DoorDash has, for many people, become a substitute for frozen meals, despite being less convenient and radically more expensive. And a lot of frozen meals taste fine, plenty of chain restaurants are actually serving that.
— cai (@AnneNotation) March 17, 2024
The replies to this tweet, which puts the bar as low as possible (frozen foods), somehow receives gratuitous pushback. Examples:
https://twitter.com/trochele/status/1769811110511710669
One pot pie is 600 calories 
https://twitter.com/alxcharlesdukes/status/1769518810271211879
Unless it's like Stouffer's or hungry man frozen dinners, McDonald's is much worse than any frozen option.
https://twitter.com/KnoxEndemic/status/1769733590164672606
This one is the funniest to me. Somehow this person is distressed by the prospect of taking a meal out of the freezer and into the microwave.
https://twitter.com/Sarahj1919/status/1769853056777134438
Normalize institutionalizing these people and whipping them in shape
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There was a post making fun of a couple who spent $50 ordering chicken tenders and fries off of DoorDash with them saying, "It costs money to eat good," or something like that. People were pointing out that buying frozen tenders and fries would be better in every way - cheaper, faster, the food would be warmer - and there was just this weird mental block the couple had preventing them from accepting that.
Back in 2008, there was this "food stamp challenge" based on the idea that people who get food stamps only get $20/week (this was a misleading claim to begin with), and people with means were challenged to try living off of that. Anyway, I tried it out, and my meals were surprisingly easy, tasty and nutritious. People need to be more ok with eating scrambled eggs for meals other than breakfast.
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Since I started penny pinching groceries my meals have gotten tastier and more nutritious lmao
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20 a week is basically what I do every week. I'd rather starve than eat doordash. 3 dollars a day is really pushing it though. That's a bowl of rice every day to make up for the lack of cash and also eating mostly pasta. If I only had 20 bucks I'd be scavenging food at pantries. 30 is totally doable though with delicious meals.
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$20 USD for 1 person is p good imo and I wouldnt be scrounging, but I'm a bulk legumemaxxer
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Scrambled egg sandwiches are a fantastic lunch imo
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Gotta have some sort of deli meat in there (montreal smoked
) though. Sort of a western style, toasted sandwich. Holds the egg scrambles in place too.
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I wanted to try the "food stamp challenge" concept but I didn't really get it. The maximum monthly allotment for SNAP is currently $291 for a single person—this is the amount you "should" spend on food, so you'd get this maximum if you had no income, or if 30% of your income is less than this then SNAP pays as much as needed to get to this combined amount. But $291 is a very generous food budget for one person, especially when you keep in mind it's food only and not other groceries. I'm an actual poor and it's almost double my actual grocery budget.
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It was basically propaganda. The $20/week came from the minimum SNAP disbursement, which shitlibs interpreted as, "OMG, THEY GIVE OUT SO LITTLE," instead of realizing that the program was means tested. If you were on the cusp of poverty, that's how much SNAP would provide with the expectation that the recipient supplement with their own income. Either case, I happily lived for a week on eggs, potatoes, rice, beans, chicken leg quarters, a bag of apples and a bag of oranges.
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For 20 a week I think I would just eggs+rice for most of it, maybe switch it up with sandwiches every other week.
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Pack of 5 large chicken breasts for $13, box of pasta for $1, box of rice for $1, loaf of french bread for $3 and you have chicken, pasta/rice, and a slice of toasted bread.
Could make chicken alfredo, some sort of asian chicken and rice, italian seasoned chicken breast entree and side of pasta. I wonder what the IQ cutoff is for being able to take these ingredients and form a few meals.
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You need something for the scurvy m8
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Orange sauce for the chicken ought to do it
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