The man’s TJ’s grocery receipt showed plenty of processed food and carbs. He paid $3 or $4 per item. My comment was that he could’ve bought a pound of pasta there for 99 cents (unless the prices are higher where he shops).
Yes, fresh fruit and vegetables are important, but fruit and vegetables alone are not enough. Children need carbs, too, such as pasta, rice, potatoes, and bread. Pasta was a life-saver when I was a single mom. I never bought soda, but I baked desserts from scratch. We also ate pizza. But, my children were thin, and so was I (at the time).
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?