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I see that all the fucking time and it is a huge reason I'm a Republican.

It's especially precious when they have new phones, designer clothes/shoes/handbags, and the latest and greatest tech crap, and then have the nerve to make mouth noises like, 'You don't understand. You've obviously never been poor and have no idea what it's like.'

I buy my clothes from consignment shops, I have no tv, and my food costs are usually less than $100 a month because vegetables and lentils are cheaper than shit labeled 'fast food.' Budgeting, saving up a cushion in case of emergencies, and not buying shit you don't need are not difficult.

And spare me the noise about food deserts. That's been proven to be a lie:

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132076786/the-root-the-myth-of-the-food-desert

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity-challenged-in-studies.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/upshot/giving-the-poor-easy-access-to-healthy-food-doesnt-mean-theyll-buy-it.html

From what I can tell it's one of the only reasons you're a Republican.

Pretty much two reasons: because of this, and because it pisses people off.

There are other reasons. The good ol' second amendment being one of them.

Speaking of pissing people off, I've got a family reunion coming up and my mother has put a moratorium on political discussion. Now I can tick off my Commie relations. :(

I didn't read all of those articles, but one line in the last one struck me. "The cost of food — and people’s habits of shopping and eating — appear to be much more powerful than just convenience." Uh, duh? I would love to eat healthily. However, I generally walk the two and a half miles to and from work. I am fortunate that there is a grocery store right by my work, but it's a hassle to get food home. (If I take the bus, I only have to walk about 3/4 of a mile.) However, if I had a grocery store less than a block away, I can't say that I would eat entirely healthily because fruits and vegetables are expensive. I can have a dinner of pasta and butter or sauce for about $.50. This fills me up for the night. That amount of fruits and vegetables would be nothing comparatively. (For the record, I do get a ride to my local farmer's market every other week and pick up at least some cheap things, but it's not as much as I would like.) Cost matters. Also, what people have grown used to matters. If you start a kid eating fruits and vegetables young, then they develop a taste for them and will eat them. If they aren't exposed to them, then unsurprisingly, they won't tend to choose them. Grocery stores and community gardens and public/farmer's markets need to be a thing long term, and people need to be encouraged/incentivized/subsidized to use them to get the next generation to start eating healthy and to allow them to afford to eat healthy.

You would 'love' to eat healthy, but you can't be arsed to carry a shopping bag or two home from work? Bananas (which I got for 69 cents today) are not that heavy. Neither are carrots (99 cents) or broccoli (little more than a dollar).

Pasta and sauce aren't bad for you. Certainly not if you have a cup of broccoli before eating it, or an apple for desert. Neither are lentils with chopped up carrots, ham and onions. I think I paid more than $2 for apples, and I'll grant that they're heavier than the rest, but get a backpack and suck it up. It's not that hard.

If you're on this forum then you are very likely not a child. You can choose healthy food (and before you give that tired old line about not knowing how to cook, we're on the internet. Google it.) or you can choose to eat crap.

People don't need to be babied into eating healthy food. It is not the job of the government to do for grown, capable adults what they should do for themselves.

When you're entire argument against eating healthy can be summarized as 'I don't wanna' then it's time to admit that you're just making excuses.

I have to agree with you. I'm living in the US now, so experiencing first hand how expensive food shopping can get. I am horrified, for example, by the prices of bell peppers, which I love and used to eat often.
So now I don't eat bell peppers as much. Or if I do, I pair it with something cheaper to balance it out. There are a lot of things on sale, and a lot of foods that can be stretched far - squashes, for example. Potatoes. Onions are pretty cheap, they're healthy, and you can put them in almost anything.
Cabbage is great, it can sit for a long time, and you can make lots of things with it. Same with carrots.

When I go shopping, if I know I have to get a lot of stuff - either I take some kind of rolling cart, or my hiking backpack which is made to carry weight.

I guess my verdict is, fresh vegetables are still surprisingly expensive for me, but if you shop intelligently it should be manageable for many people.

Two and a half miles? In an area that gets well over 100" of snow in the winter? Yes, I do mind carrying shopping bags home. I already carry a backpack with the things I need for work every day.

And currently I have some tomatoes, some broccoli, some tangerines, and some peppers that I picked up. But it is more difficult and definitely more expensive than the simple carbs of white pasta and white rice. Maybe it is my area? Again, I live very north, so it's not like we have a huge growing season / farming community as I might if I lived more to the south. And thus things might be more expensive for me than for you. Like that broccoli? $1.79 a pound here. The carrots are $1.29 to $1.79 a pound. Apples are $2.49 to $3.49 a pound. And that is at the cheaper of the two grocery stores in the area. The one that isn't by my work and definitely requires bus rides. When my budget for food is $1-2 (ideally $1, but I can't always make it) a day? That adds up fast.

It really is expense for me a lot of the time. When I inherited money from a relative who died, so I both felt justified in the expense of the bus and had more money in my food budget, I ate healthy for almost an entire year. Then the money ran out.

Feel free to resent me all you want, obviously, but it isn't easy to eat healthy while being poor in a city. (I did try gardening my first year in this apartment, but my tiny yard gets zero sun and nothing survived.) I will do the best I can as I can. And you will continue to pass judgement. I just thought I'd share the perspective of someone actually living the life.

I love it when people act like they're hurting me when all they're doing is making their own lives harder. $1.79 isn't that expensive and you're already walking 2.5 miles anyway. You're not 'living the life' you're finding reasons not to do what you say you would 'love' to do.

I'm glad you're suffering :)

ooh, such asshole, much edgy

huh, here I'd think all the people hating on poor people in this thread with garbage welfare queen tropes would be the assholes, but sure

Posting anon because I don't need the hassle, but your bullshit about food deserts being a lie means I don't particularly like you very much.

They are a lie. I posted links detailing how they were proven to be a lie. Sorry reality doesn't align with your need to be a victim.

Yes, we already guessed you must be.

/barf

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