Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success

Domestic beer?! If there is one impressive thing millennials have accomplished so far, it's putting a brewery in every neighborhood of every major city in the western world. Locally brewed beer has been having a really good couple of decades.

Well we killed chain restaurants.. Mainly because nobody can afford to waste our money on microwave crap when we can make better food at home

Well yeah, but they'll move on from millennials at some point! Soon everything will be gen z's fault!

If you'd only bought fewer iPhones and avocados you could have bought a 5 bedroom house with 3 garages, a pool and a white picket fence and take a holiday abroad twice a year. You just need more discipline, pull yourself up by the bootstraps*!

*I am now going to research what bootstraps are.

Captain Phillips meme,

Millennials: "Look at me. I am the boomer now."

That's because we are starting to fill their spots so they are being careful now.

This made me laugh.. but then it made me sad.

(And as a gen z who has no f-ing clue what to do, it makes me scared. Is there room for one more in the corner?)

Bad shit is already happening. How many more wars need to flare up, how many more inches does the sea need to rise, how many more acres of forest need to burn, how many more mass shootings, how many more people need to reach a point where working a full time job isn't enough to cover rent... I could easily go on. This isn't a future thing anymore. This is all happening now.

Ay that's pretty cool! Is it hard? Do you do it for fun, or cause it's cheaper? The crying emoji has be leaning toward the latter, but I thought I'd ask

Better to talk about how they shaped zoning laws and other procedural matters to block the development of new housing for decades and decades.

Sure, the market price of housing is disgustingly high and you can say that it's exploitative to actually charge it, but a much better question is to ask why the market price of housing got so high to begin with, because the answer to that is more complicated than landlords just asking for as much as they can get. They've always done that, so why as has that ceiling price exploded so much in recent decades? That's where you can start to find actual solutions.

Is this a joke? It's hard to tell these days

I'm in the US.

Yep part of why I'm moving to Germany next year is the cost of living is so much more reasonable. Groceries costed me just around $25/wk when I was studying abroad. Can't beat that.

I just got back from vacation there and yeah groceries in Germany are like half price of Canada. And salaries are higher too.

Yes please all come here and ruin the prices further /s

Prices increased over the last year or so justified by energy prices but in reality it is the profit margins of the supermarkets. Thanks for the inflation Aldi!

don't give them ideas man

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches have become a staple for me over the last couple years. So long ordering out every day. I hate cooking.

Not the way I cook. Can I interest any of y'all in some exhaust pipe s'mores?

Wdym by steering wheel?

That's obviously what they are trying to get across but they affiliate it with something that isn't bad at all and people should be doing either way, financially stable or not. It's kind of a weird argument to say that Gen Z are poor, because it might also mean that they are just consuming more consciously by cooking themselves. There's clearly ways of telling they are poor without this ambiguity.

You will own nothing and be happy

That's the goal, and poor people are proud to support the wealthy in achieving it.

Another Gen X here, yes, you are right, although being a Gen-Xer in the third world is/was not at all easy, even compared to millennials and Gen Z in the first world.

In any case, the title says "financial success" where it should read "survival skills".

Sorry bud, looks like they ran out of internet. o7

...i bought a house in my mid-fourties, so yeah, i guess that's eventually a thing...

(won't be able to retire before i drop, though)

For many it will. Incomes are increasing in real terms and unemployment remains at historic lows. We also just came through a decade of historically low rates which allowed generations of people to buy expensive homes.

Unfortunately those low rates, the neoliberal practise of high immigration, and NIMBY zoning laws have led to historically expensive housing and rent. Instead of war, that is this generation’s biggest challenge.

Just save gold and silver, and wait for the market to collapse, then trade it for houses. So many houses. So much gold and silver.

Almost all of my 26-and-under co-workers are living at home. Not everyone immediately moves out at 18, and with the sky high housing cost in this area I wouldn't even say 'most'. Even for university, some of these co-workers have degrees but still live at home.

I'm 26 and I've been living on my own for 4 or 5 years now. I'm poor as shit and can't get ahead on debt, I wish I had the opportunity to live at home because I'm going nowhere right now and I'm making what would be considered a decent amount of money for my age and position. Shit is miserable.

I don't know of many doing day-to-day cooking for "fun". Its a bother. However, if you're okay without requiring gourmet meals, its not too bad. There are shortcuts.

1. Learn a total of 5 or 6 meals total, thats it forever. Then repeat them. You'll always know the ingredients, and you can buy in larger quantities so it doesn't break the bank.
2. Choose fairly simple preparation things. Sure fancy food is nice, but a PITA to prepare. Keep it simple.
3. A meal is 3 things: a single serving of protein, a single serving of vegetables, a single serving of starch. A serving is a portion about the size of your closed fist. Example: pork, green beans, potatoes. Thats a meal.
4. Choose ingredients that are fairly cheap or easy to substitute.

Pulled pork is one of the easiest, cheapest, and tastiest meals you can make.

Ingredients:

3lbs (or 1.3Kg) Pork - any of these cuts is fine, buy what's cheap:

• shoulder/butt
• loin
• "country ribs"
• "cutlets"

Buns

Green beans (can is fine to begin/fast, frozen when you want to up your game)

Bottle of BBQ sauce

Instructions:

1. Plug in a crockpot (if you don't own one, they're cheap new and even cheaper second hand, expect $10 to $20 to buy one)
2. Set it for "slow" or "long" or "6 hours" or "low" labels vary, its all the same setting
3. Turn on your kitchen fauct. Put a cup under the water for 3 seconds. Pour that water in the crockpot.
4. Put in your pork
5. Put 1/2 of your bottle of BBQ sauce in the crock pot on top of the pork.
6. Walk away for at least 4 hours. If its 6 or 8 hours, thats fine too.
7. When you come back take two forks and pull the meal apart. It will be very soft. Us this time to remove any bones if your pork cuts had bones. Meat will fall off the bone easily. Use your two forks to pull the meat apart, shredding it. Do this until all the meat is shredded. If you came back at the 4 hour mark, leave again for another 2 hours or so. If you're already at the 6 or 8 hour mark, You're done!

Empty your can of green beans in a Microwave safe dish and put it on high for 2.5 minutes or until they're hot. Green beans in the can are already cooked when canned, so they're safe to eat at any temperature.

Get a bun, pull out some wonderful pulled pork on it, add some more of the BBQ sauce from your bottle. You've got a protein, a veg, and a starch.

That 3lbs will feed you for almost a week. You can freeze some on day two or three for meals for future weeks.

if it makes you feel better I was raised in a house where my mom cooked. But she was not real great about it. Actually she could make some great stuff on holidays so more limited budget combined with limited effort really. Im not sure she liked to cook really but she pretty much had to. Typical week was chili, spagehetti, chilimac, shakeNbake leg quarters, macNcheese. Anyway Im not a very good cook. I don't necessarily loathe it, but im not good. Particularly at seasoning. that is the tough part. I can bake decently. Usually that is just following the recipe exactly and can grill decently.

All 3 of our kids that are still at home can cook well & we take turns doing it throughout the week. Been 6 months so far & it's working out great.

Cooking lets you off dish duty for the evening, too :D

Small vehicles aren't sold in the US anymore.

Also those fuel efficient vehicles got more expensive to make up for sales.

Fuck personal transport all my homies hate personal transport

You'd be surprised at how well they turn out when combined with meat juices and water! Actually, I wonder if you could use ground up paper (like dust) to replace flour and make gravy.

But I meant the dried up gravy solids you mix with water and heat up that comes in envelopes at the grocery store.

Careful with the self check shenanigans, especially at Target. They wait to let you know they know until you reach felony price totals and then have you arrested. https://www.paypath.com/Small-Business/why-target-is-the-worst-store-to-shoplift-from

That's a solid take on avocado.