r/Adulting • u/Far-Industry-7745 • 3h ago

Maybe if they bring back affordable ground beef

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u/Mammoth-Ear3490 2h ago

Hot Dog Helper

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u/Capraos 15m ago

Please. As if we can afford hot dogs.

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u/Jackoutman 9m ago

You guys can afford hotdogs?

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u/danielfletcher 2h ago

Changing up the protein has always been a thing on the boxes. Always on the back, but around 2009 or 2010 is the first time I remember them adding it on the front.

I use ground turkey or chicken a lot. Always cheaper to buy chicken breast and grind it than grinding any beef.

If we enter a great depression, you won't be buying easy foods like Hamburger Helper. Not at $1.50 a box. It is handy but the markup is insane compared to home made.

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u/crystallinehuman 1h ago

Are we forgetting what happened in 2008 in this example?

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u/Comfortable_Gur_2824 2h ago

It’s gonna be worse than I thought. Shit.

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u/Antique_Knowledge902 2h ago

In the first years of my marriage (1988 on), I would make Tuna Helper and Hamburger Helper hash. Dee-licious!!

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u/InvincibleIronStan 2h ago

Ah yes try it with a level 1 carcinogen instead of ground beef. Try smoking a cigarette after eating for extra nutrients

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u/_redacteduser 1h ago

I moved my ground beef budget to zyns, what do I do now?

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u/Ok_Basis1422 1h ago

Start smokin' rollies

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u/PraetorKiev 40m ago

Ah see that’s your mistake there. Needed to go organic with chewing tobaccy instead ya see?

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u/Sophisticated-Crow 2h ago

"Meat" hotdogs are pretty cheap compared to all beef ones.

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u/Size---Queen 2h ago

No they did not.

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u/cwsjr2323 54m ago

Next, Hamburger Helper, Helper with real TVP from American soybeans!

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u/RiderFZ10 49m ago

Wait till you try flour and water soup

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u/Far-Industry-7745 45m ago

Sounds inexpensive. I'll take 12

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u/rinnekro 41m ago

That just sounds like noodle soup with less steps.

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u/Lord_Dingus83 43m ago

Hahahahahaha

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u/Latter_Geologist_472 1h ago

I just checked mine, and now theyre suggesting beans!

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u/Capraos 13m ago

See, there is a reasonable poor person addition. Hot dogs aren't cheap.

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u/East_World_4448 20m ago

well.... yes we are due for one, it's almost 98 years to the day. Besides, wdy think we ate in the early 80's ?!

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u/kitchencrawl 5m ago

Are we great yet?

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u/Significant_Fill6992 1m ago

This is really funny but it also really shows the difference between old poor and new poor 

No one is going to have a good time but at least old poor already know how to play the game 

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u/Whocares7x 1m ago

Ive lost 40 pounds so far

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u/rancidmorty 17m ago

no its the high protien everything the fad was a warning or preminision

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u/Speffers98 8m ago

Okay doomer.

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u/Bargainboxplayer 46m ago

Bruh great depression.. 😆😆 RELAX Susan..

Trust me tough times are ahead certainly and it's gonna be a huge bump in our lifetime but society is out here acting like OUR generation is gonna go through anything in terms of actual great depression..

" Oh I can't put ground beef in my hamburger helper because I want Starbucks,weed and nonsense all the time" -almost everyone in Canada

Give me a break the ones actually struggling to buy ground beef to put in a pot of hamburger helper because life is too expensive are far and few between. We just want everything and all of it at once..

We can all Fuck off

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u/Capraos 13m ago

They are not, in fact, few and far between.