Do u believe people on food stamps should buy junk food 🍔

@ElwoodBlues We still have a choice in what we eat. But I get what you are saying here.

@ElwoodBlues Where I reside, most of the food sources available to me would be blocked by this potential law. So, a double middle finger to that from me.

@ElwoodBlues where can I get that for $5? its a good deal.

@StygianKohlrabi As I said right above it, the image is years old, but the idea holds.

@ElwoodBlues just get a bag of greens ($2.99) and a tomato, $1. That will make at least 2 salads. lets face it, most people want fast food. not salad.

@StygianKohlrabi How many calories will your salad provide to a growing high school kid? A kid who's hungry all day can't concentrate on school work. You've got to fulfill basic bodily needs first. And in our industrial food system, healthy calories cost FAR more than fast food calories.

@ElwoodBlues last I checked a bag of lentils and a bag of rice were no more than a few bucks. but that's not cool.

@StygianKohlrabi What are the prep time, calorie, and complete protein content of your proposed menu?

P.S. Lysine, methionine, & cysteine are the limiting amino acids in that combo; what does it take to provide enough?

@ElwoodBlues not good enough? add some carrots, onion, and celery. all dirt cheap.. or eat your Big Mac and be quiet.

@StygianKohlrabi In response to your personal attack, I don't eat big macs; my wife and I are comfortably off, and eat a healthy diet high in vegetables and fruit; we eat fish and some meat rarely except when we travel and it's difficult to avoid.

How much in the way of carrots, onion, & celery is needed to provide complete protein every day including the limiting amino acids I mentioned? A recipe, with weights per person, would be extremely helpful here.

BTW, seems like you are proposing a vegan diet. From what I've read, vegans (especially growing teens) need to go the extra mile to obtain Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Calcium, Iron, Iodine, Zinc, and certain Omega-3s. How do you propose filling all these needs?

P.S. As you can see, your "a bag of lentils and a bag of rice" suggestion is a good start, but incomplete.

@StygianKohlrabi Nothing wrong with veganism but that will make you hungry. Lentils aren't that high in protein and salad isn't calorically dense. A cup of beans is like 8 to 15 grams of protein, advertising says 20 grams but the back of bean cans often say 8 grams per cup.

That's crazy low. I eat one meal a day at around 80 to 95 grams protein per meal.

@SatanBurger you guys are splitting hairs here. in order to get "full" you would need a whole fast food meal, not one burger. at $15 per order that's breaking the bank nowadays. Are you limited to the dollar menu? A can of salmon is $1 per serving. Your whole salmon and lentil meal would be just a few bucks. also your body adapts to most anything you use to fuel it. you don't need animal protein every meal.

@StygianKohlrabi A can of salmon is 5 dollars here and if you get the big size it's 15 dollars for three cans plus tax.

Salmon was 22 dollars yesterday at the store non canned

@SatanBurger see that proves my point.

@StygianKohlrabi
Yup I've seen people adapt on a low protein diet, scary looking

@StygianKohlrabi 15 is a lot for canned salmon sorry. I don't have kids but I'm also not privileged enough to expect people with children to be able to afford healthy food at the price that it is.

Food stamps should be available for anything because of the economy, if they want to bring down prices of health foods and then do it with food stamps okay 👍 but that's not what is happening.

@SatanBurger


$15 is a lot for a burger and fries. weren't you the one expounding on OMAD? That's a low everything diet.

@StygianKohlrabi
Why are you mentioning a burger and fries? I'm sorry but most poor people eat things like Ramen or 1 dollar pizzas like Totinos, okay they're maybe like 2 or 3 dollars now. Why are you thinking about fast food? Junk food is also the above but also hot pockets, those pb and jelly frozen sandwiches, ramen, 1 dollar pizzas, dollar menus everywhere, tv dinners, boxed food in general.

When they're at 3 dollars per item, 40 dollars carries a lot more.

Regarding omad, I get 90 grams of protein in my omad, that's not really all that low and my calories are good too. I'm not making this about me, I mentioned omad and the reason why is in my other comment.

I'm really glad you can afford it but I feel like you need perspective no offense.

@SatanBurger ahah maybe you're onto something. some junk food is cheap. others are expensive. the ones you mentioned are nutritionally void crp, choc full of sodium. they will keep you full for minutes until you need your next fix. on the other hand, you can find animal protein for $5 that will feed a family of 4. despite being less food than the cheaper ramen, it will be more satiating. of course, there is nothing free but I think it's a good deal.

nowadays people are overly obsessed with animal protein. as if a little drop in protein and you will suddenly morph into Stephen Hawking. I might have 20-30 grams after a workout but I don't eat nearly as much as you in a single meal.

@StygianKohlrabi For sure you're right on that and my original response on here states that if they made healthy food cheaper like meat, I honestly don't think most wouldn't be having an issue. There's a woman today on Instagram who spent 90 on only three bags, she showed what she got and it was nothing too crazy. And that was just for her, I couldn't imagine a family of 4.


Wow I can't find that at all. It's around 8.99 to 15 dollars depending which brand here for 1 pound of beef. It's around 20 to 50 dollars per steak and around 5 dollars per dozen eggs over here oh and I saw 20.99 for 5 hamburgers once in the frozen section.


You don't got to agree, that's your opinion but mine differs.

@ElwoodBlues Anyways per your graph 36b dollars daily vs 3 dollars for the junk food was a long time ago but now it's probably even more for healthy food