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I'd say it's cost, not lazyness. And also the fact that there aren't any real grocery stores in poorer areas. I'm way lazier than most poorer people, but eat on

by pkulak 17y ago

I'd say it's cost, not lazyness. And also the fact that there aren't any real grocery stores in poorer areas. I'm way lazier than most poorer people, but eat only fresh food that I make myself.

yummyfajitas 17y ago
I'd say it's cost, not lazyness. And also the fact that there aren't any real grocery stores in poorer areas. This is simply not true. Fresh food is available in both the poor areas I mentioned (and is cheap), people just don't buy it. It's not overpriced either, on a per-meal basis (rather than a per-calorie basis) it tends to be cheaper than prepackaged crap. When I lived in Harlem [1], I noticed an interesting fact. There was almost a perfect correlation between the contents of a shopping basket and the appearance of the person carrying it. Poor looking people ate prepackaged crap, yuppies ate fresh food. [1] For those unfamiliar with NYC, Harlem used to be a terrible neighborhood. It became safe under Giuliani/Bloomberg and yuppies have moved in because it's cheap. The neighborhood is now roughly 50% yuppie, 50% local.
- kellishaver 17y ago
  Eating fresh foods isn't necessarily more expensive, but there's the common misconception that is and many people just don't take the time to find out otherwise. Often times, people who try it end up spending more, too, because they're not used to it and don't make a full committment to it, so all that fresh produce they bought sits in their fridge and goes bad, taking a back seat to the pre-packaged stuff they bought along with it. So there's another thing that can be seen by them as driving up the cost. They end up wasting a lot of food and thereby wasting a lot of money. What a lot of them don't realize as well is that healthy food is more filling than pre-packaged crap. Your body is getting all of the nutrients it needs with less food, so you don't stay hungry all the time or need huge quantities, so you can actually buy less food. Also, many people in poorer communities who are, for example, on food stamps, will get their $250 in food stamps at the beginning of each month of whatever and they think they need to go out and buy $250 in groceries with it right then, because they're on a limited budget and they think this will be an easier way to see what they have/need and balance that budget. So they buy pre-packaged stuff, because they can throw it in the cabinet and it will still be good 4 weeks later, or 6mo later, just in case they lose those food stamps or that minimum wage job.

by pkulak 17y ago

I'd say it's cost, not lazyness. And also the fact that there aren't any real grocery stores in poorer areas. I'm way lazier than most poorer people, but eat only fresh food that I make myself.

yummyfajitas 17y ago

I'd say it's cost, not lazyness. And also the fact that there aren't any real grocery stores in poorer areas. This is simply not true. Fresh food is available in both the poor areas I mentioned (and is cheap), people just don't buy it. It's not overpriced either, on a per-meal basis (rather than a per-calorie basis) it tends to be cheaper than prepackaged crap. When I lived in Harlem [1], I noticed an interesting fact. There was almost a perfect correlation between the contents of a shopping basket and the appearance of the person carrying it. Poor looking people ate prepackaged crap, yuppies ate fresh food. [1] For those unfamiliar with NYC, Harlem used to be a terrible neighborhood. It became safe under Giuliani/Bloomberg and yuppies have moved in because it's cheap. The neighborhood is now roughly 50% yuppie, 50% local.

kellishaver 17y ago
Eating fresh foods isn't necessarily more expensive, but there's the common misconception that is and many people just don't take the time to find out otherwise. Often times, people who try it end up spending more, too, because they're not used to it and don't make a full committment to it, so all that fresh produce they bought sits in their fridge and goes bad, taking a back seat to the pre-packaged stuff they bought along with it. So there's another thing that can be seen by them as driving up the cost. They end up wasting a lot of food and thereby wasting a lot of money. What a lot of them don't realize as well is that healthy food is more filling than pre-packaged crap. Your body is getting all of the nutrients it needs with less food, so you don't stay hungry all the time or need huge quantities, so you can actually buy less food. Also, many people in poorer communities who are, for example, on food stamps, will get their $250 in food stamps at the beginning of each month of whatever and they think they need to go out and buy $250 in groceries with it right then, because they're on a limited budget and they think this will be an easier way to see what they have/need and balance that budget. So they buy pre-packaged stuff, because they can throw it in the cabinet and it will still be good 4 weeks later, or 6mo later, just in case they lose those food stamps or that minimum wage job.