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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
On top of being poor, they've often got to work extra hours or jobs and that leaves little to no time for meal prep. Pile kids into that and it becomes an impossible seeming task.
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It's so much easier to eat
badly when we are poor. The endless stretcher carbs with the can of tuna, eating lots of toast with the stale bread on sale, and now I understand Wal-Mart has a discount pastry rack where someone can get a dozen day-old donuts for a dollar.
There's
nothing for a dollar in the meat section.
I think the "fear of meat and dairy" only accelerates this process. I made lots of Hamburger Helper and mixed the nonfat milk powder with whole milk, when it was four of us and single mom.
But we got milk and butter and hamburger. Now, who does?
I have been SHAMED for eating only the insides of sandwiches. "Wasting" bread! Which is essentially vitamin-enriched wallpaper paste, fluffed up like ice cream.
We've always eaten bread, people tell me. No, no. Read
Wheatbelly, and the British struggles to bring back the real bread of the 19th century. New rising methods lack the nutrition that gets made into Vegemite. (As I understand it.) Sounds like a vegan Frankenfood to me
But today's vegans don't even get that. They completely ignore protein. And I'm likely on the high end (5'7", size nine shoe, if I go below a size 8 I'm underweight) so I'm not a petite person. And I
need 120 grams a day.