Posted on 11/22/2007 11:21:14 AM PST by kik5150
The headline should read:
“Low income Americans make poor decisions on nutrition”
That’s the truth, but ooooh, it is so un-PC.
Every American has basically the same access to healthy food.
I’m well aware of that, thanks anyway, Mr. Know-it-all, but canned veggies are still a lot healthier than big macs and cigarettes.
Fresh fruits and vegetable are pricey, but frozen fruits and vegetables are much cheaper and often healthier as they are harvested at the peak of ripeness and flash frozen, which preserves vitamins.
You can buy one-pound bags of veggies like broccoli for about $1.00, and one-pound bags of berries for $2.50-$3.00. A pound of frozen fruits or vegetables goes a long way since it has already been washed, chopped and had the waste removed, so it’s all edible.
My experience was pretty much the same thing. My mother cleaned houses 7 days a week to support 5 children. She used to offer to clean their refrigerators, so that she could bring us left overs to eat. We drank powdered milk too, and strangely enough, I still like the taste of it. We never ate at McDonalds until we were old enough to pay for it ourselves.
It wasn’t easy for her I am sure, but we all did what we could to help. She raised 5 children on a housekeepers wages, without a dime of federal assistance or child support. I think as kids were are better off having learned from her how to stretch a dollar. But it cost us all in the long term. She couldn’t afford to take time off to see a doctor, for headaches she had until it was too late. She died of brain cancer a month after I (the youngest) graduated from high school.
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