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I have an ongoing debate happening with an overweight friend about the cost of healthy eating. She contends that the poor can't eat healthy meals because it costs too much. That fresh fruits and vegetables are not in the budget where pasta and starchy foods are affordable. I don't find buying fresh veggies to be expensive. Fruit can be because I live in a northern area where most fresh fruit is imported putting the price up for part of the year.
I contend that buying a smaller quantity of good, fresh, healthy food is better than stuffing yourself with pastas, breads and junk food. I truly think a lot of it is mindset on how much you need to eat. Her thought is that it isn't her fault she is overweight because of her poor diet not that she makes poor choices.
Even if you had to live on cheap pastas, etc there has to be some ability to control portions. It can't be cheaper to eat a whole bag of pasta rather than eating a healthy amount of veggies and low fat meat.
Anyone else have any thoughts? I have to admit I've never had to live on a fixed income but that's another story when it comes to work ethic......
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I contend that buying a smaller quantity of good, fresh, healthy food is better than stuffing yourself with pastas, breads and junk food. I truly think a lot of it is mindset on how much you need to eat. Her thought is that it isn't her fault she is overweight because of her poor diet not that she makes poor choices.
Even if you had to live on cheap pastas, etc there has to be some ability to control portions. It can't be cheaper to eat a whole bag of pasta rather than eating a healthy amount of veggies and low fat meat.
Anyone else have any thoughts? I have to admit I've never had to live on a fixed income but that's another story when it comes to work ethic......
33colors.com
