Time to go back to making veggie “burgers” out of portabella mushrooms and beans lol
I don’t know. Depending on where you live, that sounds about on the mark for what you bought. Groceries are getting expensive.
My bill of entirely unprepared ingredients have increased by 25% since the beginning of the year, so no not a good price.
Eggs still being $8 a dozen for the cheapest option is proof of how bad it’s gotten
Buying prepared food is expensive.
Lol, you’re out of your mind! A frozen patty is not “ready to eat” and is not prepared. You know that… Come on, you know if you order a burger anywhere it will arrive cooked and hot, all components assembled and actually ready to eat. Anything less, and it’s not “prepared”.
Well, those are some fancy burgers… Worth the money if you have it, IMO, but not something I’d buy on a budget. I usually get the Morningstar Farms chipotle black bean burgers, which Costco sells in a big box for a good price. They aren’t trying to be indistinguishable from meat (which isn’t a priority for me anyway) but they’re greasy (in a good way) and delicious.
Plus the Morningstar burgers have the rare advantage of being microwaveable. (I suppose you can technically microwave anything, but they’re good after being microwaved.) I’m not just saying that because I’m lazy - I have a little electric grill I can use, but I don’t need to for them and it’s nice to save a little bit of time that way.
Buhhhhh beyond is just nasty, I’ve tried preparing it a bunch of different ways and it always comes out nasty. There’s just some flavor I can’t cover no matter how much seasoning is on there. Eventually you just cover it in hot sauce so you don’t waste food.
That is kind of what you get when you buy super processed foods. If you want to save money you have to buy low processed foods. For example, you can get a 3lb bag of apples ($5), 5 cans of beans ($5), 2lb carrots ($2), 5 lbs Potatoes ($5) for the same price.
i mean i wouldn’t call bread super processed food, that just sounds silly
It really is. Stuff you can get fresh at a bakery in France? Not that processed. The bread they bake at the grocery store? Probably fairly processed. They often put a lot of crap in there, and
The stuff made in a factory, like most hamburger buns? That stuff is generally so processed it’s almost a lie to call it bread. It would take a chemistry degree to make that from only things you could harvest personally
maybe wherever you live, but here in sweden at least a lot of the time bread is just straight up baked in the store, and most pre-packaged bread is only slightly removed from that.
hell a lot of the pre-packaged bread is specifically wholesome, and at least from one brand it doesn’t even contain any preservatives or emulsifiers, literally just normal bread ingredients and a pinch of sugar.
