Re: Junk Food is the most EXPENSIVE food of all!

[Guest guest]

Or worse... assembled in another country.

AM

>

> but think nothing of their

> $150 cartfull of processed sugar, MSG, fried breading, trans fats, all

> assembled by sleep-

> walking minimal wage droids and robots in a factory somewhere across the

> country.

[Guest guest]

3) " Healthy food tastes bad-junk food tastes amazingly good "

(AND: " Kids won't eat healthy food-they want junk " )

This is one of the Biggest lies of all! I use to think good food did not taste

good, but then I learned BETTER ! Healthy raised meats can not be beat in

flavor! OH my, the difference in grass raised beef and the crap from Cub is

amazing! Grass fed has flavor! I never knew meats could taste so good!

It is like the difference of a homemade cake and one from a box. Flavor and

substance! It use to be you knew how good a cake would be by how heavy the pan

was! You just knew the more goodies made it heavier. (Us too! LOL) Again there

is flavor in homemade!

Sadly we have become a society of addicted people, we are addicted to the flavor

enhancers, preservatives and who knows what else they add into boxed foods. I

strongly believe they are as addictive as meth. People do not even know what

real foods taste like any longer.

I am so thankful to be learning this now and thankful for the TF list to exist

so I can learn more and be encouraged in my walk to better health and flavor!

Kimi

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unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye

know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:58/KJV

[Guest guest]

OMG you are so right! I recently helped a friend, who is doing the breast

cancer 3-day, in a fundraising effort by bagging groceries at Cub. I shop

at Cub every week as well as at Valley to get everything I need for my week.

I know that there is plenty of good, life-sustaining food available at Cub

and they do have a decent organic section HOWEVER it was appalling to see

all of the junk that came through the checkout lines. People were coming

through with nearly all frozen or packaged foods and MAYBE a fresh vegetable

or two. In fact, I don't think that I saw a single person come through with

a cart that I would take home in the entire 2 hours that I was there. It

was a real eye-opener for me at how well we eat at our house. There were

several people who came through who either currently have cancer, their

daughter has it or they are in remission (for now) and they had a bunch of

junk in their carts. My heart ached for them! People simply have no idea

that there is another way of life out there. The stigma of eating healthy

being expensive needs to change before anything else can happen. It also

drives me nuts when folks who are on Weight Watchers or some other program

are lead to believe that they are eating healthy. They really aren't!

Granted, for someone who doesn't know what a fresh vegetable looks like it

might be a good stepping stone to good health but it's by no means a healthy

way of eating. They are wasting tons of money to learn how to count points

and the second they go off of the program, it all comes back because they

didn't really learn how to eat well. Ah, we have so far to go in this

country don't we? We definitely have our work cut out for us in educating

people and getting the truth out! Bring it on!

Krista

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GROCERY CARTS are a window into the soul of human beings! It's very common

for us to

see a monstrous over-loaded cart with NOT ONE natural or elemental food

(nuts, grains,

meat, milk) in it, but a shocking amount of OVER-PRICED, OVER-PACKAGED,

OVER-

PROCESSED, junk food!

[Guest guest]

I think advertising is the number one enemy of traditional food. There's just

no huge

profit to be made on a food " industry " that means eating locally, in-season,

with minimal

processing. As we've heard from folks on this list, it's hard to break even

producing

organic food.

I keep thinking of the old Eddie comedy sketch about his Mama's " better

than

Mc's " burger. Besides being hilarious, it is very insightful about the

way

advertising and peer pressure teach us at a young age to distrust good food, and

desire

only that which is heavily marketed and homogenized (and I mean both the process

of

homogenization, and the effect of everything looking and tasting exactly the

same.) I

think we can all relate to, at some point, believing that Mc's is superior

to our

mother's cooking.

This is copied from a transcript of Eddie 's " Delirious, " I shortened it

and took out

the naughty words:

I didn't realize my mother was a good cook till after I moved out. I had one of

those

mothers, no matter what you want, she has the ingredients at home. You say, " Ma,

I wanna

stop and get some Mc's. "

And she go, " I got hamburger meat at home. "

" But I want Mc's hamburger. "

" I'll make you a hamburger better than Mc's. " And she say: " I want you to

go in the

refrigerator and get the meat, and while you in there, get me a green pepper and

a onion. "

And you say: " Ain't no green peppers at Mc's. "

" I'm not making Mc's, I'm making Mama's burger. I need a green pepper and

an

onion and get me an egg out too. "

" What you need eggs for? I want hamburgers. You making Egg McMuffins. "

" Just get me the egg and shut your mouth. "

She take the egg and the green peppers and chop the peppers up in big chunks.

Don't

even dice it. Big chunks of green peppers and onion and mix the egg in and put

paprika in

it and make a big meatball and put it in the middle of this frying pan. At

Mc's, the

meat is this thin. Your mother's is like this or fatter. Green peppers hanging

out and

there's a big split in the middle and grease is popping out. You're looking at

it while it's

popping. You're looking at the grease in the pan and thinking: " That don't look

like no

Mc's. "

Then your mother say, " Go get me the bread out of the bread box. "

And you go look in the bread box and you say: " Ma, we don't have no hamburger

buns.

" Bread is bread. Bring me that bread before I slap you. "

At Mc's, they use buns, the meat covers the whole bread. At your mother's,

the

meat's right in the middle of the bread, with grease running through the middle,

making

the bread stick to the plate. This big green pepper is hanging out the top of

this big

meatball on the bread. And you try to put some ketchup on it and it mixes with

the

grease, turn the bread into pink dough. You stand there looking at it and you

try to make

it look like Mc's, so you rip the edges off around it, make it round. And

you got

green peppers and grease running down your hand. And your mother say, " Now, go

on

outside and play. "

And the other kids got Mc's. They outside going, " We got Mc's

hamburgers!

Mc's! Mc's! "

" I got Mc's. " And you standing there with this big " house burger " .

And kids are honest. They say, " Where you get that big, welfare, green-pepper

burger? "

And you cry, " My mother made it. "