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Hello there, call me Waffles. I suppose my url is self-explanatory

I am a research nerd, an artist, ex-hopeless romantic, long-retired bookworm, and other stuff

This blog is an utter mess, swarmed with reblogs and original posts regarding everything- from painting, to crochet, to shitposts, to rants, to floriography, to niche fandom opinions, occasional fanarts and whatever in between that may come.

If you are able to tolerate this chaos, then welcome!

If not, and you have read this far, then thank you for the attention and may you have a nice day ahead :D

I suspect this blog is shadowbanned, but this (@waffartist) is my art blog, where most of my art goes, and may use in case this blog is actually shadowed :>

UPDATES:

As of 26/9/2024 (9/26/2024 for y'all USAmericans), I am a medical student ;3

Edit 4/10/2024: If a post tagged with ‘personal’ resonates with u it’s okay to reblog it—it’s just tagged as personal because it’s about something that’s occurring to me but reblogs are very much alright!!

#my art #personal #ask waffles!#rebirth webtoon #the secret history #waffles goes to uni #Waffles moves out #Gaza fundraisers #waffles speaks #Waffles has a queue :3 #my photography #intro #tag games #Dtdm

libraford

When I moved out of my parents house, my mom gave me this cookbook so could save some money. The idea is that each of tge dishes in here costs less than $4, which was the typical daily food stamp budget in 2015. In addition to recipes, the book also has some solid advice on meal planning and waste reduction.

Ten years later, minimum wage is still the same.

Lets see how this Obama-era cook book stands up to 2025 prices.

(To be clear- this is not a criticism of the author, who did a lot of research and math for this.)

We are going to shop for the Half-Veggie Burger today, which in 2015 money was 90c per serving, 7.20 total.

For clarity of purpose, this is Central Ohio, and I will be shopping at Kroger. The book does not specify where she was shopping.

libraford

Alright! Lets do this!

So. One of the challenges is that its so much cheaper per unit if you buy in bulk. This is great for families like the one I grew up in (2 adults, 2 kids, chest freezer) but a little harder for my small family (2 adults, no kids, budget fridge in my rental house).

So I had to think about some things.

Bell pepper at 99c plus buns at 1.79 = 2.78

Divided by 8 = .34

I had to think about the beans. Dry beans have to be soaked before they can be cooked ( ive gotten sick from someone not soaking their beans first). I am a fan of paying the ADHD tax up front to get canned beans for myself.

Each can is something like.... a cup and a bit. So I would have to get three of them. 3 cups of lentils i think might be 3/4 the bag.

.89 × 3 = 2.67 ÷8 = .33

1.69 ×.75= 1.26, ÷8 = .16

Now meat.

Beef is expensive, there is no getting around this. If i had a bigger freezer, I would be getting this monster.

Which portions out at 5.66 a pound. But, because I'm being practical about my lifestyle, I chose the smaller roll at 6.99/lb.

16.99 upfront cost, 5.66 ÷8 = .70

6.99 ÷ 8 = .87

And now eggs, which... I lucked the hell out with a flash sale.

Which they normally sell at 2.69.

Which makes this hard to quantify because you cant always expect eggs to be inexpensive, especially as we get into colder months.

So I will give totals for both what I bought versus what a typical price range might be.

1.49 ÷ 12 = .12 ÷8 = .02

2.69 ÷ 12 = .22 ÷ 8 =.03

Now let's add it up to different totals.

The first total is the big roll of beef with bag lentils but regular price eggs.

Upfront cost:

24.15 (but remember that the eggs, meat, and lentils can be used in more recipes.)

Cost per burger:

1.23

Now my adhd tax beans, practical amount of beef, and very lucky eggs.

13.93 up front cost.

1.56 per burger.

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So a 20-40 cent increase per serving doesnt sound bad. We are still under $4. But 20c per meal can get a little hairy over the course of a year.

Food prices are an interesting subject because they do fluctuate and its not always even how prices increase. Tariffs do things. Weather does things. Bird flu does things. Local markets can get weird on their own.

But this does affect everyone, and its something thats been on my mind since January. And with the possibility of losing SNAP next month, I think it was good for me to look at the reality of the situation.

Anyways- I do suggest this book. Prices may be out of date, but the recipes are really good.

Here is the rest of the recipe for y'all to try.

autumnhortsnort

Link to the pdf on the internet archive:

Eating is one of life’s greatest pleasures. In a perfect world, healthy and delicious food would be all around us. It would be easy to choos

#waffles has a queue :3

dragon-in-a-fez

Montana opening up some incredible possibilities here. imagine the chaos you could cause by filing a fraudulent marriage certificate for two random people who've never met

charlesoberonn

New fanfic trope: Montana Absentee Wedding

#waffles has a queue :3

manhcester

fruit edition

are you a strawberry or raspberry person? a lemon or lime person? a mango or peach person? a pear or apple person?

#i like all of these tho ☹️#<- sameees #although if I had to pick #Strawberries/lime/mango/apple #I’m pretty sad that raspberries aren’t very common or available over here #I’d love to eat them more!! Underrated fruit #I have some beef with peaches so I favour apricots over them #(I prefer drier fruit because I do Not like the mess. I’m the neatest mango eater in my family because I Mastered the Craft)

anistarrose

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

silly-little-arson-frog-offical

super original couples shirt idea

bayynah

tabris-the-seventeenth-angel

HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away

inkskinned

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

inkskinned

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

crackshipsandregret

Curious pebble (2/?)

Part 1

bulkhummus

favorite trope is rocky not realizing graces glasses like. Actually do something

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent