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That isn't a joke. It's from the official HHS Facebook page.

I try not to think about Ancient Rome every day but I see things like this and it's unavoidable. Rome was completely dependent on wheat from Egypt. Egypt was completely dependent on wheat from Egypt as well. It's still so dependent that bread is subsidized so that it is available for the lower class to survive on. French baguettes? Subsidized in France.

This last year I have eaten so much bread. I'm making several pounds of it a week because I can make a pound of bread for less than a dollar. I mix up a big batch of dough and use it all up not even knowing what I'll be making out of it in advance. It might get turned into bread, pizza crust or pitas. In fact I have 3.5 pounds of it rising on my kitchen island right now.

How much weight did I gain eating all this bread last year? I lost 7 pounds.

Bread is life. It's the reason that people with gluten issues try so desperately to make bread they can eat. It was there at the birth of agriculture. It made cities possible.

But it's way down near the bottom of this triangle and red meat is at the top. How are you going to make a good steak sandwich without more bread than steak? Assuming you can afford steak.

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[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I'm not certain I understand... I make a lot of bread too and partly because it's cheap, but also partly because it's awesome. I'm focused on sourdough at the moment, it's been a long trip.

I am unsure of what the "new" pyramid is trying to say, because it says nothing. Very strange, though not, I suppose, coming from the barely literate fuckheads running HHS now.

It sounds like you're struggling pretty hard, good on you you make your own bread. Fresh vegetables and fruit are still fairly reasonable, particularly if you do local farmer's markets. I recently posted about how using dried beans instead of canned is a real money saver (a pound of navy beans is like, $1.20 - and loads of good protein).

I am also quite focused on foraging right now. I hope it doesn't come to it, but if it should, I'd like to be as prepared as possible. Knowing what edible wild plants exist around you is very valuable, and can be a fun hobby for those bent that way.