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The answer for many is urban foraging. One link is to a school, but you can learn on your own. There is available fishing almost everywhere. Fish is tasty, nutritious, and nearly free. Inexpensive fishing: license and transportation costs little and you can dig your own bait. Tackle can be purchased cheaply in pawn shops, second-hand stores, and similar.
These are great resources, especially for convicted felons and other unemployables.
You "get" Cheerios from the grocery store. Nothing wrong with his usage.
And many people do "get" health insurance from their employer, either via deduction or partial payment or outright compensation. I don't see any implication of socialist freeware whining demand up there, as you're sort of implying here.
Despite the poster's history.
Have you ever held a job? Negotiated a salary? Negotiated benefits?
If you had, you'd understand that they healthcare that people "get" are part of their pay for doing a job. They don't "get" it for free.
The inability of so many posters on this forum to be able to parse a simple sentence - or word - through the warped glass of their preconceived notions just effin' baffles me.
Use a computer... check.
Write comprehensible English... check.
Read a simple declarative sentence for context or understand a common word's definition... bzzzzzt. Fail.
But they're not free, which means I cannot afford them. You forgot the pesky little MONEY issue.
I have improved my skills every year of my life, since leaving college over 30 years ago. I use those skills to improve my income. I have never paid a penny to improve those skills. I just research, practice and learn on my own.
i just hate that oatmeal consistency ....
eating healthy is one thing , but the constant arguing about which way is cheaper is nonsense because it can be skewed either way .l
The point is, you can eat healthily and inexpensively. To do so--nor not--is a choice.
But they're not free, which means I cannot afford them. You forgot the pesky little MONEY issue.
Options for free and inexpensive training have been pointed out to you numerous times.
You've already made up your mind it's impossible to improve your situation. Your whole identity revolves around it. So any suggestions we make are a waste of our time.
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Apparently you're so busy generating posts on here all day every day that you don't even bother to read what you're responding to. I never said that everyone wants to go any route, my point was that it isn't necessarily more expensive to eat healthy. I made no comment about what anyone else wants to do, that is merely a hijak107 (tm) construction used as an excuse to babble about his personal diet preferences again.
Since you're busy building straw men I'll repost both of my comments on this subject of food affordability:
1. "Nonsense, it doesn't cost that much more to eat healthy. It's more about the knowledge and the effort."
2. "Can be, but doesn't have to be. That's the point being made here, that the tired "oh but it's so much more expensive to eat healthy so poor people are forced to eat junk" is way overstated. The biggest factors in choosing to eat an unhealthy diet are effort and knowledge, not cost. There are plenty of websites and blogs that demonstrate a healthy diet from basic food that can be bought in any grocery store for as cheap as the prepackaged junk food, but one has to actually cook instead of just opening cans or boxes to add boiling water"
Nowhere did I made no comment about what others want to do, so you're just pulling another hijak107 to invent something to respond to. You either post so much you get confused, have poor reading comprehension, or you're being intentionally dishonest.
again everything is relative to what someone is initially spending . i can just as easily say it is cheaper to eat unhealthy as you are saying it is not more expensive to eat healthy . it all depends on individual starting points . i can easily go the other way and run up a list of tasty , nourishing unhealthy foods that cost even less than the list you provided .
discussing things in abstract makes little sense but you insist on doing that . general statements about strawmen are meaningless arguments .
all that matters is where someone's SPECIFIC starting point is with the products they buy vs the changeover costs on products they want to use . anything can be cheaper or more expensive than something else as a statement but makes little sense since nothing has a bottom and something can always be found cheaper than something else . ..
i bet in practice if there was a poll for those who converted to eating healthy , the list would likely be 50/50 as to costing more or less depending on personal taste and how much time and effort you want to put in to preparation of stuff .
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