| Jexy said: $5-$10 bucks for a cookware set? Where the hell are you shopping? Sounds awesome, assuming I don't get flakes from that crap cookware in my food. Pots and pans are not that cheap. Nevermind the spoons, measuring crap, spices, etc. And if you want the variety that you get with instafoods and fastfoods, then you have to buy a whole array of cookware. Question, I used to eat those healthy choice meals (had to have 3 of them to satisfy per meal). Would you consider those healthy overall? Obviously healthy compared to fast food, but would they go into the healthy category? I'm not saying it's impossible, and it would be nice if more people had your knowledge of places to go and what to get to eat "healthy" but reality is reality. How will people gain the ability to have EASY access to healthy foods? Who will give them the knowledge to know what their body really needs? Also, you admit that junk food tastes better. Keep in mind most people have only good tasting food as a luxury. That is their relaxation for the day. The industry needs to work on making healthy food taste better. They have done a decent job, but more needs to be done. If some fatso wants to relax with some chocolates, doritos, or pastries at the end of the day, it would be nice to have an alternative to relax to instead. Sure a person can spend 30 min to an hour preparing and cooking food to taste good, or he can spend 1 second opening a bag of chips. Time is money too. Can't forget that. |
1) Even if you do spend money on a decent cookware set, the expense is greatly offset by the savings of making your own food vs. purchasing pre-made garbage. One of your arguments were about Healthy Choice meals. In general, you are going to spend $3 on those types of meals, when you could easily make the same thing for under $2. That is a net savings of $1 per meal. Over the course of a year, you would save a significant amount of money - more than enough to buy a brand new cookware set.
2) When I moved out, I knew almost nothing about cooking. Yet I make 99% of meals for my wife and I. All I did was go to AllRecipes.com or borrow cookbooks from the library. Cooking is very easy to do. It just takes the desire to apply yourself to reading and repeating the instructions. If people cannot cook, then they are to blame. There are too many resources out there to prevent anyone from making homemade, nutritious meals and saving huge on monies.
3) Generally, the junk food is significantly more expensive. Yesterday, I splurged on a bag of salt & vinegar chips and a mountain dew. The cost? $4. If I made the chips at home and instead made a Mt. Dew substitute like kool-aid, my actual cost on the entire endeavour would of been $1 plus my time. Given fact that I could of made a large batch of kool aid, I could of easily saved myself $10/hr by preparing the food myself. Quick? Not entirely. But we live in a society that no one wants to bother learning to do anything for themselves. That is what is killing us. No one can survive by themselves, and would rather export doing something to someone else. Let me tell you: It feels awesome when you can cook, repair your car, fix a leak, or any of those things by yourself. You also invariably save a lot of money doing it yourself, too.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
