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419 clicks; posted to Food » on 25 Sep 2022 at 9:30 AM (25 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 10:59:05 AM  
5 votes:

optikeye: olrasputin: optikeye: olrasputin: Real cooks don't need anything but a bag of hydrogen atoms and an energy source.

Dude...That's one of the themes I won't be doing this Halloween for 'reasons'.
Tho, I have planned. I have some tubes, to stuff with 'stuff' and these lovely ceramic TV trays.
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Tho I make better food then that pale crap in the pic.

My (smart) dog might eat some of that. Maybe. (The dumb one would eat the farkin' tray too.)

one thing we suggested for the neice. for her "bake sale" was make dog biscuits for sale.
People will be dog biscuits instead of cat counter top grade school cookies.
And you can get clever little cookie cutters.
Plenty of recipes online to make up some paper bags for xmas gifts.

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When I had a dog, one of my dog park friends sold home made dog treats. They were basically baked oats and peanut butter. When we got home from the park one day, I was about to give the dog her treat. I looked at it and thought, "Dare I?" It was goddamned delicious. For the next few weeks, the dog gave me dirty looks for bogarting her treats.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 9:33:34 AM  
4 votes:

Man On A Mission: optikeye: Apples/Oranges.

The proper response would have been, "I am completely wrong and feel bad for pushing the utterly ridiculous claim that cooking at home is more expensive than eating out."

But hey, no one ever admits they are wrong online.


Look, why do you even BUY yeast?
I make my own sometimes. I put a big bowl outside under a oak tree. With a bit of flour, sugar...and let that perk.
Under a full moon.
I Also make my own sauerkraut late October when the farmer's market has cabbages for cheep.

And PEANUTS. Boy Howdy...I wants me some roasted peanuts when the truck farmers do a green pea nut drop off at the local market.
 
TheOmni [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 9:41:56 AM  
3 votes:
You want to eat healthy, cheap, and easy? Try the potato diet. Just eat potatoes. That's it. Just potatoes. It actually works.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 10:15:56 AM  
3 votes:

drjekel_mrhyde: The lady in the article went from making fresh tomato sauce to the jar kind. That's not healthier.  She went from bulk to shiat on sale. No real savings there. Bulk chicken is still cheaper than buying chicken on sale.
/The people that thought ahead brought a deep freezer a decade ago.


LOL...
The electricity cost of a deep freezer is expensive.
And for the chest model...stuff tends to get overlooked and languashes in the bottom of the freezer, lurking.
 
cryinoutloud [BareFark]
2022-09-25 10:20:40 AM  
3 votes:

The Exit Stencilist: optikeye: The Exit Stencilist: offacue: FWIW, we usually get a nice loaf of french bread to go with sunday dinner but yesterday at the grocery store it was $5 a loaf so we didn't.  I suppose they're right you know.
For less than $3.00 you can buy a small bag of flour and some yeast and make a few French boules. But I realize that's too difficult for most Americans who prefer everything to be premade and as ultra-processed with preservatives and fillers as possible
We make our own bread, pizza dough.
Tho, I tend to use 000 Caupto Flour.
Which is probably too difficult for "MOST" Americans.
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Fancy flour, nice. I just use gold medal most the time, because I'm basic like that
But yeah, if more people made their own food, they'd save good money and be happier, healthier and several pounds lighter for it


How dare you. Their time is MONEY, and they don't have enough yet.
Don't you all get it?  It's not a different subject, it's the same farking thing I always bithc about--your work and your money has become more important than living your life.  We have a fast food culture BECAUSE we have a work culture--hang on, I have something obnoxious I can post--

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We have frozen food and frozen pizza and enough dining establishments to choke a hog BECAUSE we base  our lives around work, and eating is not a positive financial outlay.  It actually costs you money and then you have to shiat it out--that takes time-- and god forbid that you actually have to COOK something, because you aren't making any money then.

the millennials have now based an entire subculture on dining out and being waited on, because that's what signals your financial success--not being able to do a farking thing for yourself.  And if you can be waited on in Spain or Cabo, your Instagram fans will be smoking with envy.  You're cooking up a tan, but you don't COOK.

And you have to think about it, what to eat and how to cook it, and then there's that trip to the store, and you have to deal with all those fat people, and the whole time you're thinking, "What's the financial benefit to me with all this?"  Besides better mental and physical health, but besides THAT.  That crap is costing you money, and there are people, people with less worth than you have, who do that stuff.

It's nothing but a positive financial move to be waited on like a baby, at least the way we've set up our economy at this point.  It's all about YOU, baby, you baby, with your positive financial outlook and your army of faceless servants.
Cooking. That's for low-net worth individuals. You see people doing that at the many places you stop in to.  It's fascinating, like watching people work at a slaughterhouse.

/don't blame me. I learned this on Fark.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 9:24:49 AM  
2 votes:

Man On A Mission: optikeye: Fast food is much cheaper than healthy 'fresh' foods.

Not even close. Is Home-Cooked Food Cheaper Than Fast Food? Yes.

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Apples/Oranges.
The stuff you get from the 'cheap' bit your posting. Isn't gonna cook itself.
And PLEASE don't put coke on that menu item as 'fast food'. Geeze.
Yeah...we can make burgers, fries, and even OPEN A CAN OF COKE at home.
But often we don't.
So, tell us what you do.
Heck, right now I have a pot of beans soaking and whole chicken in the fridge the SO cooked last night.

Nothing you do for "Healthy" isn't going to make a dang bit of diffrence if the kids (or others) don't actually eat it.
 
The Exit Stencilist
2022-09-25 9:24:59 AM  
2 votes:

offacue: FWIW, we usually get a nice loaf of french bread to go with sunday dinner but yesterday at the grocery store it was $5 a loaf so we didn't.  I suppose they're right you know.


For less than $3.00 you can buy a small bag of flour and some yeast and make a few French boules. But I realize that's too difficult for most Americans who prefer everything to be premade and as ultra-processed with preservatives and fillers as possible
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 9:50:10 AM  
2 votes:

SuperSeriousMan: optikeye: Nothing you do for "Healthy" isn't going to make a dang bit of diffrence if the kids (or others) don't actually eat it.

How to tell everyone you're a bad cook without telling everyone you're a bad cook.


I've won stuff from https://food52.com/ for wining recipe contest.
And had recipes published in the NYT cook book.
I've mucked out more barns, and delt with more catfish/trout ponds than you'll ever know.
And stung by BEES gathering honey from their supers. COWS have tried to kill me when feeding them.
But go on....

(I'd really like a "Super" again...but we don't have farmland nearby for the BEES)
 
olrasputin
2022-09-25 9:54:55 AM  
2 votes:

optikeye: Man On A Mission: optikeye: Apples/Oranges.

The proper response would have been, "I am completely wrong and feel bad for pushing the utterly ridiculous claim that cooking at home is more expensive than eating out."

But hey, no one ever admits they are wrong online.

Look, why do you even BUY yeast?
I make my own sometimes. I put a big bowl outside under a oak tree. With a bit of flour, sugar...and let that perk.
Under a full moon.
I Also make my own sauerkraut late October when the farmer's market has cabbages for cheep.

And PEANUTS. Boy Howdy...I wants me some roasted peanuts when the truck farmers do a green pea nut drop off at the local market.


Pffft, starting with those products, you might as well just be ordering fast food.

Real cooks don't need anything but a bag of hydrogen atoms and an energy source.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 9:06:17 AM  
1 vote:
Fast food is much cheaper than healthy 'fresh' foods.
Unless you're talking a bag of beans and a sack of rice...because if you are, fark you.

/and I can make a dang beans and rice stuff. It's can just get boring tho.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 9:29:18 AM  
1 vote:

The Exit Stencilist: offacue: FWIW, we usually get a nice loaf of french bread to go with sunday dinner but yesterday at the grocery store it was $5 a loaf so we didn't.  I suppose they're right you know.

For less than $3.00 you can buy a small bag of flour and some yeast and make a few French boules. But I realize that's too difficult for most Americans who prefer everything to be premade and as ultra-processed with preservatives and fillers as possible


We make our own bread, pizza dough.
Tho, I tend to use 000 Caupto Flour.
Which is probably too difficult for "MOST" Americans.
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SuperSeriousMan
2022-09-25 9:44:06 AM  
1 vote:

optikeye: Nothing you do for "Healthy" isn't going to make a dang bit of diffrence if the kids (or others) don't actually eat it.


How to tell everyone you're a bad cook without telling everyone you're a bad cook.
 
cryinoutloud [BareFark]
2022-09-25 10:01:32 AM  
1 vote:
The only way to stop the gluttony is to starve it out.  If that's what it takes, then that's what it takes.
Enjoy your climate change diet.  You'll look good enough to  hit the beach at St. Tropez--wait, count that one out.  Oil spill and hurricane expected there.
You still look really good, hon, even if you can't go outside because of the really bad air quality.
 
olrasputin
2022-09-25 10:06:18 AM  
1 vote:

optikeye: olrasputin: Real cooks don't need anything but a bag of hydrogen atoms and an energy source.

Dude...That's one of the themes I won't be doing this Halloween for 'reasons'.
Tho, I have planned. I have some tubes, to stuff with 'stuff' and these lovely ceramic TV trays.
[images.vat19.com image 600x372]

Tho I make better food then that pale crap in the pic.


My (smart) dog might eat some of that. Maybe. (The dumb one would eat the farkin' tray too.)
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 10:40:02 AM  
1 vote:

EnderWiggnz: drjekel_mrhyde: The lady in the article went from making fresh tomato sauce to the jar kind. That's not healthier.  She went from bulk to shiat on sale. No real savings there. Bulk chicken is still cheaper than buying chicken on sale.
/The people that thought ahead brought a deep freezer a decade ago.

There are som things that just aren't worth the time to cook from scratch as the convenience is just better than the small boost in nutrition/flavor.  Canned tomatoes and spaghetti sauces are prime among them.  Look at the ingredients, and avoid the HFCS and salty ones.


I tend to disagree.
I mostly use canned tomatoes for 'red sauce'. Paul Newman's sauce....
Yup, I 'fancy it up, with a bit of ham, fresh onion, some dried herbs...a finish with flourish of fresh basil if we got it...
but  simmer 'all day' style. The Can isn't the problem. Heck, canned tomatos are often much better than crappy out of season 'fresh' tomatoes.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 2:00:11 PM  
1 vote:

optikeye: [cdn.cnn.com image 850x478]
JFC if you're buying 3 farken gallons of milk before it goes bad. You have a breeding problem, not a bread problem.
Oh...but nice call on the "Symbolic Sacrificial" asparagus .


When I was a kid I drank milk like it was water.
My ex didn't.
My mom didn't.
Guess who both lost teeth and who didn't
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 2:52:08 PM  
1 vote:

waxbeans: Put the meat where the fruit is. Place vegetables in all remaining slots. Fixed that for you.  You'll live longer.


Oh yeah....I get more years to spend drooling in bed with diapers looking for the remote. What's the point there?
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-25 5:38:05 PM  
1 vote:

robodog: No, it's not, at all.  The average upright freezer uses 45W on average,


And your 'average' upright freeze is normally a handme down 'tank' that's lasted 40 years for most people. Not some homedespot crap you pick up to drag to your sad little suburban garden home.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2022-09-26 7:18:06 AM  
1 vote:

Colonel_Angus: It never seems to take very long for one of Fark's legion of morons to show up and tout how cheap it is to eat fast food compared to eating a healthy diet.  That the evidence contradicts it is irrelevant -- it's become pretty clear that the sheer repetition has resulted in more people believing it than not.  The cost difference becomes even more exaggerated if you factor in the larger clothes (as you get fatter and fatter from eating garbage food) and the spiraling healthcare costs (because fatter usually equates to getting sicker).

Though I vote Democrat, I'm glad we have plenty of Republicans who will do everything in their power to prevent universal tax-supported healthcare from ever happening.  Because all of the data makes it clear we're overwhelmingly a nation of fat f*cking morons whose only concern when it comes to health is healthcare.


Why the Fark are you so concerned about 'other people' and what they eat.
JFC. Chill...and stop 'name calling' you farken idiot. And MORON is a medical classification.


And waving the "I'm a liberal" flag doesn't make you look better.
I'm gay...do you hate gay people....DO YOU? You gay hater person.

Just having a McD and fries doesn't make you a 'fatty' FAT faken Moron.

Do you want to call Julia Child a MORON. DO YOU? YOU GAY HATER PERSON THAT HATES 
*JULIA FARKEN CHILD*

1995 Clip: Julia Child on McDonald's French Fries
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