In two weeks my vacation begins. Kids go back to school on Sept 7th. Hopefully I will then slowly recuperate from this idiocy disease which has stolen my mind and ability to function (of course I’m gonna blame the kids otherwise I’d have to actually admit that it was me and isn’t that the whole [...]
Everywhere you look these days you see stories about fat Americans. A lot of this is attributed to fast food and sedentary lifestyles. Too many pizzas ordered while sitting on your fat butt watching TV or playing video games. I’ve never had the best eating habits – I don’t really eat meals I just kind of pick at stuff all day and I LOVE chocolate and look forward to my treat every night once I get the kids to bed.
But, now that I have kids I have to pay more attention to the food I bring into the house. If I bring in a back of chocolate and a bag of grapes what do you think the kids eat? The chocolate. So I decided to limit sweets to the weekend and to make sure the fruit bowl is always filled. I had absolutely no idea what an expensive undertaking it was going to be. I had a major epiphany – People are fat because they can’t afford to eat healthy. The cost of fresh fruits and vegetables is RIDICULOUS! I went into the grocery store the other day and bought 2 yummy bags of cherries a thing of coffeemate and an Arizona tea. When I got to the checkout and the girl said it was $50 I thought she had made a mistake, but nooo, the cherries were $6.99 a lb and each bag was about 3 lbs – Is this crazy? It’s like eating gold. I usually do a big shopping every two weeks and in between I’ll run out to get odds and ends - I spent over $80 the other day on fruits and veges, this is nuts. I need to plant my own garden or just let myself get fat – you can buy 10 cans of pringles chips for $10 and $10 huge hershey bars for $10 not to mention all the dollar menus at fast food joints. No wonder everyone is getting so huge and unhealthy, it’s a lot cheaper to eat crap so we can probably expect it to just get worse. Is it because junk food is cheaper, sells more, the companies become richer, do more marketing to people who are already sitting on their hiny’s all day? I’ve never seen a broccoli marketer putting a hot girl on TV trying to entice viewers to eat more vegetables. I’m sure there are all sorts of studies as to why people are chunking out these days but I think we should keep it simple – lower the prices on fruits and vegetables and increase the price on junk food. Problem fixed. (I’ll just go stock up on chocolate before the price increase)
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Jun 6, 2009 | Reply
So true! If those healthy fixes are cheaper, people would eat more of it.
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Jun 7, 2009 | Reply
My girlfriend love chocolate, but you know, I always tells her is bad and moreover she will get fat, but sometime… this sweet and loving chocolate are really making a desire in me too. I always try to force myself not to look at them… but of course I seldom eat them…
Jun 8, 2009 | Reply
You are absolutely right about the prices. I’ve actually planted my first garden this year but I’m a cherry eater as well and I can’t grow them over one season. Guess I’ve got to plan a little further in advance. I have no real idea what I’m doing so if anything grows I’ll be thrilled!
Jun 9, 2009 | Reply
hmmm it’s became so expensive ,…Shall we eat junk food everyday ? I don’t think so,..or this because of Global Financial Crisis ?
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Jun 10, 2009 | Reply
Fast food is so expensive because it is full of cheap fillers like flour, and places like McDonald’s are using slash and burn agriculture in place like Brazil to raise cattle so it is cheap. i have so many food allergies, I can’t even walk into a restaurant, and since I found out about my allergies, our grocery bill has doubled, in the winter, when things aren’t in season, our grocery bill can triple. It is ridiculous. i can’t starve myself (or maybe I could, but that would be a whole other set of problems), but I can’t afford to eat all the healthy stuff int he grocery store either. I try to plant gardens, and that helps, but in the dead of winter when there is three feet of snow in the ground, there really isn’t much to do but go and spend the money I don’t have on food I can’t afford :s
Jun 11, 2009 | Reply
Very true! Freah fruits and veggies are expensive. I know alot of poor people can’t afford much of that.
Jun 12, 2009 | Reply
i guess it might do a lot of people to spend less on food and thus on food and thus eat less
Jun 13, 2009 | Reply
My husband and I were discussing this very thing not long ago. When they raised the taxes on cigarettes, we started thinking about the things that should also be taxed as a sin tax. Fast food, junk food, video games… But I don’t really want to pay extra taxes on anything, so tobacco and alcohol it is!
Jul 3, 2009 | Reply
haha! Very good read