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Where do people keep getting this idea that healthy food is expensive? Do they live in areas substantially different from mine? At my local supermarket most fru
by hughprime 17y ago
Where do people keep getting this idea that healthy food is expensive? Do they live in areas substantially different from mine? At my local supermarket most fruits and vegetables cost between $1 and $2.50 a pound. A whole head of lettuce is, like, a buck. Rice costs almost nothing. A potato costs... I dunno, but it's not much.
- randallsquared 17y agoYou can almost always find frozen dinner meals at some local supermarket for about a dollar each. Perparation is "partially open box; throw in microwave for X minutes". That's it. If you want more food with slightly more prep time, there are lots of box dinners that are a dollar or less, but require margarine, a gigantic tub of which is two dollars, and will keep for many weeks in the fridge. I agree about rice, but at a minimum you'll also need egg, meat, and soy sauce. ;) Anyway, speaking from experience, the amount of rice I make creeps up week to week, so I end up making three cups plus a breast of chicken and two eggs, for example, even though that's way more than I ought to be eating. Since I cook for two or three, usually, you can double or triple that for what I actually prepare. I can eat very cheaply and still eat healthy food, but unless I spend lots of time cooking, I tend to get bored very quickly with what I'm eating, and since I try to optimize so I spend less time cooking, I end up spending far more than I would strictly need to.
- rdouble 17y agoDo they live in areas substantially different from mine? Probably. The article is talking about how poor people are fat. At grocery stores in poor neighborhoods, healthy stuff is significantly more expensive, or simply does not exist. For instance, a can of black beans at the ghetto grocery store by my apartment near Bushwick costs twice as much as it does at the Whole Foods in Union Square. Produce is rarely available, and when it is, it's almost spoiled.
- hughprime 17y agoFor what it's worth, the "local supermarket" I was talking about is on the border of Oakland, and the area is so ghetto that they keep not only the liquor and razor blades, but also the toothbrushes and condoms, in locked cabinets. I see plenty of fat people there.