Why Breakfast Is Busting Your Food Budget
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/01/1513246/why-breakfast-is-busting-your-food-budget
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[1] https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/why-breakfast-is-busting-your-food-budget-a52165e7
haha (Score:2)
Haha. I don't eat breakfast. But, it's true, the price of air has gone up significantly, since I have to pay the govt every time I wake up.
Because (Score:2)
Because you eat sugared breakfast cereal instead of eggs and oatmeal.
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65 million years ago, the ancestors of chickens were eating the ancestors of mammals. This is payback.
Of course, we won the war against our oppressors long ago and we now actually BREED them just so we have more of them to kill to keep the industrial military-farming complex operating.
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> 65 million years ago, the ancestors of chickens were eating the ancestors of mammals. This is payback.
And explains why we form them into dinosaur nuggets.
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I have twenty happy chickens.
What is your problem with them?
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Ah yes, the backyard chicken fallacy.
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> Ah yes, the backyard chicken fallacy.
How are backyard chickens a fallacy?
I have six hens. How can I tell if they're fallacious?
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> How can I tell if they're fallacious?
I assume if delicious they aren’t fallacious.
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> I assume if delicious they aren’t fallacious.
I eat the eggs, not the chickens.
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Yeah, not all chickens are treated poorly. My wife's chickens--from which we get a nice steady supply of eggs--are treated far more like household pets than livestock.
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Because you eat sugared breakfast cereal instead of eggs and oatmeal.
The U.S. just culled 100 million chickens because of avian flu. A dozen eggs in my area are anywhere from $2.50 to well over $3 a dozen. While that is six meals (two eggs per omelette), I can get two weeks worth of breakfast from a box of cereal for less than a dozen egges.
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Do you eat your cereal with water? Or just dry?
Pop-Tarts are the answer (Score:2)
Every morning I sit down to read the news with a pop-tart, a Lipitor and a cup of coffee with a small dash of sugar. I buy pop-tarts when they go on sale at 2 boxes for $5. So that's $5/16 = $0.3125 each morning. I pay about $11 for a 2 month supply of Lipitor. I drink home-brewed Starbucks Verona, probably the most expensive part.. So, I'm doing breakfast for substantially less than a buck. I've been eating the pop-tarts for 40 years. The Lipitor is a more recent addition.
I don't see no stinkin' proble
The price of reading about budget busting breakfas (Score:5, Funny)
The price of reading about budget busting breakfasts is apparently going up too, since the article is paywalled.
Well (Score:2)
We get one free meal a day, so we choose breakfast...
(of course it is expensive to live here, but our nephew pays for that.)
You think it's bad now? (Score:3)
Wait until mid-January, when you find out how much you were importing that just got 25% more expensive, how long it will take American farmers to take up the slack (if they do or even can), and how much more it costs than the original source.
fluff news (Score:2)
The article is only a dozen lines long and it cites eggs, sirloin, coffee, a can of frozen orange-juice concentrate. Cocoa prices are also up.
[1]https://archive.ph/8vYWj#selec... [archive.ph]
[1] https://archive.ph/8vYWj#selection-2543.28-2543.126
Rolled oats & milk soaked overnight + peanut b (Score:2)
This is called overnight oats consisting of about 1 cup rolled oats soaked in 3/4 cup milk and 1 tsp sugar for at least 6 hours which will give a consistent texture but not mush. Add any topping you like, peanut butter, jam, fruits, banana. Doesn't cost much and doesn't take much time. Try baked oats with apples and raisin if you like a little bit more cooked breakfast with a similar taste to bread pudding.
Not me, practically free (Score:2)
Eat a nice 3-egg cheese omelet most days made with eggs from the chickens kept out by the barn.
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My city has by-laws against keeping chickens, but just for the theoretical I did the math and figured out the required setup would result in slightly more expensive eggs than grocery-bought, plus my time taking care of the hens.
If you already have a profitable production setup, though... you'd kind of be a fool not to take some eggs for yourself.
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> made with eggs from the chickens kept out by the barn.
[1]Yeah [srcdn.com].
[1] https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/far-side-january-2-1982-a-woman-carrying-fresh-eggs-into-her-house-passes-a-chicken-carrying-her-baby-to-the-coop.jpg?q=70&fit=crop&w=750&dpr=1
Re:"Busting MY food budget" (Score:4, Insightful)
Breakfast is the least "budget busting" of my meals.
What would bust my budget, however, would be to subscribe to all the paywalled news sites (like this one) to be able to read the articles.
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> Breakfast is the least "budget busting" of my meals.
Indeed. My breakfast is oatmeal, the cheapest food in the grocery store.
> What would bust my budget, however, would be to subscribe to all the paywalled news sites
There are some sites worth paying for. The WSJ isn't one of them.
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sounds like you need a little more greed for breakfast! That'll be $5,000,000; here's a coupon for 10% off next time!
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You can make statements about the mean and average (aggregate data) while understanding that representative doesn't mean universally true.
Sheesh, you think a place that used to be predominantly filled with people in CS would understand the nature of statistics, but I keep coming here and seeing people who clearly don't have the foggiest idea.
I guess that explains why software sucks so bad nowadays.
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But that's exactly what the headline did NOT say.
Yes, something may bust the average breakfast budget, or breakfast budgets, or most peoples breakfast budgets, it claims in best clickbait style that something is supposed to happen to MY budget.
And people with CS background know of the need for exact language. Or at least knew that. If that has become lost, software today "sucks bad" because not enough CS people get upset with that kind of language on an outlet that used to be filled with CS people.....