re: Fat people complaining that eating healthy is expensive

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There was a really good photo posted on here a year or two ago showing the cost of a family of 4 at a fast food joint...then showing the cost of a home prepared grilled chicken dinner and then a beans and rice dinner. The healthy dinners were very cheap

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Without question. People don't eat McDonalds because it's cheap. They eat it because it's convenient.

Planning and cooking meals at home can be far healthier and much cheaper if people will plan better and it's important to them. Red beans and rice with sausage is one of the least expensive things you can make, and far healthier than a McDonalds happy meal, but with fast food comes our addictions to fat and sugar, and we crave it. The buns are super sweet, the meat is garbage, but people load it down with fat in the form of mayo to wash it down their gullet, only to be chased down with some super sweet soda or tea.

If people want to use their head, here's one example of many.

Buy 4 whole chickens at the grocery store, a bag of onions, a couple of bags of carrots, a bag of potatoes, clove of garlic, and celery.

Bake the chickens in the oven on a sheet pan. Want to get fancy? On top of a bed of root veg you bought earlier.

Take the chickens out of the oven. Eat one that night with rice and veg, and debone the other three. Take meat and place in large ziplockor to use in other meals throughout the week. Now, take leftover bones, chopped onions, carrots, garlic, and celery, a tbsp of pepper corns, 2 bay leaves, and place in pot. Cover with 1 1/2 gallons of water, and cook down for 3-4 hours minimum on simmer. Strain, and you have stock. Portion it in quart containers, and freeze when it comes to room temp to be used in meals throughout the week and beyond like beans to make it taste good, or soups, etc. With just a minimum amount of planning on the weekend or on your day off, you can have home cooked meals ready to go throughout the week.

My mom worked a full time job and career in hospital admin often working very long hours back when most moms were still at home, and she found a way for us to eat home cooked meals every night because eating out during the week just wasn't even a consideration back then for most people. She cooked 3 and 4 meals on Sunday, and we'd eat on that during the week, and she would plan things so that when she got home, it would take a few minutes to put shite together and dinner was served. When people say they can't, or it's too expensive, or some other ignorant nonsensical excuse why they don't cook healthy meals at home, I look no further than mom and laugh at the absurdity of it all. It's excuse making. That's all it is.