Posted on 09/04/2012 9:14:10 AM PDT by jakerobins
Asked by Parade magazine, "What do you hope to accomplish in your second term?” First Lady Michelle Obama said she wants to "impact the nature of food in grocery stores" with the aim of cutting sugar, fat and salt.
“With 'Lets Move!,' our goal is to end the problem of childhood obesity in a generation,” Mrs. Obama said. “And while we’ve seen some very profound cultural shifts, we still have communities that don’t have access to affordable and healthy foods. We still need to find a way to impact the nature of food in grocery stores, in terms of sugar, fat, and salt.”
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Root vegetables, greens, wheat flour, dry legumes, brown rice, chicken, olive oil, fruit.
vs. "unhealthy foods"
Potato chips and other packaged snacks, packaged cookies, soda, premade burger patties, fried chicken, ice cream, most breakfast cereals, jelly.
because I suspect you're fooling yourself.
Not really.
What's your per-person budget?
Fairly low, because I buy in bulk. Beans, rice, flour and oil keep for a long time. Root vegetables keep for a decent amount of time. You can buy meat cuts on sale and freeze them and buy a week's worth of greens on sale too.
In theory, I could buy 10 boxes of donuts on sale and eat them for a week, or I could buy prepackaged organic "healthy meals" from Whole Foods for $20 a pop. You can make either kind of eating as expensive or as cheap as you like.
In the average grocery store you can find healthy food on sale and unhealthy food on sale. But you can live for a week on chicken stew with beans and squash and wheat bread much better than you can live on Ho-Hos, Frito Lays, hotdogs and RC Cola, even if you bought them at the same price.
That would be par for the course for her, no doubt.
First off. It is not Her second term. But since they will lose. It is moot point. However we will eat drink junk pig out stuff our faces or whatever we Choose to do and no one will tell us any different
This America and we love our chips and fries and candy and ice cream r
Etc. and will eat what WE CHOOSE!!!
Nonsense. You can prepare at home anything you can buy
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