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The reality is the majority of all healthy food in the US is gated behind high prices, forcing the average/low income consumer into eat foods high in large amounts of globally banned dyes and syrups, which results in massive weight gain unless you buy into the weight loss meds, unless you want to do something crazy like eat beans and rice for every meal.

this + all the hostile city planning preventing you from walking anywhere means that it’s both very easy to gain weight and very hard to lose it once you have it

Anyway, this is a harder problem to solve than dumb gotchas like “why don’t americans just exercise more, why don’t americans just calorie watch”

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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Vegetables are not that “gated.” Processed foods that are “health washed” are gated, the stuff that’s in the health food sections or organic sections of stores. The problem is with fresh food is that it cannot always be consumed before spoiling, and waste is painful if you’re poor, processed foods are quick and easy when you’re working 2-3 jobs and are shelf stable for much longer periods, and on top of that people just don’t always learn how to cook fresh or do things like meal prep for a week. The time just isn’t there.

Yeah, the shopping access part is true. I frequently make 2-3 trips to the store for meals in a week thanks to close-by stores and the convenience of a vehicle. If you’re poor and maybe have to take public transportation (in the US) it makes groceries a whole other chore you don’t have time for.

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HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The reality is the majority of all healthy food in the US is gated behind high prices

Seems so odd to me, here in the UK some of the cheapest foods are things like carrots, potatoes, beans, oats. Things that people should be eating more of.

Don’t have enough time is the next excuse I hear. I just made lunch in seconds by combining the free milk at work with some roughly ground oats. Along with some dried fruit. Incredibly cheap meal and takes far less time than walking to the McDonalds across the road to order a burger.

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  So you have a place to store that food? Yeah - when I worked retail we had a fridge and a cabinet in the breakroom, but there were 200 people working in that building all having to share a single fridge and cabinet, which means they effectively didn’t exist.
  
  But there were a couple fast food places in the parking lot.
  
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  - HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    My lunch didn’t require a fridge to store it. Room temperature or even out in the sun would have been completely fine. Anywhere you feel like placing a tub really.
    
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- A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’ve seen videos of people like Atomic Shrimp post videos of 1 dollar a day meal challenges and stuff, and I was always absolutely gobsmacked by how cheap vegetables, flour, etc were in the UK, even when the price is converted to USD.
  
  They’re paying pennies everywhere I pay dollars.
  
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  - HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Tbh doing it for £1 now would be difficult to make videos on. Not because you can’t but because compared to when he started there is less choice.
    
    Only so many ways you can cook the same or similar ingredients.
    
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    A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Which is probably one of the many reasons why its been a good while since his last cooking challenge video.
    
    he still does cooking videos, just not like " feed 2 people 3 meals for 1 dollar" videos.
    
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