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I wonder why supermarkets themselves aren't making more blue-apron style meal plans aimed at different income categories. It is a relatively inexpensive way to
by opportune 7y ago
I wonder why supermarkets themselves aren't making more blue-apron style meal plans aimed at different income categories. It is a relatively inexpensive way to value-add items you already have and differentiate yourself from other supermarkets. And you can help people that either don't know/don't care about nutrition (enough to come up with a nutrition regime) eat healthy; perhaps creating the meal kits could be partially subsidized by the gov.
You can feed someone very well for $50/week. And you can even do it in a way that requires only low-effort cooking: meat that can be baked, microwaveable vegetables, eggs that can be simply boiled or cooked in a pan with butter, pasta and oatmeal. Dairy products, fruits, some vegetables, and nuts can just be eaten without processing. Canned food that can be eaten right out of the can or just heated up.
Assuming a main reason poor people don't eat healthier food is due to lack of time, cognitive overhead, or lack of knowledge (not only re: what food is healthy or not, but also how to optimize nutrition/f(cost, time, effort)) it could help. I don't have time to go into how it's even possible healthy food could take 75% of someone's income (assuming that person has an income of $10k/year, that is over $140/week) but there are surely compromises you can make to get the majority of the benefits of eating healthy food without spending nearly that much.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoI'm surprised the government, some nonprofit or some university's sociology department isn't doing this. It wouldn't be hard to publish a weekly newsletter with meals for various family sizes that can be made at various price points using all SNAP-compatible ingredients. How much would it really cost to send a weekly pamphlet of cheap and not nutritionally terrible meal ideas to the address of every kid who gets free lunch?