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True story. The instant noodle aisles in my two closest grocery stores are always picked clean as of the last several months.
LPT: Egg noodles are still fairly cheap and just as versatile if not more so.
I’m about to move for work, without uprooting my wife and dogs, or sell the house. I’m going to live at the office during the week… sucks, but w/e. Ramen is going to be my life for the next year or two. I love cheap ass food like this. Give me some Kraft Mac and cheese mixed with some boiled broccoli and a can of pork and beans every now and then to mix it up.
If you are over the age of 39 I highly reccomend against this. There is really no possible way yo meet your caloric needs without massively overdosing on salt when depending on ramen and Mac and cheese.
It’s honestly probably just as cost effective and slightly better for you to just buy a premade cold sandwich from the nearest bodega for at least one of your meals.
Are you gonna have access to a kitchen or will it mostly be like an instant kettle or microwave?
Pretty sure it’ll have some sort of kitchen, I’m going down for a week immediately after Thanksgiving to scope the place out. Shouldn’t start there fully until after the new year.
Please don’t eat ramen and instant Mac for two years straight. Find your local soup kitchen and grab a meal there, volunteer if you feel bad about taking food. I guarantee you’ll get a better meal and maybe feel better for it mentally.
Get some mixed dried vegetables. Turns the regular ramen packets into Cup-o-noodles, but cheaper and better.
I like cheap Hormel chili over drained, unseasoned noodles and vegetables.
I figured a good way to see how the average person is doing in the current economy would be to see what the ramen sales are like.
Prices have kept increasing on Ramen, while quality has fallen.
Yeah and soon they’ll make up a reason to raise ramen prices too. We’ve seen eggs, one cheap source of food skyrocket. I don’t think ramen is off the table.
Well the article says the price has already risen 20% in two years. But I wouldn’t be surprised one bit too see it continue to climb
$1.00 a package. It’s going to happen.
They don’t need to make up an excuse they’ll just whip out the Chicago econ book and say “increased demand, must increase prices! It’s The Economic Law™!”
Why? It’s far cheaper to just buy rice, beans and/or potatoes and combine them however you will. Add some sauce if you’re feeling rich.
I feel like all of those have longer preparation times.
So it’s not a cost of living issue but a (mental) exhaustion issue that makes people not spend any time on cooking besides their jobs
Compared to instant noodles, yes. Cooking rice takes like 15 minutes at most. Potatoes can take like an hour tops with the peeling but you can boil a bunch or cook them in an over and reheat them in a microwave later.
The price win is definitely worth it IMHO though. Instant noodles are like 1.90 euros per meal while a kg of rice or potatoes is about 1 euro and lasts for days, not just one meal. Also rice and potatoes get cheaper the more you buy at once.
What’s cheaper, rice or noodles? Google is surprisingly not helpful.
Potatoes are cheaper, more filling, more versatile, and more nutritious than noodles.
Rice is more filling for sure, so I’d say rice. I could eat a bowl of plain rice with hot sauce and Parmesan and be satisfied.
Rice. I can buy an 8kg bag for about $14, which conservatively translates into well over 100 servings. A 12 pack of ramen is around $6.
Where I am, cheap rice and cheap pasta are about the same - something around $1/pound, $2/kg. Ramen is decidedly not cheap at $3-4/pound. Even the ‘fancy’ pasta brands are only $2-2.50/pound.
Rice. At least there’s healthy rice alternatives, there’s a lot of dishes that can be done with rice. Far more than what fewer options there are for ramen.
Ramen can come into all sorts of flavors but the flavors are only supported by the packets with them or the sauce packets with them. In general, they’re just generally unhealthy and you can do so little with them.
Have you looked at the list of ingredients there? You not saving anything as you will pay the price later.
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The noddles yes, but the flavour packets are a mess of chemicals in most brands.
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Craziest thing when I moved to the city was how eager people were to spend >$10 at a restaurant on fucking noodles.
I just like them <.< particularly the cheesy ones, and pork (both Maruchan; there are not many options in general for me… though sometimes Yakisoba is available, which is nice). Dunno if there’s any actual meat in there. Could just be salt with salt flavouring in salt sauce. I don’t add any salt.
love your name/pfp /srs
Thanks :3
… I’ve been secretly thinking of changing both >:P
