Jexy said:
I like meat. Meat is expensive. I eat a lot during each meal, and about 4,500 calories a day, down far from when I was into athletics every day. I'm also anosmic. That means I cannot smell spices, therefore they rarely translate into much taste. I'm not going to run on vegetables. My body doesn't work that way. And you've never eaten Kosher obviously... which means it HAS to have a K on it, which means its already double as expensive. And even I don't eat Kosher specific anymore. Just saying... Also keep in mind, we aren't talking about one person, who if they had all the time in the world to cook and drive everywhere stuff was cheapest, they maybe could spend less. Nevermind the fact that white bread at the store here is $0.80 a loaf, where as the healthy REAL wheat bread is $3.50 at the least. We are talking about schools. They buy in BULK from places that even Costco and Sams club would be considered small beans compared to many times for their meats, vegetables, etc. On TOP of that, the government subsidizes them to make the costs even cheaper. Keep in mind, if you're going through all that trouble preparing meals for one person to eat healthy, you'd have to pay the staff at every school to stay on for double the time and actually learn how to cook, as opposed to paying them minimum wage to take food out of a freezer and heat it up. Not to mention there doesn't exist a place that schools can get the amount they need to feed the students from any regular grocery store and especially not smaller health food stores. They wouldn't get the delivery either. We aren't talking fast food cheap, which is actually expensive. We are talking dirt cheap to free for many students. Whole meals for $2.00 or less including drinks... not to mention, the child body actually NEEDS more than adult bodies as far as variety on the food table goes. I understand where you're coming from so don't worry there, but your option doesn't work for every individual, and it certainly won't work for any schools. And obviously private schools can afford it because they don't take illegal immigrant children OR poor people since only wealthy people can afford private schools, which means they can pay for more expensive and healthier meals. |
I don't know where you are shopping. Where I buy my wheat bread it's 99 cents a loaf.
Aside from which, you are talking about very specific conditions which largely apply to you... and in general a diet that probably isn't that healthy and largely seems to rely on a lot of "I don't wanna's." Your food WOULD run on vegetables, and run better.
Even then a lot of what your talking about tend to NOT apply to schools. Afterall, schools DON'T cook Kosher.
Also, your totally overestimating what actual cooks make for a living. Which is... not anymore then cafetria workers on a per hour basis. Unless your a high brow chef classically trained, you hardly make anything. Minimum wage to about - $10 an hour is about standard for both a regular chef and a cafeteria worker. Cafeteria workers make less on average cause they only work 4-6 hours a day.
You can hire just about anyone to work in a place like a school or nursing home and make healthy food. For cheap.
Heck, one of my friends is an executive pastry chef, at an important restraunt and she only makes 12 an hour.
Also, no.... plenty of places WILL deliver to you healthy food... for cheap, where do you think a lot of resteraunts get their food from? If you think a grocery store, butcher or fruit market isn't going to deliver to a school and lose out on that buisness your crazy.
Aside from which... whole meals for $2 bucks is actually pretty expensive. Though actually the cheapest they tend to make meals for is $2.66 now a days due to inflation, in large part due to expensive transportation costs. Which is where frozen foods tend to hurt you.
Although even if you wanted to stick to frozen foods, there are afterally, plenty of healthy frozen foods.
