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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no solution for eating well because in order to do that - healthy and tasty - you need time + right ingredients.  Sorry but who wants to eat a boiled egg every day?!  Who wants to eat raw carrots daily?  So you're gonna buy 10 bananas and eat 3 every day? Are you kidding - would you do it?

The only solution really is get off SNAP and either get a job that allows for $ to get something you throw in the microwave/frozen foods ad nauseum or order out.  OR change the conversation entirely and talk about a fundamental change of delivering actual sustainable foods to those less fortunate.

If you or I were on SNAP for the foreseeable forever, we would also be dining of fast food daily.  For us who have always had money, we have no idea what life is like for those who don't but I imagine they don't have a ton of education, time or interest in "eating well" rather eating something/anything that tastes like something and let's face it, 3 aisles and 50 brands of chips out there makes for an easy shopping decision!

This whole conversation is silly.  So if you disagree about SNAP being spent on junk food, what does it actually matter?  You really so egotistical as to think you're better eating a ton of salt/sugar/food colorings and preservatives? Unless you have a personal chef who makes you meals like Giselle or Opera, I bet that you are eating your fair share of junk food.  [/quote]

Your entire premise is so self defeating and weak I don’t even know where to start. People should eat a little bit, mostly plants.

Honestly, if we could mandate the Mediterranean diet in this country I would.

But we can’t and we have huge lobbies and they get their way.

You crying about how hard it is to make a PBJ, eat some grilled carrots, cook lentils, or eat a boiled egg are the problem. I can’t imagine what else is an impossible seeming task for you. Should we subsidize dry cleaning too because it’s too hard to wash clothes? How about we subsidize robot butlers for poor people?

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