It's because we're fucking BROKE, IOM MCCORKLE! WE'RE FUCKING POOR AND THIS IS ALL WE CAN AFFORD!!!
I'm not a Zoomer, but I sometimes do that when my wife isn't hungry. Throw browned ground beef in the instant pot with for example, some black beans, kimchi, and Korean BBQ sauce. One minute on high and Bob's your uncle.
First of all, cut the ground beef with ground pork, and save a ton of money. 50/50, or maybe 2/3 Beef, and 1/3 Pork. They're a good combo.
Chili: Add beans (kidney, black, red, a combo), add a 50 cent spice packet from the dollar store, and a can of diced tomatoes. Add some water, and let it simmer.
Spaghetti Sauce: Add a jar of sauce from the store. Simmer for a while. Add other spices to taste. Or not.
Goulash: Add pasta (not spaghetti), and diced tomatoes, and some spices. Add a little liquid. Maybe sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the top. Bake it COVERED in the oven for a while. Take the top off near the end to let the cheese get brown, and the liquid to steam off.
Meatloaf: Take your raw beef/pork mixture, and mix it by hand with a bunch of herbs like chives, parsley, Italian herbs, garlic, salt pepper. Mix in Bread crumbs, or even torn up chunks of stale bread. Form it into one big loaf in a loaf pan, or get small individual sized loaf pans. You can even use muffin pans. Bake them at 350°F until they're done.
Use it to make burrito bowls, like at Chipotle. You know what you like, and you know how to make it, you've seen them do it a million times. You just have to learn to make rice.
Tacos: You know how to make tacos.
6 super easy, super cheap recipes to make ground beef way better. Experiment with them, add veggies, different spices, wine, Worcestershire sauce, BBQ sauce, etc. What's in the fridge?
You can even substitute ground turkey or ground chicken, or non-meat options. Make your buddies buy the ingredients, and you'll cook it, and cycle through these and a few variations and experiments. You get free food, and they get good food. Make them clean up, too.
And if you meet a good woman, she'll be super impressed that you can actually cook.
This is the Way.
Ground pork is good for $4.49 in my area. 80/20 is $6.79. a 50/50 mix would cost costs by 16.5%. But for me the real benefit would be the added depth of flavor from the pork.
You bring a lot of good variations on this.
80/20 is about $6.99 where I am, and I can pick up a 1 pound roll of ground pork at Aldi for around $3, so the difference is even more significant where I am.
John pork is my go-to a lot of things and that the price is almost doubled has really hurt.
For tacos specifically, you can stretch it even further by mixing in a can of refried beans once the meat is cooked through
Yep, exactly what I called it too. My wife still says I’m making bachelor chow whenever I do some low effort ground meat with finely chopped veggies and some seasonings.
This whole conversation is dumb
our society is dumb.
it loves cheap gender-based attacks and blaming individual choices for failures of our society at large.
instead of taking about stagnating wages and impossible education/healthcare costs, we just mock young people for being poor. and since young men are poorer than young women, subverting traditional breadwinner gender roles, they get mocked even harder.
on the radio yesterday NPR was mocking people for not going out and spending $50 on two drinks. telling gen z that pre-gaming, nips, etc were all 'cheating' at life, and they should just 'grow up' and fork over their money they don't have to overpriced bars and restaurants because they are 'killing the restaurant industry'.
it's absurd. personally I am doing quite well, I'm in a top 15% income bracket, but all around me society and my peers are constantly acting like anyone who isn't making a top 5% income is a failure of a human being, because if you aren't filthily rich you are clearly lazy and pathetic! I've even had people straight up tell me I shouldn't have been born because my parents were not rich and couldn't pay for my college and give me a downpayment on a house...
and i'm in my 40s. i can't imagine how awful it is to be like 25 and in a mountain of debt and being told by society/friends/family you're a pathetic loser for trying to climb your way out of it by eating cheap food.
Well said, I share a similar view.
Bachelor Chow...now with flavor!
Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to an amazing new product.
I remember this shit being delicious when I was a kid, but a couple of years ago I bought a box on a whim to try it out and it was almost inedible.
It's just noodles and spices lol
And so much salt.
MSG is the key to ultimate flavor.
Mock me all you want Hamburger Helper slaps.
Yeah, I'm eating stuffed bell peppers because I'm from the future: 1970.
Who can afford ground beef?
Never heard of boy kibble.
Cooking is good for all genders.
Less red meat. Take care of your cornhole.
If it's seasoned, turkey meat can make a good substitute. But not for burgers and the like.
I'm a gen z man and I don't know what the heck is this thing
It's just rice with ground meat, which is nothing new. That's cheap and easy to make in bulk and it freezes well. So someone decided to call it 'boy kibble' and it's become a viral thing as large numbers of men realize they are in fact capable of operating a stove to create something tasty without burning their house down. .
If you replace the mince with beans its regular poor person food.
That's not kibble.
Here's some real Human Kibble™.
I was looking to see if anyone would post this. This one made me seriously naseous when I watched it.
What are we living on the Belt?
Red kibble is the best.
We had that as children. Called it "Krümelmett" meaning crumbly Mince. With Indian spices. That was a great comfort food.
It's called Keema Matar, but without peas.
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