struggle meal
noun
an inexpensive, easy-to-make meal
What does struggle meal mean?
Struggle meal refers to an inexpensive and easy-to-make meal that someone prepares or eats when there isn’t sufficient time or money (or both) to prepare something with more (or more costly) ingredients, steps, etc.
Examples of struggle meal
Two of my good buddies like to eat canned tuna and mayonnaise over rice. This is their struggle meal.
—Jack Miessner, Tucson (Arizona) Weekly, 22 Aug. 2024
[Kendrick Lamar] juxtaposes struggle meals as a child with the type of lifestyle his lyrics have afforded him in present day ...
—This classic three-ingredient struggle meal is easy on your wallet, but it’s hardly a real struggle for your tastebuds or your kitchen skills, either.
—ERIN PICOU: We’ve been having struggle meals, we call them, you know.
JANET SHAMLIAN: What’s a struggle meal?
ERIN PICOU: You take whatever’s in the fridge and whatever’s in the pantry and throw it in a casserole, and that’s a meal.
—With the cost of groceries continuing to creep up, social media posts with the hashtag #strugglemeals are mushrooming.
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Where does struggle meal come from?
Struggle meal appears to have started as a hashtag on social media in the mid-2010s and was further popularized by a comedic cooking show, Struggle Meals, that began airing in 2018.
How is struggle meal used?
Like a standard noun, and often with pride for the frugality, ingenuity, and flavors often involved in making the food in tough times.
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