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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[–] fatfreelife 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I just bought 20lbs of potatoes for $8 yesterday. I spend about $35/week on groceries but it could easily be more like $20 except I'm a sucker for blueberries since they're available at the farmer's market. And my diet is 95% fresh fruit and vegetables.
Buying fresh vegetables and fruit doesn't have to be expensive, especially when you make sure to buy what's in season. It can be really cheap too if you live in a town with lots of fruit trees. My town used to be mostly orchards so every summer people advertise free apricots, cherries, and apples if you come and pick them yourself. Plus you can grow vegetables which seriously saves so much money, especially when you grow spinach and lettuce because you can pick them every day.
These people complain about healthy food being expensive but that's just because they want to eat expensive processed vegan pizzas or blueberries in December. It's pathetic.
[–] 5641147? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yes! and then you can make your own jams and salsas and pasta sauces, or just can and freeze the fruits and veg for the winter, thus saving you even MORE money. But that would be work and learning a valuable skill, so hams will have none of it.
[–] biddle [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
oh, definitely. I'd say the ideal diet here would start more at like $50/week here (the low-cost budget according to USDA, too), but my ham peers are spending that much just maintaining the caffeine-sugar-sludge that is their blood. They complain about money every fucking day.