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> It is indeed an educational problem. Have you ever been poor? When you get home from your 12th hour of working (at your second job) and need to feed yourself

> It is indeed an educational problem. Have you ever been poor? When you get home from your 12th hour of working (at your second job) and need to feed yourself & the kids the last thing you have the energy to do is spend an hour cooking a nutritious meal, even if you had the time to go out to the supermarket (by bus) and the money to stock up on things that aren't going to go bad by the time you eat them. So you toss some fish fingers and frozen french fries in the oven to feed your family before you all go to bed to start the cycle again

Raphmedia 11y ago
> Have you ever been poor? Very, yes. There are alternatives to eating bad quality food that are just as cheap and fast, sadly people are not made aware of it. Why would you take the time to find an alternative if you are not aware of the health problems coming from eating frozen french fries daily? A lot of poor parents would avoid such solutions and find alternative if they were truly aware of how bad the food they ingest truly is.
mc32 11y ago
The way I did it was cook enough for multiple days and freeze the rest in day portions so you could defrost only what you needed. So, on your Sunday, cook three meals each enough to subsist on for two to three days. The food is not glamorous, but it can be tasty and nutritious.
mhuffman 11y ago
Over 60% of people in poverty do not work at all or work one part-time job, let alone 2 jobs. Of the 40% that is left, nearly all work a single (low-paying) full-time job. The old canard about poor people working multiple jobs and still on the edge of being homeless is true for a very tiny fraction of people. Btw, 12 hrs. a day for 5 days a week at minimum wage, puts a single person at over double the poverty level (over $22k) in the US...just saying. I grew up very poor (from a family of migrant workers) and I can say from personal experience and observing many, many thousands of poor people over a couple of decades, that it is almost exclusively an educational problem. The easy stuff is easy (don't eat tubs of lard and ice-cream), but even professional nutritionalists can not agree on what a healthy diet is, how can you expect people with an average 10th grade or less education to do it? Those fish fingers are marked "PACKED WITH OMEGA-3s!!!", the fries have "HALF YOUR DAILY REQUIREMENT OF POTASSIUM!!! LOADED WITH VITAMINS!!!" With millions spent on spinning shit food into something that sounds healthy to people, they are being misled and confused because nutrition is complicated and labeling is misleading for highly processed foods. That frozen lean-cuisine dinner in the next freezer is better balanced, cost the same as microwave fries, takes the same amount of time to nuke, but says "Only 410 calories!" instead of "calcium-enriched" like the fries do, but how to properly judge the differences without a strong background in nutrition?

Raphmedia 11y ago

> Have you ever been poor? Very, yes. There are alternatives to eating bad quality food that are just as cheap and fast, sadly people are not made aware of it. Why would you take the time to find an alternative if you are not aware of the health problems coming from eating frozen french fries daily? A lot of poor parents would avoid such solutions and find alternative if they were truly aware of how bad the food they ingest truly is.

mc32 11y ago

The way I did it was cook enough for multiple days and freeze the rest in day portions so you could defrost only what you needed. So, on your Sunday, cook three meals each enough to subsist on for two to three days. The food is not glamorous, but it can be tasty and nutritious.

mhuffman 11y ago

Over 60% of people in poverty do not work at all or work one part-time job, let alone 2 jobs. Of the 40% that is left, nearly all work a single (low-paying) full-time job. The old canard about poor people working multiple jobs and still on the edge of being homeless is true for a very tiny fraction of people. Btw, 12 hrs. a day for 5 days a week at minimum wage, puts a single person at over double the poverty level (over $22k) in the US...just saying. I grew up very poor (from a family of migrant workers) and I can say from personal experience and observing many, many thousands of poor people over a couple of decades, that it is almost exclusively an educational problem. The easy stuff is easy (don't eat tubs of lard and ice-cream), but even professional nutritionalists can not agree on what a healthy diet is, how can you expect people with an average 10th grade or less education to do it? Those fish fingers are marked "PACKED WITH OMEGA-3s!!!", the fries have "HALF YOUR DAILY REQUIREMENT OF POTASSIUM!!! LOADED WITH VITAMINS!!!" With millions spent on spinning shit food into something that sounds healthy to people, they are being misled and confused because nutrition is complicated and labeling is misleading for highly processed foods. That frozen lean-cuisine dinner in the next freezer is better balanced, cost the same as microwave fries, takes the same amount of time to nuke, but says "Only 410 calories!" instead of "calcium-enriched" like the fries do, but how to properly judge the differences without a strong background in nutrition?