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limbicnuminousity

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18. You're right.

Reply to MiHale (Reply #13)

Wed Feb 28, 2024, 10:40 AM

Feb 28

Apologize if that came off as snark. There are definitely steps that can be taken to eliminate food waste (and over-consumption) and with the current rate of global population growth we're all going to have to be creative.

The solution(s), whatever they may be, can't rely too heavily on the people at the bottom of the financial ladder pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. The bootstraps have already been used to make soup in some instances. Maybe it's time for the corporations to stop price-gouging and pay their gd taxes.

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Food Is Taking a Bite Out of Your Income. These Consumers Are Getting Creative. [View all] dalton99a Feb 28 OP

On average Americans eat too much... MiHale Feb 28 #1

Great messaging ... redqueen Feb 28 #4

Love the advice. limbicnuminousity Feb 28 #6

Never meant it as the only solution... MiHale Feb 28 #13

You're right. limbicnuminousity Feb 28 #18

Didn't take your response as snarky... MiHale Feb 28 #19

Well, that's a gross take. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 28 #9

The problem was that food prices were taking a bite out of income... MiHale Feb 28 #15

Really Always Blue Feb 28 #17

This OP is about saving our personal income on food... MiHale Feb 28 #20

Funny Always Blue Feb 28 #21

HOW ABOUT... the FTC slapping a huge windfall profits tax on their historic profits CousinIT Feb 28 #2

You are correct. I don't think it's possible without Dem supermajorities redqueen Feb 28 #14

Creative thinking helps. no_hypocrisy Feb 28 #3

I'm a whole foods homemade fanatic. I was going that way hard in the months leading up to COVID. brewens Feb 28 #7

Try this book. I love it. no_hypocrisy Feb 28 #11

That's part of it too. Knowing what not to waste time and money on. One of my big successes last year brewens Feb 28 #12

Beans and corn together provide a complete protein. raging moderate Feb 28 #16

My wife did a two month "pantry challenge " this time last year underpants Feb 28 #5

I'm a bulk meals food prepper. I buy two turkeys every year at Thanksgiving time just for myself. brewens Feb 28 #10

you can really see that whole top chef, eating out craze on the chart from 2010 until Covid shut it down Blues Heron Feb 28 #8

I do so many things to save money on food MissB Feb 28 #22