How are People Surviving ?

Buy your meat in bulk direct from the farm 👍🏼

The Steak, was prob more than 1/2 the bill... You learn to eat cheaper cuts, try chicken legs, the pork roast, or mince meat - learn to like rice - it is the cheapest food around...

Tell me about it. I don’t see enough people talking about this. I shop for groceries almost every day, and even for just two people it’s hard to get out of the supermarket spending less than $40 to $50. I genuinely don’t know how families are managing. My income hasn’t gone up. If anything, it’s been going backwards over the past few years. Just thinking out loud, I reckon a family of four with two incomes, a mortgage and a car loan could easily be spending around $2,200 a month on groceries. Add a mortgage of around $5,000 a month and other household bills, and it feels like you’d need around $15,000 a month in disposable income just to stay comfortable. And that’s month to month. No savings! Am I way off, or does that sound about right? Happy to be corrected if I’m missing something.

bro is buying quality over quantity lol

and you are justifying the willful economic destruction of our economy by not asking why the cost of food is so expensive, but rather blame the messenger. This attitude is part of the apathy that has got us to here.

I'm not justifying anything I'm just saying you can get more for your money if you don't buy the premium stuff That doesn't mean I don't care about the cost of living it's cooked for everyone right now But blaming me for pointing out a simple fact isn't gonna bring prices down

@cafelockedout You mean the cheap stuff that is filled with sh1t that will kill you early? Quality food is THE most important thing we can do for ourselves but you do you eh

@cafelockedout Fair point but not everyone can afford the premium stuff, even if it's better quality That's the real issue The fact that basic, healthy food is out of reach for so many is exactly why people are struggling That's what we should be talking about

@elizapa09980236 @cafelockedout do at this point you're just arguing against yourself, well played

@elizapa09980236 @cafelockedout Nah, just staying on topic while you added nothing.

I grew up pretty poor. My parents worked their butts off. Some of my best memories as a kid, were when my parents were slowly getting ahead. I remember going shopping and they bought an overflowing trolley (the deep, large ones) of food - you know, like we were stacking stuff up and holding it on while we wheeled it around. Dad was so proud, mum was happy. I remember checking out at $200 and Dad going "whoa!", like that was the most he had ever spent on food ever. We would get home and wrap up the meat and stack the fridge. The freezer would be FULL. The fridge and cupboards, absolutely jammed - and it all made is feel good and safe, like things were going to be ok. That is absolutely gone now, and everyone is back to a poverty mindset. Scrape by, buy less, get the cheaper stuff. Its bad. Meat and dairy are out of control. Want to make a cheap bulk stew? 2kg of chuck steak is going to set you back $40 ... just the "cheap" crappy steak you need to boil for 8 hours. It's like its 1985 again and everyone is making $140 a week, except everything is 4x the price it was then.

By earning more than ever and still being locked into the middle class. Family of 5, we spend 1-200 for a small grocery shop once or twice a week and then 350-400 once a week for a large shop. It’s insanity.

Steak? You're lucky...🤣

Lunch. For 2. We buy sheep and beef meat in 3-6 kg bulk cuts at $18-23 kg mostly from independent chains like spudshed or larger butchers, direct from farmers. Don't buy mest from Coles or Woolworths. Butter on special at $7/500 gram. 2 of us eat 5 dozen eggs per week, direct from egg farm.

Grow our own fruit and veg in our suburban back yard. Every little bit helps. Learn to forage, swap excess with neighbors, look for specials and buy in bulk when you find something cheap. Share knowledge to help each other. From my garden.

It will get way worse! Funny how they slowly stripped our ability to hunt and gather hey?

True that. Buying Chuck steak in bulk now and pressure cooking it, to get 250g of red meat protein a day. Mix it with an egg.

Lots of mince! Make your own meals.

We only need half of Australian workers to stop work,rock up to the governor generals gates.AUSTRALIA STOPS. Sack labor now. Do you think these career public trough feeders will risk their pensions.Bulgarians sacked their govt in 48 hrs. We can too NO VIOLENCE, NO COMPLIANCE

@Theblackfemini3 Criminal! Meanwhile Jacinta Allen gets paid $300k a year for doing sweet f all

@LaurenVella82 Ps. They aren’t having children. Unless they are multi family immigrants on the pension

Sadly, by not eating red meat, at all, ever.🤣

26 with 3 kids. I spend about $500 per week on groceries

We buy meat direct from organic farm's in bulk when they have sales and distribute to family. We also buy organic produce sourced locally and fill the freezer. Comes down to clever cooking too. Crock pots and big freezers is the key.

Staples and rent unaffordable for pensioners - what’s the choice going to be. Roof or tummy? Burgled while we were all sleeping.

the newest and highest stats of homelessness now are the elderly so they become homeless and then die and that's all part of the plan....follow the WEF.

On top of that you are forced to eat folic acid in your bread which is not good for mens health. On a good note I went fishing today so thats some nice food for the family.

1kg beef mince and pack of wraps 6-7 meals a week my dog eats more than I do lol 🌏✌️🇦🇺

Growing as much as possible...bulk meat from farms, make sourdough bread and have Chickens.. Average famil 2 adults 2 kids in Australia would be spending 450 to 550 a week for basics at the moment...its insane

Not buying meat. That's how we're doing it

If you are going to live healthy on a budget, I would suggest people rely on cheap cuts of chicken, sardines, root/frozen vegetables, beans and chick peas, and grow some rainbow chard for constant greens. Forget about steak and substitute liver and eggs. No empty carbs.

Good quality mince is $22 a kg now, expensive but one person can get 2 meals from 500g. And its versatile. Theres home brand milk and bread. But in saying that I see ppl stuffing their faces with kids at maccas for breakfast

@LaurenVella82 Long life milk. $2 bread that’s been frozen 24months, hot dogs and home brand cheese slices from Aldi. Start there. $15

Maybe by buying cheaper products instead of gf bread and fancy milk, and angus cow. Food prices have remained flat or cheaper over the rolling average of 60 years, inflation adjusted. Mind you, netflix, prime ef were much cheaper 60 years ago.

And people will say eat soup, porridge, chicken. We really have gone back to the days of the peasant.

I know a few people who are really struggling. They are going without meals because it’s all just too expensive. One guy is the skinniest I’ve ever seen him. The struggle is real.

Family of 8. Fortunate enough to live with parents and only pay them 500 a week rent. Beans, mince and rice, home-made pizza and spaghetti. Cook and buy bulk. Its hard times but were making it work. Can't see owning a home until I have less dependents.

Lol ground beef is $10kg. Jasmine rice $4 kg. Milk is cheap too.

They aren’t surviving, parents aren’t eating

The short answer is many people don't eat animal protein anymore. The last inexpensive supply was eggs and now they're expensive too. If you just eat pasta or rice with virtually no animal protein a meal is still like $1. But really people are in denial about being in poverty.

It's cheaper for me to heat my house over winter by burning wood in the fireplace than it is to use the electric reverse cycle, quite a lot cheaper, the price of hardwood cost about a month and a bit of electricity but lasts the whole year.