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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So in order to eat and feed my family healthily in the U.S. I have to wake up at 3 am to bake bread, then roast the chicken, then milk the cow and proceed in this manner all day long?! Or spend 6 dollars on some frozen bread? Bravo America and Americans! In my European county, I just buy bread in the morning or breakfast from the bakery![/quote] I don’t have to wake up at 3 am to bake bread. You can make no knead bread without fancy equipment and with minimal prep time. A lot of the work is done by the yeast while you’re sleeping or eating. Roasting chicken is another thing where it takes a few minutes to marinate and then throw it in the oven for 45 minutes. Put some veggies in there to roast too. Quick and easy.[/quote] OMG, how tone deaf can your responses be?! No one is saying that it's impossible to do these things, but it's close to impossible if you don't have a proper kitchen (like many low income Americans) or an unpredictable schedule (also like many low income Americans). And the larger point is that it doesn't have to be this way. There are countries where you can buy sliced bread at the market that isn't full of sugar (or doesn't cost 3x a regular loaf). This isn't a recipe thread, it's a discussion about what's wrong with the food system in the US.[/quote] But is OP someone without a working kitchen? Is she someone working three jobs without benefits? I doubt it. She doesn’t have a excuse.[/quote] OP here. I have a full time job and I have a child that has to be taken to activities after school. I have to get up at 6AM and make DC a healthy lunch, then I make myself lunch, a dinner. That's a lot of cooking. I don't have time to make homemade bread and my own healthy version of ketchup. We're not Amish. The difference is in other countries it's easy and convenient to find healthy, delicious food outside the home. In US it's practically impossible. Can you persevere and eat healthy in spite all that? Sure. But how many of you can? 20%? And at what cost? How many women quit careers because they don't have time to take care of kids? And now they have to bake bread too in order for their families to be healthy? Do you see how absurd it is and how wonderful our life would be if food industry was regulated?[/quote]
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