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green-street-politics:

cinnamonhearth:

green-street-politics:

lifeisyourstomiss:

Pretty sure I’ve reblogged this before, but it’s so true and important. People claim to not have enough money or time to eat healthy, but that’s just a load of crap. I’ve SAVED so much money through cooking my own healthy meals, you just have to be smart. Cut coupons, take advantage of deals, and don’t be afraid to try new healthy things when they’re on sale. Produce can be really inexpensive if you go to the right places, and sometimes organic produce is even cheaper than the regular. When you go out to eat, you spend $5 on one cheeseburger meal. You could spend $10 on ground turkey and potatoes and have enough for 5 turkey burger meals. You do the math…

Let’s continue to ignore food deserts, economic/financial privilege, how FUCKING EXPENSIVE IT IS to be poor, and, y’know, even if all of that doesn’t apply to a person, people can still fucking eat what they want?

Also, $10 for 5 turkey burgers?  Where the fuck do you live?

Wait so you’re saying it’s a better idea to go ahead and eat McDonald’s?

Never said that.

I’m saying it might be the only option for people, if even McDonald’s is an option.  There are quite a few places where people can only get produce from a gas station convenience store (which, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen, but a single brown banana from a c-store probably averages ~$0.60 USD, or the price of a pound of organic bananas at a grocery store that doesn’t exist anywhere near them).

I’ve worked at natural/organic grocers in Plano and Dallas, and shopped at grocery stores all over NTX, in addition to Massachusetts, NY, Connecticut, etc.

In 1993, while we were living in Australia, it cost literally $2 USD PER BANANA because of the cost to ship them to the Alice.  While I can’t imagine right now a banana would cost that much in the contiguous US, the price isn’t that far off, and sixty cents for a single banana when one might only have $10 USD this month for food… for the whole month… is just not a practical purchase.

Many people don’t have the money for this kind of healthy diet, and the numbers on the graphic are ridiculously out of touch with reality… or the reality of the general population in the US.

Many people also don’t have time to shop for and prepare this kind of healthy diet, usually because they’re too busy working multiple low-paying jobs so they can afford to have as much as a roof over their head.

People can eat whatever the hell they want and what they can afford, but eating healthy IS A PRIVILEGE.

I wouldn’t say eating healthy is a privilege.. I mean, eating at all is a basic necessity to survive (McDonald’s came after lettuce…).  I don’t know why you’re getting so angry over this.  I was just asking.  Also, I’m sure there are plenty of fat Americans, driving cars - with gasoline in them, which costs money - to the nearest McDonald’s, past the Tom Thumb, to get their “cheaper” dinner.  It’s still true that people who have the money to get McDonald’s also have the money to get leaner food for less.  It may cost more at the time because it comes in larger amounts but it’s more food anyway so it makes sense to do that.  Again, I’m not trying to have a back and forth rant, which it clearly seems like you are looking for, so I’ll end with this: I agree with what you first reblogged, but this post obviously isn’t directed at anyone in particular, meaning it probably isn’t thinking about the people in rural areas or developing countries or whatever.  In my opinion, and from what I feel the message is supposed to be telling us, fat Americans can afford to eat healthier.  End of story.

(Source: healthyisclassy)