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Grasshopper Green · 05-25-2007, 08:18 PM

Having worked for 2 supermarket chains, I'll tell you what the cheapest food is...it's not rice and beans, it's Top Ramen. It's store brand macaroni and cheese and store brand vienna sausages and store brand Hamburger Helper and Rice a roni. It's certainly not fresh produce and it's certainly not lean cuts of meat or quality cheese or milk. If you want cheap cheese, it's pastuerized processed cheese food. Store brand canned veggies are cheap too...but canned veggies have very little nutrition, though plenty of people don't know that. It's the same cost to buy a box of store brand cookies or crackers as 2 or 3 good sized apples, and if the cookies are on sale...it's cheaper. More "exotic" produce like melons, plums, oranges, decent tomatoes, actually pretty much anything but bananas, potatoes, or onions, are even more expensive than the apples (unless they are on sale). If you are looking to feed your family and get the most for your money, then that's what you buy...processed, easy to prepare foods that are full of fat, sugar, and preservatives.

When I was a cashier, I got to know a lot of my customers fairly well. I worked in a low income area, and many of the people held two jobs to support their families. Most weren't lazy; they were stressed, tired, and trying to make their dollar stretch as far as possible, regardless if they were fat or not.

05-25-2007, 08:18 PM	#60 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	Having worked for 2 supermarket chains, I'll tell you what the cheapest food is...it's not rice and beans, it's Top Ramen. It's store brand macaroni and cheese and store brand vienna sausages and store brand Hamburger Helper and Rice a roni. It's certainly not fresh produce and it's certainly not lean cuts of meat or quality cheese or milk. If you want cheap cheese, it's pastuerized processed cheese food. Store brand canned veggies are cheap too...but canned veggies have very little nutrition, though plenty of people don't know that. It's the same cost to buy a box of store brand cookies or crackers as 2 or 3 good sized apples, and if the cookies are on sale...it's cheaper. More "exotic" produce like melons, plums, oranges, decent tomatoes, actually pretty much anything but bananas, potatoes, or onions, are even more expensive than the apples (unless they are on sale). If you are looking to feed your family and get the most for your money, then that's what you buy...processed, easy to prepare foods that are full of fat, sugar, and preservatives. When I was a cashier, I got to know a lot of my customers fairly well. I worked in a low income area, and many of the people held two jobs to support their families. Most weren't lazy; they were stressed, tired, and trying to make their dollar stretch as far as possible, regardless if they were fat or not. __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa Last edited by Grasshopper Green; 05-25-2007 at 08:27 PM..