Posted on 03/12/2010 11:34:47 AM PST by Left Blue NJ for Red SC
The people who want to tell us what to do, apparently can’t even fend for themselves! Katrina Vanden Heuvel recently put her delusional two cents into the Childhood Obesity Crisis ™ mix. While I think she was trying to blame it all on evil corporations, she unwittingly may have incited the wrath of donut-hater Michelle Obama and environuts. Her complete lack of knowledge in the real world seems to encourage eating primarily at McDonalds and incredibly wasteful shopping habits. She's encouraging Childhood Obesity and gluttonous waste!
it takes just under thirty minutes of work for an average burger-flipper to earn enough to buy a Big Mac (average American price, $3.58)Startlingly, it would still take that burger-flipper 29 minutes to earn enough to buy a head of organic romaine lettuce ($3.49/head). Add tomato ($4.99/pound), sweet onion ($1.49/pound), and carrots ($2.49/bunch); skim milk ($2.99/half gallon), hardboiled egg ($3.69/dozen), and whole wheat bread ($3.49/loaf), he’d need to clock over three hours of work, not to mention the unpaid labor he’d have to devote to preparing those groceries into a food-pyramid-friendly meal.
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This epidemic is not to be blamed on eating habits themselves — or even on their families. It is simply far less expensive to feed a family from the Dollar Menu at McDonald’s than it is to prepare fresh, healthy choices.
I wouldn’t set a strappy sandal clad foot in the door of a store that charged $3.69 for a dozen eggs. What’s worse is what kind of reality-challenged person tries to equate the price of one meal for one person with items that can create multiple meals for several people?
Unless, of course, you are encouraging scarfing down an entire loaf of bread and a full dozen eggs on one’s own in one sitting?
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She always has that snarl on her face. Or the “who cut the cheese” look.
“donut-hater Michelle Obama”
Really? Then where did she get those fat thighs and cankles . . . she rivals Hitlery Clinton in degree of lardbutt.
Good grief! Where is she getting her prices?
Years ago - before Chris Matthews lost his mind - I used to watch Hardball and Vanden Heuvel was a regular guest. She got totally smacked down one night when (while pretending she lived in Harlem instead of the Upper East Side) she could not name her own congressional rep. How seriously can you take the political opinions of a person who doesn’t know their own rep?
As one who is a bit obsessed about the type of foods I want my family of 6 to eat, I can guarantee that there is no way feeding a family off the dollar menu at McD’s is cheaper than cooking a very healthy meal at home. If the six of us each had a burger, fries and soft drink off the the dollar menu that would be $18 plus tax!! Take that times three meals and it would be around $60/day or $420/week! If only I had a food budget that big.
GEEZ where does this woman shop. YIKES! Her prices are about 50-70% more than I pay for the same stuff.
Should we know who this person is?
No arugula?
Editor, publisher and part-owner of The Nation magazine. Big lefty.
Vandenhuevel really aggravates me.
She knows it's a liberal like her, so I guess that's all that matters.
This broad is nuts, truly.
Liberals have been repeating this “eating healthy is too expensive” lie for years. Once you get all the junk and “convenience” foods out your diet, it’s amazing how much is left for good healthy foods.
I buy boneless chicken breasts when they’re 99 cents, whole grain breads when they’re 2 loaves for $4, fresh fruits and vegetables are reasonable. Buy right and you can feed the whole family for the price of one McDonald’s Value Meal.
I’m not talking about the free-range/organic scam. That’s just another trick to separate the gullible from their money.
Liberals have been repeating this “eating healthy is too expensive” lie for years. Once you get all the junk and “convenience” foods out your diet, it’s amazing how much is left for good healthy foods.
I buy boneless chicken breasts when they’re 99 cents, whole grain breads when they’re 2 loaves for $4, fresh fruits and vegetables are reasonable. Buy right and you can feed the whole family for the price of one McDonald’s Value Meal.
I’m not talking about the free-range/organic scam. That’s just another trick to separate the gullible from their money.
Or Belgian endive!?
She’s spewing nonsense because she’s trying to rationalize a conclusion contrary to fact.
She does not want the eating habits of some poor people to be the responsibility of those people. She wants it to be a collective responsibility to provide enough money for proper nutrition. But this only makes sense if eating well costs MORE than eating poorly.
I believe my family would eat better (with repect to good health) if we spent LESS on food. Really. We’d have to cut out the unnecessary goodies, limit portions, eat out less, and concentrate on getting good nutritional value for every dollar spent. Do that and you can eat very well in the US on the cheap.
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