This was a mental barrier I still have to remind myself to get over. Right now, with bizarre shortages, lost job, and resulting financial stress, I still have to remind myself that buying a package of meat is going to satisfy me in a way that no other kind of food will. That if they don't have the chicken that tastes good, don't buy the chicken that tastes bad just because it is my cheapest choice.

Feeling bad levies its own costs.