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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.[/quote]

The reality is that preparing healthy food is time-consuming, especially if someone is juggling two jobs or one job and childcare (e.g., getting kids to and from daycare, school, etc). It is exhausting to stand on your feet all day, then stand to cook as well as be present for your kids.

It effing sucks to not have money. My parents stressed over every meal as there were more mouths than portions. I grew up hating cooking because it = stress. Now I generally love to cook, but it took some years to get to that place. [/quote]

So many excuses from well meaning, but misguided altruists.

It takes 10 mins to boil an egg. You can eat the white for protein and discard the yolk if you want.

You can eat a banana or fruit immediately.

Pasta takes 7 minutes.

I’m sorry but microwaving a hungry man dinner that’s 55% sodium and other crap hurts our country.

On a similar note, I’m tired of the “healthy at any size” movement.

Snap benefits primarily being used for fking soda and chips is why we are here. It affects everything from early death to military retention rates. Stop making excuses for unhealthy behavior because you feel bad about poor people. You are not helping with encouraging shtty food at every meal.[/quote]

So a dozen eggs = 2.5 servings for a family of four. What happens for the rest of the week?

Pasta sucks. It really does. Just carbs carbs carbs. I make it for my family 1x/week with sauteed fresh veggies and a protein side or with tossed greens and browned Italian chicken sausage. That's it.

Fruit is great in the moment but there's no protein in it.

The real solution - people earning living wages through just one job, having an affordable home, and access to health care so if they are injured on the job they can recover and return to the work force as opposed to hobble around for the remainder of their life. [/quote]

But somehow a bag of chips and a package of cookies is sufficient and better because they have lots and lots of calories? How?

America’s obesity problem is insane. Taxpayers are paying to make people obese and then paying for the people they made obese to receive medical treatment for obesity related medical conditions. people suffer when obese. We are really hurting our poorest population. [/quote]

Everybody is overweight or obese in the U.S. The standard American diet is trash. Nobody exercises. No wonder we have huge problems with T2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s. The situation with microplastics probably isn’t helping either.[/quote]

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