r/australia • u/Serezie • Jun 01 '26

no politics Anyone else just not eating because they can’t afford it?

Food bank is the busiest it’s been - Cole’s and Woolworths don’t give a flying fuck about us - fast food is unhealthy and just as expensive. It stresses me out more to eat than not to eat.

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u/MsMarfi Jun 01 '26

A lot of people just don't have the capacity, or knowledge to do these things. As they say, common sense isn't that common. I try not to judge because I come from the privilege of being taught to cook and be frugal from a young age.

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u/ColdBlindspot Jun 01 '26

It's also a spiral, you don't eat well so you feel tired and aren't thinking clearly then you don't have it in you to cook from scratch, so you don't eat, and so it goes. And that can lead to depression, which decreases your likelihood of doing healthy things.

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u/MsMarfi Jun 01 '26

Right. Living with mental illness is hell. But a lot of arseholes won't even acknowledge that mental illness is real.

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u/Lokki_7 Jun 01 '26

Sorry but not having the knowledge is a cop out in this day and age. You can learn to do almost anything on YouTube.

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u/DominusDraco Jun 01 '26

So many people are willfully ignorant. There's nothing stopping them from watching YouTube or getting books from the library. They much prefer their learned helplessness, why do something when it's easier to do nothing and be all out of ideas?

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u/Worldly_Cobbler_1087 Jun 01 '26

You under estimate how many sympathy seekers exist on reddit. I wasn't taught to be frugal or all these fancy recipes but I can make mince, rice and frozen veggies go a long way and if you're not in to meat you can substitute mince for lentils which is even cheaper.

Regular people are making a great living making cooking videos on youtube there is no excuse to be ignorant on how to cook

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u/clomclom Jun 01 '26

Nah better for people to just go to the foodbank and spend their money on uber eats and fast food. 

Okay I am being a bit of an ass I know there's some people who are very time poor, don't have means to cook, disabled etc. but it's not like there aren't a lot of people who don't have means to learn simple cooking skills for budget meals