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

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap? [/quote]
Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.[/quote]
dp  This is 2024, not 1974.  A 2 liter bottle of soda is cheaper than a half gallon of milk.

I also remember soda being expensive when I was younger. We only started getting it when my dad started making more when I was a teen.  McD was also not that relatively cheap.

This is not the case today.

A  little carton of fresh strawberries cost $4.99 (and sometimes $6.99). It's not much of a snack to last a week, and actually, it wouldn't even last week because it would start to get moldy.  A bag of chips is $2.99 and can last a week.[/quote]

A bag of chips doesn’t last a week. Chips cost between $6-$7 if not more per bag. Show me $2.99 chips.[/quote]
You're not comparing like for like in terms of size.

A small carton with a dozen strawberries is $5.  A small bag of chips that has more than a dozen chips is $2.99.[/quote]

Fresh frozen strawberries are much cheaper than fresh and nutritious.

Apples 
oranges
celery
carrots

what’s wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing as a side? [/quote]
Your privilege is showing.

Fruit is very perishable.  Most low income  people cannot go to the grocery store more than once per week.  [/quote]
^Bloated government worker?[/quote]
I'm the "fruit is very perishable" poster.  I don't know if you're referring to me, but I work in the private sector, in tech. I've never worked for the government.

I eat fresh fruit almost every morning with my oatmeal, which takes like 30min to slow cook. Fruit is pretty expensive. We don't normally have chips in the house; the only soda we have is ginger ale, and a few small coke bottles for guests who want it.  I wfh; I live a nice umc life.  But, I didn't always. I grew up lower income, immigrant family.

I think so many of you live in a privileged bubble and have zero clue on what it's like to grow up in a low income, urban household, many with single working moms.[/quote]
Now tell us you had soda and chips for supper. --Also from hard working immigrant family. We could never afford soda or chips. Ever. [/quote]
pp here. I recall heating up canned soup or a tv dinner for breakfast, when I was in ES, by myself. We didn't have a working oven (no microwave at the time), so I cooked it on the stove top.    Not as bad as soda or chips as a meal, but yes, I ate overly processed foods for meals. Or, I skipped meals.  I was a latchkey kid starting at the age of  7 or 8. When I got home, I was starving, so I ate .. chips.

My mother woke up at 5am to prep dinner. But, at least my dad drove her to the grocery store (she never learned to drive), and she didn't have to take public transport lugging all the groceries.  All she did was cook, clean and go to work.  I can't imagine how much harder her life would have been had she not had access to a car or was a single parent.   Immigrant kids I knew ate overly processed food all the time.

She had a really hard life and now has alzheimers. I'm convinced it's from all the stress she went through.[/quote]

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