At 03:36 PM Thursday 5/24/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: >You raise an interesting and important point. It is less expensive -- >sometimes *much* less expensive -- to each unhealthy foods than it is to eat >healthy. Maybe instead of subsidizing the military-industrial complex, the >government could subsidize healthy food. :-) > >I'm only half-way kidding. >-- >Mauro Diotallevi
At 03:54 PM Thursday 5/24/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: >Not really. It's just a lot more effort to go to the market, or plan >out your meals, than it is to just order pizza. > >Charlie I was reading a series of articles and letters in the _Salt Lake Tribune_ recently which covered an experiment in Utah: government officials were challenged to live for a week on the same amount that a similar-sized family would receive from the state in food stamps. Those who believe that the point which Mauro makes is not important that starchy foods like potatoes are much cheaper to get enough of to fill up to the point where you and your kids do not feel hungry and miserable all the time than fresh fruits and vegetables and that the primary problem is that it is so much easier simply to eat out or order in might consider trying the same challenge: find out what the state you live in pays a family the size of yours in food stamps and live on that amount. (As some of the aforementioned items in the SLTrib brought out, it is not permitted to supplement the food which the food stamp amount will purchase from any other source, including what you may have on hand before beginning the experiment most folks who have to apply for food stamps or other assistance from the government have little if anything on hand by the time they reach that point and certainly do not have the opportunity or in many cases the skills to plan ahead for hard times like that and to be more fair and accurate, since food stamps are paid on a monthly basis in most states the experiment should last a full month rather than just a week.) -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
