This sort of thing happens on my dash every so often, and it makes me want to shake people. Say you’re in a working family, that someone in your family is lucky enough to have a job at all. If you live in a place that’s close to a grocery store, and if you are fortunate enough to have reliable transportation to get a huge load of groceries home, maybe you can make these better food choices. But that’s only if you have the time, energy, education, and resources to actually cook this food after a long day at work.
Life isn’t as easy as an attractive infographic in the New York Times.
Some day, someone, somewhere will explain to me why these bullshit infographics never take the effort of cooking, the cost of food storage, transportation, or even allergies into account.
Also, I’m pretty sure this isn’t correct…Most studies are showing that these prices aren’t accurate, and it’s much more expensive to eat healthily.
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/diet-nutrition/story/2011/08/The-high-cost-of-healthy-eating-out-of-reach-for-many/49805612/1
I don’t know where the OP found this graphic, but people should keep in mind these food prices may not be accurate. Prices aren’t the same everywhere you go, and a lot of people won’t find an onion for 37 cents or a lemon for 50. Not to mention it’s not really possible to buy rice by CUP. (also 5 cents for pepper and salt? I don’t think so.)
^^ commentary.
Yeah this is crap. I know I’m fortunate enough not to live in a food desert, but there are MANY of them just in Milwaukee and I drive through them pretty frequently. Knowing they exist is enough for me to call bullshit on this. And the only reason I ever make it to the store is because I, again, am privileged enough to have my own car - if I was relying on public transportation, with the way my school and work schedules are, I literally would not be able to get to the grocery store before they close on most days, and by then it would already be past midnight, so forget about actually cooking. I rarely cook as it is because I get home so late. Sorry I don’t want to spend 2 hours making stuffed fucking rice peppers at one in the morning.
I’m lucky enough to be in walking distance of a 24-hour Dominick’s.
Where I live now, I have to drive about 10 mins to get to a grocery store. When I move, the closest “grocery store” will be Wal-Mart and it’ll probably be a 20 min drive. Also, where the hell did they find an onion for 37 cents??? I want to shop there.
Yeah this is full of shit. Prices vary from place to place and also accessiblity is a HUGE part in being able to buy these products. I’m in no way sticking up for Mcdonalds or any other fast food corp. but you have to understand that the working class in this country can’t afford or don’t have the time to go grocery shopping every week for their family.
