Category: Economics

It occurs to me that spending less on certain items, such as flour tortillas, seems asinine compared to the cost of many other things in life. Dropping the tortilla price from $0.25 to $0.08 each doesn’t sound like a very high ROI, so why would I focus on this sort of thing? This actually represents […]

I realized that in my last post I didn’t dive into as many individual foods as I had planned. Here are some additional thoughts on these. Now, the potential problem with all of this is that it assumes you have the time to prepare and cook your meals. I despise spending too much time in […]

My grocery budget was an absolute bloodbath this past month. I normally budget $400 each month for groceries, which still feels high, but I somehow ended up spending over $500. That comes out to about $5.37 per meal, or about $16 per day. WTF? Now, I’m not (necessarily) here to judge other people based on […]

I recently saw a meme about a young woman who won $1m in a lottery and instead of opting to receive the lump sum, she opted to receive $1,000 per week for the rest of her life. It was tagged with the term “financial illiteracy”, and was dogpiled by people who thought she must be […]

Starting last week, I began to step away from the news cycle, simply because the violations against privacy taking place in the UK, as well as their rapid, cancerous spread across the West, are so distressing to me. You can only watch so many videos on YouTube attempting to assemble the pieces – every day […]

Once upon a time, open-source software was passed around on floppy drives and copied to user systems. In the later years, you could order a CD for programs like the Linux operating system, before web servers made these files easier to download. I imagine the early years of open-source were quite exciting. You put in […]

As the months pass by and my retirement savings dwindle, I have to say I’ve at least been enjoying everything that I’ve learned over the past 2+ years. But I really needed to take a moment to criticize some of the activity I’ve been seeing in the certification space, because it’s truly bizarre. First of […]

Due to the their rarity or cost of production, some foods used to be eaten exclusively by the wealthy, but industrial agriculture has dramatically leveled the playing field. Humans, though, are often keen to distinguish themselves, and so the emphasis has shifted from the exclusivity of foods to their supposed “health” benefits. In essence, the […]

The research continues as I investigate companies that produce dried fruits and dried fruit powders in my quest to perfect a few homemade oatmeal recipes. The going has not been easy, but it has brought me to an interesting understanding of food and how I relate to it. The short backstory is that my favorite […]

Last week, I saw acai powder in the grocery store for the first time. I had considered buying some of this online in the past to assist the blueberry powder I have for various oatmeal experiments, but the price tag of $24 for roughly 8 oz scared me away, at least for the day. Having […]