We need Billionaire Helper when we start eating the rich
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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Ground beef? In this economy?
Try it with hot dogs!
Oh look at fancy pants over here! We would be lucky to afford monkey wieners.
Can't You american, eat eggs, chicken or fish instead?
Those things cost money. Not a lot of people have those lying around this days
That would make the beef lobby sad.
So you know how in North Korea the government tells its citizens to forage for grass and stuff? How long before we see that in the States?
Beef is unaffordable and hamburger helper is more expensive than buying the basic ingredients.
Can’t afford hamburger. It’s tuna helper now.
The good tuna isn't cheap either. I don't want the quasi cat food from a can.
The bad tuna is out of reach due to price, Beef is about $5 a pound here (the amount needed for a box of helper) and even the bad tuna is almost $2 a can now. You need about 3 cans to make the amount needed so even the quasi cat food is more then beef.
If you have a restaurant supply store in your area, and you can deal with enormous quantities of food and have ways to freeze what you make, they sell 4 pound cans of white tuna that are 2/3rds the price per pound of smaller cans. Or split with friends, I don't know. Or try Walmart, they stepped up their grocery offerings, at least in Montreal, and boycotting the USA and Israel BAD aside, we gotta look out for ourselves first.
I have tried to buy the giant cans of tuna before, as a single individual it is a terrible idea. Tuna freezes like shit, and when its bad its both ends bad. I used to eat quite a bit of the crappy cans of tuna when they where under a $1 per. But last time I was in the store the off brand "cheap" tuna was $2.25 (same price as the canned chicken oddly).
I just point out that beef (at least in this part of Canada) is cheaper then tuna per 100g. These "saving" recipes are often out of touch and out of date.
Is this some marketing campaign or something.
Why am I suddenly seeing so many posts mentioning some cheap American junk food I've never even heard of before?
Might be that it's because Lemmy is such a small place. We had the hamburger helper meme in all yesterday and now people are posting about the general concept.
Try with Soylent Green!
but I hear it's peeepulll
Maybe even peo-pulp!
Try with acorn shells!
I hear a acornmeal is pretty healthy. Hard to make though
Just put all the neighborhood squirrels on leashes and dig up the ¾ of the nuts they forget about.
That is more expensive then beef! And an abomination so foul that even god would look away.
Hamburger helper is good yes, but I’m in the mood for eating the rich yum!
almost like you need to seize the means of distribution to have democratical rights upheld
Fuck Reddit
As long as it ain't Avocado Toast, the right people will eat it all up.
Powdered Cheese is ass. Eat the rich.
You say that like the two are mutually exclusive.
I'll enjoy mixing the meat of the rich into my artificially-cheesed hamburger helper, thank you very much.
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wtf is a hamburger helper and how is it helping me making hamburgers
It’s basically mac and cheese with cut up hotdogs in it. Or like carbonara, with beef instead of ham. You brown some ground beef (hamburger meat, if you have never cooked anything fancy before and only know it as “that stuff you use to make hamburgers”). Then once it’s browned, you add some water, maybe milk or butter if the particular box calls for it, and the pasta+seasoning mix from the box. It basically turns into some variation of macaroni and cheese, with ground beef added.
TBH, it’s actually not awful in terms of taste. It’s as “peasant food” as peasant food can get; cheap, filling, easy to make, absolutely loaded with calories, and hopefully not awful tasting. It’s awful for you, and you’ll probably feel awful after eating it. But it checks most of the boxes that a broke and overworked parent needs to be able to feed their kids a hot meal 15 minutes after they get home from work. Just swing by the store on your way home, grab a box of Hamburger Helper and a pound of ground beef. Now you’ve fed the whole family for like $8 total.
It…. Doesn’t help make hamburgers.
Hamburger helper is a boxed spice mix, you also need ground meat, then you brown the meat and add the seasoning mix. You end up with sorta a taco meat (different flavor of course) that you can then eat, mix with pasta.
It’s…. Fine? But it’s pretty depressing in this context.
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Hamburger Helper is a boxed pasta mix you add to ground beef to increase the volume and "make it go farther".
TBH, it's not awful.
It's because Americans on the whole think "ground beef" is "hamburger". Like the lettuce is "salad" thing.
They need an anthropomorphic glove to sell them on the idea of adding a protein to a carbohydrate so they can manage to feed their families.
Lmao this is the sickest roast I've ever seen of my college ex, thanks
Hopefully he's finally learned how to cook.
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Hell who can afford hamburger meat anymore?
We use tofu now. It's cheaper
Red lentils would be a good replacement, and you can still get them in bulk at a somewhat reasonable price. For now.
If you want them to taste more like ground beef, give them a pan quick fry with a bit of soy sauce and worcestershire before incorporating into whatever you’re making.
Thanks! I appreciate the tip!
I'll try that soon.
Plenty of Soy around I hear.
EXACTLY! Apparently I'm going to be a soy boy? 🤷♂️
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Life is so fucking fair
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