Buddy I’ve spent money on raw ingredients, ik how much they cost, I will spend $50 for the same amount of calories that I can get for $20-$30 if I just buy whatever prepackaged garbage they give
Calorie per cost isn’t a useful measure unless you’re a livestock animal. Heavily processed bullshit with more calories will leave you hungry in much less time than a well prepared meal with lots of unprocessed fiber.
That is just a wrong statement… it’s pretty important that the food your eating is actually converted into energy rather than just giving you temporary satisfaction. Unless you’re richer and can afford to spend more on food that doesn’t actually feed you.
Especially when you’re like me and have an abnormally fast metabolism so you need more calories to stay functional than the average person.
I get that, and I had a similar problem when I was first living on my own. I specifically remember deciding to make lasagna from scratch, and when I went to the store to buy the ingredients, it came out to over $50 for one dish (this was probably 10 years ago too, so maybe more like $75 today).
These days I could make a very similar lasagna for about $15, and that would be enough for dinners for entire week or more. It’s definitely not easy, but if you shop around I’m sure you can make it work. There are also a lot of online communities devoted to this very topic. Reddit had r/eatcheaplyandhealthy. Maybe you could start the same community here on Lemmy.
Buddy I’ve spent money on raw ingredients, ik how much they cost, I will spend $50 for the same amount of calories that I can get for $20-$30 if I just buy whatever prepackaged garbage they give
Calorie per cost isn’t a useful measure unless you’re a livestock animal. Heavily processed bullshit with more calories will leave you hungry in much less time than a well prepared meal with lots of unprocessed fiber.
That is just a wrong statement… it’s pretty important that the food your eating is actually converted into energy rather than just giving you temporary satisfaction. Unless you’re richer and can afford to spend more on food that doesn’t actually feed you.
Especially when you’re like me and have an abnormally fast metabolism so you need more calories to stay functional than the average person.
I get that, and I had a similar problem when I was first living on my own. I specifically remember deciding to make lasagna from scratch, and when I went to the store to buy the ingredients, it came out to over $50 for one dish (this was probably 10 years ago too, so maybe more like $75 today).
These days I could make a very similar lasagna for about $15, and that would be enough for dinners for entire week or more. It’s definitely not easy, but if you shop around I’m sure you can make it work. There are also a lot of online communities devoted to this very topic. Reddit had r/eatcheaplyandhealthy. Maybe you could start the same community here on Lemmy.