Kale, sprouts, celery, wild black African quinoa, carrots, ginger, cauliflower, 4 500ml bottles of first-pressed organic Greek olive oil, cumin, tumeric, bananas, nectarines, avocados, onions, wild talapia, fresh spinach linguine, tomatoes, gluten-free chia seed muffins, bok choy, string beans, fresh pesto, limes - $179Joanna said...
Well damn that is my grocery budget for the whole month!!!They need to make eating healthy more affordable... Have you ever belonged to a CSA program??
Cés said...
They Who?
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Whatev.. hope you live to a 1000!
^^Stepped on the toes of some Dorito eatin' muhfuggah
Well damn that is my grocery budget for the whole month!!! They need to make eating healthy more affordable... Have you ever belonged to a CSA program??
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Is this possible?
They Who?
Come one Ces, you know...Them!!!
Yeah, I don't know who "they" is either, but I have a feeling that if there is a "they", it's "them" same cats who put a "Light'n'Fit" label on yogurt with Aspartme in it, or "those" who created "lean Hot Pockets."
Wild black African quinoa, huh? Get 'em DV...
...about to cash in on this parsley plant growing on the deck and make some tabouli with sprouted quinoa...
Sorry, nothing personal, but if you can afford to spend up to $179 on grocery per month then that means y'can eat healthy. I spend abt $200 or $250 in a good month and iEat gd natural food - to the best of my knowledge its not been messed with.
There's no 'they' who can be mandated to make food cheaper, it's profitable to have good food pricey and mass food, dirt cheap. Corporations don't do anything for the poor unless it's profit driven, even the philanthrocapitalism of Fair Trade comes with a price tag. But that's capitalism; if the government was to propose price regulation, Americans would call it socialism.
So it's up to you the consumer and whether you have the financial and cultural capital to buy from local farmers markets or grow your own - seriously. For dirt-poor people the choice of healthy food over crap food is not always financial.
Of course I know there are hoods where there's more Chicken City's and liquor stores than green grocers, but OTOH what makes someone choose a bag of frozen fries over a bag of frozen spinach or cheap bread over decent oats porridge, sometimes has little to do with money and everything to do with Pavlovian conditioning and addictive behaviours created by the fastfood, fastlife, profitdriven world we live.
The only way to eat healthier is by people collectively doing so, not waiting on the corporate state to do summin.
...peace
Ces- good question.... Obviously food productions is big business and big business has a vested interest is produced low quality goods in high quantity... and the "government" is subsidizing the production of crappy food products.... not to mention that the "regulators" are in bed with the same companies who make the crap that is available.
KonWomyn- The poor food choices are not always financial, true, HOWEVER most farm stands and CSAs (which usually allow you to "subscribe" to receive fresh produce on a regular basis) do not accept anything but cash, and a lot of lower income individuals rely on food stamps to buy groceries.
Add to that the fact that there is often a significant distance to travel to find stores which not only carry healthy foods at a reasonable price but also accept food stamps, and the result is poor people becoming fatter and more unhealthy.
And I also believe there are addictive properties in the chemical and preservative laden foods.
"The only way to eat healthier is by people collectively doing so, not waiting on the corporate state to do summin."
I have to say I was very pleased when I saw that a local housing project had turned an empty field into a community garden for the residents... a step in the right direction IMHO
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