This is a commonly repeated canard, but it doesn't actually wash. Cheap, processed, packaged food is only cheaper if comparing single-servings.
Buying things like rice, flour, corn in minor bulk (not talking much, maybe a pound or more) and fresh vegetables, and combining them into actual meals, costs less per serving than this fake-wheat-palm-oil-assembled-into-food-shapes bullshit.
It doesn't keep nearly as well, because microbes and microflora also consider these meals to be food, unlike that other shit. But cost is not the prevailing issue here--it's knowledge, effort, and will.
This is a commonly repeated canard, but it doesn't actually wash. Cheap, processed, packaged food is only cheaper if comparing single-servings.
Buying things like rice, flour, corn in minor bulk (not talking much, maybe a pound or more) and fresh vegetables, and combining them into actual meals, costs less per serving than this fake-wheat-palm-oil-assembled-into-food-shapes bullshit.
It doesn't keep nearly as well, because microbes and microflora also consider these meals to be food, unlike that other shit. But cost is not the prevailing issue here--it's knowledge, effort, and will.