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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[–] biddle [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Poors are seriously the most bitter about other people getting help. "If I can do it, they can do it." Only the weak need to control other people's economic security like that. I'm really just pissed that so-called intelligent social commentators believe this BS. If it's some intersection of condishuns, fucking say it. Don't say it's so common sense that produce is more expensive when it's not.
[–] deuxabuse ago
It's not. Prepackaged meals and meats are the most expensive. The only issue I had with fresh produce when I was on food stamps was shelf life. So unless I could cook it that week I didn't buy it, I bought frozen instead. Sweet potatoes last forever, as do carrots. Heads of romaine last way longer than the bagged stuff, and the bagged baby carrots are tasteless compared to real ones. Fats only want convenience, and can't fathom doing any work for themselves even if it's minimal compared to the alternative. The fat cashier that made a remark about my steak probably thought I was feeding my kids sandwiches while I had steak, I doubt she could comprehend that it was a part of a meal because chopping meat is work.