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When did the myth that eating unhealthy processed foods is cheaper than eating healthy?

Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:44 pm
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:44 pm
I see this comment once a week on the OT and it's common sentiment. It's also absolutely wrong and an excuse for you fatasses to stay lazy and fat

Chicken is like $3-4/lb
Produce is cheap, typically less than $1 per serving, not much more even if you buy the frozen steamables. I eat nothing but fresh food, and a lot of it, for like $200/month.

Fast food on the cheap end is still, what, $6 or more than 2 meals made of chicken and produce.

Stuff like cheez itz are $5 or more for a box and you'll never feel full. At least that much for the shitty sugar laden "granola bars"

Baws, open your eyes, not only are you becoming more and more of a fatass every day, you're wasting your hard earned Biden Bucks. Nut up and buy some groceries one time.
Posted by jdd48
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2012
22127 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:45 pm to
Cool story.
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:45 pm to
I’ve said this many times.

Rice, chicken, pork chops, bananas, broccoli, and cucumbers are all cheap arse food.
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23815 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:46 pm to
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When did the myth that eating unhealthy processed foods is cheaper than eating healthy?


Perform an actual study and get back with us in a year when your data is completed.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43390 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:48 pm to
*beep boop*

FOOD DESERTS!

*beep boop*

SYSTEMIC RACISM!

Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51379 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:48 pm to
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When did the myth that eating unhealthy processed foods is cheaper than eating healthy?


I've never heard anyone say this.

People eat like crap because they're lazy, not because they think it is cheaper.
Posted by STEVED00
Member since May 2007
22388 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:49 pm to
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When did the myth that eating unhealthy processed foods is cheaper than eating


You are not taking into account the time it does take to prepare but I get your sentiment. Cheaper probably isn’t the right word. It is “easier” to eat unhealthy food than healthy food. The easier part is a combo of the unhealthy food being cheap and easily accessible while also taking little to no time to prepare.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:50 pm to
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I've never heard anyone say this.



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Posted by Henry Jones Jr on 3/18/21 at 1:58 pm to Allthatfades


Its not shocking considering that there's fast food on every corner that's cheaper than the food that is actually good for you. Plus people aren't working out or getting outside like they used to.
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
Member since Nov 2020
8077 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:50 pm to
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Nut up and buy some groceries one time.


God, another shill for Big Piggly Wiggly.
Posted by AUin02
Member since Jan 2012
4282 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:50 pm to
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When did the myth that eating unhealthy processed foods is cheaper than eating healthy?


It's not a cost difference issue, it's a time issue. No one wants to spend the necessary time cooking, cleaning, deciding what to make tomorrow, eating leftovers for lunch etc. People just want to hand over $5-10 for a paper bag full of plastic and crap food, 2 to 3 times a day, then throw the trash away. Often right out their car window.

We're a nation of fat, lazy fricks who want to blame anyone but themselves for their situation.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43390 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:50 pm to
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You are not taking into account the time it does take to prepare but I get your sentiment. Cheaper probably isn’t the right word. It is “easier” to eat unhealthy food than healthy food. The easier part is a combo of the unhealthy food being cheap and easily accessible while also taking little to no time to prepare.


What? And have people accountable for their own health and choices that impact that health?

What fricking country do you think this is? Sweden or some shite?

Posted by NATidefan
Two hours North of Birmingham
Member since Dec 2008
36125 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:51 pm to
4 lb of great value chicken nuggets is 8.98.

4 pounds of chicken breast at your price is 12-16 dollars.

Of course I buy chicken breast for like 1.99 or less a pound.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
25825 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:51 pm to
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When did the myth that eating unhealthy processed foods is cheaper than eating healthy


I think the more accurate way would be to compare the cost per calorie.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:52 pm to
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You are not taking into account the time it does take to prepare but I get your sentiment


I meal prep about 1 hour on sunday and typically cook something else one other night a week. It takes less than 5 minutes to warm it up or make a vegetable as a side.

Yet people will drive 15 minutes to the nearest taco bell and back because that's "quicker"
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:53 pm to
America is a food desert and I am its Uday Hussein... enjoy your Good 'n Plenty, morons!
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
Member since Nov 2020
8077 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:54 pm to
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taco bell



Even for unhealthy fat people who eat convenient food all the time, Taco Bell just sucks in general.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22277 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:54 pm to
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When did the myth that eating unhealthy processed foods is cheaper than eating healthy?


Good question. Eating healthy is not expensive at all. Fresh produce is cheap and plentiful.
Posted by ZZTIGERS
Member since Dec 2007
17096 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:55 pm to
When lobbyists started making congressmen millionaires.
Posted by Indefatigable
Member since Jan 2019
26639 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:56 pm to
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eat nothing but fresh food, and a lot of it, for like $200/month.


bullshite. Or produce receipts showing that you only spend $200 on food for a month

I’m not saying fresh produce and meat is prohibitively expensive, it isn’t......but $200 a month is absurd unless you live alone and/or eat only chicken breasts and strips of celery
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 5:01 pm
Posted by NATidefan
Two hours North of Birmingham
Member since Dec 2008
36125 posts
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:56 pm to
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I meal prep about 1 hour on sunday and typically cook something else one other night a week. It takes less than 5 minutes to warm it up or make a vegetable as a side.


Your obviously single and have no kids.

We almost never eat out and my wife and I carry our breakfast and lunch to work.

But it definitely takes me more than an hour to cook and feed us all for the week. And that's not counting the dishes.
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