couple fed (lunch and dinner) for several days.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

a few bouillon cubes

saaaaaalty

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bruh costco chicken is like $5, get some chicken and make some chicken soup with that.

$2 is insane for salt water

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 11 months ago

Costco isn’t great. Sure, there’s those chickens, flannel, and socks, but most of the rest is no longer cheaper than anywhere else.

We just break down whole fryers, make bone broth with everything that isn’t the meat, freeze it.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah the only time I touch canned goods, including seltzer (as I touched on in another comment) is when they're heavily discounted, and that's usually something like eight cans for five bucks, so we stock the shelf in the basement a bit, because it'd be real dumb to pass it up at the store on Monday, only to have the world end on Wednesday.