Eating Healthy....Can You Afford It?
I know that "Daily Ramblings" means daily, but hey I do have a life like everyone else. Anyhoo I had to go grocery shopping and it just occurred, at least for awhile, how expensive diet, organic, or healthy food is. I was looking at soy ground "beef," and for 7 oz the price was on par with 1 pound of ground beef with 20% fat.
With all the talk and dredge about the obesity issue in America, I think that what people or "investigative journalists" ultimately forget or choose to ignore is that healthy food is downright expensive. Even if you are wealthy or rich enough to afford the food, you are still paying an outrageous price. From "Super Size Me" to news reels of showing "overweight" people from the neck down, the real issue is, "fine you now have told me I'm fat, but this is all I can afford to buy."
Example, at KFC, on their 1$ menu, you can get 2 apple turnovers (they are deep fried), which are also a good size each and could very easily be a meal onto its own. This applies to all fast food joints with "dollar menus." I mean, were can you find a healthy meal that is on a price par with a "jr bacon double cheeseburger?" A salad from the same fast-food place cost an average of $3.99.
Back to the supermarket. I advise you that the next time you go shopping look at what's on sale and compare the price to what is the "healthy" alternative. Sure turkey bacon is healthier and better for you than the standard pork bacon, but the price differential is greater than 100%. Now try to truly convince a family of five living on a "meager" budget, to buy one pack of turkey franks (8 franks per pak) for $2.99, when they can buy three paks of the "low end, non-turkey" weinies for the same price. This goes the same for the pre-packed lunch meat vs. the deli lunch meat, the Kool-Aid vs. Orange juice, and the corn oil vs. Olive oil. The grocery store that I frequent, had "Dennison's chili" on sale 10 cans for $10, yes a dollar a can. A can is a whole meal onto itself. This sale applied to all its varieties including regular, hot, chunky, no bean, and extra hot and chunky. B-b-b-ut wait, hold on, this sale did not apply to the Dennison's chili with turkey same size can. Have you gotten the point yet?
And I know there are those who might say. "Well if you eat a smaller portion of the can, you can still be ok and not gain weight." But the point along with obesity is that these cheaper priced items are full of those preservatives and additives which many by themselves can be extremely poisonous to the human body. So why is the public not being told the whole story about this issue. If government and individuals with a "healthy agenda" want us to "eat right," FUCKIN' MAKE IT AFFORDABLE YOU FUCKS!
If not, shut the f . . . well, you know.
EP
With all the talk and dredge about the obesity issue in America, I think that what people or "investigative journalists" ultimately forget or choose to ignore is that healthy food is downright expensive. Even if you are wealthy or rich enough to afford the food, you are still paying an outrageous price. From "Super Size Me" to news reels of showing "overweight" people from the neck down, the real issue is, "fine you now have told me I'm fat, but this is all I can afford to buy."
Example, at KFC, on their 1$ menu, you can get 2 apple turnovers (they are deep fried), which are also a good size each and could very easily be a meal onto its own. This applies to all fast food joints with "dollar menus." I mean, were can you find a healthy meal that is on a price par with a "jr bacon double cheeseburger?" A salad from the same fast-food place cost an average of $3.99.
Back to the supermarket. I advise you that the next time you go shopping look at what's on sale and compare the price to what is the "healthy" alternative. Sure turkey bacon is healthier and better for you than the standard pork bacon, but the price differential is greater than 100%. Now try to truly convince a family of five living on a "meager" budget, to buy one pack of turkey franks (8 franks per pak) for $2.99, when they can buy three paks of the "low end, non-turkey" weinies for the same price. This goes the same for the pre-packed lunch meat vs. the deli lunch meat, the Kool-Aid vs. Orange juice, and the corn oil vs. Olive oil. The grocery store that I frequent, had "Dennison's chili" on sale 10 cans for $10, yes a dollar a can. A can is a whole meal onto itself. This sale applied to all its varieties including regular, hot, chunky, no bean, and extra hot and chunky. B-b-b-ut wait, hold on, this sale did not apply to the Dennison's chili with turkey same size can. Have you gotten the point yet?
And I know there are those who might say. "Well if you eat a smaller portion of the can, you can still be ok and not gain weight." But the point along with obesity is that these cheaper priced items are full of those preservatives and additives which many by themselves can be extremely poisonous to the human body. So why is the public not being told the whole story about this issue. If government and individuals with a "healthy agenda" want us to "eat right," FUCKIN' MAKE IT AFFORDABLE YOU FUCKS!
If not, shut the f . . . well, you know.
EP
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