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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was this meant to be supplemented?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

That's a very good question

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This ladys eating better than I do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

How?

With an average net income ranging from 1100 USD to 2400 USD, any average worker should eat better than this

This lady monthly rations amount to approximately 160 USD, while the average minimum wage workers spends from 260 to 350 USD worth on groceries

Which I really doubt is a problem, given that the median of the monthly income in usa is about 5k usd

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

This is what Conservatives around the world want and glory hallelujah we are almost there! The only difference is all those rations will not come from the government but from corporations paid for by the government.

  • 4 boxes Kraft Mac and Cheese
  • 6 cans Heinz Beans
  • Etc.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Looks equivalent what you'd get at a Canadian food bank nowadays that's meant for 3 days.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shieet i could down all of that in 3 days easy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

damn that's like 8000 calories per day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Here's a fun fact, people generally underestimate the number of calories in a thing by 20-30%. Which you have also just done.

The total calories consumed each day if it's all consumed in 3 days, not including the cooking oil or the vodka, would be 11,145.

[–] explodicle 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You could smoke 4 packs a day for 3 days?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yes. I'd also eat those bags of sugar and flour that I totally overlooked

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

12 packs of cigs seems like a huge luxury

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

For a month? It's just dried shredded leaves wrapped in paper, cigarettes are super cheap to produce, tax makes them expensive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

average smoker smokes about 20 cigarettes a day. so it's a little less than half of a monthly use of cigarettes.

from what i understand the ration was meant to supplement what you consume, not provide everything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Is 20 cigs a day honestly the average nowadays?? Mind blowing and sad. My mum who was an addicted smoker since she was 10 years of age and went through maybe 5 to 10 cigs a day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

it's been the average for a long time. it's due to nicotine's pharmacological effects. its half life is roughly 1~2 hours. so a smoker on average will feel the compulsion to smoke an hour or so after the last cigarette. since most people are awake somewhere 16 hours a day, that's about ~16 cigarettes a day.

your mom's smoking habits were definitely atypical

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

You didn't live in the eighties I bet. It was cheap back then and everyone smoked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the leftist venezuelan regime monthly rations in the form of cajas clap.

Absolutely disgusting food.

Thank goodness I was able to escape the dictatorship with my family

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for posting this. I don't understand what a lot of those foods are. It looks like a heck of a lot of it is pasta/noodles based though. And maybe milk powder? Where is the protein other than the canned tuna(?) up at the top.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That was it. No more than that. Worst thing is that almost all this products are from Mexico. Before the collectivists and leftists took power in Venezuela, we used to make all these products

Left to right

4 blue pasta packages, 200 grams each

4 green rice packages, 1 kg

4 yellow spaghetti packs. 200 grams each

6 shredded tuna cans. 130 grams each

1 oil bottle. 1 liter

2 red bottles, tomato sauce/ketchup. 220 grams each

2 orange packs, corn flour, 1kg each

1 pack of refined sugar, 1kg

1 white pack, dry whole milk, 500 grams

2 green packs, black beans, 1kg each

3 yellow packs, egg spaghetti, 290 grams each

3 red packs, elbow shaped spaghetti , 200 grams each

1 blue pack, lentils, 1 kg

Take into account that this is supposed to last a family of 4 a month. If it ever arrives.

Because it's assigned per family

Also, as most of these products are from Mexico, the transportation is not the best and most of the time they arrive corroded, open by rats, or with less or very different products than advertised

So yeah I'm glad I escaped the collectivistic hellhole with my family mostly intact

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That catsup can go 2 ways. Ketchup or Cat Soup

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not enough butter. I would have been put down young for rioting about criminally low amounts of butter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought I used a lot of butter. You use more than a pound a month?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Holy shit that's a lot. I use about 10 grams per portion of 1 meal, usually breakfast.

I don't eat that daily but even like that, 30 full days non stop , that's like 300 grams

What the hell are you guys doing up there with a pound of butter?

Oh no, don't tell me. I don't want to know

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now you know why people don't smile in Poland.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Hey, I'm Polish and I do sometimes smile. I am living in Denmark, dough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Oh, she looks so happy!

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (4 children)

ah 12 packs of cigarettes and a half a litre of vodka. a complete balanced breakfast.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can someone calculate the calories in that? I'm too lazy.

Maybe don't include the sugar. That's a shit ton of sugar to go through in month.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Ballpark estimate, excluding the sugar:

2.5kg beef: ~6265 Calories

0.5l vodka: ~1082 Calories

1.3kg white rice: ~4743 Calories

1.3kg flour: ~4732 Calories

500g butter: ~3585 Calories

300g cooking oil (Google says rapeseed oil is popular in Poland so I used that): ~2652 Calories

250g chocolate: ~1338 Calories

Total: 24,397 Calories or ~813 Calories per day

Some other people online also did the math and came up with similar numbers. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027027 came up with 33,063 Calories (including the sugar)

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