Pete Theisen wrote: > Paul Hill wrote: > > >> Generally the cheapest food is cheap vegetables, pulses etc. You >> don't have to buy quality organic produce, I'm sure US supermarkets >> stock 'value' vegetables & meat. >> The beans are cheap, to be sure, but veggies aren't. At least, not here in NY State. Also, some people don't have a fridge to store the veggies. (a rare example, to be sure). I do think that in all but the most dire situations, you could supplement some of the junk with some of the cheaper better foods, but you need to be educated. ( I mean, as far as food goes - I was a Physics major, and still thought I was eating healthy because it was "Pasta and Meat!")
I'm doing a lot more of growing my own foods, and making my own cheaper and healthier pro-biotic foods. I've given a talk or two to the local libraries showing people how to cheaply make good sprouts, yogurt, sauerkraut, sourdough, etc. Most of the people who show up though, are already the health-conscious crowd, so it's so far been preaching to the choir. :-( A good book to read about how the poor survive in the U.S. in real life is "Nickeled and Dimed", by Barbara Ehrenreich <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Barbara%20Ehrenreich>. She went undercover and lived like the Box-Mart greeters did for a year. It was a real eye-opener, both to her and those who read the book. Before she did this, she had the same "they only have themselves to blame" mentality that a lot of us do. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
