Quote:what exactly is cheaper healthy food? if healthy food was cheaper we wouldn't be having this discussion

 

You mean the responses to your ridiculous assertion that poor people must eat garbage to survive? Canned goods and frozen items not only provide more than adequate nutrition, they are plenty inexpensive enough for a person willing to spend the time shopping sensibly rather than sit in a drive thru, to eat well. Not only that, but more portions can be prepared and kept with very inexpensive storage containers to make additional meals. I guarantee you I could buy Walmart store brand items that would last several nutritionally complete meals for the price of one day's worth of junk food. Meat, vegetables, and starches - all can be purchased and prepared economically for anyone who is willing to expend the effort.  I know because I grew up dirt poor. If it wasn't for welfare there would have been many days I wouldn't have eaten at all. My mother purchased the makings of well-balanced meals and we ate well. Not a lot, sometimes it seemed not enough, but it was nutritionally complete. She taught herself how to make bread and many of the dishes she prepared with a crippled dominant hand. I never realized what a saint she was until I had my own family. So these empty assertions that people can't fend responsibly for themselves without high school classes or "wealth" falls on deaf ears with me. 

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