The truth is that older people are often both so tired that they have difficulty cooking for themselves. In combination with reduced sense of taste and smell, so they tend to eat crappy foods like TV dinners, and after a few years, this takes a toll on their health.
Even a small number of nutritious home cooked meals can extend their lives and health for years.
What bulls***-where did the NYT find these women so overcome with work that they can’t make choices at a produce counter, or cook a meal from fresh food? I managed to do that as a single mom working and going to college-no government cheese or housing.
And later, my husband and cub always had a fresh, healthy meal at the end of the day, and a mom/wife who shared it and interacted with them -I think too many of these women are lazy or ignorant. Paying them isn’t going to make a difference-their idea of cooking at home is warming the stuff from McDonald’s or Wendy’s in the microwave...
The savings of using fresh meat and produce do indeed add up fast, as do the health benefits-I grow a lot of my own veggies now, but when I didn’t, I knew how to shop the produce aisle. If we were supposed to subsist on processed junk, maybe French fries and mac-and-cheese would grow on trees?
Since when should the government the government pay for that?
“could be financed by taxing harmful foods...”
This isn’t about feminism, or laziness, or some plot to destroy America and make everybody fat.
It’s about how everyone, men and women, has chosen to order the economy in modern America, not fifties America. Women. Have. Jobs.
If you’re not willing to give up your wife’s paycheck — you know, the one that makes the jet ski payments — then keep your mouth when you see a McDonald’s bag.
People who can’t do math at all are inordinately fond of saying, “Do the math!” Well, this is an easy one. It’s simple clock math. There are no hours left in a day for a woman who works, commutes, and cares for children to shop for food and cook it.
How does no one else get that? DO THE CLOCK MATH.
Fresh or unprocessed food is cheaper.
Does raising the lid on the pizza delivery box count?