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Originally Posted by MohandasKGanja
Fatty, high-calorie foods are, as far as I can see, a lot cheaper than healthy, low-fat foods. And store longer. Bananas only keep for a few days. A twinkie, which costs marginally less than a banana (per unit), will keep for months and months.
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This really does not compute for me; it never has. Bananas are about 79 cents a pound
at their worst here! 79 cents for a POUND of food. That's a lot of food. And you can often get them for 49 cents a pound. I really don't think Twinkies are anywhere near that cheap, at last they're not in Canada (and that may be the case since I don't think we manufacture them, but at any rate...). Chips are most definitely not cheap here
at all. It's like $3.50 for a bag of basic potato chips.
Basic fruits and vegetables are cheap, even when they almost exclusively need to be imported (like in Northern Ontario). Maybe not asparagus, mangoes, or baby spinach, but carrots, potatoes, beets, onions, apples, oranges, and bananas are all cheap. Pasta is cheap. Rice is cheap. Canned tomatoes and legumes are cheap. Peanut butter is cheap for the amount of food the jar contains. Frozen juice concentrate is cheap. Oats in bulk are cheaper that just about
any packaged cereal. Water is free.
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Originally Posted by WhateverLolaWants
Being in Georgia I see them loading up at the store...boxes and boxes of mac and cheese, frozen breaded chicken patties, canned spaghetti...then washing it all down with a HUGE flat of sodas.
And yes, its all cheap. You can eat really cheap that way. But you know what else is cheap? Veggies. Fruit. Rice. Water. Most of all, meals prepared by YOU without preservatives and that generate leftovers for another meal's worth of consumption.
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I agree - and I don't get how anyone can justify drinking soda in an effort to save money. Water. Is. Free. Money on soda is money that simply doesn't need to be spent.