Sick said:
Interestingly, I saw this article on msn.com yesterday.

Can a Family Eat on $100 a Week?.

The answer is "yes," and it can be done relatively healthily. Apparently it gets a bit boring, though.

It also requires a lot of planning, and we run into an education issue. Not college and what not; basic education about nutrition and home economics. And at the risk of insulting everyones' consciences, many of the poor don't receive the kind of education they need in that regard.

But that would mean they'd have to learn science!

Is that really what we need in this day and age??!

</irony. I wish.>

reprobate

New Orleans, LA

December 2002

JUL 24, 2008 07:22 PM

zponge said:
^^^ Want to also make it clear that there is an assumption that we are considering similar goods. A Subway sandwich does not equal a baloney and white bread sandwich. I am also NOT stating that fast food meals are always cheaper than home made meals. I AM stating that it is not as economically improbable as Reprobate would have you believe that some meals are cheaper if you go out than if you brown bag it.

Unfortunately, your post is based largely on assumptions that don't reflect the way the restaurant business operates, or the current market forces. Yes, restaurants will resist price hikes as part of market strategy, but they are no more immune to market forces, even marginal ones, than consumers.

The fact is that there is no way even at wholesale prices to take raw product, add value to it and have it come out cheaper than cooking it yourself. What fast food saves you is the time value of money, because it's going to take you three minutes to get a chalupa at Taco Bell and two or three hours to make your own refried beans from scratch.

You mention lack of empiricism, but the fact is that McDonald's is, themselves projecting a 25% increase in the cost of consumables overhead. Something's got to give somewhere.

Cash

I'm lost

OLD SKOOL

JUL 24, 2008 07:56 PM

Karella_Deville said:
well...
yeah. since you want to keep perpetuating it

TJ's:
Spaghetti- 16ox bag conventional .79 ($1.19 organic)
Bananas- .19 each (conventional- .29 organic)
Apples- .39 each (conventional .59 organic)
Pasta Sauce .99 (organic 1.29-3.89)

roughly you can get 4 bananas/lb, 3-4 apples per lb.

did you happen to look up organic equals on their website? I'm sure they are in a higher price range. When I was on food stamps because I was diagnosed with cancer and couldn't work more then 16-20 hours a week, I took a job at Trader Joes so I could get a discount to feed my family and use my EBT benefits there.

I might be fat but am by no means an idiot shopper. your argument is flawed

Where did you get the Trader Joes prices? I couldn't find them online.

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

JUL 25, 2008 10:58 AM

stockula said:

reprobate said:

attn_ho said:

reprobate said: who used to sell drunken videos of himself on E Bay for beer money.

did I miss something HILARIOUS?

Oh, yes indeed.

How dare you. I'm not proud but I did what I needed to.

Do you have any idea what kind of money people pay for video of drunk people? Don't say you haven't considered it.

Wait, is he being serious? I want to see this shit.

Suri

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

JUL 25, 2008 11:43 AM

Sick said:

I refer you to a classic: A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick.

You are aware that it's satire, right?

oh thats wonderful

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reprobate

New Orleans, LA

December 2002

JUL 24, 2008 07:22 PM

Cash

I'm lost

OLD SKOOL

JUL 24, 2008 07:56 PM

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

JUL 25, 2008 10:58 AM

Suri

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

JUL 25, 2008 11:43 AM