maybe it's different there, but fresh produce is relatively cheap for salad making. add some crumbled bacon and a hard boiled egg (or ham cubes and shredded cheese) and you have a pretty good complete meal for a couple bucks that's pretty filling. no cooking involved even since you can get pre-boiled eggs and bacon bits easily enough. however it's not as easy as spending money on a pre-packaged meal that has the dreaded additives she complains about; and hangs onto for dear life as a "time and money saver", never mind that bulk ingredients are almost always cheaper than prepackaged food, and that the nutritional content is much better. i fully believe that to Polissa, the food thing is both a way to be defiant to people that criticize her, and a way to keep control over something in her increasingly unstable lifestyle.
It's definitely not different there. Produce is relatively cheap. Period. It's much cheaper for her to make salads (or anything she would be getting premade provided she has the facilities to cook - which I'm actually doubting given the state of La Casa) than to get premade shit or order out all the time.
i remember people doing receipt comparisons and even in her own math, making it yourself was less than a dollar more per bowl... but she was measuring out divisions of the ingredients evenly (eggs, potatoes, bacon, cheese) rather than going be per portion, then making a much bigger deal of the time and effort needed to actually prepare the ingredients, cook them, plate them, and clean up. it should be unsurprising that larger portions are more expensive but her grocery shopping had some weirdly expensive pricing for some goods that i don't understand. their entire food budget of going through hundreds of dollars per month made no sense to me, and even if they're saying now they "get $100 for themselves" or whatever it was, that had no bearing on non-money food sources that are direct vouchers (SNAP) or charitable groups that give away food (pantries, et c).
During the pandemic, states were giving SNAP recipients the maximum benefit just because they were on SNAP. Starting last year, states started to stop issuing the full benefit and reverted back to the old reward system. So instead of $300+, they are now getting only $100 (for one? for both? Who knows! Po and Jo will game the system for the max gibs when they're able!). Either way, Polissa heavily depends on her mother for food because she refuses to go to food pantries or to budget what she does get now. Financial illiteracy is definitely a factor, but willful ignorance is a much bigger one.
SNAP takes household expenses in to consideration when awarding benefits. So, since they now don't have rent (because I doubt aunt, mom or grandma would sign a "lease" or anything to prove that Pissa and Joh are paying, because we know they are not), that might reduce the amount. I've never believed the story about the aunt having a loan on the trailer that Pissa has to pay on - I think that was part of her grift. I also wouldn't be surprised if they were running cables from mom or grandma's for electricity and we know they have no running water so I don't think they are paying for utilities either.
I give it a week, especially if they're training him for management. I don't think he can count high enough to close out a till and make a cash deposit. He will never understand the mechanics of making sure there's enough change in the drawer every morning or making sure his batch is correct every night. No. Fucking. Way.
A manager that can't work weekends. This will go swimmingly!
restaurants can be very high pressure (and low margin) places to work and a lot of customers that pay for service can get pretty nasty. countdown to chimpout when?
i mean she is running an "animal rescue" while building her "art portfolio" and also trying to raise her profile on social media. she is busy busy busy! and she does it all with crippling disabilities, an unhelpful family, and a persistent yeast infection.
I want her to paint Joh. I want to see how she really views him and I want to see him chimp out when he realizes what an ugly fucker he truly is and how much uglier she made him.
YES with his white skinny arms and doughy midsection on the beach with beach cat.
Forgive me, I forgot that letting the piss from your neglected cats calcify in your floorboards was a fulltime job. Mea culpa.
