You don't. You share productivity. Ultimately to assess whether the job is "bad" you'd have to compare if you make more with or without it. Tightening belts is still a lot better than starving
Cereal is so expensive, I can't belive it was suggested as a way to save money. For that price you could literally make a normal dinner that is way better than cereal.
I went to buy some cinnamon toast crunch, and the smallest 12 oz box was almost $7. I walked away. I did later find the huge 32 oz bag a little later for $5, but that's because the store was having a huge sale on it. That was more like it. But I have it as a snack, it's insane to suggest it as a major meal.
Don't you find it funny that we're in a time where more people are struggling massively to stay above water financially but at the same time, more and more people are spending and being sold luxurious lifestyles with the intensification of celebrity culture? We're operating at the end of 2 extremes while the chasm between them deepens and widens at a rapid pace. It's manipulation and it's financially and psychologically damaging.
Yup, and I credit that to things like credit cards, the ease of getting loans and buy now, pay later. They allow people to temporarily afford a lifestyle beyond their means even if that means always struggling to stay afloat financially. The only people who are truly comfortable and free are the ultra rich
They aren't spending, they're going into debt. You'll never retire, you'll never have a home, you'll never have those kids you want; so why not finance that bag to live a fantasy?
Oatmeal with raisins and a pat of butter and splash of milk is much more hearty than cornflakes. It’s cheap to make too. Soups made with dried beans, rice, lentils, or split peas and cheap veggies like carrots, cabbage, potato, or onion is also a better option. Shrinkflation seems to be hitting processed food the hardest so I just make most things from scratch, even bread and tortillas. It will be fall before we know it and that’s the time to start making budget soups 😋
@@lc-il6wr if you try to start eating oatmeal I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. A common thought for people when they make oatmeal is “this is so good and I can’t believe I don’t have it more often!” But ya if you want cereal you should eat cereal but it will be more expensive. If you want to try oatmeal here are some tips-add like four shakes of salt into the water and boil the raisins in with the oats if you want raisins. Boil it til it’s done then put in your bowl and mix in a little butter. After that put a few little chunks of butter on top without mixing it in. If you want brown sugar sprinkle a little on (I don’t like mine sugary) then splash some milk on top and don’t mix it in. It looks beautiful and appetizing and tastes comforting and delicious.
I've noticed the people around me struggling are those who are single or have dependents (pets, kids). We are at a point in human history where you need 2 full time incomes per household, and you can't afford pets, kids, a social life or to travel. It's really sad. All work and no play. Props to that older lady who said young people have no hope. All the older folk around me just call young people lazy and don't care to look at the facts.
@@ItsbabygirltI've been in therapy struggling with depression for years and while I'm doing better than I was I feel like every couple of months I come to the same point that I know my therapist can't really help me with: Im working 11h a day and I can barely afford basics, I have to portion control for money, I'm stuck in a rundown apartment that gives me anxiety with all the issues it has but I'm equally worried about having to move because it's gonna be more expensive and I can barely afford this, I can't really afford hobbies or fun stuff, so I spend my free time sitting at home playing video games, my parents help sometimes but still i can only barely afford to survive. Everyone keeps telling me how much easier it is to survive "in a pair" and it is, but the thought of getting into a relationship for money makes me wanna puke. I just want some peace in life with my cat. How is that such a luxurious desire?
My Dad and I own a Restaurant together. We figured that we need to keep the food simple. Real, authentic, simple food. And since I was born in Hawaii, we’ve come up with great ideas: Coconut Pudding, Chocolate Taro Pies. Original Mexican Dishes: Taco Calzones, Quesadillas, Fideo, Tapioca & Tiramisu Dessert Shots. And much much more. We don’t cut corners, we don’t add nothing artificial, and the prices are reasonable so anyone can have a good meal. Now is the time to make this a reality, if these corporations want to charge unreasonable prices, reduce the amount of our food, and starve us, we need to boycott them, and start building businesses of our own to help others live. It is the perfect time. Let’s get started.
@@Itsbabygirlt difficult when billionaire CEOs now have a militarized police force at their beck and call. it's like they made sure that the french revolution never happens again.
Cereal is like a snack food more than a breakfast food even for me it does not keep me full for even an hour. Oatmeal is a cheap option and it keeps me much more full and energized
I've been eating steel cuts oats for breakfast with frozen blueberries and a strawberry/banana yogurt and mix it all up. Yum. Keeps me full until lunch! Forget cereal! That's a dessert!
Having cereal for dinner is like them saying it’s okay to feed your kids like cattle because times are tough and don’t worry about lack of nutrition the high sugar content will keep them up and moving.
I basically stopped eating candy because of that. Even the usually higher quality, line Ferrero Rocher tastes worse now. You have to spend a pretty penny just to get anything even remotely tasting like it should.
There is one more thing. The way that fruits and vegetables are grown, they make them big, bright and shiny, but they contain less vitamins and minerals. For example I have a garden with raspberries, they are tasty, berries are not so big the yeald is relatively small, but they are really good. I wanted more berries so a month ago I bought some from the market. It felt like a bad joke, those berries from the market didn't have much taste. They looked beautiful, but it's like a scam. And I'm sure those berries didn't have as much nutritional value, as ones from my garden. I see a solution in promoting gardening. You may think that it doesn't make much of a difference in terms of cost. But I tell you, the quality, the nutritional value of the seemingly same vegetables is going to be drastically different.
I have celiac disease. Not eating the cheap, crappy food because it will make me sick. I don't eat processed food at all. I eat nutricious food. Yes, the cost of healthy food is high. But staying out of restaurants and fast food joints helps me afford healthier food. But yes, the economy is making it so hard for people. Many people are not making it.
@@Veltrossthoit’s always been expensive. When it became a fad diet is when the grocery stores actually started stocking up on gluten free food so it’s actually less expensive now
I really feel what that lady said in the beginning about there being no housing for the youngsters. I moved out on my own in 2003. I made $9/hour (roughly equivalent to $15.50 in today's money). It was hard but doable. I don't know how anyone who is just getting started is doing it today, especially with all the sky high requirements landlords have just to consider your application. My rent was $400 and utilities were included in that. I could feed myself for less than $50 a week. Now pretty much everything has quadrupled (or more) in cost, but entry level wages haven't even come close to keeping pace. It's no wonder people are still living with parents, not having kids, working multiple jobs, and all of that. It shouldn't have to be like this.
Yes, the reality is people just aren’t making enough money that is proportional to the cost of living. And even though the numbers are out there, it’s unfortunate that you have older people thinking that it’s due to the younger generation being lazy which is why they can’t afford things like rent and food. thanks for seeing it as it is and thanks for sharing! 😊
It's so bad now that rent is all some can afford with their pay check. No utilities, no food, no extra things like makeup or a new shaver, no savings. Just rent. It's no wonder some buy groceries on credit cards, live with their parents, or live in their cars.
@@Itsbabygirlt its plain by itself think frosted mini wheats but without the sugar side. its like outmeal where you need to add other stuff to it. raisins, nuts, fresh or frozen fruit, your own sugar stuff like that is what i add
This is insane. And considering that most US restaurants arent even pay their employee properly pushing the cost to consumers in the name of gratuitous tips.
We don’t go out to eat anymore. We didn’t do it a lot anyways but if we are celebrating we go pick it up and honestly I’d rather walk inside and get it because they make you put a tip in on a to go app that I’m going to pick up.
If you are struggling with food, sign up for food stamps card. Most likely you qualify now. If you still are struggling, go to food hand outs that are posted in your area. Through churches, also government and they give a lot of you can hit them all up in your area
not really, there was a time where me and my sister were jobless and it was up to our brother to pay for rent, gas, and car insurance. We when applied in the calculator and we put our expenses in, the snap denied us, for IL. my brother only had enough for gas, rent, and car insurance, the system is like you have to make $800/month for 3 people, it was really low
What's also crazy is the amount of food that gets dumped and wasted. God forbid someone get it for cheap or free. Better throw it away. And the housing and rentals that sit unoccupied.
Why not just grow your own? And if you understood how much it costs to maintain a rental unit, and your taxes and fees eat whatever you do take in, you would leave them empty too.
@@WillmobilePlus Yeah it's a lot for sure and a lot of work. For everyone involved. But housing is such a central, fundamental thing in a community that effects everything else. Hopefully people who own rentals can get tax credits or something similar.
@@WillmobilePlus First, you can't grow everything everywhere. I would love to grow much of what I eat, however very, very little of what I eat will grow in temps that are 79F in winter through 110F summer, on rocky alkaline ground in 70-90% year round humidity. You would not believe the amount of nursemaiding is required to keep cherry tomatoes only alive in a spacious, well fertilized and mulched container all to themselves. Second, even if we did have a climate that allowed for any "cheap" vegetables like cabbage, carrots, potatoes. People in apartments either do not have the room, are prevented from growing due to BS "health codes" that are more about the look of the projects than health, or do not have to get skills or knowledge. If you notice, every gardener TH-camr always manages to not mention the températures of their area, humidity, the pure blessing that is good workable soil that doesn't require a *pickaxe* to penetrate more than a 1/2 inch.
Something I noticed in my area is that supermarkets are waiting as long as possible to discount things. People are trying to spend less on food, supermarkets have more expiring inventory, and it's normal now to pay full price for something expiring in a month, they only drop the price if something is a week from going bad. I've also ordered moisturizer online that came with the expiry date sanded off, foundation and health food that was all close to expiring. All merchants, big and small are just trying their luck right now.
Whoa, that’s bad. I’ve never understood why they don’t discount things earlier, because half the time they put so much food, cosmetics, and everything in between in the trash. If they can’t afford to give it to charity, they might as well discount it and have more people buy it before it goes bad
Ive bought discounted food the day of expiration date or the day before. (yes they do wait until the day before expiration to discount) Pros: is really cheap like I bought a loaf of garlic bread for 25 cents in Cali cheap. Cons: not really if you take a really good look at the thing you're buying afterall, expiration dates are just a suggestion
@@wtfdid_i_justsee I totally get it, if something passes the sniff and visual test it's good to eat, but honestly it just feels like a slap in the face sometimes.
Hmmmm, I mentioned eating meat from a certain porcine cranium company, while flying on a plane made by a bow wing company, and the comment went "poof". No swear words or anything. Interesting. Very interesting.
From the UK here! I love that the lady at 1:34 recognises the difficulty without blaming people’s individual choices and says that it is governmental and political issue! (Wealth inequality and private equity… I’m talking to you) Many people of her generation would turn to the ‘avocado toast & Netflix’ excuse as to why young people struggle so much🙃 (I know some people do make some questionable financial choices/ can be reckless😅)
That's what you do when you are young though. You make bad choices and can be financially reckless. Even if you do that it shouldn't destroy your entire life should it?
I'm from Germany and saw your video - great work. While we are under pressure here too, it isn't as bad as you guys have it. I'm sorry to say it like that but it seems like a dystopian movie. Especially the interview with the CEO (whilst putting the stock chart besides him) was angering me. I hope you guys can figure it out.
Since the pandemic I have quit smoking, quit caffeine, turned into a junk food junkie and stopped buying chips and cereals, then stopped consuming sodas all together. Now we have stopped going out to eat because the quality has gone down since I was born. I
I'm very much looking forward to the second part of this video, and any ensuing continuations. I cannot express how grateful I am that our generation is creating content focusing on the most important and discouraging issues of our times. Thank you for this. In years to come, historians may just look at this video, educators may play this video for students, it is a great contribution to the world and to the conversations people have been having. I was looking for brainrot to watch and eat my breakfast to this morning and found myself completely enthralled, I watched from beginning to end.
I went to pizza hut last week and bought a personal pizza and breadsticks. The total was nearly 17 dollars. When I got home and open the box, the pizza was tiny! It was smaller than my hand! The old days the size was still good for the price but after seeing this and how small the bread sticks got smaller too. I was still hungry after eating it!😢
This is among the many reasons why I left the US. This is happening worldwide, but here in Thailand anyone can get good meals at affordable prices. I get paid more than a Thai person here because I am a native English speaker. So that's messed up, but I just can't with America right now
I find it so stupid and ridiculous that we still haven't learned from our mistakes, of greed, and cruelty and carelessness etc but some of us are choosing to vibrate at a higher frequency...
I live in Poland. Back then Europe with euros was epithome of expensive stuff. Now we have higher prices of food than for example Italy, Greece, Germany etc. Coffee with piece of cake here is around 9-10 euros. I was amazed that coffee in Italy is like 1-3 euros max. Pizza here is around 11 euros if you want to order a nice one in restaurant. In Italy i think the most expensive is 8 euros. I spent almost the same amount of money on food in Greece as in Poland, but portions were so big that i could order one and split with my partner. In Poland sometimes it is hard to be satiated with small portions for the same price. The same yoghurt in Germany costs 1 euro or even less when here it costs almost 2 euros. And keep in mind we don't earn money in euros. 1 zł here is around 4,3 euro. The minimum wage here is 760 euros netto. A lot of people is earning like this. The real medium wage here is like 1000-1110 euros and obviously there are people who earn around 20000 euros but they mostly live in bigger cities so more money goes for rent. I am starting my doctorate and i will be earning 700 euros for 1,5 year and then around 1000 euros for next year. The rent here for flat for 2 people is like 600-700 euros. The rent for one person in tiny flat is around 400-500 euros. I would have never be able to live alone with prices like this. I will barely able to live spkiting rent with my bf bcs the rent will take half of my payment for a month. I can't afford the car. They would never gave us loan for many years even tho somehow the monthly price of a loan is lower than rent we pay. If we won't buy any flat up to our retirement we will most probably live on streets since the average retirement is around 800 euros but most get much less. The only hope would be to rent a small room in the apartment.
When a dozen eggs cost $5 and a pound of butter is $6, it's harder and harder to eatt any semblance of a healthy diet. No wonder obesity is endemic, everyone's eating crap with too many calories and carbs and no protein or nutrients (like cereal). Even fresh veggies are getting hard to afford and don't even think about buying fruit! Two pounds of oranges were $7 at Walmart today!! Everyone's surviving on baloney with mustard or peanut butter on cheap store-brand bread filled with chemicals.
Sad part is, I agree with the Kellogg CEO. I ate cereal for dinner as a struggle food growing up, but I'll say this; oats for dinner with fresh fruit are a much better option. Rice and seasoned ground beef is another good option. Hamburger helper isn't bad. Learning to cook with whatever tools you have is what you gotta do.. Your goal when you're struggling is to find good fortified carbs to balance with what sparse proteins and produce you can get on sale. If you have an oven, you can cook good food on a budget. If you don't, it's gonna be a struggle every day. Cereal has way too much sugar, and for a growing child your really want them to get more nutrition than that. It might keep you fed in the short term, but long term it'll trash your health and diabetes is a LOT more expensive than the benefit of saving a few pennies and hours.
Emphasis on your last line! the long-term effects on your health is going to be so costly, yet the people that suffer the most are those who can’t afford it in the first place
@@nikkijubilant Rice is pretty versatile. You can make rolls (spam masubi!), risottos, egg fried rice, steamed rice with legumes, pilaf, curry, and many others. If you have vegetables and such that need using, you can prep a sauce and get them all used in a stir fry with rice. It pairs well with a lot of things, and although it's a 'fortified carb,' brown rice specifically is a whole food. I love beans to death, but rice helped me keep variety in my diet even on a tight budget.
Thank you for this. I work with the piblic and i have this conversation EveryDay, we are all out here wondering what the hell is going on. But people Have to stop buying this stuff, or nothing will change. Take a break for a month or so, help your health and eat better and cheaper.. skip the oreos, the cereal, etc.. i know its super gross milk, eggs and necessities are so expensive but something has to give, right???.. right??? Ahhhhh
Thanks for watching! Its unfortunately going to be hard for people to give up on their favorite foods no matter how ‘bad’ they are because we are practically addicted - they don’t add all that sugar and food coloring just for fun 😂
I'm glad people were disgusted at that guy suggested cereal for dinner. I'm surprised he un ironically was saying this and expecting the public to say "oh yeah good idea! Thanks rich CEO guy" don't get wrong I love me some granola, but Jesus Christ 😭 a damming indictment of the wealth inequality in the developed west. There was that famous line from Marianne twanette - when informed the peasants had no bread she simply said "let them eat cake". Such was her detachment from the poor masses and her luxurious life in wealth and power she did not understand that cake wasn't an option for most. The original air head rich girl 🤣 and here we are again hundreds of years later
just an aside, that Marie Antonette quote was penned after her death by a biographer or journalist (I forget which) and may not have been said like that by her. She did reference brioche, not cake, and it was likely in the spirit of offering to give the people some of the brioche bread that they ate at court. So more 'out of touch "billionaire benevolence" ' than 'air-head rich girl'. But yes, she did not see how her own class was the cause of the people's problems, and the monarchy barely knew how to treat the symptom let alone the disease of social and wealth disparity... I mean, hence the literal French Revolution 😄
@ndjubilant8391 as a history student, context and nuance is very relevant to me. I'm not defending Marie Antoinette, any Monarchy or indeed the bourgeoisie overall at all, just pointing out that the quote is often misunderstood and misused. It DOES illustrate the social disparity of the time and can be broadly applied to illustrate the ongoing disconnect between the haves and the have-nots, just not in the way people often think. It was a helpful piece of context that I myself was grateful to learn and hoped to share with someone who could benefit from it. If you did not take any benefit from it, then feel free to move onwards. I hope the poster I was responding to will take my response in the spirit it was intended.
if you are a working adult who does not have a lot of time to cook i really recommend buying a cheap crock pot/slow cooker. when i had 3 jobs and lived alone my slowcooker saved me from wasting thousands of dollars of eating out. Instead of eating fast food or cereal I was eating actual full meals ! examples: curry, rice ,beef stew, baked potatoes, soups, roasts,chili, ribs .. its one of the best investments i could make for my health and wallet.
I use to work retail in a Petco, every week we'd get about 20-30 items around the store that we'd have to replace the price stickers with new stickers, always with an increase between 15 cent to a dollar depending on the items. Every. Week. They've been doing this for years, offering "discounts" (aka, the old prices) to any upset customers. All while pushing their monthly membership scheme.
Since our previous parents buy cheap groceries for more foodstuffs; for now they tried to get savings money for their lives but survive on the other hand high price getting risk cause none of us can buy anything else. So if we can live, we will return money for saving wallet to buy less than few grocery per bags.
We went grocery shopping yesterday. Entire long ass aisle of cereal. Adding milk and my husband would have to eat a huge bowl and we just do grits and salmon or something. Cheap and filing. Cereal is expensive af too. We rarely buy it. If ever.
i remember in like 2012 50 bucks could get me almost a months worth of food if i was getting the cheapest stuff, now doing the same with the same amount of cash only gets me a weeks worth of food unless i want to eat only canned goods and start rationing food
A bowl of cereal with milk AND fruit is LESS than a DOLLAR?? Maybe a bowl of cereal served per the recommended serving size (about 100-150 calories worth) before you add the milk (forget about fruit) would be, if you bought STORE brand, but definitely not Kelloggs’ my goodness
TBH cereal is a good idea for food, but you'd need to get something like raisin bran or just normal bran. Way healthier than a lot of other options. Not as fun though.
Found this online as some healthy alternatives to sugary cereals ; porridge, corn flakes, bran flakes, weetabix etc rather than the more processed versions.
It's a duality since the pandemic. Rich people and especially politicians are having the best time right now while the middle/poor struggle to keep the lifestyle they had before. The rich are reaping all the profits while the politicians print money and abuse tax spendings while raising taxes.
I think many of us have given up on the grocery store. I grow my own produce. I work a t a grocery store and wait for meat clearances and dairy to be loss leaders. Once I have land I hope all I need from the store is toilet paper.
Commercial cereals are sugar, grain, salt, preservatives, dye and artificial flavoring. The only nutrition in this kind of cereal is the grain, and that is questionable due to how it's processed and whether it's genetically modified and sprayed with weed killer and herbicides. On the other hand billions of people eat rice for dinner, which is also a grain. They mix it with vegetables and maybe a smattering of fish or meats. That's a cheap meal. You can do the same thing with pasta/noodles. Bread is made from grains, and if it's organic and whole grain can be a simple dinner with nut butters and fruit. In America, our customs around what constitutes a meal keeps us feeling like we cannot afford to eat. Of course we can. But we must gear it down and simplify what we are eating. Not every meal has to be a five star production with slabs of beef, potatoes and vegetables, heavy on the beef. Try thinking more like Asians or Hispanic countries with their beans and rice dishes that they adore. I often have sandwiches for dinner, with fruit or a salad and and maybe a yogurt. When I buy beef, a $9 chuck roast will get me through five meals. Sandwiches, pasta and beef, potatoes and beef with onions, chopped beef in my salad, or chopped beef in a soup. And after all that I still have the beef broth for more soup or stew.
That’s what happens when culture promotes over spending (living in the moment), when culture promotes comfort and convenience over long lasting, quality products, When culture promotes financial instability. We can only blame ourselves and the government for it. Can’t have the government “hands free” if society can’t pressure and police itself, when the government goes hands free in such a society, corporations will just come in and fill in the vacuum. People need to start boycotting again and abstain brands that sell overpriced goods. It needs to be a united action of as many people as possible. I don’t live in the US but where I live there are two groups - One, is very much Americanized and is very much all about “now, live in the moment” and doesn’t care about overspending for convenience and you can see how it’s taking a toll on them While the second group, a very religious one and a united one at that, is very picky, making and buying clothes that last life times, the corporations understand this difference, so they act accordingly and you can see in plain view how in the americanized areas, foods are packaged in small packages and expensive prices while if you go a few blocks to the religious area, people there know that their biggest vote is their wallet and that is clear by the prices on the shelves and the bigger packages for cheaper prices per compared weight. The reason why we can also blame the government is because when the people aren’t protecting themselves, it is the government’s responsibility to protect the average Joe from corporations using him as a naive product easily sold.
@@Itsbabygirlt the infamous and controversial Israel. Basically, the Haredi/orthodox Jews prefer to live together as it corresponds with their ideals and traditions (like keeping sabath etc..) so when you go to go to their store you notice everything is packaged bigger AND is cheaper, the reason is, they are extremely old fashioned and resemble our older generations much more, thus, businesses have to compete to get them to buy from them, many times have I spoken to one and asked and they always reply - hey, if x item gets raised in price and there’s no logical reasoning for that, we just stop buying it, or look for a different distributer who sells cheaper. Wish more people did this and we’d see change happen everywhere but for now.. the situation seems a bit bleak.
@@Itsbabygirlt I realize that, but the point is, why it is like that. I worked for many years in a food plant, snacks and cookies. They never started the downsizing until about maybe five or six years ago. I worked on the packaging equipment, setting it up, changing it over to fit different products and maintenance of the equipment. Believe me when I say, it made us insane when we had to make the packages smaller because they wanted to save three cookies per package. We had reconfigure all the settings and all the machine parts to fit the new settings. The air needs to be in those packages. And we had to monitor the amount of air. Too much, they’ll burst or develop holes. To little and they break. Just a little fyi. It’s actually a big deal to do this lol lol.
Although I get the premise of your video, I think a small solution is to simply live within your means. Prioritize needs versus wants. There are so many healthy, affordable meals that aren't cereal. Some people chose to live on their own and not with a roommate or friend/family. Live within your means, folks! I get it. Some people want that life now, and I'm telling you, if you don't budget and make sacrifices now, then you'll never get through it later. These budgeting lifestyle goals are doable. But I have the feeling a majority of folks who "are poor" don't want to do it.
I really don’t understand how company’s can up their prices when they’re already doing amazing. The smart move would surely be to carry on the way it’s working to make more money in the long run??
@@Itsbabygirlt Well, it's probably not what most people would want. I'm a minimalist. I don't have a wife or kids, and I never really plan to have any. The best tip I have for food is to buy a freezer chest. That way you can buy a lot of extra for when places have sales, like BOGO at Publix. I always look for coupons in the paper and on line for food and essentials for the house. As for eating, I only eat 2 meals a day, and sometimes only one. I love to do intermittent fasting. A lot of people have it in their head that they need to eat 3 meals a day, plus snacks, and it's simply not true. They are just addicted to the horrible processed foods. That also saves a lot of money by not eating as much. Since I kicked all the processed junk and started making my own meals from organic stuff, my food addiction went away.
fast food is not the only options for 99.9% of the US population. You can cook your own meals. It sucks and is harder for some people but most people can. I hope it help people learn to cook from scratch.
The whole "things taste different" is also largely due to COVID. No one is talking about the long lasting effects on the brain and body but a major one is changes in smell and taste.
Just some info for those of use that don't know carbs is just sugar with more steps for the body to break it down. So cearal is double the sugar that is hyper processed. Easy way to get diabetes if eaten regularly for years
Obviously this sucks and we all can see it happening, but I would love to see more videos, essays, posts, etc, of what we can do to combat it. Like the Kellogg’s and Starbucks boycotts really got traction. Why talk about the problem without discussing potential solutions? I know not everyone can because sometimes alternative solutions cost more money or time that we don’t have, BUT that’s not the case for everyone. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be more time or money. Sometimes it can be as little as buying a different brand or sourcing something locally. Or like in the case of things outside of food, you can buy things pre-used or pool together with friends for different things. We can send a message with our dollars. Don’t forget that at the end of the day, they need us more than we need them.
I have a lot of sensory issues and physical responses regarding food which can make just eating more difficult for me. Before the pandemic, we used to go to fast food places when we were traveling or had been out all day so we wouldn't need to worry about what to make for lunch/dinner. It use to be fine because fast food places always tasted the same, had the same textures, ect. Exactly what you expect from a franchise in a giant chain, but after lockdowns got lifted, I started noticing the quality fluctuate a lot. It can't even really be on the individual stores because I know full well things like chicken nuggets and fries come to the stores frozen. They just became too expensive for how unpredictable it was, so I've basically stopped eating at all fast food places because nothing feels safe when I'm already tired and likely overwhelmed.
Cereal is like alcohol: fattening, no nutrition, expensive. I wouldn't even class it as food. I've returned to my student way of cooking which is 1 pot vegetable stews with a little meat for flavour. I have an apple and lots of water before my meal so I can feel full.
Newfoundlander here, food prices are insane it's 6.99 for 2 lts of milk here and if you get a beverage with sugar like soda or juice we have a sugar tax too /: Somethings gotta give
Regarding the dairy land cottage cheese, she removed the lid and the plastic top, which removes weight from the final product, so hard to say how much the cover, and the lid removed from the total weight value, so I would hope it would be less than what was missing
The biggest scam people were told by food companies was that convenience foods were for poor people. I knew someone who would suggest I get Kraft dinner when I was making mac n cheese brcause he claimed it was the cheaper option, which would cost more per portion than if i made it from scratch and be less filling and nutritious.
Why is it so expensive to live? Massive spending by the government devalues the worth of the dollar. I'm probably not supposed to tell who is in charge of it, but it started three years ago.
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Telling regular families to just eat cereal for dinner is insane!!
Corporate greed on full display
@@Itsbabygirlt❤ 100%
Sugar laced cereal right before bed..
Yeah that's a great way for your kids to get a good nights sleep😂
I saw a video of people giving a top list of stuggle food and they said cereal was on the list, so....😒
Cereal has pesticides inside the box.
Sugar, and mess 🤢🤢🤢
What makes me mad the most is how many hours I have to give my employer just so I can go home and sit there broke.
😂 don’t forget to add the hours getting to work and then getting home
Not only the employer, you forgot the government.
You don't. You share productivity. Ultimately to assess whether the job is "bad" you'd have to compare if you make more with or without it.
Tightening belts is still a lot better than starving
@@aniinnrchoque1861 No need to tighten the belt. Eat bean and rice. You can eat a lot.
Indeed🎉
"Let them eat cereal." The Marie Antoinette for our millenia. 😂 (I know Marie didn't really say this).
Don’t worry, it was well understood 😂
Cereal is so expensive, I can't belive it was suggested as a way to save money. For that price you could literally make a normal dinner that is way better than cereal.
Right!
Yep, dried beans and rice is cheaper and goes a lot further
I went to buy some cinnamon toast crunch, and the smallest 12 oz box was almost $7. I walked away. I did later find the huge 32 oz bag a little later for $5, but that's because the store was having a huge sale on it. That was more like it. But I have it as a snack, it's insane to suggest it as a major meal.
You Americans get so scammed, the most expensive organic cereal I know is 8€ per kg
Cereal is gross
Don't you find it funny that we're in a time where more people are struggling massively to stay above water financially but at the same time, more and more people are spending and being sold luxurious lifestyles with the intensification of celebrity culture? We're operating at the end of 2 extremes while the chasm between them deepens and widens at a rapid pace. It's manipulation and it's financially and psychologically damaging.
Yup, and I credit that to things like credit cards, the ease of getting loans and buy now, pay later. They allow people to temporarily afford a lifestyle beyond their means even if that means always struggling to stay afloat financially. The only people who are truly comfortable and free are the ultra rich
Beautifully said, we are definitely heading towards a dystopia, and.. I'm not sure we will be able to get out of it.
They aren't spending, they're going into debt.
You'll never retire, you'll never have a home, you'll never have those kids you want; so why not finance that bag to live a fantasy?
Don’t forget that companies are richer than ever with record profits and Elon musk is on his way to becoming the first trillionaire.
Remember when everyone NEEDED that popular Gucci belt? & then it went out of style in less than a year? 🤦🏼♀️
Oatmeal with raisins and a pat of butter and splash of milk is much more hearty than cornflakes. It’s cheap to make too. Soups made with dried beans, rice, lentils, or split peas and cheap veggies like carrots, cabbage, potato, or onion is also a better option. Shrinkflation seems to be hitting processed food the hardest so I just make most things from scratch, even bread and tortillas. It will be fall before we know it and that’s the time to start making budget soups 😋
Seems you’ve got your stuff all figured out! 😊
I dont want what u suggested. I want cereal..
Agreed. Oatmeal, especially steel cut oats are cheaper and more satiating than cereal. People just need to be willing to spend more time cooking.
@@lc-il6wr if you try to start eating oatmeal I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. A common thought for people when they make oatmeal is “this is so good and I can’t believe I don’t have it more often!” But ya if you want cereal you should eat cereal but it will be more expensive. If you want to try oatmeal here are some tips-add like four shakes of salt into the water and boil the raisins in with the oats if you want raisins. Boil it til it’s done then put in your bowl and mix in a little butter. After that put a few little chunks of butter on top without mixing it in. If you want brown sugar sprinkle a little on (I don’t like mine sugary) then splash some milk on top and don’t mix it in. It looks beautiful and appetizing and tastes comforting and delicious.
@@mamadoom9724 I just got through eatting some cereal..I ate cinnamon toast crunch..
I've noticed the people around me struggling are those who are single or have dependents (pets, kids). We are at a point in human history where you need 2 full time incomes per household, and you can't afford pets, kids, a social life or to travel. It's really sad. All work and no play. Props to that older lady who said young people have no hope. All the older folk around me just call young people lazy and don't care to look at the facts.
Yeah, it’s all work and no play but that makes for a very dull and unfulfilled life
@@ItsbabygirltI've been in therapy struggling with depression for years and while I'm doing better than I was I feel like every couple of months I come to the same point that I know my therapist can't really help me with: Im working 11h a day and I can barely afford basics, I have to portion control for money, I'm stuck in a rundown apartment that gives me anxiety with all the issues it has but I'm equally worried about having to move because it's gonna be more expensive and I can barely afford this, I can't really afford hobbies or fun stuff, so I spend my free time sitting at home playing video games, my parents help sometimes but still i can only barely afford to survive. Everyone keeps telling me how much easier it is to survive "in a pair" and it is, but the thought of getting into a relationship for money makes me wanna puke. I just want some peace in life with my cat. How is that such a luxurious desire?
We have 2 full time incomes, still broke :") I love it here!
A well-feed man can't understand a hungry man (russian proverb)
Well said
Ty for talking about this. We are in a silent recession, and I hate it but watching and supporting videos like these gives me some hope.
Thanks for watching! 😊
You guys really think that printing trillions won't bite you back?
It's a silent recession because democrats are currently in office and the media covers for them
My Dad and I own a Restaurant together. We figured that we need to keep the food simple. Real, authentic, simple food. And since I was born in Hawaii, we’ve come up with great ideas: Coconut Pudding, Chocolate Taro Pies. Original Mexican Dishes: Taco Calzones, Quesadillas, Fideo, Tapioca & Tiramisu Dessert Shots. And much much more. We don’t cut corners, we don’t add nothing artificial, and the prices are reasonable so anyone can have a good meal.
Now is the time to make this a reality, if these corporations want to charge unreasonable prices, reduce the amount of our food, and starve us, we need to boycott them, and start building businesses of our own to help others live. It is the perfect time. Let’s get started.
Congrats to you and your dad! Your menu items sound delicious
I think I grew up too poor for this conversation because that "day before payday meal" at about 2:46 looked good
😂😂😂 oh no
It actually pisses me off how expensive cereal has gotten. Its crunchy grains with sugar. WHY IS THAT EXPENSIVE
It’s expensive to see how much people are willing to pay and how much they can make in profit
Bruh, there is a grocery store in my neighborhood where a box of cereal is $7.00 💀💀💀🫠🙈🤡
@@contemporarydncethot0382 it better be the XL family size pack
Me too. So little is affordable and really our cereal?! Last time I checked it was $8 a box! I don't even want to eat anymore 😑
*Because they want as many people going to zero before getting cozy in their multi million dollar bunkers.*
This is just the French Revolution all over again.
But can we see it through like the French? That’s the real question
"Let them eat cereal"
The Cantillon effect. IYKYK
@@Itsbabygirlt difficult when billionaire CEOs now have a militarized police force at their beck and call. it's like they made sure that the french revolution never happens again.
Wrong, Americans have no backbone like the French and are too busy arguing about skin colors and sexual orientations.
Cereal is like a snack food more than a breakfast food even for me it does not keep me full for even an hour. Oatmeal is a cheap option and it keeps me much more full and energized
Yeah, I treat it more as a snack than a full meal
I want cereal..
I've been eating steel cuts oats for breakfast with frozen blueberries and a strawberry/banana yogurt and mix it all up. Yum. Keeps me full until lunch! Forget cereal! That's a dessert!
Having cereal for dinner is like them saying it’s okay to feed your kids like cattle because times are tough and don’t worry about lack of nutrition the high sugar content will keep them up and moving.
They might be in bed with the pharmaceutical companies.
All big corporations care about is having a workforce. They don’t care if you’re healthy or happy
@@carla7246 change that might be to are
@babygirlt8938 true, I mis-spoke!
Better off getting spam bread butter to fry in and a couple tomato’s. Would say eggs if they weren’t so high lol.
Back again! It's crazy how expensive things have become and how prevalent shrinkflation is, the quality of food has dramatically decreased as well.
Nice to see you again 👋😊
Yes, emphasis on the quality going down as well, we are eating so many things that are not even considered food
I basically stopped eating candy because of that. Even the usually higher quality, line Ferrero Rocher tastes worse now. You have to spend a pretty penny just to get anything even remotely tasting like it should.
This smells like the Gran Depression of 1930-1939... One of the factors was the decline in consumer demand, which led to a decline in production.
Don't worry, we outsourced our production. The companies will be fine and just sell to other richer people. 😂
There is one more thing.
The way that fruits and vegetables are grown, they make them big, bright and shiny, but they contain less vitamins and minerals.
For example I have a garden with raspberries, they are tasty, berries are not so big the yeald is relatively small, but they are really good. I wanted more berries so a month ago I bought some from the market. It felt like a bad joke, those berries from the market didn't have much taste. They looked beautiful, but it's like a scam. And I'm sure those berries didn't have as much nutritional value, as ones from my garden.
I see a solution in promoting gardening. You may think that it doesn't make much of a difference in terms of cost. But I tell you, the quality, the nutritional value of the seemingly same vegetables is going to be drastically different.
I have celiac disease. Not eating the cheap, crappy food because it will make me sick. I don't eat processed food at all. I eat nutricious food. Yes, the cost of healthy food is high. But staying out of restaurants and fast food joints helps me afford healthier food. But yes, the economy is making it so hard for people. Many people are not making it.
Same here. I've been paying a ton for groceries for 18 years. Now we pay $250 per week for a family of 5.
Don't you love have "gluten free" has become a fad diet and ran the price of your food into "luxury good" status?
@@Veltrossthoit’s always been expensive. When it became a fad diet is when the grocery stores actually started stocking up on gluten free food so it’s actually less expensive now
Yes I'm fine spending extra money on good quality food. It keeps you out of the Dr's office
Omg, the Gran at 1:32 's words were the equivalent of ten years of therapy. I feel like I've been given a vocal hug.
I really feel what that lady said in the beginning about there being no housing for the youngsters. I moved out on my own in 2003. I made $9/hour (roughly equivalent to $15.50 in today's money). It was hard but doable. I don't know how anyone who is just getting started is doing it today, especially with all the sky high requirements landlords have just to consider your application.
My rent was $400 and utilities were included in that. I could feed myself for less than $50 a week. Now pretty much everything has quadrupled (or more) in cost, but entry level wages haven't even come close to keeping pace. It's no wonder people are still living with parents, not having kids, working multiple jobs, and all of that. It shouldn't have to be like this.
Yes, the reality is people just aren’t making enough money that is proportional to the cost of living. And even though the numbers are out there, it’s unfortunate that you have older people thinking that it’s due to the younger generation being lazy which is why they can’t afford things like rent and food. thanks for seeing it as it is and thanks for sharing! 😊
It's so bad now that rent is all some can afford with their pay check.
No utilities, no food, no extra things like makeup or a new shaver, no savings. Just rent. It's no wonder some buy groceries on credit cards, live with their parents, or live in their cars.
I eat oatmeal and or shredded wheat for the fact that it is healthier and has tons of fiber that keeps me fuller.
Need to try the shredded wheat, hope it’s nice
@@Itsbabygirlt its plain by itself think frosted mini wheats but without the sugar side. its like outmeal where you need to add other stuff to it. raisins, nuts, fresh or frozen fruit, your own sugar stuff like that is what i add
This is insane. And considering that most US restaurants arent even pay their employee properly pushing the cost to consumers in the name of gratuitous tips.
Exactly!
We don’t go out to eat anymore. We didn’t do it a lot anyways but if we are celebrating we go pick it up and honestly I’d rather walk inside and get it because they make you put a tip in on a to go app that I’m going to pick up.
Lady says we need a complete "reshuffle". So polite!
If you are struggling with food, sign up for food stamps card. Most likely you qualify now. If you still are struggling, go to food hand outs that are posted in your area. Through churches, also government and they give a lot of you can hit them all up in your area
With inflation I make more but can afford less. So they took my food stamps away. It’s just scary.
not really, there was a time where me and my sister were jobless and it was up to our brother to pay for rent, gas, and car insurance. We when applied in the calculator and we put our expenses in, the snap denied us, for IL.
my brother only had enough for gas, rent, and car insurance, the system is like you have to make $800/month for 3 people, it was really low
What's also crazy is the amount of food that gets dumped and wasted. God forbid someone get it for cheap or free. Better throw it away. And the housing and rentals that sit unoccupied.
So much unnecessary food waste
Why not just grow your own?
And if you understood how much it costs to maintain a rental unit, and your taxes and fees eat whatever you do take in, you would leave them empty too.
@@WillmobilePlus Yeah it's a lot for sure and a lot of work. For everyone involved. But housing is such a central, fundamental thing in a community that effects everything else. Hopefully people who own rentals can get tax credits or something similar.
@@WillmobilePlus First, you can't grow everything everywhere. I would love to grow much of what I eat, however very, very little of what I eat will grow in temps that are 79F in winter through 110F summer, on rocky alkaline ground in 70-90% year round humidity.
You would not believe the amount of nursemaiding is required to keep cherry tomatoes only alive in a spacious, well fertilized and mulched container all to themselves.
Second, even if we did have a climate that allowed for any "cheap" vegetables like cabbage, carrots, potatoes. People in apartments either do not have the room, are prevented from growing due to BS "health codes" that are more about the look of the projects than health, or do not have to get skills or knowledge. If you notice, every gardener TH-camr always manages to not mention the températures of their area, humidity, the pure blessing that is good workable soil that doesn't require a *pickaxe* to penetrate more than a 1/2 inch.
Something I noticed in my area is that supermarkets are waiting as long as possible to discount things. People are trying to spend less on food, supermarkets have more expiring inventory, and it's normal now to pay full price for something expiring in a month, they only drop the price if something is a week from going bad. I've also ordered moisturizer online that came with the expiry date sanded off, foundation and health food that was all close to expiring. All merchants, big and small are just trying their luck right now.
Whoa, that’s bad. I’ve never understood why they don’t discount things earlier, because half the time they put so much food, cosmetics, and everything in between in the trash. If they can’t afford to give it to charity, they might as well discount it and have more people buy it before it goes bad
Ive bought discounted food the day of expiration date or the day before. (yes they do wait until the day before expiration to discount) Pros: is really cheap like I bought a loaf of garlic bread for 25 cents in Cali cheap. Cons: not really if you take a really good look at the thing you're buying afterall, expiration dates are just a suggestion
@@wtfdid_i_justsee I totally get it, if something passes the sniff and visual test it's good to eat, but honestly it just feels like a slap in the face sometimes.
"cereal for dinner" and "let them eat cake". same fucking vibe.
The parallels
Add also the frequency of food recalls affecting people please
Hmmmm, I mentioned eating meat from a certain porcine cranium company, while flying on a plane made by a bow wing company, and the comment went "poof". No swear words or anything. Interesting. Very interesting.
From the UK here! I love that the lady at 1:34 recognises the difficulty without blaming people’s individual choices and says that it is governmental and political issue! (Wealth inequality and private equity… I’m talking to you) Many people of her generation would turn to the ‘avocado toast & Netflix’ excuse as to why young people struggle so much🙃 (I know some people do make some questionable financial choices/ can be reckless😅)
That's what you do when you are young though. You make bad choices and can be financially reckless. Even if you do that it shouldn't destroy your entire life should it?
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 100% Agreed!
I'm from Germany and saw your video - great work. While we are under pressure here too, it isn't as bad as you guys have it. I'm sorry to say it like that but it seems like a dystopian movie. Especially the interview with the CEO (whilst putting the stock chart besides him) was angering me. I hope you guys can figure it out.
Since the pandemic I have quit smoking, quit caffeine, turned into a junk food junkie and stopped buying chips and cereals, then stopped consuming sodas all together. Now we have stopped going out to eat because the quality has gone down since I was born. I
Whoa you’re killing it 👏
It’s like Marie Antoinette telling the people to eat cake when they were starving...then she lost her head in the French Revolution
I'm very much looking forward to the second part of this video, and any ensuing continuations. I cannot express how grateful I am that our generation is creating content focusing on the most important and discouraging issues of our times. Thank you for this. In years to come, historians may just look at this video, educators may play this video for students, it is a great contribution to the world and to the conversations people have been having. I was looking for brainrot to watch and eat my breakfast to this morning and found myself completely enthralled, I watched from beginning to end.
Wow this is extremely kind, thank you. I appreciate the feedback ❤️
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Milk is now the price of what gas use to be per gallon🥛
It’s one day going to surpass it
I went to pizza hut last week and bought a personal pizza and breadsticks. The total was nearly 17 dollars.
When I got home and open the box, the pizza was tiny! It was smaller than my hand!
The old days the size was still good for the price but after seeing this and how small the bread sticks got smaller too. I was still hungry after eating it!😢
17 dollars for what’s essentially a kids meal? That’s rough :/
In Europe that a 40 cm pizaa😂
@@Naikomi95 yuup😊
Stop getting takeout. Start cooking healthy at home. People can go broke eating out and getting takeout.
This is among the many reasons why I left the US. This is happening worldwide, but here in Thailand anyone can get good meals at affordable prices.
I get paid more than a Thai person here because I am a native English speaker. So that's messed up, but I just can't with America right now
What is that keeps Thailand affordable?
I love how we are all brought onto this world against our will and forced to face the consequences for just trying to survive
I find it so stupid and ridiculous that we still haven't learned from our mistakes, of greed, and cruelty and carelessness etc but some of us are choosing to vibrate at a higher frequency...
The same thought comes to my mind every couple of months, it just might be my Roman empire
Mcdonald's be charging like they're a 5 star restaurant
I have never used a food delivery service. I also don’t eat fast food very often because I’m vegan and most places have a very limited vegan 🌱 menu.
There's only one demographic that seriously considers cereal in the evening, but even potheads aren't going to live off of nothing but cereal.
And what is that group prejudice..
New Zealand is definitely feeling the effects of the rich getter richer, poor getting poorer. The rich and powerful not in a hurry to change things.
If developed countries experienced this, no doubt the third world countries will have it much worse
No surprise there, it’s a universal reality
that lady with the 1 yr old burger should keep it. It can be worth alot in 15 years😂
I doubt anyone’s gonna pay a whole lot for something so easy to replicate 😂
I live in Poland. Back then Europe with euros was epithome of expensive stuff. Now we have higher prices of food than for example Italy, Greece, Germany etc. Coffee with piece of cake here is around 9-10 euros. I was amazed that coffee in Italy is like 1-3 euros max. Pizza here is around 11 euros if you want to order a nice one in restaurant. In Italy i think the most expensive is 8 euros. I spent almost the same amount of money on food in Greece as in Poland, but portions were so big that i could order one and split with my partner. In Poland sometimes it is hard to be satiated with small portions for the same price. The same yoghurt in Germany costs 1 euro or even less when here it costs almost 2 euros. And keep in mind we don't earn money in euros. 1 zł here is around 4,3 euro. The minimum wage here is 760 euros netto. A lot of people is earning like this. The real medium wage here is like 1000-1110 euros and obviously there are people who earn around 20000 euros but they mostly live in bigger cities so more money goes for rent. I am starting my doctorate and i will be earning 700 euros for 1,5 year and then around 1000 euros for next year. The rent here for flat for 2 people is like 600-700 euros. The rent for one person in tiny flat is around 400-500 euros. I would have never be able to live alone with prices like this. I will barely able to live spkiting rent with my bf bcs the rent will take half of my payment for a month. I can't afford the car. They would never gave us loan for many years even tho somehow the monthly price of a loan is lower than rent we pay. If we won't buy any flat up to our retirement we will most probably live on streets since the average retirement is around 800 euros but most get much less. The only hope would be to rent a small room in the apartment.
Locals are being priced out everywhere, no wonder the locals in popular tourist areas (Barcelona) are fighting back.
1 euro i 4,3 zloties. 1 zł is not 4,3 euros.
Your videos are just really nice to watch. Thanks for making great content!
That’s really kind of you to say, thank you Heather ❤️
When a dozen eggs cost $5 and a pound of butter is $6, it's harder and harder to eatt any semblance of a healthy diet. No wonder obesity is endemic, everyone's eating crap with too many calories and carbs and no protein or nutrients (like cereal). Even fresh veggies are getting hard to afford and don't even think about buying fruit! Two pounds of oranges were $7 at Walmart today!! Everyone's surviving on baloney with mustard or peanut butter on cheap store-brand bread filled with chemicals.
Sad part is, I agree with the Kellogg CEO. I ate cereal for dinner as a struggle food growing up, but I'll say this; oats for dinner with fresh fruit are a much better option. Rice and seasoned ground beef is another good option. Hamburger helper isn't bad. Learning to cook with whatever tools you have is what you gotta do.. Your goal when you're struggling is to find good fortified carbs to balance with what sparse proteins and produce you can get on sale. If you have an oven, you can cook good food on a budget. If you don't, it's gonna be a struggle every day.
Cereal has way too much sugar, and for a growing child your really want them to get more nutrition than that. It might keep you fed in the short term, but long term it'll trash your health and diabetes is a LOT more expensive than the benefit of saving a few pennies and hours.
Emphasis on your last line! the long-term effects on your health is going to be so costly, yet the people that suffer the most are those who can’t afford it in the first place
In civilised nations you can buy cereal without added augar
Beans, beans, beans , beans. Fk "fortified carbs"
@@nikkijubilant Rice is pretty versatile. You can make rolls (spam masubi!), risottos, egg fried rice, steamed rice with legumes, pilaf, curry, and many others. If you have vegetables and such that need using, you can prep a sauce and get them all used in a stir fry with rice. It pairs well with a lot of things, and although it's a 'fortified carb,' brown rice specifically is a whole food. I love beans to death, but rice helped me keep variety in my diet even on a tight budget.
I like cereal..
Great video. I forwarded it to a couple of my friends. Thanks for the great reporting.
Thank you, I appreciate you 😊❤️
Thank you for this. I work with the piblic and i have this conversation EveryDay, we are all out here wondering what the hell is going on. But people Have to stop buying this stuff, or nothing will change. Take a break for a month or so, help your health and eat better and cheaper.. skip the oreos, the cereal, etc.. i know its super gross milk, eggs and necessities are so expensive but something has to give, right???.. right??? Ahhhhh
Thanks for watching! Its unfortunately going to be hard for people to give up on their favorite foods no matter how ‘bad’ they are because we are practically addicted - they don’t add all that sugar and food coloring just for fun 😂
I went to cava yesterday and I got a Greek salad and lemonade $16.50!!!! And it was HALF the portion! Never again!!!!
Sorry 😂😭
Lol I went to Starbucks on 27th street last week, got a grilled cheese and a grande macchiato , cost me $ 16! A store next to it is actually Cava 😂
I think it would be better if he suggested we all eat dog food. I think the pet food industry might have higher standards 😒
😂😂 that’s cold
I'm glad people were disgusted at that guy suggested cereal for dinner. I'm surprised he un ironically was saying this and expecting the public to say "oh yeah good idea! Thanks rich CEO guy" don't get wrong I love me some granola, but Jesus Christ 😭 a damming indictment of the wealth inequality in the developed west.
There was that famous line from Marianne twanette - when informed the peasants had no bread she simply said "let them eat cake". Such was her detachment from the poor masses and her luxurious life in wealth and power she did not understand that cake wasn't an option for most. The original air head rich girl 🤣 and here we are again hundreds of years later
I think he really thought people would say “oh yeah, good idea. Thanks rich CEO guy 🥹❤️🥹”
just an aside, that Marie Antonette quote was penned after her death by a biographer or journalist (I forget which) and may not have been said like that by her. She did reference brioche, not cake, and it was likely in the spirit of offering to give the people some of the brioche bread that they ate at court. So more 'out of touch "billionaire benevolence" ' than 'air-head rich girl'. But yes, she did not see how her own class was the cause of the people's problems, and the monarchy barely knew how to treat the symptom let alone the disease of social and wealth disparity... I mean, hence the literal French Revolution 😄
@@lilymoon2829brioche is cakey bread, and she really was party girl and waaaaaay out of touch. What she literally may have said is irrelevant
@ndjubilant8391 as a history student, context and nuance is very relevant to me. I'm not defending Marie Antoinette, any Monarchy or indeed the bourgeoisie overall at all, just pointing out that the quote is often misunderstood and misused. It DOES illustrate the social disparity of the time and can be broadly applied to illustrate the ongoing disconnect between the haves and the have-nots, just not in the way people often think. It was a helpful piece of context that I myself was grateful to learn and hoped to share with someone who could benefit from it. If you did not take any benefit from it, then feel free to move onwards. I hope the poster I was responding to will take my response in the spirit it was intended.
@@lilymoon2829while not directed at me, I benefited from your comment. Thank you for giving more context about the quote.
if you are a working adult who does not have a lot of time to cook i really recommend buying a cheap crock pot/slow cooker.
when i had 3 jobs and lived alone my slowcooker saved me from wasting thousands of dollars of eating out. Instead of eating fast food or cereal I was eating actual full meals ! examples: curry, rice ,beef stew, baked potatoes, soups, roasts,chili, ribs .. its one of the best investments i could make for my health and wallet.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve heard great things about the crockpot
I use to work retail in a Petco, every week we'd get about 20-30 items around the store that we'd have to replace the price stickers with new stickers, always with an increase between 15 cent to a dollar depending on the items.
Every. Week.
They've been doing this for years, offering "discounts" (aka, the old prices) to any upset customers. All while pushing their monthly membership scheme.
Dollar tree doesn't even live up to its name anymore...
I was going to dislike for not changing the video intro, but hamster with the big eyes and pink bow was just too cute.
Omgg 🥹 I knew he would come in handy 😂 Part 2 is out so forgive me!
these CEO's are out of this world. Untouchable. They are starting a war with the public and the governments, globally, don't care. Time for a change
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Since our previous parents buy cheap groceries for more foodstuffs; for now they tried to get savings money for their lives but survive on the other hand high price getting risk cause none of us can buy anything else. So if we can live, we will return money for saving wallet to buy less than few grocery per bags.
You forgot to mention how the recpies and ingrediants of packaged food have been changed to lower quality ingrediants.
you're right! I missed that
The guy who said he's compromising on his health by skimping on things... I get it. My diet has to be proper or I suffer.
😕 wishing you the best
Not to mention cleaning supplies. Surface & baby wipes are smaller, thinner & starting to shred in your hands while prices have gone UP.
We went grocery shopping yesterday. Entire long ass aisle of cereal. Adding milk and my husband would have to eat a huge bowl and we just do grits and salmon or something. Cheap and filing.
Cereal is expensive af too. We rarely buy it. If ever.
i remember in like 2012 50 bucks could get me almost a months worth of food if i was getting the cheapest stuff, now doing the same with the same amount of cash only gets me a weeks worth of food unless i want to eat only canned goods and start rationing food
Gosh that’s a tough situation, foodflation is one of the worst
A bowl of cereal with milk AND fruit is LESS than a DOLLAR?? Maybe a bowl of cereal served per the recommended serving size (about 100-150 calories worth) before you add the milk (forget about fruit) would be, if you bought STORE brand, but definitely not Kelloggs’ my goodness
Definitely an under exaggeration on the cost
TBH cereal is a good idea for food, but you'd need to get something like raisin bran or just normal bran. Way healthier than a lot of other options. Not as fun though.
Found this online as some healthy alternatives to sugary cereals ; porridge, corn flakes, bran flakes, weetabix etc rather than the more processed versions.
It's a duality since the pandemic. Rich people and especially politicians are having the best time right now while the middle/poor struggle to keep the lifestyle they had before. The rich are reaping all the profits while the politicians print money and abuse tax spendings while raising taxes.
I think many of us have given up on the grocery store. I grow my own produce. I work a t a grocery store and wait for meat clearances and dairy to be loss leaders. Once I have land I hope all I need from the store is toilet paper.
Man, I know this is happening everywhere but good luck to yall in the USA, personally Canada is a bit better for that I think.
Commercial cereals are sugar, grain, salt, preservatives, dye and artificial flavoring. The only nutrition in this kind of cereal is the grain, and that is questionable due to how it's processed and whether it's genetically modified and sprayed with weed killer and herbicides. On the other hand billions of people eat rice for dinner, which is also a grain. They mix it with vegetables and maybe a smattering of fish or meats. That's a cheap meal. You can do the same thing with pasta/noodles. Bread is made from grains, and if it's organic and whole grain can be a simple dinner with nut butters and fruit. In America, our customs around what constitutes a meal keeps us feeling like we cannot afford to eat. Of course we can. But we must gear it down and simplify what we are eating. Not every meal has to be a five star production with slabs of beef, potatoes and vegetables, heavy on the beef. Try thinking more like Asians or Hispanic countries with their beans and rice dishes that they adore. I often have sandwiches for dinner, with fruit or a salad and and maybe a yogurt.
When I buy beef, a $9 chuck roast will get me through five meals. Sandwiches, pasta and beef, potatoes and beef with onions, chopped beef in my salad, or chopped beef in a soup. And after all that I still have the beef broth for more soup or stew.
I don’t care 😂
Crunch Raisin Bran Rules 🔥
You should make this topic a series
Currently working on part 2, put on post notifications to be alerted when it’s posted 💓
The Big Mac experiment was quite something
Shocking tbh
Thank you!! Yes, part two! 🤗
You got it! 🫡💓
That’s what happens when culture promotes over spending (living in the moment), when culture promotes comfort and convenience over long lasting, quality products,
When culture promotes financial instability.
We can only blame ourselves and the government for it.
Can’t have the government “hands free” if society can’t pressure and police itself, when the government goes hands free in such a society, corporations will just come in and fill in the vacuum.
People need to start boycotting again and abstain brands that sell overpriced goods. It needs to be a united action of as many people as possible.
I don’t live in the US but where I live there are two groups -
One, is very much Americanized and is very much all about “now, live in the moment” and doesn’t care about overspending for convenience and you can see how it’s taking a toll on them
While the second group, a very religious one and a united one at that, is very picky, making and buying clothes that last life times, the corporations understand this difference, so they act accordingly and you can see in plain view how in the americanized areas, foods are packaged in small packages and expensive prices while if you go a few blocks to the religious area, people there know that their biggest vote is their wallet and that is clear by the prices on the shelves and the bigger packages for cheaper prices per compared weight.
The reason why we can also blame the government is because when the people aren’t protecting themselves, it is the government’s responsibility to protect the average Joe from corporations using him as a naive product easily sold.
Do you mind sharing where you live?
@@Itsbabygirlt the infamous and controversial Israel. Basically, the Haredi/orthodox Jews prefer to live together as it corresponds with their ideals and traditions (like keeping sabath etc..) so when you go to go to their store you notice everything is packaged bigger AND is cheaper, the reason is, they are extremely old fashioned and resemble our older generations much more, thus, businesses have to compete to get them to buy from them, many times have I spoken to one and asked and they always reply - hey, if x item gets raised in price and there’s no logical reasoning for that, we just stop buying it, or look for a different distributer who sells cheaper. Wish more people did this and we’d see change happen everywhere but for now.. the situation seems a bit bleak.
Gurrrrrl thank you for your effort- this is a really good video. Ive been saying this forever. Keep going.
Thank you! ❤️
The air in the chip bags is to protect the product from breakage. The weight is printed on the bag. You want a bag with lots of air.
We want more chips
@@Itsbabygirlt I realize that, but the point is, why it is like that. I worked for many years in a food plant, snacks and cookies. They never started the downsizing until about maybe five or six years ago. I worked on the packaging equipment, setting it up, changing it over to fit different products and maintenance of the equipment. Believe me when I say, it made us insane when we had to make the packages smaller because they wanted to save three cookies per package. We had reconfigure all the settings and all the machine parts to fit the new settings. The air needs to be in those packages. And we had to monitor the amount of air. Too much, they’ll burst or develop holes. To little and they break. Just a little fyi. It’s actually a big deal to do this lol lol.
Wow 👀 This video was mind blowing & I learnt so much! 💜
Glad it was helpful! 🫶
'Can't wait for the next video.
8:38 "rice kripsies" lol
Back in the day , cereal boxes were full , also had a toy .
The good ol’ days
Although I get the premise of your video, I think a small solution is to simply live within your means. Prioritize needs versus wants. There are so many healthy, affordable meals that aren't cereal. Some people chose to live on their own and not with a roommate or friend/family. Live within your means, folks! I get it. Some people want that life now, and I'm telling you, if you don't budget and make sacrifices now, then you'll never get through it later. These budgeting lifestyle goals are doable. But I have the feeling a majority of folks who "are poor" don't want to do it.
The problem is, there aren’t enough means for people to live within
How is cereal less than $1/ serving if a small box is like $8 and a gallon of milk is $6 😭
Maybe he gets the employee discount? 😭
I really don’t understand how company’s can up their prices when they’re already doing amazing. The smart move would surely be to carry on the way it’s working to make more money in the long run??
What’s better than money? More money
Long… run? What is that?
Guess I'm lucky. I have no education and work in a warehouse, but own my house, a car, and can afford to buy whatever food I want. Mostly organic.
Amazing
You’ve got to share a step by step on how you made that happen!
@@Itsbabygirlt Well, it's probably not what most people would want. I'm a minimalist. I don't have a wife or kids, and I never really plan to have any. The best tip I have for food is to buy a freezer chest. That way you can buy a lot of extra for when places have sales, like BOGO at Publix. I always look for coupons in the paper and on line for food and essentials for the house.
As for eating, I only eat 2 meals a day, and sometimes only one. I love to do intermittent fasting. A lot of people have it in their head that they need to eat 3 meals a day, plus snacks, and it's simply not true. They are just addicted to the horrible processed foods. That also saves a lot of money by not eating as much. Since I kicked all the processed junk and started making my own meals from organic stuff, my food addiction went away.
@@Itsbabygirlt interesting. TH-cam keeps deleting my comments about what I do. Guess they don't want people to get ahead ether
@@Itsbabygirlt every comment keeps getting deleted.
Wait... so if we boycott food brands they'll lower the prices? Let's go one at a time
Your pfp looks like you’re ready to lead the movement
fast food is not the only options for 99.9% of the US population. You can cook your own meals. It sucks and is harder for some people but most people can. I hope it help people learn to cook from scratch.
For those who don't have stable housing it's often not an option or what can be cooked is severely limited.
We get cereal once in awhile, it's treated as a dessert because I can't justify spending 7 dollars for even the store brand
Definitely a dessert
The whole "things taste different" is also largely due to COVID. No one is talking about the long lasting effects on the brain and body but a major one is changes in smell and taste.
😂 the last part of this is hilarious. There is no way that that voice matches the face!
😂 you got me there! It doesn’t
Just some info for those of use that don't know carbs is just sugar with more steps for the body to break it down. So cearal is double the sugar that is hyper processed. Easy way to get diabetes if eaten regularly for years
Thanks for sharing!
Obviously this sucks and we all can see it happening, but I would love to see more videos, essays, posts, etc, of what we can do to combat it. Like the Kellogg’s and Starbucks boycotts really got traction. Why talk about the problem without discussing potential solutions? I know not everyone can because sometimes alternative solutions cost more money or time that we don’t have, BUT that’s not the case for everyone. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be more time or money. Sometimes it can be as little as buying a different brand or sourcing something locally. Or like in the case of things outside of food, you can buy things pre-used or pool together with friends for different things. We can send a message with our dollars. Don’t forget that at the end of the day, they need us more than we need them.
I have a lot of sensory issues and physical responses regarding food which can make just eating more difficult for me. Before the pandemic, we used to go to fast food places when we were traveling or had been out all day so we wouldn't need to worry about what to make for lunch/dinner. It use to be fine because fast food places always tasted the same, had the same textures, ect. Exactly what you expect from a franchise in a giant chain, but after lockdowns got lifted, I started noticing the quality fluctuate a lot. It can't even really be on the individual stores because I know full well things like chicken nuggets and fries come to the stores frozen. They just became too expensive for how unpredictable it was, so I've basically stopped eating at all fast food places because nothing feels safe when I'm already tired and likely overwhelmed.
Cereal is like alcohol: fattening, no nutrition, expensive. I wouldn't even class it as food. I've returned to my student way of cooking which is 1 pot vegetable stews with a little meat for flavour. I have an apple and lots of water before my meal so I can feel full.
1 year old Big Mac is wild! If the Fungus doesn’t even want it you know it’s not something you should be eating
Who knew fungus could be this picky
Newfoundlander here, food prices are insane it's 6.99 for 2 lts of milk here and if you get a beverage with sugar like soda or juice we have a sugar tax too /:
Somethings gotta give
Something’s gotta!
It’s 8.00 for a box of their cereal, price of ground beef per pound 4-8.00. Depending on where you live and shop.
Regarding the dairy land cottage cheese, she removed the lid and the plastic top, which removes weight from the final product, so hard to say how much the cover, and the lid removed from the total weight value, so I would hope it would be less than what was missing
The lid isn’t going to weigh that high of an amount
Got a Kellog's ad in the first half of this video
Omg?! 😆
The biggest scam people were told by food companies was that convenience foods were for poor people. I knew someone who would suggest I get Kraft dinner when I was making mac n cheese brcause he claimed it was the cheaper option, which would cost more per portion than if i made it from scratch and be less filling and nutritious.
Why is it so expensive to live? Massive spending by the government devalues the worth of the dollar. I'm probably not supposed to tell who is in charge of it, but it started three years ago.
These same people loved them some "stimi checks", when smart people told them that it would lead to inflation.