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Part of that obesity comes from how expensive eating right can get, especially now.
Eat shit from McDonald's? 5 bucks.
Grab a bag of broccoli, salt and pepper? You're already at like $10 now.
How much is broccoli where you live? I can get a frozen bag for a couple bucks and a pair of salt and pepper shakers at the dollar store.
In no timeline is prepped fast food cheaper than making food at home you bought at the grocery store. A $5 pound of meat and a bottle of BBQ sauce makes 4 delicious meatloafs. Throw in the bag of broccoli and salt + pepper shakers and you have dinner for 4 for around $7-8.
Fast food excuses are what the fat and lazy use to justify their indolence.
A $5 pound of meat??? Meat is up to $12+ a pound here
Are you in a bubble that dodged inflation? My cart at the grocery store went from $60 2 years ago to close to $200 every trip
I live where the meat is. Do you live in some awful metropolis? That would be why.
Think where these "magic bubbles" actually are and whether you are actually looking outside of one and misinterpreting the rest of the world as being the ones inside a bubble?
im not in a metropolis. southern alabama.
And if anything, I thought I was in a bubble and that it was worse everywhere else.
town population of 40k
Imagine how great $5 I would love to live there, but I live with my sister and I do not have money. Here just simple meat is like around $17.00 a package, but I cook for me so it is like 3 or 4 meals
Ground beef is around $5 a pound in my southern state. That’s way overpriced now, before it was much cheaper to feed 4.
Shit, I just got 85/15 ground beef for 3.50 a pound the other day at the grocery store.
I can't believe some places would charge that much!
I don't think you grasped that it was a slight exaggeration, and I used some of the least exciting food possible.
Also, $5 a pound of meat? Hah. Down below you seem condescending towards anyone who, quote, "lives in a metropolis".
A shitty piece of meat is definitely above that price per pound, and I live in suburbia.
This is just as unhealthy for you as fast food, with preservatives shoved into the bottle to boot.
Actually, the intellectually deficient associate the consumption of fast food with weight exclusively, when this is simply not the case. A lot of fit athletes use fast food for "dirty" carbs and fats in a pinch, and is a staple of body building for the last like, 50 years.
But the fact of the matter is, food prices are rising and fast food prices aren't rising as quickly. To add on to this point, anyone working extra hours or a second job -- ostensibly not lazy -- may find themselves in a position where fast food becomes a regular part of their diet, especially in the present situation.
For ~$5, you can get 2000 calories of food from fast food. It is undeniably the most efficient source of calories per dollar.
Now let's say you're a trucker. Definitely not lazy people. Say you're on the road almost every day. When do you gain access to groceries, a kitchen, and time to cook while meeting shipping deadlines and grabbing your federally mandated sleep?
No, they'll tend to eat fast food, restaurants, -- many of which just microwave from packages for significant parts of the meals anyway -- preserved snacks like jerky that can be eaten quickly on the road, etc.
Truckers are hard workers. Not lazy. And yet they don't get as much time to eat right or exercise because they're delivering our shit that makes us able to eat right and exercise right.
So there are a LOT of reasons why people turn to fast food, and the price per calorie is already one.
Further, if you manage your caloric, protein and carb intake you can maintain a healthy weight off of fat food too.
There is more to people being outright fat than just where they eat, or even what they eat. It's really how much they eat, a disconnect from how many calories are actually in what they're eating, and an overly body positivity culture that shames you for being skinny anyway.
Lastly, it's about $3 a bag it looks like for 16 ounces of florets. You would have to consume ~45 florets in a 16 ounce bag. That's a lot of florets.
It's also only about 158 calories.
Broccoli is NOT $10. Stop making excuses for being fat.
Yes, but nobody is forcing them to eat McDonalds and preventing them from growing a garden. The point is, nobody is going hungry unless they have shitty parents.
it is illegal to grow produce gardens in many areas of the usa. not sure about the rest of the world.
No it’s not. You just can’t grow in your front yard because of HOA or local ordinances.
Thats what I just said. It doesn't matter if it is a federal law, or if it is a co-op of HOA's and counties / cities & towns copy and pasting the same ideas coast to coast through connections from social club such as rotary, elks, masons, or 'industry best practices'.
The effect is the same.
The 'rules' come from some central planner and then get rolled out at EVERY level of government. the level of government involved just depends on what rule it is, then they try to convince you that 'you' locally decided you wanted those rules.
That’s right. Plus it is not my home and she has HOA but I am skinny as hell
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Growing a garden takes time and effort, and not feasible for every area. For example, rodents run rampant in an area a few miles near me because they flushed the sewers and are constructing homes. This has been an ongoing problem for years now.
My aunt's garden was destroyed by them. To stop rodents from getting in, they'd have to spend a lot of money on maintenance, or build an enclosed garden -- but oh wait, you can't do that without expensive materials and permits which may not be granted.
Obviously no one "forces" anyone to eat McDonald's, yes. But there are a lot of demoralizing restrictions right now with the rapidly rising cost of food, diminishing time from families who are trying to keep up with rising property costs and gas costs, and still many mouths to feed.
So it's easy to understand -- if you're not retarded and slow -- why people end up turning to fast food more frequently, especially right now.
To act like it's feasible for everyone to have a garden is laughable, and not everyone has the opportunity, space, funds, time or even legal allowance to do so. That's just not reality. Your own personal experiences and situation does not mean everyone else has those same experiences or situations.
But yes -- people aren't going hungry. That's true. People have opportunities to obtain food for cheap, even if it's fast food. It is also not our responsibility to "end world hunger" either.