Posted on 08/21/2026 8:04:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Credit: HHS.gov The far-left hacks at CNN are so terrified of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement that they have completely abandoned basic math just to attack Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted CNN host Erin Burnett after her program aired a ridiculous “investigation” attempting to discredit the affordable meals featured on Kennedy’s new cooking series, The Real Food Show.
Kennedy’s program, inspired by President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, features chefs preparing nutritious, whole-food meals for approximately $5 or less per serving.
But CNN decided to “fact-check” Kennedy by purchasing full containers of nearly every ingredient—even when the recipe required only a spoonful—and then charging the entire package price to one meal.
During Wednesday’s episode of Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman recreated the show’s crispy salmon cakes with apple, white bean, and greens salad.
The official HHS recipe serves four people for approximately $5 per serving using frozen wild salmon—and even less when made with canned salmon.
CNN, however, claimed it cost $70.54 to purchase all the ingredients.
Foreman complained that HHS priced one egg rather than an entire carton, eight cents’ worth of red onion rather than the whole onion, and 40 cents’ worth of avocado mayonnaise rather than the full $11 container.
“Grocery stores don’t sell things that way,” Foreman declared.
Of course, the remaining eggs, onion, mayonnaise, olive oil, mustard, vinegar, herbs, and other pantry staples do not disappear after preparing the meal. They remain available for the next recipe.
CNN also disputed HHS’s salmon price, saying the network paid more than $24 for what it described as the closest comparable frozen wild-caught sockeye salmon, compared with the show’s listed price of $8.99.
Although the CNN segment acknowledged that HHS used “standard recipe costing methodology,” the network nevertheless presented its full grocery-store checkout total as the “real” cost of Kennedy’s meal.
Burnett concluded the segment without addressing the obvious distinction between the upfront cost of stocking a kitchen and the actual amount of food consumed in a single recipe.
On Thursday, Kennedy responded by absolutely torching Burnett and CNN’s creative accounting.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome has so debilitated [Erin Burnett] that she has abandoned both common sense and basic arithmetic.
“CNN wants us to incorporate the full package price of every ingredient, regardless of what is used in the recipe.
“If you put a squirt of ketchup on your burger, would you be surprised if the restaurant charged you for the whole bottle?
“The Real Food Show uses standard recipe costing: we count what the recipe actually uses. The rest stays in your kitchen for the next meal—and the meals after that.
“Our goal is simple: help Americans reclaim their kitchens, cook healthy food without breaking the bank, and stock their pantries with high-quality ingredients they can use again and again.
“That’s how we Make America Healthy Again.”
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CNN’s supposed exposé effectively argued that a tablespoon of mustard costs the same as the entire jar and that one egg should be billed as a dozen.
Under CNN’s methodology, a hamburger restaurant would have to charge customers for the entire bottle of ketchup, the whole block of cheese, and the complete jar of pickles used to prepare one burger.
The network’s $70.54 figure may represent the initial checkout total for someone starting with a completely empty kitchen, but it does not represent the amount consumed in the four-serving meal. Most of those ingredients can be reused across numerous additional dishes.
Kennedy launched The Real Food Show on July 30 to encourage Americans to prepare healthier meals with whole ingredients instead of relying on ultra-processed foods and expensive fast food.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Kennedy has pursued an aggressive MAHA agenda that includes overhauling federal dietary guidance, combating artificial food additives, expanding nutrition education, and restricting taxpayer-funded purchases of soda and candy through SNAP.
The Gateway Pundit also previously reported that Kennedy moved to close the FDA’s self-affirmed GRAS loophole, which has allowed food companies to introduce ingredients without prior FDA review.
In July, The Gateway Pundit published a comprehensive review of Kennedy’s efforts to Make America Healthy Again, including the administration’s new dietary guidelines emphasizing whole foods and discouraging highly processed products and sugary beverages.
Rather than applauding an effort to teach American families how to cook healthier meals and reuse pantry ingredients, CNN manufactured a misleading price tag by pretending every bottle, carton, and container must be discarded after a single use.
Likely no one at CNN ever cooks
There are probably people who follow CNN for their economic reports.
It does cost $$ to eat healthy, but CNN is absurdly ridiculous to include the cost of a dozen eggs in a recipe when you only use one egg.
CNN = TDS to the detriment of civilization.
“It does cost $$ to eat healthy”
That’s quite a statement. I have found the opposite.
Here in CaCaLand I can go down the street and buy salmon at about $10/#. This $25/# crappola is just CNN lies.
I survive well with a daily three square meals on ten bucks a day.
They added up the costs of entire contents of a pack or package as the cost of a ‘meal’..........Totally disingenuous..............on purpose.............Why didn’t they do the same for the calories?................
“It does cost $$ to eat healthy”
Taco Bell don’t give that stuff away!..............
I don’t think I’ve ever read a more economically illiterate / innumerate, stupid argument in my life. Charging the entire dozen eggs to the recipe when you need one! Charging an entire jar of spice when you need a pinch!
By their logic, if it cost me $100 to fill my Ford Expedition and drive 2 miles to the grocery store and back, I would charge the $100 to that recipe, not the $0.15 gas I actually burned.
Has MAHA come out with a cookbook yet?
They are liberals. Their mission is to destroy Trump administration by any means necessary..........even lying thru their teeth..............
Wow! Many thanks.
Wow! Many thanks.
Their viewers are so full of hate for RFK Jr and Trump that they believe anything these liars say.
I was trying to make a point to one of them yesterday. I got through, finally, but her mind will snap right back
I find it helpful to just nod to their obfuscation, their attempt to spread hate and feed, then back to the point. They are losing. They can sense it.
Its both a lot cheaper and tastes far better. My lady friend is the best cook on the planet, but even I can whip up a basic meal that cost little and beats most restaurants.
Leaves more money for good wine to pair with.
And then there is the electricity, water, internet, etc,etc,etc...
Liars figure.
People don’t know how to shop anymore. The Store brand is often much cheaper than the name brand. Go through the weekly grocery ads to look for deals. Use coupons. And if you have cable, do you really need 8 ESPN channels and 5 HBO channels?
That’s how we did it in the 70s and 80s.
I agree , it is cheaper to make real food. It keeps you satisfied much longer as well.
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