Liberals can't shop, part 3.

[ernunnos]

Author to address ‘hidden scandal’ of U.S. hunger

During the seven weeks of his experiment, Abramsky gave up extravagances such as lattes, cocktails with friends and decadent meals out. He didn’t want the rest of his family to go hungry, so he designated one shelf in his refrigerator and one in the pantry for his limited supply of food.

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[biglarry]

He didn't factor in "stupid" and "lazy".

[evilegg]

He subbed in "entitled" and "victim."

[biglarry]

Are those the new buzzwords?

[maradydd]

Holy damn do I love me some cornbread. And cornmeal mush. I mean, yes, okay, I buy my cornmeal twenty-five pounds at a time, but two bucks will buy even someone in the barrio a five-pound bag of the stuff. Do not even get me started on what Abramsky could have done with a sack of taters.

Hell, last time I was in San Francisco I made more General Tso's Chicken than my host and I could eat for two meals, with a dollar bag of rice flour, four bucks worth of chicken thighs, and about fifty cents worth of cooking oil. And we dropped the leftover bones in a pot of boiling water and made some chicken stock so rich it started to turn into aspic in the fridge. These are basic cooking skills.

[ernunnos]

I think the other problem with this experiment is that he did it on his own. Cooking for one sucks. You end up doing a lot more work per meal, or eating the same leftovers for far too long. Cooking for more reduces the cost/person and everybody gets more variety. And then you're eating together and it becomes the social bonding experience that eating has been since before we were even human.

[maradydd]

Oh, now you're putting me in mind of when I was in college working part-time for the weekly newspaper, and my friends were all working at the video store. We used to all converge on someone's apartment with a few ingredients apiece, cook up a big dinner, and watch movies all night. Good times.

[bandicoot]

Only assuming you don't have a freezer - otherwise it works just fine ;)

[evilegg]

Matzah ball soup is gross, but by all means try it if you get a chance.
Dammit. Now I want to go to Passover.

[ernunnos]

Huh. It's Jewish chicken soup and dumplings? As I thought. Po' food.

[evilegg]

The balls are spongey and undelicious.

[ernunnos]

I'm going to ask snippy to go over to your house and shut your whore mouth with some of her excellent matzoh ball soup.

[bandicoot]

Just goes to show you can't let liberals loose in the world without keepers ;p

[ernunnos]

Yeah, 'cause if you do, they write a book about how terrifying it is!

[ernunnos]

That's a cool page, thanks! Scary thing is, that's the 2006 price. 2009 price is $70! No inflation here!

[ernunnos]

Oh yeah, it's great compared to a lot of options. I just see a lot of people in economics blogs claiming we're in some sort of deflationary period. If prices for basic food went up by over 50% in 3 years, something doesn't add up.

I might use that list as a starting point for my own survival menu. Talking about More-With-Less has made me hungry for my mom's granola, which she got out of that book. It's better than any cereal I've ever had. I was really disappointed when I left home and discovered what passed for granola in the rest of the world. And it's mostly oats.