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Re:The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor i... by prawn on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:38PM (#34076716)
Do Americans in that situation serve much pasta? Pasta is generally cheap, stores well and cooks quickly. You can serve it with pesto out of a jar, butter/oil/pepper, or various other tomato-based jar sauces if short of time.

I have children so can empathise with anyone short of time and trying to accommodate juvenile palates, but pasta with some sauce options is one of our fallbacks - the two youngest like pesto. Rice is another (trivial in a rice cooker).

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Re:The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor i... by CSSer on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:51PM (#34076809)
Yes. Tons of pasta and chili too. Hamburger is (or at least used to be) pretty much the cheapest beef you can get.
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Re:The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor i... by trentgreene on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:56PM (#34076835)
Yep, ditto. You can sometimes score good deals on meat that’s turned brown from oxidization because it’s unsellable to most folks. Tastes fine, same nutritional value
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