The Weekend Baker: BunchaRubes: The Weekend Baker: Eggs recently reached an all-time high of $4.25 a dozen on average in the US

35 cents for an egg (a healthy food) is considered too expensive in a country that thinks processed/fast food is the only affordable food for lower income families.

HAHAHhahahHAhHAhaHAhaHAHAHA

Processed/fast food is hardly the only affordable food for lower income families.  It's the only affordable food for lazy motherfarkers that refuse to buy staple food items at the store and cook them.

When I was barely able to find two pennies to rub together I learned that staple foods - potatoes, rice, pasta, unprepared meat (like chicken leg quarters) and a cheap slow cooker were far better uses of my money than things like cable TV and a cell phone.

I make great money these days and most of the time still cook the same way - staple foods and a slow cooker.  Although I added a pressure cooker to the cheap food arsenal over a decade ago.

Preach it (my post was sarcasm, FWIW, based on the number of people who love to trot out that excuse).  For most of my life, I was always broke, and adding in medical bills left me teetering on the brink of bankruptcy 15+ years ago.  Not only did I do what you describe in order to survive, even going as far as baking my own bread every weekend because it was cheaper than even the least expensive bread in the store (hence the moniker), I became an avid budgeter to track my spending.

And like you, though my financial woes are long gone, I still cook the exact same way with the same basic foods, still baking bread every weekend even though I could easily afford a high-end artisan loaf (hell, what I bake qualifies as artisan loaves).  My budget shows that my total grocery expense for a family of three for the year ended 2022 was almost identical to 2021, at a time when people are claiming it's even harder to buy healthy food because of the prices.  And that's with being married to a woman who doesn't look at prices when she shops.
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