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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with OP to some extent. The average nonwhite low-income family doesn't feed their kids lentils and rice, or beans and rice. Those meals are healthy and cheap. I also cook a lot of chili over spaghetti. The average American doesn't "know" or "care" about eating healthy. Excuses, excuses. [/quote]

The average white low-income family doesn’t do that either. It’s mostly immigrants and rich people cooking from scratch. Half a century of industrial food manufacturing, coupled with women entering the workforce en masse and turning to convenience foods because they didn’t have time to cook, meant most people lost the tacit knowledge for cooking. If you have a lot of time and/or money to throw at it you can relearn it. My great grandmother cooked everything from scratch because that’s all she could afford/all that was for sale. My grandmother used canned food because now they were middle-class and prosperous. My mother fed us frozen vegetables and pasta. I spent a lot of time reading cookbooks and practicing. I hope to teach my kids so that when they’re adults this is just “what one does.”[/quote]

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