http://www.npr.org/2013/03/01/173217143/why-process-food-is-cheaper-than-healthier-options
Why would they compare the most expensive items in the produce section, berries, essentially seasonal delicacies, to the cheapest possible processed food? Because where vegetables are available, they're cheaper than processed foods pound per pound. Of course the shit for brains compare calorie/dollar like the cheesey beef slurry diet doesn't make you obese.
If you don't live in a food desert in scary poor neighborhoods or Alaska, please shut the fuck up, you've never bought vegetables in your life if you think snack foods are cheaper. I know for a fact at least that my coworkers, friends, and family are making up excuses, blaming """poverty""" on their deadly habits, because I shop at the same fucking grocery store as them.
For a dollar each, I bought a pound each of green beans, carrots, jalapenos, rice, snap peas, dried beans, wheat berries, oatmeal, and frozen veg. Also for a dollar or less, I bought a bag of onions, lettuce, cabbage, canned tomatoes, garlic, canned vegetables, pasta, and whole grain bread. In the winter I buy PROCESSED frozen veg, canned veg, and bags of fresh beets, parsnips, and other root veg, plus all the veg available year-round. I know I don't need to go into such detail for shitlords, but apparently the produce aisle is as exclusive as a hottie-only club, people aren't allowed in without their thin privilege. Yeah, high-quality cheese and beef is fucking expensive. You don't need more of that shit. You need more veg, which, yes, I can tell just by looking at you.
It's so fucking easy to spend $20/person/week on groceries in the Midwest, despite all the trailer trash fats, and I almost always make one-pot meals in under 20 minutes. WOAH TEN MORE MINUTES THAN MAC N' CHEESE. The only reason this even bothers me is that my meals, which I eat in quietly alone, trigger my people, like the underhanded compliments on being fitter and hotter than them despite not trying like they do. So they give me unsolicited defensive bullshit all the time. I want to start sharing dieting advice on my social media because I really want to believe this is just a matter of ignorance.
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[–] Daucus7 0 points 26 points 26 points (+26|-0) ago
Growing up, my family was really poor so we ate a lot of rice and beans and eggs and frozen vegetables. We couldn't afford Hot Pockets or soda pop or tortilla chips or whatever candy or junk food there was. Mac 'n' Cheese was a treat.
People who whine that they can't afford to eat healthy because they can't get whatever highfalutin shit at Whole Foods just piss me off. You're not poor - you're stupid.
[–] Lilina 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
The stupidity is why the hams are poor.
[–] OOZING_CURVES 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
It's also why they're hams in the first place.
[–] biddle [S] 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago (edited ago)
Fuck yes. What did me pa put on the table with his 500/month SNAPS? We ate mac n cheese, Velveeta ramen, canned pork n beans, Campbell's casseroles with Doritos crushed up on them, lots of cheap glazed rolls and donuts and chips, Dew instead of water, fried toast, SPAM, fried baloney, and a shit ton of ground beef and hot dogs and potato hash. Seasonings? Ketchup. No vegetables. No way in hell this is poor people food. My father was just fucking lazy and didn't give a single thought to budgeting or eating healthy, despite not working.
Why is my whole family rail-thin? All of them are meth addicts, and none of them have cars. Plus, they're outside all day like grown-ass hooligans.
[–] hiddenbutt 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
My sister does a lot of work with impoverished minorities in public schools. One family got onto SNAP, and the mom was remarking that they were eating like kings now. They went from 200$ a month for food to 400$ a month for food. And you can bet they weren't buying processed crap with it. If you don't buy processed crap, you can eat steak and lobster and roasts almost every night on SNAP.