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The problem is that foods I enjoy, which are unhealthy (cake, crisps, chocolate, pie) are cheap and abundant all year around. I've found that, to a certain deg

The problem is that foods I enjoy, which are unhealthy (cake, crisps, chocolate, pie) are cheap and abundant all year around. I've found that, to a certain degree, "cheap, healthy, tasty, fast -- pick at most three" seems to (often) be the situation I find myself in.

jimmywanger 10y ago
> The problem is that foods I enjoy, which are unhealthy (cake, crisps, chocolate, pie) are cheap and abundant all year around. Well, that's sort of to be expected. :-( All the foods you've mentioned are highly processed, and engineered to be shelf-stable, tasty, and use cheap, good tasting ingredients. I wouldn't even consider them food anymore, more like highly engineering edible dopamine stimulators. Opposed to that, a grapefruit does not stand much of a chance. But if you kick processed sugars for a few weeks, things start slowly tasting better, or so I hear. I've been trying to do that, but sugar is in almost everything these days
- mjevans 10y ago
  What we need are community restaurants that are serious about inexpensive healthy single servings to take care of this for us (the market does not seem to support this; maybe some sort of space/location subsidy is necessary). If it isn't convenient (timely and open at desired times), tasty, and inexpensive it won't compete on the three metrics that the actual competition is winning on.
hx87 10y ago
What would be a food that, for you, is cheap, healthy, tasty, and slow?
- CJefferson 10y ago
  Anything which involves serious preparation. Really good Ratatouille for example.
white-flame 10y ago
> The problem is that foods I enjoy, which are unhealthy (cake, crisps, chocolate, pie) are cheap and abundant all year around. I'll agree they're abundant, but are they actually cheap? How much money in those products do you have to eat to feel full, vs healthier food? It's easy to pound down snack foods and desserts but still feel snacky, and that's just flushing money down the toilet while adding to your personal carry-on burden.

jimmywanger 10y ago

> The problem is that foods I enjoy, which are unhealthy (cake, crisps, chocolate, pie) are cheap and abundant all year around. Well, that's sort of to be expected. :-( All the foods you've mentioned are highly processed, and engineered to be shelf-stable, tasty, and use cheap, good tasting ingredients. I wouldn't even consider them food anymore, more like highly engineering edible dopamine stimulators. Opposed to that, a grapefruit does not stand much of a chance. But if you kick processed sugars for a few weeks, things start slowly tasting better, or so I hear. I've been trying to do that, but sugar is in almost everything these days

mjevans 10y ago
What we need are community restaurants that are serious about inexpensive healthy single servings to take care of this for us (the market does not seem to support this; maybe some sort of space/location subsidy is necessary). If it isn't convenient (timely and open at desired times), tasty, and inexpensive it won't compete on the three metrics that the actual competition is winning on.

hx87 10y ago

What would be a food that, for you, is cheap, healthy, tasty, and slow?

CJefferson 10y ago
Anything which involves serious preparation. Really good Ratatouille for example.

white-flame 10y ago

> The problem is that foods I enjoy, which are unhealthy (cake, crisps, chocolate, pie) are cheap and abundant all year around. I'll agree they're abundant, but are they actually cheap? How much money in those products do you have to eat to feel full, vs healthier food? It's easy to pound down snack foods and desserts but still feel snacky, and that's just flushing money down the toilet while adding to your personal carry-on burden.