the healthy foods are inly affordable if you have alot of money
Come one now, broccoli, carrots, onions, apples- I don't know how a whole chicken costs five dollars and it fills me with a bit of dread if I think about it too long- Healthy food is cheap; "health" food is expensive.
Uh, yeah, right! Have you ever noticed how the chicken or beef that’s on sale is the fatties lt, or how potato chips, pop, candy, cake, other garbage foods and junk like mac and cheese are so much cheaper than healthy foods. When my brother and sister in law were on Isagenix diet and trying to get me started on it they taught me how to shop for the healthy foods to go with it by avoiding the aisles in the grocery store and instead shopping around the outer edges of the store where the healthier foods usually are and it really hit me how much more expensive it all was. I challenge you to try it and compare.
It's not fucking expensive. Most vegetables are practically free. Even a high end chicken is like seven bucks. Fine, a box of mac and cheese is eighty cents but it's noodles and schmoo, of course it is 80 cents. It isn't that healthy foods are expensive, they are cheap, it's that shit food is super cheap because they are carbs and schmoo.
uh, okay. McDonalds burger is a tenth of a pound of beef precooked. So 30-45 cents of beef. 20 cents per bun, maybe. Negligible cost for two pickles three drops of ketchup, three drops of mustard, and a pinch of rehydrated onions. What does a McDonalds burger cost, I assume more than 60-75 cents.
Quarter Pounder, 1 dollar of beef, 40 cents per bun, 20 cents for a piece of cheese, negligible everything else, so sub $2.
But muh "I can't just buy a tenth of a pound of hamburger" uh yeah, that's where meal planning and home economics come in, or just keep being a fucking slave to your own ignorance and laziness.
The whole point of healthy food is it has healthy stuff, things your body needs. Per protein, per vitamin, per fiber, any metric that actually takes that into account is going to come out WILDLY in favor of the healthy foods. And it's not like you're just eating a plate full of plain broccoli; throw some 800 cal/dollar butter on there.
Nope. Broccoli is 1.50ish per pound, and has 15 grams of protein per pound. Ice cream is probably the highest protein food in the "cheap" food category, so for the same 15 grams of protein you'd need 500 grams of ice cream which is like 1.2 liters, which would run probably over 3 dollars. Anything else on that list has negligible protein. Protein is the bottle neck for any diet. Your body can convert fat to carbs and carbs to fat and protein to either of those (if you are starving) but it can't just make protein. Why do you think we pump nitrogen into the soil? Why did the human population explode after the invention of the Haber process. It's all about the protein.
Come one now, broccoli, carrots, onions, apples- I don't know how a whole chicken costs five dollars and it fills me with a bit of dread if I think about it too long- Healthy food is cheap; "health" food is expensive.
Uh, yeah, right! Have you ever noticed how the chicken or beef that’s on sale is the fatties lt, or how potato chips, pop, candy, cake, other garbage foods and junk like mac and cheese are so much cheaper than healthy foods. When my brother and sister in law were on Isagenix diet and trying to get me started on it they taught me how to shop for the healthy foods to go with it by avoiding the aisles in the grocery store and instead shopping around the outer edges of the store where the healthier foods usually are and it really hit me how much more expensive it all was. I challenge you to try it and compare.
It's not fucking expensive. Most vegetables are practically free. Even a high end chicken is like seven bucks. Fine, a box of mac and cheese is eighty cents but it's noodles and schmoo, of course it is 80 cents. It isn't that healthy foods are expensive, they are cheap, it's that shit food is super cheap because they are carbs and schmoo.
If you buy tiny portioned out organic produce in posh little containers it's really expensive, but those are traps for rich idiots.
Ok, go buy a burger from Mc Donalds, then go get the meat to grill, the buns, the fixins and sauces and compare the prices
uh, okay. McDonalds burger is a tenth of a pound of beef precooked. So 30-45 cents of beef. 20 cents per bun, maybe. Negligible cost for two pickles three drops of ketchup, three drops of mustard, and a pinch of rehydrated onions. What does a McDonalds burger cost, I assume more than 60-75 cents.
Quarter Pounder, 1 dollar of beef, 40 cents per bun, 20 cents for a piece of cheese, negligible everything else, so sub $2.
But muh "I can't just buy a tenth of a pound of hamburger" uh yeah, that's where meal planning and home economics come in, or just keep being a fucking slave to your own ignorance and laziness.
Calories/dollar is a terrible metric. Just chug canola, dude. Protein/dollar is more sensible.
The whole point of healthy food is it has healthy stuff, things your body needs. Per protein, per vitamin, per fiber, any metric that actually takes that into account is going to come out WILDLY in favor of the healthy foods. And it's not like you're just eating a plate full of plain broccoli; throw some 800 cal/dollar butter on there.
Nope. Broccoli is 1.50ish per pound, and has 15 grams of protein per pound. Ice cream is probably the highest protein food in the "cheap" food category, so for the same 15 grams of protein you'd need 500 grams of ice cream which is like 1.2 liters, which would run probably over 3 dollars. Anything else on that list has negligible protein. Protein is the bottle neck for any diet. Your body can convert fat to carbs and carbs to fat and protein to either of those (if you are starving) but it can't just make protein. Why do you think we pump nitrogen into the soil? Why did the human population explode after the invention of the Haber process. It's all about the protein.