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>> While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables. > Food at restaurants is marked up thousands of percent to cover costs o
by ardy42 6y ago
>> While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables.
> Food at restaurants is marked up thousands of percent to cover costs of buildings, rent, power, human capital. The raw materials to make your food are pennies and are available to the average consumer.
If you're homeless that's not an option, since you probably lack equipment to cook from scratch.
- zolpidem_dream 6y agoWhat about cold cuts, sliced cheese, a loaf of whole grain bread?
- packetslave 6y agoand where, exactly, are you going to keep "cold cuts" and sliced cheese from spoiling, when you're HOMELESS?
- zolpidem_dream 6y agoSplit between 3 people, those 3 items can comprise an entire meal, thus no leftovers.
- exabrial 6y agoThey can last days safely. I regularly packed freshies when backpacking.
- esotericn 6y agoThis sounds like a cool backpacking story that I've also done for a few weeks / a month. Now try only ever eating shit food like that for months, years on end, and you're not on holiday wandering around a cool city, it's your life.