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Junk food is easy.  It's tasty!  I'm UMC and I love junk food too :) It's awful for you and I know it.  I'm highly educated and I still love it!  I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal.  But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal?  Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross.  I find a lot of healthy snacks gross.  On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think.  REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare.   A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing.  Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor.  IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods.  Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos.  Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!  [/quote]

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.[/quote]

So what do you eat consistently?  You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water?  Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL!  It's not about eating Michelin.  It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals.  You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.[/quote]

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not 
 weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.[/quote]

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?[/quote]

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present. [/quote]

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse. [/quote]

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