Anonymous
08/12/2025 15:28
Subject: Next level of desperation cheap and extremely easy meals
Salad with green veggies, yogurt, fruits. These are three courses of any meal. Add in a balanced entree and you are done.
Anonymous
08/12/2025 15:25
Subject: Next level of desperation cheap and extremely easy meals
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Were you doing your job at all when you WFH?
NP - I was never WFH, but my commute is almost an hour each way. I can only imagine what kind of cooking I could do without spending 2 hours on the road every single day, even without changing the actual working time at all.
Living an hour away from your job is a CHOICE.
Not OP but I “chose” to live 7.5 miles from my office and during rush hour it can easily take me 45 minutes to get to my office. And it cost me $1.2 million about 20 years ago to make this “choice” which makes me extremely privileged.
What kind of messed up parents did you have to have raised you to be so lacking in empathy and imagination and also the inability to understand the basic supply and demand economics of real estate. Either you are a terrible person or some kind of simpleton; maybe both.
NP - It does get old listening to Feds who built a lifestyle based on something that should have lasted a couple of months complaining about their “miserable life.” Many dual income families could reduce expenditures like travel sports, expensive childcare, extra vehicles and commuting costs, a higher tax bracket and convenience foods and live on one income and they might not be as miserable.
Anonymous
08/11/2025 11:31
Subject: Next level of desperation cheap and extremely easy meals
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Family of 4 - 2 of which are growing high schoolers.
Chest freezer for the garage - $800. But 1/2 grass fed cow from local rancher comes out to about $10/lb after it aged, butchered, and packed. A bunch of ground beef and steaks, and can make stews with the roast cuts. Will last about 18 months.
People that are truly poor can't afford any of that.
The OP didn't say anything about cost aside from wanting ideas that are more practical and affordable than takeout. I don’t think they're truly poor.
Anonymous
08/11/2025 11:21
Subject: Next level of desperation cheap and extremely easy meals
Anonymous wrote:For fast options,
Consider Trader Joe 10-minute farro, a delicious grain. If you mixed it with fresh spinach microwaved for 2 minutes and maybe a tsp. Of jarred pesto, it is delish.
Trader Joe has frozen Turkey meatballs that microwave in 4 minutes. Pasta and jarred sauce don’t take long either.
I will keep thinking, but a walk through Trader Joe will offer up more ideas, I’m sure.
+1
Anonymous
08/11/2025 05:21
Subject: Next level of desperation cheap and extremely easy meals
Anonymous wrote:Family of 4 - 2 of which are growing high schoolers.
Chest freezer for the garage - $800. But 1/2 grass fed cow from local rancher comes out to about $10/lb after it aged, butchered, and packed. A bunch of ground beef and steaks, and can make stews with the roast cuts. Will last about 18 months.
People that are truly poor can't afford any of that.