I don’t know about that. A combo meal at McDonald’s is inching closer to 15$ in a lot of places. You can go down to the grocery store and get a good amount of food for that much. Healthy doesn’t necessarily mean only the expensive organic, free range, non GMO whatever foods are worth eating.
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Kefass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s often cheaper to buy fastfood than healthy food
Alenalda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 months ago
It’s more than just the monetary investment though. It’s time and energy spent creating healthy meals, that if you’re working 12-14 hr days just becomes too much to handle.
Alenalda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It takes roughly 5 min and 1$ to scramble up a few eggs. It doesn’t need to take an hour to prepare a decent affordable meal at home.
lady_maria@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It takes much more effort to make a healthy well-rounded meal than just scrambling up “a few eggs”. I’m happy you have enough time, energy, and physical ability to spend an hour making dinner, but a lot of people don’t.
Some have multiple jobs, kids, disabilities, ect. Others live in food deserts where it’s impossible—or at least very difficult—to find cheap, healthy food. Not to mention the people who were never taught how to cook, and would have to spend even more time, energy, (and very possibly wasted food) on learning how.
This is coming from someone who can and does cook cheap, healthy meals all of the time.
scottywh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m about to eat my fourth or fifth McDonald’s free double cheeseburger so far of this month just because someone on the local baseball team got a double and they give away a free one in the app to anyone who claims it in the state the next day.
With promotions and deals (which are pretty much always going on) it’s actually tough to get cheaper than eating fast food a lot of the time.
Gigan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wouldn’t say cheaper, but it’s definitely easier.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If time is money, than fastfood and processed foods are way cheaper than healthy options that require preparing and cleaning of pots/pans etc
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Stopping to buy fast food vs making food in one go for several days would make the difference a lot smaller. If you order online, especially if you have a recurring order, then fast food again gains a lot.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fast food implies prepared food. What healthy prepared food are you thinking of? It’s generally much cheaper. Ops post makes no sense. Poverty is not inversely proportional to weight at all
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
Jamie Oliver’s War on Nuggets: youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That and food deserts. Poor places in the US lack easy access to nutritional food.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 2 months ago
You can still lose weight if you eat unhealthy shit. Like I know people that eat McDonald’s everyday yet they ain’t fat. While you still don’t get all the necessary nutrients being unhealthy skinny is still better than being fat.
Kase@lemmy.world 2 months ago
being unhealthy but not overweight is still better than being fat.
Why do you say that? I guess that “unhealthy” isn’t very specific and could mean a lot of things. But health issues that are caused by malnutrition can certainly be worse than being fat. It just depends on the individual situation, I would think.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’d be surprised if that was actually true. I think what really matters is how much time and effort making your own food takes vs the speed and simplicity of buying fast food.
Price, time and effort can be minimized by making a large amount of the food in one guy that you eat for some days, but apparently some people hate eating the same food two (or more) days in a row, which, okay(?), I guess that’s one reason not to do it.
Mercival@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It is a fair point, being obese and poor can definitely be a a horrific feedback loop to get out of. In developed countries anyways, you don’t really see it in places where food is scarce, of course.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is just wrong, the tiny island nation of Nauru have a huge obesity problem as the only food they can get in any decent quantity are preprocessed food with very low nutritional value.