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[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]
Frozen strawberries are gross.  Also, how many nice grocery stores do you think exist in low income areas?  How many wealthy teens do you see eating celery sticks?[/quote]

Someone has a strawberry fetish.

There are tons of fruit besides strawberries. [/quote]
Indeed, and they are all perishable, and not readily available year round at grocery stores in low income areas, unless you think they should just eat rotting fruit.[/quote]

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