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Sounds great but if you went in the store and bought the smallest quantity of each of those items (Walmart sells 5lb bags at the price noted in your post) then you will be well over the $5.00 dollar mark I noted. Might skirt by at 10 bucks. You still have not cooked it nor bought containers to take it with you to work ect.
Logically you would say "Yes but for 1 buck I could make 4 meals" and I agree somewhat, I am assuming will cook daily. But whoppers at 2 for $5 each is also 4 meals and they cook it for you.
That last part of "They cook it for you" at the same price makes a heck of a difference. Also, you forgot you need to season that food, cooking oil, and seasonings or herbs will blow that budget out the water. Unless you like unseasoned boiled cabbage every day.
Yes, you buy more than what you eat in one meal when you cook. What you don't do is calculate the cost of all the rice as one meal.
How do you make 2 Whoppers in to 4 meals? Eat half a burger each meal?
As for everything else, it's all excuses. Losers will always have excuses. There's no end to it. The idea that you need to 'buy containers to take it with you to work,' or whatever, is an amazing example.
What?!! Even in crazy-priced NJ, free-range organic eggs aren't $12. Not even half that - usually about $5.
Eggs are one food that seems to be fairly easy to get in rural PA. Even if a place doesn't have signs out, if you see chickens running around the yard, just stop and ask for them. $2.00-$3.00 a dozen.
It's the same here in my neck of the woods, i.e., between $2.50-5.00 for a dozen fresh eggs. With urban homesteading and backyard chickens becoming more accepted around here, there are plenty of local eggs to be had.
Farmers' markets accept SNAP benefits here, too. With produce trucks and farmers' markets proliferating in my area, it's never been easier to source affordable produce.
Some of the local food pantries have difficulties unloading the produce that they receive, too.
In 1997, WHO said Obesity is a health risk and a global epidemic.
In 2020, it estimated 2 billion people world- wide are obese, thrilled the number in 1975.
Japan has the lowest incidence of obesity. It also has more than 3000 McDonalds.
The low obesity rate is attributed to several factors:
High food prices
Lower daily caloric intake
Physically active population
Metabo Law*
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In recognition of the cost of health issues related to obesity, Japan in 2008 created law requiring everyone age 40-74 to sunmit to an annual waist measurement. Employers are charged with the responsibility of measuring employee waists annually. Each employer is given an annual goal of reduction. Failure to achieve the goal, means the business pays a higher tax to the Sick Fund. Those with waists greater than the reasonable measure are referred to nutritionists for counseling.
Huge emphasis is also placed on smoking cessation.
Not sure of your age but when I was a kid -- it was expensive to eat fast food or at restaurants.
When my kids were at home, most families I know fed their kids fast food -- three, four, five times a week.
It was convenient.
That mindset started with TV dinners. My mother seldom cooked full meals, we usually had some frozen thing or picked something up at a takeout place. It was convenient. But it was not most nutritious. I was growing up when takeout was really taking off and plenty of parents bought into it. Then as teens we were always going out with our friends for pizza, fried dough, burgers, ice cream, etc..... How we didn't blow up is beyond me. Then I learned more about health and nutrition and came to better eating on my own, but I still like a good junk meal now and then. The junk food tasted better in the past, they used more real fat and less sugar.
Obesity is the number one reason for high healthcare costs. Expand that to poor lifestyle choices (obesity, bad diet, smoking, over consumption of alcohol, and no exercise) and that explains most of it.
Obesity is the number one reason for high healthcare costs. Expand that to poor lifestyle choices (obesity, bad diet, smoking, over consumption of alcohol, and no exercise) and that explains most of it.
Great, thanks for sharing. Not sure why you quoted me.
Great, thanks for sharing. Not sure why you quoted me.
Probably because your post was the OP.
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