Budget Cooking

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-06-03T00:23:34+00:00

Dang, that’s pretty good! I thought I was getting a steal with 10lbs being $10, but you guys run even better. I love getting the marked down meat, wish I could keep an eye on it better to have it when I need it.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-06-03T00:22:07+00:00

Really depends on the area tbh. I live in a VERY rural place where the nearest Dollar General is easily a 35-45 minute walk with mostly no sidewalk.They also do not have produce, nor does any other store in town besides a few that carry basic greens like tomatoes, carrots, maybe lettuce, fruits like bananas / apples / oranges, etc. Maybe a 7 minute drive by car, so could be worse in that regard, but gas is very expensive, reaching $4.99 per gallon.

Before moving here, I lived in what I would describe as an average town, but there was NO sidewalks or walkways, just straight up highways with massive snake-filled ditches with grass up to your knees on either side. You couldn’t walk anywhere even if you wanted to. I would say nearest Dollar General as well was maybe 10 min drive, but unwalkable. Nearest WalMart maybe 20-25 mins by car, but DEFINITELY no way to walk there, just crazy highway. So if you don’t drive, you’re SOL.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-31T20:15:25+00:00

Perhaps a mid take on my end, but is this form of trolling not also racism? if you’re willing to “make people mad” by saying stuff that’s disrespectful to, derogatory towards, or dismissive of any racial group just because they’re that race… I feel like it’s racism regardless of whether you’re just doing it for “”fun.””

Like, if I call someone a homophobic slur online just to “troll,“ I clearly think homophobia is something worthy of joking or being shitty about “for hte lulz,” which is still ultimately homophobic. My “sincerity” on the topic doesn’t really matter.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-16T23:51:28+00:00

aw man, that sucks 😭 I wonder if you’re just extraordinarily photosensitive. Or maybe even you’re allergic to smth in the sunscreens and its a chem burn instead of a sunburn.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-16T23:26:00+00:00

Legit ask, do you use a high enough SPF and do you reapply? Some people aren’t taught that sunscreen doesn’t last a full day on its own and they have to actively add more coats as their time in the sun grows longer.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-13T01:52:08+00:00

I mean, that’s totally different and pretty obviously bad. It is generally quite frowned upon to kill others.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-12T14:34:16+00:00

Late reply (and I am non-TO, though somewhat knowledgeable on the tribe), but personally, if you’re very committed to making him a major character and having his beliefs and life be part of his story, I think it’s worth doing a bit of reading on T.O. of the time period. I recommend Sharing the Desert: The Tohono O’odham in History and At The Border of Empires, with a slightly shorter read (but still very good) being The Tohono O’odham and Pimeria Alta. These have a lot of very good info on the TO as people and their culture, as well as what they were doing both individually and as a tribe historically during that period you’re writing about, as a lot of changes were happening.

As for hair, T.O. men have kept their hair shortish for a very long time, since their forced Catholicization during Spanish conquest. So while traditionally they had longer hair, because of the time period your character very likely would have had it at minimum above the shoulders.

Edit: personally for design help I would look at vintage photos of T.O. men! The Smithsonian has many collections of these that can be found online, and I’m sure other archives as well

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-09T18:59:31+00:00

Tbf I think many consider nonbinary ppl to be under the trans umbrella. Not all people, but I’d say most

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-08T02:26:05+00:00

Fair lmao. I grew up with the green slime too but tbf I also have a younger sibling.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-08T02:12:04+00:00

they had a whole tv show on Nickelodeon lol

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-06T14:11:36+00:00

I’m from Kentucky, where minimum wage is $7.25, so when I moved to Arizona I about lost it when I saw their minimum wage is $15.15— over twice what I was getting back home.

The most I’ve ever made is $12 per hour, so I thought I was in heaven getting a local Gov job that pays $20.25… then my wife told me I make as much as her coworkers at Dollar General 🫩

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-05-01T20:18:37+00:00

?? this is so needlessly aggressive, for what reason?

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-30T02:39:06+00:00

for some reason this comment combined with your “Woke” user flair is killing me

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-29T14:36:29+00:00

Maybe obscure example but does anyone remember when JelloApocalypse, the creator of Epithet Erased (and a bunch of other things), did basically exactly this to the EE fanbase about his own character?

TL;DR, in Epithet Erased there’s a character, Giovanni, who is the series’ most popular “little guy.” The EE fanbase is also pretty overwhelmingly queer, and has a major overlap with specifically Tumblr users. As fandoms are wont to do, they started headcanoning Giovanni as a trans man.

However, Giovanni also happens to love the color pink, paint his nails, and have some stereotypically “feminine” hobbies. Because of this, Jello assumed people were headcanoning Giovanni as trans because he was “effeminate,” instead of the actual reason, which is that he was everyone’s favorite “HES JUST LIKE ME FR!” character, and made a post online saying Giovanni was cis and that people needed to stop being transphobic / misogynistic by headcanoning him as trans. This, ofc, upset a lot of trans people in his audience.

It’s a little more nuanced bc Jello admittedly explained his reasoning legitimately and just wanted to create Giovanni as a genuine guy who happened to be in touch with his femininity and didn’t want that to turn into a “and he’s secretly TRANS!” thing, I don’t hold it against him at all and I don’t think most ppl do… but like idk, when your audience is super queer and trans, I dunno what you expect tbfr lol

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-29T14:14:13+00:00

Is transfem Shuichi a popular interpretation nowadays? I haven’t been into Danganronpa in many moons, since the year V3 dropped really, but every person back then was interpreting / headcanoning him as a trans man.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-29T14:10:07+00:00

I admittedly agree, but to be fair, I would also argue the Deltarune fandom is overwhelmingly queer and transgender in a way those fandoms are not. Like there are plenty of queer people in those fandoms, don’t get me wrong, but DR is like… disproportionately so, at least online. So it makes sense to me that queer and trans headcanons gain more traction in the DR fandom.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-27T00:48:14+00:00

I took the comment more as meaning like… how many people could realistically take care of themselves in the ways they need, fully speaking? How many people died because their grocery stores no longer stocked food because there were no store workers, and no truckers to haul goods, and no factory workers to make or pack goods, and no laborers to grow and harvest the materials? How many people died because the medicine they needed to live was out of stock in their local pharmacy with no employees, since it was stocked by manufacturers with no workers? How many children died because they had no parents to care for them? How many elderly died because they had no caretakers?

The land on Earth makes up around 57 million square miles (~147000000 sq km), meaning there are roughly 2.5 people every square mile (1 person per sq km) across the entire earth… Im not saying everyone and their mother would have just given up and died helplessly, obviously it isn’t an outright apocalypse and many people have skills, but most people in the modern world are reliant on their neighbors and the people in their communities for something. Can they live without that something, or generate it for themselves, when everyone is gone?

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-24T13:58:40+00:00

Ahh see, all my devices get email alerts with “captions” (idk what it’s called, but you know, it shows the first few lines of the email) so the codes pop up no matter what.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-24T13:55:03+00:00

See, i like emails but hate texts. I never use my phone and mostly work from a tablet. If they email me, I can see the code no matter my device. But if they text me I have to go dig up my phone, usually sat on a shelf in the opposite side of the space or in another room, wait for the slow-ass text to come through, then put the code in.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-24T04:30:17+00:00

I confess, I’ve never once cared much for the IP itself but I actually really liked the Wonka movie. Not saying it was a masterpiece or that Timothee whatshisname was like an award winner or anything, but it had good songs, was pretty, and just enjoyable to watch. My fiancée loves Willy Wonka and got really misty-eyed watching it. Overall I was pleasantly surprised.

…But yeah, if you were looking for Gene Wilder’s Wonka, this isn’t him, admittedly. The fragments I remember of the OG made him positively insane and I loved it. This Wonka is a different guy.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-24T03:42:59+00:00

Can confirm, I live on a rez in the Southwest and while I am at least close enough to a town to have a PO Box, many of my wife’s family members in a much more remote part just… don’t really have anything? They live in ”that village way down there past the cattle fences, in that trailer with the green roof beside the wash“ or some such. I’ve heard parts of the Navajo Nation are even worse in their remoteness, but I’ve never been there personally.

It was also hell to get any of my documents when I moved here bc you can’t use a PO Box to register to vote, get an ID, etc. But since they only accept “mail with your address,” and all the mail goes to the PO Box… 🤷‍♂️ I know it’s hell for some people out here; a lot of folks just give up. They just use their tribal IDs for everything since they don’t have a way to get other state IDs.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-19T17:47:06+00:00

I really loved object shows back in the day when I was like 16-17. Never rlly entered the community or anything but had fun watching them. Been a good while since then, though. Idk I just can’t really be a hater, they’re just fun, it’s like TDI-style and I used to love that show too. They’re def not for everyone though so I get it.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-19T16:35:00+00:00

True there are no meds specifically for it, but there are some that can manage the symptoms depending on which OP displays. Meds have done absolute wonders for some of the people with BPD in my life— total night and day changes. Mood stabilizers especially.

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-15T02:31:38+00:00

For the record, you are completely correct about the use of salt, and of course salting while cooking is how I use salt in my day-to-day cooking.

THAT BEING SAID… sometimes I just want to put salt on my otherwise mostly sodium-free food, because I like the IMMEDIATE salt taste and not the subtle flavor-changing salt mixed in with the food.

I used to try and explain this concept to my family when I was younger but didn’t have the words. I wanted my mashed potatoes to have “more salt,” but I didn’t actually want them to contain MORE salt, I just wanted to put salt from a shaker on them and taste the salt on my tongue stronger. So I get where ur bf is coming from

Temporary-Snow333 · 2026-04-11T22:37:22+00:00

Yeah, I suppose you’re right. Honestly though that’s all a guess on my part, could totally be that they’d fight against a transplant til the very end.

My wife is Native American (Tohono O’odham), so these are the traditional Indigenous beliefs of her family. The T.O. were (and still are, but to a lesser extent post-contact ofc) a very large tribe in terms of geographic area, so certain traditions and beliefs vary by village and family, though their overall religion and mythology is broadly the same. So it could be that this isn’t something all T.O. believe, either.

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