It's the same herein the UK, we can't get a lot of stuff at all lately, even bananas for some reason are hard to get good ones. We went through real food scarcity during Covid here, as in no food on the shelves, it woke me up a lot and we had to make due with less for awhile. Another cheapish veggie meal you can make is risotto, or homemade black bean burgers. And a whole chicken can make at least two meals plus soup stock. It sucks to see those prices going up though, it is really frustrating, to say the least, to feel so powerless to the cost of living shooting through the roof right when many of us are having to cut corners. Hope you make good money on Medium this month!