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Internet nerds teaching fellow nerds how to cook at home, and make higher-quality food than garbage in a wrapper or a box they're currently wasting money on. In our age of hyperinflation, shrinkflation, and general economic collapse, knowing how to cook at home is more vital than ever.

Share recipes, cooking guides, shopping and savings tips, and let's help our fellow nerds save some mother-freaking money. Feel free to vent about skyrocketing food prices here too. Share evidence of hyperinflation, shrinkflation, etc. when you come across it.

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🤔 Homebrew snack recipes are things we need to round up and post.

Especially potato chips. Those things are infinitely cheaper and healthier to just make on your own than to buy at the store.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fruit chips are easy and cheap too! Just gotta slice a firm fleshed fruit super thin like apples and then lay them out on a baking sheet in one layer. Pop that in an oven at as low a temp as it will go, crack the oven door open a little and wait for then to crisp up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ohh man, this thread is making me so hungry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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Click here to see the summaryJoe Biden has criticised food companies for alleged “shrinkflation”, making products smaller while keeping prices the same, in a video to mark the Super Bowl.

The US president criticised big consumer brands for a shrinkflation “rip-off” on Sunday night and said the “American public is tired of being played for suckers”.

American football’s blue riband event attracts a huge audience in the world’s wealthiest country, and advertisers flock to market their products.

However, the video would have made uncomfortable viewing for some of the world’s biggest food companies, including PepsiCo, Mondelēz and Unilever.

That was in part, some economists believe, driven by several factors including monetary policy stimulus in response to the Covid pandemic, the huge rise in global energy prices as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and heavy government spending pushed by Biden and other countries.

Inflation dropped to 3.1% in December but some companies are thought to have responded to rising costs by marginally shrinking the size of products – shrinkflation – as well as changing recipes to reduce the amount of more expensive ingredients – sometimes known as “skimpflation”.


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