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Most junk food in the US has gone off the rails in terms of price. Like seriously, don’t spend money on food that has zero nutritional value and is actively harmful to your health. You’ll feel so much better and your bank account will be so much bigger.
I guess I have corporate America to thank for no longer buying chips, candy, or baked goods that I might’ve otherwise splurged on as a treat. Can’t justify it with prices the way they are.
I was with you, up until baked goods. What’s wrong with baked goods? A nice loaf of bread freshly baked from a bakery? Or maybe a baked potato with cheese and bacon? Or maybe a big bag of pot…wait, sorry. Wrong kind of baked.
Even red meat. I’ve basically given up on beef and pork because it’s so expensive. Just tofu or poultry these days.
Like seriously, don’t spend money on food that has zero nutritional value and is actively harmful to your health.
Oh fuck off with this holier than thou horseshit. It’s a chocolate bar. People aren’t living off these things as their only meals every day of the week. It’s a treat coming home from work, or for a job well done.
If you need a $7 candy bar “as a treat” for a job well done I’m not sure you’re an adult.
Right, if you need anything other than nutrient paste and water for a job well done, you’re definitely not an adult
I’ll never understand folks who seem to get personally offended by how strangers choose to treat themselves. It’s self righteousness bordering on narcissism.
How I spend my money is completely up to me, not some jag off on the Internet who thinks they’re better than others.
I think the word your looking for is “want”, not “need”. There is a very large difference in meaning between the two.
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I’m with you about forgoing chips/candy these days. I can’t get behind paying 3 bucks for a small snickers bar.
I will say it has me baking more these days if I want something sweet or want bread. Thank God tortillas are still cheap, I have no idea how to make them… yet.
Costco sells uncooked tortillas from TortillaLand, and they’re fucking amazing. Cook like 60 seconds in a hot skillet on each side and you get a fresh, hot tortilla. No oil or anything needed. It’s wonderful. If you can find them, I’d recommend checking them out.
Only downside is because they’re uncooked, they have a limited fridge life, unlike the pre-cooked ones, but they taste soooo much better.
Making tortillas from scratch is also not that hard, and that way you never have to worry about pre-cooking shelf life, as long as you generally have flour, oil, and baking powder kicking around.
We freeze a bunch and they have been fine.
Also some grocery stores sell uncooked tortillas. And some Walmart’s
Eeeeew Walmarts. A pipeline of questionably manufactured foods that no longer have any safety or quality controls.
Buy Canadian.
Good to know; I’ve never tried freezing them!
Oh this is a great starter option and there’s a Costco on the other side town. I’ll go look for them tonight, thank you!
You’re welcome!
You’ll either find the TortillaLand or the Tortilla Fresca packs. We prefer the TortillaLand, but both are uncooked and both are excellent!
Video showing packaging and cooking: https://youtu.be/4535gNwvy3k
Enjoy!
Thats perfect! Like she said in the video I wonder how well they freeze? 44 is a LOT of torillas. Thank you for posting the video!
I freeze tortillas in groups of 10-12 when I buy a giant package of then… They come out fine but you have to thaw them so they can be separated from eachother.
Thats great to know! Thank you!
Corn tortillas are easy and taste great fresh. Buy Masa Harina and use the recipe on the bag. (2 cups masa harina, ½ tsp salt, 1½-2 cups hot water.)
If you aren’t sure enough to buy a 5-pound bag, Bob’s Red Mill sells a 624-gram bag with complete instructions on the back. Remember to plan ahead to let the dough rest an hour to absorb the water, and have waxed paper or a cut ziploc bag to flatten it between.
Don’t try to use corn meal or polenta. The nixtamalization of the corn before grinding is important.
Flour tortillas aren’t hard either, plenty recipes online.
Red Mill, great company imo, when I was keto I loved their gluten free options to faux “breading”. I had a pretty decent tempura/tonkatsu recipe.
Thank you for the advice on how to prep. I know me I would have rushed it or bought the wrong corn!
I came here to bitch about overpriced candy and now have multiple options to make tortilla’s! Gotta love Lemmy eh?
Frito Lay fucked up by charging $7 for a bag of chips. It took a chunk out of their profits when people stopped buying them. They have reversed course for now.
During the pandemic… PepsiCo raised prices … By the third quarter of 2022, net pricing was up 20% from a year earlier.
senior managers made clear they didn’t want to go backward on prices,
the company’s stock down more than 20% from a peak in 2023
company tried anything else that might lure customers: promotions, shrinkflation. None of it worked.
PepsiCo … planned to lower prices … Up to 15% off some snacks, Laguarta described the cuts as “very surgical.” It also underwent a series of cost cutting measures, including layoffs.
PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta receives an annual base salary of approximately $1.69 million, with a total annual compensation package—including stock awards, options, and performance bonuses—totaling roughly $23.9 million to $28.8 million
Pictured: A Fucking Moron.
This particular store is heavily inflated. The exact same bar at the store by me is $3.29.
It’s also 6 servings worth, and the whole bar is 720kcal.
Tbh if you’re purely viewing it as kcal per $ that’s not that bad.
Legit. I sound like an old man but I remember when junk food cost at least 3 bucks or something. In my area its 6.79. 6 fucking 79? Fuck offffff. This shits predatory and crazy
I might’ve eaten a disgusting amount of Costco sized Doritos during the early pandemic. A giant bag for $3.50. Now those bags are closer to $8 and I can’t remember the last time I bought chips.
Im still a fat bastard, and every time I’m in the supermarket I’ll go into the junk food aisle. Almost always I do the grandpasimpson.gif and leave empty handed.
Gotta go generic brand, that’s where the deals are
My local grocery outlet still has gummy works in the plastic thing for like $2, and Marshall’s still has treats for a decent price. If you’re expecting cheap stuff from your local grocer, that’s on you.
Wow they really do make it hard to find the “And I raped kids” version
At least it’s snap eligible
Ya…and you can only get snap if you work 80 hrs a week, have written consent from your boss, your past 4 bosses, the blood of a tainted saint, the pubes of a dead god, the hymen of a virgin, And 3 hearts from a slain dragon.
I think those can all be obtained on Epstein Island
Lol tell that to my meth head mother that gets SNAP without having held a job in her life. She sells her snap for more meth.
Either she’s lying to them or you are lying. Bring me your mother 's last used needle.
Of course she’s lying to them lmao. She’s a tweaker. Has been for 20 years. She also gets disability because her stupid ass hurt herself 15 years ago during one of her mandated community service assignments when she got arrested for possession, and that disability waives her work requirement. Even though her only actual disability is that she’s dumb as fuck.
But I’ll also give you context. I grew up in Oklahoma. Half the state is on meth. The overlap of people on SNAP in Oklahoma and people on meth is almost just a single circle.
Well man, that’s tough titty. While I don’t support your mother’s life style, I won’t through rocks in glass houses. I’ve been down bad for drugs and I’m honest to folks when I say don’t do anything harder than you.
I like my weed and once in a blue moon some molly.
But if I was to give ant statement to what you have said…it be plain ol I don’t care. I don’t care if she sucks big horse dick for her meth. I don’t care if she tripped on her own pee in wallie world and sued them to kingdom come and used it all to buy meth. I do not care. Give her snaps. In fact I believe most folks should get snap. Hell in my eyes make it a global thing.
No one deserves to go hungry. No one deserves to go without food or to feel that pain of not knowing when they will eat.
I do not care if she finger pops her pussy on down to a Ford F Fuck fifty event and squirt slides her way out of orbit. She should be able to eat. And that goes for everyone. Food should not be a problem of "well who get some food and who doesn’t. " it should be about if the food we eat is safe. That’s it.
Um. Ok?
Not sure what any of that has to do with this conversation. The whole thing was about
Ya…and you can only get snap if you work 80 hrs a week, have written consent from your boss, your past 4 bosses, the blood of a tainted saint, the pubes of a dead god, the hymen of a virgin, And 3 hearts from a slain dragon.
Which is just flat out not even true. And that was my only point. It’s not 9 thousand impossible hoops to jump through.
Well for me they wanted me to jump through hoops. Mainly cause I run my own business cleaning airbs and houses.
My point was that itndoesnt matter what someone is or does, food should be available for everyone. No one should go without food.
That’s one heck of a kink.
Never added for science no kink. Just like my proof in the pudding.
SNAP eligible?That might depend on the state you live in.
https://lowincomerelief.com/these-states-are-trying-to-change-what-you-can-buy-with-snap/
https://snapbenefitcalculator.com/texas-snap-banned-items-complete-list-april-2026/
Am I uneducated about how SNAP works, or is this a rare Texas W?
I think it’s outrageous that you can’t even buy hygiene articles or medicines with SNAP, and in that way it’d make sense that something so non-nutritious like candy shouldn’t be allowed? Alcohol isn’t allowed either for example, despite the fact that beer would be (at least marginally) more nutritious than candy.
So other than increasing the stigma already associated with SNAP, is it really problematic to ban candy? Even if it’s not a major cost point, the principle of “poor people are too dumb to budget themselves, so we won’t let them buy necessities like diapers and tampons… but we’ll gladly let them buy candy” just feels wrong to me?
But if you break it in half, you’ll have 2 bars, and that’s like 50% off! Break it again, 50+50 that’s 100% off! Why stop there?! Trump did say he was gonna cut prices by 700%.
Promises made, Americans wept 🙃
Canadian here, I remember years ago going to the US, we were at par for money, and a candy bar in the US was like $1 or $2. So the $2 chocolate bar was $2 for us too.
Now this US$6.49 is basically CA$10, it is insane!
Any amount of money for most US ‘chocolate’ is too much.
Reeses lovers are a cult. They know the chocolate is bad, they just want the peanut butter which is over roasted and hopped up on sugar.
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Some stores here have a big orange section in the candy that’s all Reeses products. They have a lot of chocolate/peanut butter combinations!
I got one of the big peanut butter cups made with real peanut butter form a candy store a little while back, they had cut down on the amount of chocolate so much it fell apart when biting it :(
What type of store is this in?
Gas stations, or department stores around me gouge the shit out of you for snacks/candy. Easily $5-6cad for a chocolate bar. A dollar store though, usually sells an Oh Henry (~58g) for $1.25 or $2 for a ‘share size’ (the 2 smaller bars in one package ~82g).
Still not great, but much better than $6.50 (USD I assume)
I also see this exact price for these at the fancy upscale grocery store across the street from me in addition to the gas stations.
It’s junk food, not fancy nice food. It’s bad for you, full stop. Nobody is going to pay that price for junk food. This also goes for fast food that now thinks it’s some luxury food, it’s not, it’s still junk. For God sakes, stop giving these soulless,oney sucking corporations your money. It’s that simple. This bs stops when the money stops.
No, it doesn’t. They influence the FDA and it’s “generally as safe” stuff.
Seriously, for that price you could eat real foodlike substances, perhaps even something that was in the ground more recently than it was in a factory.
Gotta disagree with the “no one will pay for it” part of your comment though. People can’t get enough of anything that’s bad for them! Most of them will sit there in their micro plastic shedding clothes, not getting exercise, under a UV light, smoking a cigarette while drinking alcohol and downing Tylenol and Advil by the bottle, while blasting their eyeballs with blue light and huffing VOCs before they ever touch a raddish.
The corporations setting prices are all in cahoots to put all the fat poor fucks on a diet, or criminalizing them if the people resort to stealing the overpriced junk food they’re addicted to.
a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.
this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.
edit: I’m wrong, that says 2 Bars on the edge, not 2 pounds (why is lbs short for pounds anyway?!)
Lbs is a shortened version of the Greek word for measuring scales. So it actually doesn‘t mean a specific weight, but more like “weighed” or something.
Pound in other languages is “libra”, as is weight scale …
How ironic that Americans use a foreign language to describe their unit of measurement that is used nowhere outside the USA.
It’s literally used in the UK, where it fucking came from.
Why is it SNAP eligible? This is what happens when we just pay out without regulating it, whereas Medicare does negotiate prices. It’s the same with student loans+tuition.
If you make enough that you get SNAP/EBT, you’re already not living your best life.
Just let the mfer have a candy bar. God damn
But this is America, where you must be punished for being poor.
It’s eligible because it’s food. It prevents starvation. Plus it’s hard to micromanage what poor people eat. On top of that, poor grandmas with diabetes can use it to prevent a coma if their sugar is dangerously low.
In Texas, candy bars aren’t eligible. Neither are soft drinks, including uncaffeinated diet drinks, but ice cream, cake, pies, and chocolate milk are still eligible for now. But they’re planning to take that away from poor people too. Also “luxury” meats like steak.
After that I imagine they plan to make poor people eat out of dirty buckets filled with offal and rotting vegetables.
This follows my conspiracy theory that grocery stores in areas with high SNAP benefits ussge increase the prices on everything significantly. I have some family in an area where a lot of people rely on SNAP, and spent $20 on a pack of five hot dogs.
But I don’t understand how this candy is SNAP eligible. Last year SNAP began banning snacks & sweets & junk food.
Old photo maybe?
I think eligibility varies state to state
I am so glad I am not the only one who thought that this was a 2 pound bar…
Funny how they say it’s 120 calories per 1/8th of the pack 🙄 Yeah guys, that’s how people eat candy bars.
1/8th at a time.
The online nutrition information for a king size is similar, in that it says 150 calories for 1/3 of the bar. So the individual one is about 450 calories, while 2 of them is 960, 60 calories more than it should be.
Or I’m reading the fine print on the packaging wrong, in which case it says 120 calories per 1/6th of the pack, which would bring it out to 720 calories, or, two bars smaller than the “king size,” which seems deceptive, considering the packaging says it’s a “super king 2 bars.”
Just deceptive marketing and shrinkflation, all wrapped up in one shitty package!
They better get used to people not buying their candy bars.
Don’t buy it?
