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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them. [/quote]

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go. [/quote]

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce![/quote]

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce.  They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.  [/quote]

This is hilarious.  Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening.  It’s packaged crap and fast food.  9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of [b]oatmeal[/b] ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice. [/quote]

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat [i]flavoured[/i] oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.[/quote]

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.[/quote]

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time. [/quote]

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no. [/quote]

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.[/quote]

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk. [/quote]

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.[/quote]

Not sure why you are arguing.  The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
 But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast.  So is oatmeal.  The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious.  All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad[/quote]

+1. If you make it at home, and not with bacon/sausage every day, it is fine. With the fast food variety, who knows what crap they are putting in it[/quote]

Go look at the ingredients in an egg McMuffin and get back to me. It’s no different than what you make. Unless you’re making your own English muffins, which I highly doubt. [/quote]

Yes it is.  But clearly you have no idea about the food you eat.  So carry on [/quote]

So you can’t explain how homemade is better. No surprise there. [/quote]

If someone is willfully blind you can’t make them see. You can bring it up, but if they refuse to open their eyes then it is time to stop wasting your time on them (as the rest of the world likely has or will).[/quote]

Might I suggest oatmeal?  :lol: [/quote]

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