Media being out of touch with reality while being bootlickers of the wealthy will never stop being funny.
They are owned by the wealthy.
Cooking is expensive now too. I’m paying pre-covid eating out prices to cook food at home, and I shop cheap. $80/week if I really hit some savings to feed just myself.
i just started trapping and gathering in the city
Is this a joke? It’s hard to tell these days
Are you in Canada or the US? I moved from Canada (Toronto) to Germany, and it’s night and day how much less I spend on groceries.
I went from shopping at No Frills in Canda to Lidl/Aldi in Germany, and I spend half as much as I used to. At least in Canada, it’s really disappointing to see how Loblaws has managed to get away with so much price gouging.
I’m in the US.
See if you have an Aldi near you. They are the cheapest grocery store I’ve been to in the US. I cool/prep 3 meals a day for about $40/week.
Problem with Aldi is all their produce sucks.
Shit goes back in like 2 days.
I just got back from vacation there and yeah groceries in Germany are like half price of Canada. And salaries are higher too.
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Yes please all come here and ruin the prices further /s
Prices increased over the last year or so justified by energy prices but in reality it is the profit margins of the supermarkets. Thanks for the inflation Aldi!
Yep part of why I’m moving to Germany next year is the cost of living is so much more reasonable. Groceries costed me just around $25/wk when I was studying abroad. Can’t beat that.
Sometimes I have to go to the fucking food bank- I guess you could say I’m shopping less
I guess that is kinda like shopping but sad?
With all the food bank demand I wonder when companies will try and get in on it (like walmart and thrift stores)? Maybe they will make you watch ads while waiting in line? (For you to spend your non existent money on?)
don’t give them ideas man
We call it microshopping.
If you watch this ad and click on which of these images looks like a semaphore you get 100 grams of rice!
Quality boring dystopia material
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That’s not a bad thing, actually I’d call that a success minus the financial struggles.
I dunno. I read it as “Gen Z is poor” and it pisses me off because its true. It seems like a trend where the rich get richer and the rest of us get just enough to scrape by so we’ll show up to work.
That’s obviously what they are trying to get across but they affiliate it with something that isn’t bad at all and people should be doing either way, financially stable or not. It’s kind of a weird argument to say that Gen Z are poor, because it might also mean that they are just consuming more consciously by cooking themselves. There’s clearly ways of telling they are poor without this ambiguity.
I’m not sure who the article is referring to, but pretty much every Gen Z person I know lives at home with their parents. So not really a strong point being made here. Oh, it’s fortune. That explains it.
Gen Z is as old as like 26. There are plenty living on their own.
Almost all of my 26-and-under co-workers are living at home. Not everyone immediately moves out at 18, and with the sky high housing cost in this area I wouldn’t even say ‘most’. Even for university, some of these co-workers have degrees but still live at home.
From experience, fully 75% or more of what comes out on Fortune is bootlicking in disguise of journalism.
Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to
achieve financial successsurviveFTFY
I like making homemade chicken bowls. They were originally meant to be cheaper alternatives, but KFC food quality is kinda shit sometimes, so at this point I outright prefer my own version. Mine also has shrimp since they take about the same time to cook as the chicken, so I mix throw that in.
Just frozen corn at the bottom (well, heat it up, just follow the instructions on the bag, I usually just stick frozen veggies on the microwave with a bit of water for 3 mins).
Then the breaded shrimp or some popcorn chicken pieces on the bottom with the corn.
Then mashed potatoes. Instant or ones made from actually smashing potatoes work (for real ones, just peel some potatoes and cut them up into smallish chunks and boil them for about 10 minutes, then drain the water, add some milk and butter (or dairy free alternatives). About 1 tbsp of butter, I like to do the milk by ear, starting with too little and adding more until the moisture is about right. Also add salt or it’ll taste like it’s missing something. Taste it for both milk (moisture level rather than flavour) and salt (flavour for this one) to get it right. You can add oregano or chives, or any green seasoning to enhance it without changing the flavour profile entirely. Or if you want to change it entirely, go with curry powder, Cajun, or some other spice blend (not sure that would work with chicken bowl, but it doesn’t hurt to experiment).
Then more chicken on the top, shredded cheese, and gravy (I use envelope gravy, pretty quick and easy to make, just follow the directions). Add paprika or cayenne for colour/heat.
I use envelope gravy
Maybe it’s just me, but the envelopes on my desk don’t look particularly tasty. (I assume this means something else, heh)
You’d be surprised at how well they turn out when combined with meat juices and water! Actually, I wonder if you could use ground up paper (like dust) to replace flour and make gravy.
But I meant the dried up gravy solids you mix with water and heat up that comes in envelopes at the grocery store.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Our future ist burning, I am serious look at that shit.
You’re learning the skills that none of the humans with the steering wheels can seem to muster - like sticking to a budget.
Now, the questions are:
- when a steering wheel falls into your lap, will you lose your sense of budgeting?
- will you manage to pass this sense to other humans?
Wdym by steering wheel?
GenX here, sounds like me a few decades ago, counting the pennies and balancing everything, and not completely succeeding.
Also Gen X and what we had was hard compared to the Boomers but what Millenials and Gen Z have is far worse. This really is apples and oranges going on here.
Another Gen X here, yes, you are right, although being a Gen-Xer in the third world is/was not at all easy, even compared to millennials and Gen Z in the first world.
In any case, the title says “financial success” where it should read “survival skills”.
Millennial living that life right now. Assuming I stay on track, I might be able to buy a house when I’m in my 40’s and literally work until the day I die.
Just save gold and silver, and wait for the market to collapse, then trade it for houses. So many houses. So much gold and silver.
demand better kitchens and kitchen storage in rentals.
it is a fucking joke out here
You guys got rentals?
Where are they getting their ingridients from to cook if they shop less? Or do they just eat less? Is this about starvation?
From personal experience:
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Store brands
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Self-checkout (“shopping less” on record)
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Not buying avocado that ripens in 3.23 days and goes bad in 3.56 days. You’re on time out, avocado.
Careful with the self check shenanigans, especially at Target. They wait to let you know they know until you reach felony price totals and then have you arrested. https://www.paypath.com/Small-Business/why-target-is-the-worst-store-to-shoplift-from
Damn morality of shoplifting aside that should qualify as entrapment or something. At that point it’s not about loss prevention, it’s just petty revenge.
The cops where I live, a couple of times a year have a full on bike thief entrapment fest. It’s disgusting. They get a bike that’s worth a felonious amount of money (IDK, $1K?) and leave it UNLOCKED in an area where bikes have been reported stolen over the past few months. Then they hide out and arrest 100% homeless people who take it for a spin. Then they fucking brag about it in their fucking email newsletter that you can’t fucking opt of unless you don’t want important alerts about like, wildfires approaching residential areas and which evacuation site you’ve been assigned to. It will be 10 to 20 people each time, they list their full name, age, the fact that they are “a transient” and any other charges they got them on at the time, like paraphernalia possession. A fucking CAB. Fuck. FUCK.
You know what would stop these people stealing bikes better than this bullshit? SERVICES. This rich ass county can more than afford to care for our destitute human beings, who, by the way, are not the ones out there with bolt cutters and lock picks stealing your bike while you’re at work. Those people know better than to fall for the bicycle honey pot trap.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
That’s a solid take on avocado.
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You shop less when you buy whole ingredients and make sizeable batches than when you buy pre-made food. They’re shopping more efficiently.
wtf, financial success?
Not sure i know what that is, but it seems a pretty depressing goal to have.
Could be worse though.Now you know why the boomers raise the rent to the point where it makes everyone but themselves miserable. They consider it financial success, where normal people consider it ruthless exploitation.
Better to talk about how they shaped zoning laws and other procedural matters to block the development of new housing for decades and decades.
Sure, the market price of housing is disgustingly high and you can say that it’s exploitative to actually charge it, but a much better question is to ask why the market price of housing got so high to begin with, because the answer to that is more complicated than landlords just asking for as much as they can get. They’ve always done that, so why as has that ceiling price exploded so much in recent decades? That’s where you can start to find actual solutions.
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Okay, but did something happen that suddenly made people become more greedy? Are people in West Virginia simply not greedy? Did NYC landlords have a brief change of heart in 2020 when they allowed prices to fall, only to suddenly rediscover greed in 2022?
Again, how did it come to pass that shelter became a commodity? What things changed that resulted in it becoming a productive investment?
Greed isn’t a useful explanation because people have always been greedy and always will be.
did the US have more rent controlled areas in central business districts - i guess that would vary by state/county/city?
In the UK there was a lot more rent controls in 40s-60s ish (then varying a bit over 70s) but basically was abolished entirely in the (mid-late) 1980s.
The title of this article reads lile a dr seuss book
Cooking helps you save money, eat better, and can be entertaining. I’ve started to really get into recently.
My boomer mother only knew how to heat up frozen foods or follow the directions on the box, so what really helped me learn to cook was Good Eats. Watch it and make the food. Many of the recipes were retooled by Alton Brown and are on his website for free (with no annoying monologues before each recipe). The rest are on Food Network’s site.
