A High Price for Healthy Food - NYTimes.com Healthy food getting more expensive: study | Reuters how is that a lie? inexpensive for you, may not mean inexpensive for someone else.
There very methodology these studies use is flawed. They are looking at the cost per calorie without considering the associated necessity of the calories consumed. We already know that processed foods are highly caloric. That is why poor people are fat. What we need to know is can someone get the necessary calories from healthy foods for the same price as from unhealthy foods. I am telling you the answer is yes. I know because I have figured this stuff out. A family sized frozen pizza and a bag of tator tots, and a can of corn is the same price and has way more calories than a whole chicken, a large head of brocolli, a pound of carrots, and a large onion but yields the same number of meals. The meals that you get from the chicken and veggies are way better for you. Another example, cereal is way more expensive than oatmeal. The oatmeal is way better for you, and yields about double the number of meals. Sticking with that a bag of store brand cereal and a bag of powdered donuts costs the same as 12 eggs and a pound of strawberries. In talking with friends I have come to find thay my family eats food of much better better quality than most we spend much less money on that food. PArt of it is couponing and strategic buying, but that is only part of it.
we have discussed this before. it is one of amy favorite topics and i have read every study and every book available on it. the fact is that healthy food is cheap. case closed. not only is healthy food cheap, but unhealthy food would be almost healthy if fat poor idiots would eat less of it, then take the money they saved and buy a little healthy food. give me any fat person and the money they spend on food. i can go to the store, buy them food that is 100x as healthy as what they are eating and then give them plenty of their money back.
what do you think those foods are made of? are potato chips cheap while potatoes are expensive? it not possible! think, man, think! processing adds cost! instead of cookies, buy flour and crap and bake a beautiful loaf of whole wheat bread. it costs nothing. i have said it before. when i eat healthy my food costs go to nothing. because when i want to lose weight i basically eat two things: oat meal and frozen vegetables. and i get healthy and thin as ****, for virtually no cost. and i am not tired or calorie deficient, i am literally running marathons.
"Calorie for calorie, junk foods not only cost less than fruits and vegetables" of course! because vegetables are low-calorie! yunno, healthy! everyone in america, and i mean everyone, with the exception of like 12 people, eats too many calories. you should not be buying food with eye towards maximizing calorie per dollar. you should probably do the opposite!
its not that simple. the gov subsidizes corn, so corn and, more relevantly, hfcs is cheaper. for some reason (wink, wink) they do not subsidize brocolli. also, twinkies are ok in a pantry for 20 yrs but a tomato rots after a week. that makes twinkies much cheaper.
You are too quick to assume. I've been poor, Hoss, and I ate cheap food that was filling and went a long way. It wasn't anything Martha Stewart would be proud of ... lots of cold cuts, generic marcaroni and cheese, and canned soup. Rice and gravy. It was cheap and I got fat on it. Get off your friggin' tower. I said they eat a lot of cheap unhealthy food, which is true. It doesn't mean they don't go to MacDonalds for a real gourmet treat once in a while or buy a beer on the money they save. I'm not defending food stamps, you knee-jerk republican. I'm just commenting on how poor people can get so fat on so little money. It's actually easy to do. Check out what any illegal mexican woman buys at Albertons . . . corn meal, lard, beans, onions, rice, and flour. Then check out how broad her ass is.
frozen vegetables, because they are flash frozen when ripe, are insanely healthy. they dont go bad. eat them and stop your bitching. i am aware that the government subsidizes hfcs. i know every fact about this that anyone could possibly know, it my obsession. dont buy those products. buy a tub of oatmeal and a jumbo sack of frozen broccoli/cauliflower. and stop yer bitchin. unless you want to bitch that taxes should be lower so we cant afford to subsidize foods. also, if a large portion of your income is spent on food, you are either eating out alot, stupidly buying insanely overpriced food, or have made some terrible life decisions. food doesnt cost anything relative to the real expenses like rent.
