54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances
Over half of young Americans say that rising food prices are the most noticeable effect of inflation.
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Let me rephrase it.
54% of young Americans struggle to buy food.
Would help if they learned to cook.
Vast majority of my under 40 peers, do not cook. Almost everything they eat is prepared meals or meal substitutes.
We cook for a family of 4 and grocery prices have still basically doubled in our area. Doing a lot more beans and rice lately.
Look up Justin Wilson's Louisiana cooking. They make beans and rice tasty AF
A lot of people don't have the time nor the energy to cook these days. If you work long hours or have multiple jobs to make ends meet, things can and will fall to the wayside. It's not always a matter of laziness like you're implying.
Yeah, I routinely work twelves and am in graduate school. I try to cook, but when I get home at 10 pm and have a paper to write (because my career is now illegal for trans people to do where I live, and an MS is the only ticket out…), I’m eating Taco Bell.
personally I'd rather be poor yet able to cook a healthy meal rather than work long hours, be tired and unhappy with no time AND struggle to buy unhealthy food.
Everyone picks their own poison. I think the core issue is that our options are all poison.
Well I guess someone picked for me. Because I didn't choose any of this.
The number of young people with no money, but constant deliveries from Ubereats, Deliveroo, etc, astounds me.
Like, my brother in Christ, you are sending most of your food budget to Silicon Valley billionaires. No generation has ever survived entirely on delivered takeaways.
