Almost all American imports are luxury items, so it’s easy to go without… this article is nonsense.
Gen Z was a mistake
No one is forcing you. Just do what you can. Just saying "it’s unaffordable” does not absolve you though.
I am just sharing an article
Haha no, you cool
I don’t think they were directly speaking about you. It’s a general statement towards the subjects within the article (“Gen Z”).
If you can’t afford it then don’t and don’t feel bad about it. If you can then you probably should.
Yup, everyone should be acting within their means and not going into debt supporting domestic businesses.
Or start learning to go without…the way things are going it’s almost inevitable that many will need to do this regardless of if they choose too or not. Might as well start adjusting yourself and seeing needs vs wants and act accordingly. Shits gonna get much worse before it gets better
100%. People haven’t seen nothing yet. Good time to start learning what really needs are. People have no idea anymore and don’t even realize where they blow their money.
I regularly have discussions on here about how food delivery is a luxury services that people can go without…
Always leads into the same rabbit whole.
have you throught about the disabled people, shit lord…
As if doordash business ain’t 80% broke peasants tired of slaving engaged in self indulgence
I am disabled. I cook from scratch every day. My kids complain that they live in an ingredient household but they also can cook at 10 and 12 years old.
They just have to start learning to live like we, the actual poor people, have been living all along.
I think it depends which province you’re in, I’m in Quebec and food is very cheap compared to in Alberta - went visiting family and I could not believe how expensive everything was and this was before trump was even president again.
I was commenting on this over on Reddit. It is affordable, you just need to also change your habits.
Buy less unnecessary crap. Buy more fruits and vegetables locally if possible. I’ve eliminated American products, and instead buy mostly Canadian. It’s actually saving me money.
Examples Microsoft office cost me 10$ a month. Got an open sourced non-american and it’s free. Bought a bag of Canadian onions, technically cost more but per onion was cheaper. Cut them up and froze most. Netflix, cancelled. Movies for free from my local library.
It’s about changing habits. Come on. Our grandparents generation waited in line for hours to get a ration of flower. We can do this.
If you can’t afford to buy Canadian, just don’t buy American! You can get almost everything cheaper - depending what it is, of course - from China, South America, etc. than from the States.
Everything Canadian is stupid expensive.
When you travel someplace else, you realize how cheap groceries and restaurants are elsewhere.
Do you look at income, rent etc in these countries then? I know several European countries where groceries are indeed cheaper but you need to compare how much they earn there and their rent or mortgage. Let alone FX
That’s true. My main point of reference is France because I go there often. But generally they have pretty good living conditions with tons of benefits in Europe.
Then I go to places like Panama, where people aren’t rich but they get by pretty well. The average salary there is 25 500 USD / year. (2 130 USD / month) and the average cost of living is around 1 500/ month. That’s not bad.
I know Germany, Austria pretty well and their income isn’t as high as ours. And their rents and real estate in general are high. Clothing is more expensive too. Food definitely is cheaper.
I think the two most important things people should be able to cover is food and shelter. Definitely food at a minimum.
Bullshit. I smell fake news and manipulation…
I absolutely get not being able to afford things. I only expect my fellow Canadians to do what they can within reason. But the important thing is knowing about it. Seeing the signs, becoming knowledgeable about what things should change, what habits you should look around for alternatives, the awareness campaign is what leads to incremental action.
Real Canadian Superstore prices for my hummus since this started:
Swapping from Peru-made lemon juice for my hummus to malt vinegar - cost down from $2.79 to $1.50
No Name Chickpeas to Unico equivalent - $1.50 to $2
Using canola oil and not olive oil as suggested by nearly every recipe - no name olive oil costs $12 for 750 mL whereas canola oil costs $8.29 for 3 L getting you more for less with hardly a change in the recipe
Tahini - found a good recipe from Diabetes Canada that completely removes this ingredient, saving me a solid $10 for a jar
To finish things off, while both Canadian, swapping from sandwich bread to sliced French bread for dipping - $1.97 to $1.25Cost of hummus ingredients goes from $28.26 to $13.04 with the added bonus that one of those ingredients lasts three times as long.
People need to learn substitutions in their recipes, that alone saved a tonne. I pay more for Canola oil personally cause I get Canola Harvest and not the no name brand since they’re unionized, but even with that in mind you’re paying less than olive oil for like, double the amount.
Thank you for using tonne ❤️❤️❤️
Okay now I need this recipe!
Here’s the page on the Diabetes Canada site: https://www.diabetes.ca/nutrition-fitness/recipes/pear-rhubarb-breakfast-crisp-(1) (the URL doesn’t match what the recipe is for, not sure why)
I substitute the lemon juice with malt vinegar as stated. Found malt vinegar works better than lemon juice personally since when I first started making hummus, I used that instead since I didn’t have lemon juice off hand and just grabbed something acidic, and lemon juice didn’t provide as bold a flavour.
I also use jarred garlic instead and play it by eye since I really like garlic and the jarred stuff is more convenient for me.
Lastly for the spices I ditch the black pepper in favour of paprika, and use 3/4 teaspoons of salt rather than 1/2.
I’ve switched to canola from olive oil for nearly every recipe that needs oil (barring a couple key recipes) due to the enormous price difference in the oils alone. Huge way to cut grocery costs with virtually no perceptible difference in taste
My first thought: who owns the newspaper? Is it some US hedgefund?
The Globe and Mail is owned by Thomson Reuters, a Canadian company.
As an aside the Thomson’s are the richest family in Canada.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Thomson_family
ive had zero problems with it. in fact every canadian item ive bought over previous american purchases are far cheaper.
my wife keeps a list, and price compares everything, its her talent.
we have saved a shit load of money so far because the items we buy are cheaper, we also buy less overall, and find ways to recycle or upcycle things we own, and as far as groceries go we save our leftovers and meal prep, allowing us to have healthier, cheaper meals, that we cook to taste. we bake our own bread, make our own pasta, we make our own broth from bones and vegetables to can for various uses.
its been extremely rewarding so far.
you just gotta get creative with it. i find the joy it brings far outweighs the minute increase in difficulty while shopping.
Has she tried living in America? That’s FAR less affordable.
small44 , it’s not just GenZ. Retired Boomers living on a pension, immigrants trying to earn a basic living, working class folks of all ages, creeds, colours et alia, are all having a hard time. My lucky find is that Dollarama, a Canadian company, has a lot of in-house brands and a lot of non-American imports. and i has enabled us – creaky old boomers who worked in social good professions rather than for profits – to find almost everything we need either from Canada or at least not from the US, and still afford to eat relatively healthy and pay the cat’s vet bills.
Giant Tiger is also a good Canadian company yo patronise. If I can’t get it there, I won’t wear it.
