Yeah a lot of frozen vegetables are fine, especially when cooked in a casserole or something, but not on their own.

I know it’s not practical to avoid all processed stuff, not that’s I want to, and a lot of it is healthy enough. It’s just all the stuff with reasonable amounts of salt/sugar/etc and still tastes good tends to cost more. (even then you have to be careful, a lot the stuff marketed as healthier really isn’t. Exhibit A; Diet Soda)

It seems protein is the latest trend, a lot of stuff is highlighting how much protein they have in them. Protein is great, but I’ll get that from a regular sources not a dense candy bar or meat stick. Gosh even some milks (that aren’t specifically protein drinks) are highlighting protein content now lol.

Yeah, I don’t care for the labels, I just try to pay attention to ingredents.

Everyone’s essentials will differ, for me it its things like canned veggies, jarred sauce, frozen veggies, canned soup - basically easy meals or sides to easily make dinner after work.

Yes, most of that is healthier than a TV dinner, but fresh is still better (and tastier).

I could learn to can or pickle my own, but that’s not with out its own difficulties.

Sure the staples are pretty easy, but a head of iceburg is a dollar while all the stuff with some nutritional value costs $3 for less per pound.

Going to the store with produce that isn’t already half dead, so it will last the whole week costs more.

Going the store multiple times a week for fresh produce costs more in gas and time (and “extra” buying). I end up with lots of fresh meals at the start of the week, but towards the end its all frozen or canned vegetables, which is a lot of salt.

Buying the juice, or any snack, not full of high-fructose corn syrup costs more.

Fresh bakery bread costs $5+, while a loafs cost $1-2. A loaf of wheat or multi-grain bread costs around $3.

It all adds up, and yes I am lazy.

Healthy eating.

It’s so much more expensive and effort than the mainstream stuff. Its easy enough to cut back on the junk foods, but the cutting out the processed “essentials” is harder.

Same here… But in my defense the guy that runs the corner store near me has one, and Apu from Simpsons comes to mind too (the two have completely different accect btw

The original “The Princess Bride” by S. Morgenstern

Don’t be fooled by them! It’s delicious! It’s mayo but a bit more of a “spicy” flavor and some sugar. (Not like a hot pepper spice, just a mild spice? idk it’s hard to describe) great for sandwiches, horrible substitute for pretty much anything else that uses real mayo.

Whipped cream is probably the worst way to describe it, that’s like describing blue cheese as ice cream. Very different things.

That’s what mom calls them when they’re in trouble.

So the DOA? :D

I’d be more surprised if the government didn’t fine they guy reporting or require a lawyer to go through layers of bureaucratic nonsense designed to make it so hard to do anything the average person won’t bother.

Yeah, they are huge bottles sold individually…great for pouring a reasonable amount for many people.

Not as great for 1 person drinking it, unless you drink way too much, it will go flat before you can finish it. Never seen a 1.5l bottle before searching it now, that looks like something some one could easily carry with them to have soda all day long!

Soda bottles in the us shows both ounces and milititers.

Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.

Smaller bottles are in ounces (with the metric label just a requirement I guess - no one I know here talks about buying a 500ml soda)

Everything else is ounces or gallons, I’m sure someone will ‘umm actually’ me…but generally nothing else is metric; like milk and juice.

I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.

https://dhmo.org/facts.html#USES

That second one is on HR - should have changed their name in the system.

Ah, is that how she will defeat Saitama? When she let’s go, will the force of it untwisting cause a massive shockwave taking her, and the rest of the planet out?

There’s a reason they’re always happy.

The rich do like to keep things in the family.

I think a lot people crying about 8GB, are (or were) heavy windows users. They expect the os to take 4 of that, chrome to take 3 and only have 1GB left.

In reality any one who wants to game, use the ram for crazy data calculations, or do creative work professionally won’t be looking at the neo for reasons beyond the ram size.

(But yes, the non upgradable part sucks).

The performance of an m1 chips is still impressive for a “budget” laptop, and the built in finger warmer is nice when you leave the metal laptop out in the cold.

It’ll be good for someone, non-technical, who just needs a computer for the simple stuff in life. For a student it’ll be great, and when a class that wants them to edit a video or they need to “Photoshop” something - it will work for that. (Maybe not greatly, but it will work), you can’t say the same for a Chromebook.

The low ram is certainly a bummer and will hold it back, but with a properly optimized OS, it will probably fine for a few years.

The need for a dongle is just part the apple expirence, right? If you don’t want a dongle, go get a usbc to hdmi cable. Quite honestly, I’d love to see HDMI die out and be replaced with USBC, its a smaller connector and a good USBC cable can be used for other things too. Also if you’re hooking up a second display, chances are its a stationary setup and only having to plug in the 1 dongle for your “desk” is very helpful.