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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[–] harruq 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
It is just stupidity. Here is my example.
When I first hired in at my job (Telcom technician) I was made fun of for carrying a cooler, liquid thermos and a food thermos. Yet they show up everyday with a carryout coffee, buy soda from the vending machine, and have to stop at a fast food place for lunch .
Coffee $1.00 Soda. $1.00 Fast food $8.00
They spend $10 every workday. $50 to get through the work week.
I explained this. Their response was " I don't have the time." Because it is so hard to dump a pot of coffee in a thermos, microwave a meal for 3 minutes in the morning and fill my cooler with soda and snacks. Compared to stopping every morning for coffee and wait in line at a fast food place.
[–] Sanguinelady 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
It's sad how common this this....for people to completely throw money down the drain because they are too lazy to cook, too lazy to think ahead of time. Then again, I think many of them know the reality of it, and they simply prefer to stuff their maw with garbage. It's what they like, it's what their fucked up tastebuds are used to.
My example would be quite like yours. Same bullshit. They piss 50-100 bucks a week down the drain, moan about not having any money, moan about not feeling well, and then find shitty stupid little remarks to make sport of my food choices, and the fact that I'm not an obese tub of lard. At least at my job, I'm allowed to make stabs back. My clever shit-lording has actually caused quite a few people smarten their eating habits, and stop pissing money down the drain.
I know this isn't food hate, but what makes or breaks it where I work is being on your feet, having a pleasant disposition with customers, and physically being able to do your job. If you eat garbage 24-7 it interferes with all of that, it's so damn obvious. If you want to eat garbage, fine...but if it affects your moods, and your ability to do your job than you need to cut it out, and eat right.
[–] biddle [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
just make extra dinner for lunch even like goddamn. humans are capable of so much more than that bullshit. seriously why do you deserve a better car, better house, a better job than most of the world when you're such a whiny bitch, hams.
[–] interstate-15 ago
Lol. Coffee $1. Where the hell do you live? Coffee at 711 around here is minimum two bucks. We all know people are too good for 711 coffee. They have to get their mocha latte milk infused stuff at Starbucks for $4.