I guess there are some spices that cost the same as a week of food, but I don’t think there’s anywhere on the globe where that’s true for everything that falls under the “spice” umbrella. A box of craft dinner is about $1.10 where I live, a 1oz. container of dried thyme is about $3.50, which is fairly typical for grocery store spices around me. There are spices that are very expensive and those are out of reach for a lot of people, but I think most almost everyone has access to some cheap spices.
A lot of them are easy to grow / are invasive species that are hard to stop growing: I have mint in my yard and I’m not sure I could kill it if I tried. Every year I cut it back and every year it grows back strong.
You’ll never get rid of mint, it’s tenacious. Cutting it back is probably helping it thrive tbh. Herbs are really easy to grow, and a plant is usually cheaper than a packet of fresh cut herb anyway.
I guess there are some spices that cost the same as a week of food, but I don’t think there’s anywhere on the globe where that’s true for everything that falls under the “spice” umbrella. A box of craft dinner is about $1.10 where I live, a 1oz. container of dried thyme is about $3.50, which is fairly typical for grocery store spices around me. There are spices that are very expensive and those are out of reach for a lot of people, but I think most almost everyone has access to some cheap spices.
A lot of them are easy to grow / are invasive species that are hard to stop growing: I have mint in my yard and I’m not sure I could kill it if I tried. Every year I cut it back and every year it grows back strong.
You’ll never get rid of mint, it’s tenacious. Cutting it back is probably helping it thrive tbh. Herbs are really easy to grow, and a plant is usually cheaper than a packet of fresh cut herb anyway.