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You’re wrong, and it’s not even close. Home cooked meals are actually much cheaper than microwave dinners or fast food, if you know how to shop. Instead of buying pork chops for $5 a pound on sale, buy a pork loin for $2 a pound and cut it up yourself. You can do this with beef as well, by the way. The larger cuts are nearly always less expensive, pound for pound, than “ready to cook” meats. My family of four costs about $140 a week at the grocery store, although that’s up from about $80 a year or so ago. It’s a bit time consuming to buy bulk and separate it yourself, but it saves a lot of money. If you think convenience meals are cheaper, someone neglected your education.
Granted, I grew up on a farm and learned how to butcher at an early age, but cutting up meat is something you can learn from a 20 minute YouTube video and a bit of practice.
I put the cost of buying junk food at fast food places or even buying already prepared food at the grocery store into the cost of working.
My household has had made from scratch meals since I had a household.
Another added benefit is salt consumption. MY DD's in laws also had made from scratch until mil was no longer able to cook. SO they had frozen meals. When they moved in next door to DD she made their meals. Their blood pressure dropped a bunch when they stopped eating frozen dinners. They could stop the medication.
The top issue for is to put the majority of the Democratic platform on the back burner only because the vast majority of their concerns are social concerns that our government has little ability to solve.
Instead let’s focus on issues that REALLY matter like inflation, energy, availability of food, foreign affairs etc.
This nation tends to get sidetracked too easily and far too much time and energy is spent trying to please and placate such a small sliver of the population. Time to put them on ignore mode and focus on priorities.
My calculations, based on supermarket shelf and online prices, even laid out on Excel spreadsheets, show that healthy whole foods cost noticeably less than junk food. And those calculations do not take into account long-term health costs.
By my calculations, the problem is that too many Americans are too lazy to prepare their food with their own hands...
Your calculations also don't take into account that time has value, too.
What are the top issues for you going into the midterms?
...only one issue....are they democrat or republican
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