Someone posted somewhere on Lemmy that they were surprised that they could buy a bag of avos for less than a pot of guac in the shops.
Like they were shocked at the price difference of buying the ingredients and making it yourself, compared to buying the readymade product in the shop.
Checked their posts and this person was relatively well travelled as well which was worrying
My niblings were convinced that it was cheaper to eat out than to cook. Reason being their kitchen was empty, so every recipe called for something they didn’t have.
I’ve never known the word nibling before today
I do get that, it’s usually rife with those ‘meals for under a quid’ etc type recipes and to some extent, programmes
They always assume everyone has a base level of ingredients
Nibling is loads easier than saying, “my niece and my nephew who is her husband.” :)
Spices really kicked their ass. Yes, you need to buy that whole bottle for this one recipe, but you can use it over and over and over again. They didn’t get it.
Same here, I assumed it was a typo of nibbling but given the context that doesn’t seem right.
How do people afford takeaways for every meal? That must also be absolutely terrible for your health
On the topic of guacamole, I can’t stand the premade stuff because it always tastes spoiled, but it’s so easy to make I never get the premade mix. It’s like 4 ingredients and the jump in quality is 100x.
The manufactured stuff is always shite
not even 4, it can just be avocados and a bag of spice mix, which is a model of cooking i think is incredibly good.
Figure out a way to do most of the work for me, then i can just buy your product and a couple other important things and spend 20 minutes preparing it, and it’ll be almost as good as making it completely from scratch.
To be fair complicated economics sometimes give counterintuitive results. Like if shipping avocados without sqishing or spoiling them was more expensive than shipping boxes of guac for example
Value added processes, baby
So you’re adding the half an hour or so it’ll take to make into the overall cost?
Enjoy waiting ten months for your garlic harvest, if you planted it in the correct season, that is.
Been growing plants and gardening for 35 years. Have never once had success with garlic.
Are you me? somehow I always fucked up the garlic. Sometimes it was only 10% of what was planted. And the plants were so-so. Then one year I only had one giant garlic from the whole square? This was so weird.
Some time ago we found out my SO is allergic to garlic, so that’s not an issue anymore; maybe life wanted to tell me something ….
Edit: just remembered. The year I gave up on garlic. Just made optimal soil for garlic and a new place where it was sunnier. Every single plant decided they wanted to be grass and only grew the upper green part. No Bulbs. Waited another year, maybe I accidentally chose two year Bulbs. Nope. Never again.
It doesn’t grow here either. My grandma who was in Arkansas grew garlic, I think it needs both cool and dry, we have neither of those here.
Stokes Purple Sweet Potato though? It is like that. Chuck it in a pot of dirt, wait a few months, dump it out, full of potatoes. Okra, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, watermelon, all sorts of food plants I’ve had good results with but nothing that bulbs underground except those purple sweet potatoes.
This tweet gets funnier every time it is posted.
She really sells it, lol
Silly take. People have been backyard gardening for probably all of recorded history. “discovered agriculture” indeed.
It’s more like, they’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 at realizing how easily garlic grows in a variety of climates.
Every time I see this tweet I dive I to the comments to post this. And I’m always beaten to it.
“Eggs come out their arse!”
You can do the same thing with potatoes.
a grew more
