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Love this!! There’s no excuse to not eat healthy :) 

These are American prices, this stuff (the fast food included) would not be that cheap here, but I’ll reblog this anyway.

I support eating healthy, this isn’t about that.  I don’t really want to get into that argument. 

Yes, eating fast food is more expensive than eating healthy.  Fresh produce, however, is a lot more expensive than the junk foods one might find in the store.

What I would like to know is where these prices are coming from?  I haven’t run across chicken for that cheap.  Nor the fruit [strawberries are particularly expensive around here; could be regional]

I think my beef with this photoset is that it is a blanket statement.  Back to my comment there in brackets, prices could be a totally regional think.  So while OP can find those items on the cheap, some of us can’t.

I can’t find the relevant article with just a cursory google and may seek it out when it’s not 3am for me, but there was an article [it may have been a study?  I don’t recall.] about obesity or something, it was related to this in that it studied budgeted living and the cost of living and how buying junk food could be a cheaper alternative/more convenient because of circumstances.  Convenient stores like 7/11 are more available than supermarkets, particularly in larger cities.  Many lower income families don’t have a car and rely on public transit.  That means carrying all those groceries home.  On a crowded bus.  After a long work shift.  And likely, taking a longer bus route/multiple buses to get from the store and back to your original route.  If factoring in the time was a thing, say you had an hour bus ride or something, would you want something that could go bad?

I get it.  Eat healthy.  But there are other concerns beyond being lazy and such.

…sorry to reblog this on you with this big ass 3am rant, clearly I just need to learn to sleep.  I’ll try to find and append that article as well because it’s more factual than my rambling, certainly, and has more credibility than some blogger on the intarwebs.

*eyes those prices* HAHAHA what a load of bullshit. i’d say someone just doesn’t do their own grocery shopping, except i spy some consistency here, like how the prices of the “bad” choices have all been jacked up while those of the good ones have been dropped drastically. show your work, OP, or GTFO.

The OP obviously lives in the magic land of ~personal responsibility~ where of course it is your fault if you’re poor for making ‘bad choices’, and totally not that these prices are hideously unrealisticfor at least a few parts of the States — I have never been to a metropolitan area that had prices anywhere near that low (for certain values of ‘low’, $3 for a loaf of halfway decent bread that probably still has HFCS in it is fucking absurd).

Never mind other countries; the one that sticks out most at me is that 2 pounds of chicken breasts would run me about 8€, but everything on this list is considerably more expensive here except for bread and maybe potatoes.

This is utter bullshit and I don’t — and never have— even lived in a fucking food desert.  I lived in downtown portland on foodstamps for about three years, and had access to a safeway within half an hour’s walk, and a farmer’s market on weekends. And the farmer’s market took stamps too, thank fuck.  Absolute luxury, compared to what the majority of destitute americans could afford, and, yeah, according to the state my income/rent put me literally in the destitute category. I got about 150$ a month. Interestingly this meant I couldn’t buy fast food because foodstamps didn’t cover it, but I could pick up grocery store frozen pizza, which was an absolute necessity a few nights a month because I took 18 credits a semester and worked retail 18-25 hours on top of that. Sometimes you don’t have the energy to do anything more than shovel cheese into your face while you try and get an essay done before you pass out.

• Meatless burgers: bullshit. Vegan products are too expensive and make me feel jittery and sick. Beef costs anywhere from 3-5$ a pound and sometimes you can’t find anything on sale.
• Why the fuck would you buy cashews not from a bulk bin
• Why would you buy cashews
• Bugs get in them
• Ick
• 1 pound of strawberries: 3-6$, tastes like cardboard, goes bad in three days. Get from farmers’ market or don’t bother. 
• 10 pounds of potatoes: i can’t carry ten pounds of potatoes
• 5 pounds of potatoes: 3-5$ ow fuck my back
• 1 carton of pure good quality orange juice: 3-5$
• 1 gallon of pure good quality orange juice: probably 6-7$
• frozen mixed veggies: 50 cents if you’re lucky and like lima beans
• frozen mixed veggies you actually like: 1.50- 2$
• 1 pound dried pinto beans: you will never remember to soak these ahead of time
• 1 pound dried pinto beans: bug food
• broccoli: 1-3$, eat real fast. 

Total price, 30-40 and doesn’t even include onions. I can’t think of any single meal I’d actually make with this random pile of junk. Even if you got the pinto beans you can’t make a bean soup because there’s literally no other ingredients that you’d need for a bean soup, like broth, onion, other beans, etc. Plus remembering to soak the beans in preparation involves a safe space, a bug-free apartment, and a brain that actually works for that kind of forward-planning type of deal. You could have… veggies and juice? Hamburger and… broccoli? My usual shopping list is chicken, hamburger, pasta, potatoes, onions, carrots, frozen stir-fry veggies, bread, tuna, canned beans, and a few apples for about 40$. Versatile and fairly decent, you can make a bunch of different foods with those ingredients. What can you cook with cashews? Fuck cashews.  

Whatever asshole is trying to shame me into living a better life can’t even get even the most bogglingly basic shit right.

^^^ Exactly.  If someone will take me to the magical paradise land where I can have a living wage and 2 POUNDS of chicken breast for under $2, I’ll gladly eat organic, locally grown, all fresh produce, etc etc.  Until that day comes, I’m probably going to supplement a large portion of my diet with canned stuff and frozen things that will keep.  I’m just thankful I live within walking distance of an actual grocery store, instead being forced to shop at the 7-11/CVS like I had to a couple years ago.

Also worth pointing out: “Great Value” is a Wal-Mart store brand. I don’t judge people who shop there to stretch their food budgets… I have employee owned grocery stores around me that tend to meet or beat their prices and definitely beat the quality, but I’m well aware that I’m not everybody… but if you’re in a position to choose, “everyday low prices” might not be your only criteria.

So for less than $2 I can buy 6 ounces of dried cranberries… or a whole *pound* of twizzlers!

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