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People are broke and broken. They don’t care anymore and settle for sugar frosted cardboard for dinner. This guy is up there smiling and thinking “all this misery is great for business!”
Lol. We should just skip straight to calorie pellets at this point
They would be even more expensive than cereal because they would upcharge for the convenience of not having to pour cereal into a bowl.
Oh god…the video is so much worse.
Don’t do this, you’ll be malnourished. Grains aren’t a particularly good food group.
Potatoes don’t require much prep, are generally cheap and filling, and will be much better nutrient wise. I’d still recommend rice and beans though. Canned beans work if you have no means to cook.
I seem to remember there being issues historically with poor people relying on potatoes as their food source
A lot of that was also the British taking Irish food supplies.
No way. The British would never take anything from someone else
It is not stealing if you declared it your land 50 years ago.
Yeah being on the genocide list of the English had more to do with that than the taters
(Note to the reader: they can be boiled, mashed, or simply added without ceremony to a pre-existing stew)
Beans are cheaper dry than canned though. If you have the patience you can start them in a slow cooker before you go to work.
Garlic, onion, and peppers go miles in making beans taste good while also being cheaper.
I’m wondering now though whether the cost balances out because dry beans require a lot more energy to cook? I know they need at least an hour on the stove, whereas canned beans you can just add to a chilli etc straight away
Most likely, dry ones would still turn out cheaper because they weigh much more after hydration. But this is indeed a matter to consider
Pressure cooker is the way for dry foods. Mine will do split peas lentils and mung bean stew in 12 mins.
If you are poor, a pressure cooker is out of reach if you don’t already have one.
How poor are we talking? I just found a pressure cooker for $25 on Amazon.
Poor where we are talking about saving cents on buying canned beans vs dry beans because it makes a difference.
When you go in debt every month to just survive, every cent count.
I would definitely indebt myself of 25$, but I am in a situation where I don’t need to, so it is easy to say. I don’t know what that reality is.
Fair, but it’s also the kind of thing that can be found for very cheap/free if you don’t mind second hand
This can also be mitigated a lot by cooking the beans in the morning mor a short time, packing the pan into a lot of blankets and then cooking it shortly in the evening.
I think time to cook food has become a luxry in the eyes of the so-called “invisible hand”. It’d be rad to find someone in the community with the time to cook huge pots of the stuff and pay them for the rice 'n beans.
Cereal is expensive, people arent buying it because its cheap, theyre buying it because the invisible hand demands their cooking time.
Oh yeah and don’t go calling it a restraunt, cause thats fucking expensive too.
Potatoes don’t require much prep
You have to peel and cook them, though. That’s a pretty big hurdle for people who would consider regularly eating cereal for dinner.
I do like instant mashed potatos, though, and they’re fairly cheap.
I’m talking people on survival mode, as I mentioned at the end of my very short comment just eat canned beans from the tin with no facilities to cook. Also you don’t need to peel potatoes, you can microwave them also, or bury in a fire if you don’t have electricity and are using one for heat.
Cereal is a scam, it’s expensive and nutritionally pointless.
Rice often contains too much heavy mettals. Canned food contains too much BPA.
that’s probably why most recipes ask to wash rice before boiling… im certain this works great… if your house’s water-pipes were not made of lead hahaha…haha… sigh ._.
I think that’s mostly to wash the excess starches off of the rice.
it does leech out (some) arsenic though.
“ The PBA method involves parboiling the rice in pre-boiled water for five minutes before draining and refreshing the water, then cooking it on a lower heat to absorb all the water.”
This was the only information provided about the method in the article. I do the same thing with quinoa to make it less bitter, guess I’ll start doing it with rice too.
My understanding is that this is related to whether it’s American grown in fields previously used for cotton and other non-food crops due to pesticides… foreign rice should be ok?
at least it’s going to be foreign pesticides
Not a good thing either haha… as an American, I don’t think our farmers are purposely poisoning the rice, but may not understand the pesticides in the soil from decades ago can still fuck people up now.
Potatoes are also really easy to grow. If you ever forget about your potatoes and they sprout or you leave them in the sun and they get green, you can put them in a pot and grow fresh potatoes.
Fava beans are also extremely easy to grow.
“Fava beans are also extremely easy to grow”
They also pair nicely with liver and a nice chianti.
I recommend starting with the CEO of Kellogg.
Hannibal ante portas est!
can they grow in an apartment?
Potatoes grow well in shade. Fava beans can grow in containers just fine, but may need a balcony. I would also get a short variety. A lot of things can grow in a window sill.
There’s also guerilla gardening, where you plant on an abandoned plot. Potatoes are great for this because they’ll basically grow on their own as long as they aren’t overtaken by blackberries.
a boring dystopia
late stage capitalism
Anyway poor people don’t buy Kellogg’s, it’s overpriced. Poor people buy the generic cereals that come in those huge plastic ziplock resealable bags. Not only do they cost less but they have more intelligent useful packaging and the quality is fine too.
Almost every MaltOMeal cereal is better than the name brand version.
True. The really poor people buy the off brand Malt-O-Meal cereals.
Maybe the true cereals are the poor people we made along the way.
That’s a profound statement, EdibleFriend.
I am as wise as I am delicious.
I buy malt-o-meal raisin bran. I like the large quantity yet minimal packaging, and I really like that it has the right amount of raisins. Kellogg’s puts too much raisins in theirs.
you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like!
I can count my lucky stars my income level never dipped below the rice-and-beans povery level, but it has dipped below cereal made by Kellogs and General Mills. They’re a false product like Nestlē baby formula as sold in Africa. They are expensive by the ounce and poor nutrition.
But if you are that dirt poor and have a 60 hour job then you may not have the time or energy to make rice. You’re also stuck in bonded servitude. That isna profound level of fucked.
Pilnick is celebrating selling desperation food at inflated prices to slaves.
I’m right there with you. Beans, rice, potatoes, and the occasional pasta dish. Whatever vegetables were inexpensive, and whatever meat was on manager’s special or BOGO. I did eventually figure out that inexpensive tofu could be purchased in bulk at some asian grocery stores, but by then I was on my way off the struggle diet.
At one point, it was clear that stuff like “hamburger helper” was too expensive, and going after raw seasoning ingredients and pasta was going to save a substantial part of the shopping bill. Boxed cereal was also out of the question.
Edit: energy costs (electricity) were bundled into my rent at the time. I don’t even want to think about how to navigate that situation by paying for butane, propane, or natural gas on top of everything else.
Hey guys, I have an idea. Let’s go punch him in the cock.
And twist his nuts!
I’ll get my gloves
You have cock punching gloves? Also your username is only raising more questions.
Doesn’t everybody?
Okay, add him to one of the lists… which one? I dunno. The group guillotine assembly line? The obstacle course of razor sharp objects? The Wu-Tang reverse speed feeding bonanza? The volcano catapult layup competition? O, I know. The scarecrow harvester mowdown. We’ll put him next to former Monsanto executives.
Meanwhile Rocket Mortgage over here telling me to refinance my house so I can afford groceries . . .
I really don’t get this. Cereal is very expensive right now, at least here in the Midwest it is. I’ve seen small boxes upwards of $9. I’ll admit that I don’t eat cereal all that much these days, but I like it occasionally and when I went to pickup my favorite box, I decided it wasn’t worth it. What cash strapped family is eating boxes of cereal for dinner when they could be eating much cheaper and filling foods like beans and rice? Heck, a case of ramen noodles is cheaper than cereal. Or maybe my area is the expensive cereal zone 🤷
That was my first response: who has the money for cereal in this economy? I tell you what, Mr. Kellogg, if it’s breakfast for dinner it’s going to be toast or porridge. I’m certainly not overpaying for glorified dried, smashed frozen corn.
I would guess it’s not necessarily poor people buying it but for people that were eating fast food/takeout and now the prices are too high to keep up that lifestyle. If you’re lazy than cereal is a great go to and still cheaper then fastfood. If you’re actually poor and lazy, you aren’t buying kellogs unless you have poor money management skills. I know I’m not buying any kellogs brand, I haven’t in probably 5 years.
This news segment was frustrating though, the man shows no sympathy and only talks about making a bigger profit off of the situation.
If you’re lazy than cereal is a great go to
It really isn’t. At least have some muesli instead. Cereal is just sugary junk food.
Where I am, the big cereal brands (Kelloggs, Post, General Mills) tend to go for $6-7 a box, and the bargain brands are like half that at most. I agree, rice and beans would work better if you were being frugal. Or eggs; eggs were real expensive for a bit, but they’re back down to $2 a dozen.
This is the second post about crazy expensive cereal today and I’m debating arbitraging cereal near me cuz I’m paying like $1.70 for a 14 ounce box of store brand Cheerios
What kind of cereals are you looking at?
I buy oats (for porridge) and wheatbix and they’re less than half the price of any of the sugar overloaded cereals.
i’ll buy it when kellogs box isn’t $40
I have never bought Kellogs I get the no name brand that looks and tastes like Kellogs, probably made in the same factory on a different day.
for cash-strapped families
Is Kellogg’s cereal even cheap at all?? I’m not in the US so I could only imagine but I’d guess it’s not, is it?
It’s cheaper than good cereal, but more expensive than the identical store brand
And compared to dinner?
I’m asking because if I was “strapped for cash” I’d always go for cooking something rice or potato based myself, rather than buying already processed and packaged food, a most likely overpriced brand no less!
I think it’s partly that any home cooking is more difficult and time consuming than it. I have cheap and easy meals I do but they’re less feasible than cereal. Except dipping bread in pesto that’s dirt cheap and easy as fuck
Cereal is actually weirdly expensive nowadays. You can do much better for less.
I’m pretty sure Ukraine was a big cereal exporter before the war, so it makes sense I guess
Not really, no. I mean, it’s cheaper than, like, steak, but it usually goes for twice as much or more than the store brand or bargain brand cereals.
Nothing here is cheap.
Gasoline is comparatively
Fun fact: if you were to drink a cup of gasoline, it would have enough calories to sustain you for the rest of your life!
I prefer to eat a kilo of uranium
Just a lick of the demon core will last you your whole life 👌
That’s rad!
A gallon of gasoline only contains about 28k Calories, so about enough energy for 10 days
A cup would barely last you a day
Sure, but neither would you, if you drank a cup of gasoline.
A day sounds about right if it ends up being the last day 😵
A cup would barely last you a day
I believe that was their point . . .
I may be dense… xD
At point of sale. If you include subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuel corpos…
You haven’t watched the trailer for Summer 2024 yet, have you?
It’s cheaper than a traditional dinner probably… But yeah might as well get the cheaper cereal.
I’m betting it would actually be cheaper to cook something like rice and beans than it would be to eat cereal.
Not everyone has cooking (as well as cool storage) facilities and/or can afford to power them. Cereal requires no cooking and can be stored anywhere, as can UHT milk.
ok but i unironically eat cereal for dinner because cinnamon toast crunch is delicious
ok but I unironically eat kellogg’s for dinner because crunchy
Every time I’ve eaten cereal for dinner, it was never because it was cheap. I’ve always had cheaper and healthier alternatives. Cereal for dinner isn’t a poverty meal, it’s a poor mental health meal.
Yeah, but being poor and overworked will also kill your mental health, so…
I remembered being poor early in my life and eating cereal with water. Reading this shit makes me hate this man even more than I thought I could.
