Potatoes and onions, corn, inch thick pork chops.
Pork chops were excellent looking managers specials for 6.12 instead of 9 something.
The whole thing would have come up to about $5.50 per person. But a weird thing happened. A while back we went to a store we got maybe four times a year to get something Walmart didn’t have. They handed us a store contest scratch off card. We got home and scratched it off. We won a $100 gift card.
So technically this meal was about negative $40 per person.
We wanted to stock up on freezer friendly meats but that entire freezer was out of commission. Womp womp. Like MacArthur, we will return.
Please note that I didn’t try to downtalk on what you cook - I’ve been to the US and found that it’s not so easy to get nice fresh stuff. And if you need to eat out it’s impossible or stupid expensive.
I was in the US with my (adult) kids and we did a lot of cooking ourselves when we could. Still prices when shopping were crazy - and that was a year ago, before the current round of inflation. We still were at cities where we still had some decent shops in driving range. I can’t even imagine how it feels when you’re away from that.
And what I read you’re putting a lot of thought and love into food. Yes upbringing and food deserts are hard problem people don’t deserve.
I want to thank you for having a good faith conversation here.