You’re right-and with that pound of past, he could make pasta with meat sauce/meatballs, chicken alfredo, chicken piccata, pork carnitas with pasta etc, etc for a whole month-but he’d have to learn to cook first...
My family were health nuts-naturalists-so are my brother and I. Living on a ranch, we had plenty of healthy natural food. The only time I deviated from the organic healthy diet was in my 1st year of college-for a whole semester, I ate dorm-type food like everyone else-ramen noodles, fast food, hamburger helper-and my energy level dropped, I had headaches, etc-my mom read me the riot act. Never did that again.
Brown Rice and occasional potatoes-fresh ones, no packaged-are the only carbs other than homemade whole grain bread we ate and no margarine-real butter. We did not get sodas or candy, but my mom baked cookies and pies from scratch, and taught me to. I still eat that way. My 1st husband was raised on a ranch-his mom was a naturalist also-so we raised our cub that way. No one in my close family has been overweight-I weigh the same 103-105 I weighed at 17. The guy in the article could have saved a lot if he’d have made some fresher and healthier food choices to cook at home-and shopped at a less expensive store-maybe we should send him a cookbook?
Pound of pasta...
Well, I wish I could say I still weighed 105 pounds. LOL.
You were blessed to have been raised on a ranch with lots of healthy living. My mother encouraged healthful eating habits, too, but I ate poorly at school in my teenage years. I drank soda and ate junk food. At home, my mother cooked a variety of meals, but our traditional meal was spaghetti and meatballs with a salad. We always had fresh fruit, too.
I didn’t start thinking about food ingredients until I had children. I was careful about what I fed them. When I became a single parent and went broke, I tried to stay the course. I even baked bread from scratch for a while. But, eventually, I had to start buying the cheap bread. We still ate fruit, veggies, and meat & poultry. Also, like you, I never used margarine - only butter.
However, I didn’t have six kids. If I did, I don’t know what I’d do, but I know I wouldn’t be spending $444 at Trader Joe’s. (lol)