Seriously.
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fast food > supporting walmart. always.
side note: what did dominoes do to their new pizza to make it so damn good?! garlic salt on the crust or somethin? yummmmmmm
Right?! I was just thinking this the other day when I ordered a pie and I don't usually even LIKE dominoes!
you USED to not like em...now you crave it!
omg me too!
SERIOUSLY.
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This is all good and well as long as you don't live in a food desert, have the mental/physical ability to cook for yourself, and have sales everyday of the week.0
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Okay well the prices on the groceries might be a little outdated but so is the price of the fast food - a bucket of chicken meal deal here would be close to $40 so the comparison is accurate. Pizza is still cheap here but fast food isn't as cheap as peeps think.
Also those prices are possible on a lot of the grocery items IF you watch your sale flyers and shop accordingly and don't go for the 'name brand" - often the "store brand" items are just as good.
The arguments about the gas costs to go grocery shopping is a little out there as you would drive to get the fast food and honestly there isn't a single person I know that NEVER grocery shops so quit using that lamo excuse.
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Grocery prices from Wal-Mart and Meijer in Noblesville, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio; fast food prices from the greater Indianapolis and Cincinnati areas, 2010
http://www.sparkpeople.com/blog/blog.asp?post=what_20_will_buy_at_the_drivethru_and_at_the_supermarket
$2 jug of milk?!
That jug, here in Calgary, Alberta would cost $5.67 ... and I know because I just bought it. And yes, that's the Walmart price.
What my family eats is based entirely on what's on sale. We eat as healthy as we can but we can't go broke doing it.
We buy frozen fruit instead of fresh, which rumour has it .. has just as many nutrients.0 -
$1.67 for 1 lb strawberries?? Try $5.67
Everything on the healthy option is at least 2-3 or more times expensive .
This exactly!! My grocery bill has went up tremendously and we eat out just as much as we did before.0 -
Also.. where I think this pic fails...
Everything from Burger King is cooked already. The healthy stuff on the bottom is a lot more work. You have to go buy it all at the grocery store, you have to put it all in your car, take it all inside when you get home and put it away, and lastly, you still have to cook it. If you go buy all this food already prepared from a restaurant, it is going to cost you WAY MORE than whatever a trip to Burger King cost.0 -
I wish. Not in oc California0 -
It also depends on where you shop. If I shop my local Publix - 6.00/lb for bonless / skinless chicken. If I shop my meat market - 2.98/lb for the same thing. The only catch is that I would have buy 10lbs to get that price.0
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Really want a double whopper with cheese, no pickle please, now please.... please please please!
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Everything from Burger King is cooked already. The healthy stuff on the bottom is a lot more work. You have to go buy it all at the grocery store, you have to put it all in your car, take it all inside when you get home and put it away, and lastly, you still have to cook it.
Exactly. Given the consensus that the prices are wildly outdated, there are other issues here. The food in the second picture requires: available time and energy to cook, knowledge of how to cook, access to nearby grocery stores, available transport, and regular shopping trips to maximise produce freshness. Not everyone has those things available to them. The other thing with buying healthy food is it often requires a higher initial outlay, like to buy stuff in bulk or when it's on special in order to reduce overall cost. Not everyone has the ability to make that higher initial outlay.
ETA: based on grocery prices in New Zealand, the stuff in the second picture would cost approximately $80-95 to purchase. Burger King here offers similar deals to the top picture for under $25.0 -
Grocery prices from Wal-Mart and Meijer in Noblesville, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio; fast food prices from the greater Indianapolis and Cincinnati areas, 2010
http://www.sparkpeople.com/blog/blog.asp?post=what_20_will_buy_at_the_drivethru_and_at_the_supermarket
Staying as close to the photo of the chicken meal (in price and items purchased), here's how the bill would break out if I shopped the two stores I frequent most regularly. We don't have peaches or corn on the cob in stores right now (since they're super out of season) so I've replaced them with things I buy this time of year. Also, we don't eat potatoes often at all, so I lowered it to 6 lbs knowing we wouldn't eat much more than that in a week's time or before they went bad (we'd rather have rice/quinoa).
Chicken - $1.88/lb (bought last week while it was on sale. Stocked up when the price is this low and freeze it) 2 lbs = $3.76
6 lbs potatoes - 2 lbs/$.99, 6 lbs = $2.97 (buying a 10 lb bag of potatoes would be comparable)
Brussel Sprouts (instead of corn on the cob) $.98/lb, 1lb = $.98
Apples (instead of peaches) $.98/lb, 1lb = $.98
Milk 2/$3.98, 1 gallon = $1.99
1 lb 96% beef = $5.99 (subsitute ground turkey for healthier option that costs $3.99/lb)
24 oz Greek Gods yogurt 2/$6, 1 tub = $3
18 oz oats (steel cut from bulk bin) $.99/lb, 18 oz = $1.33
2 bags frozen vegetables $2.00
1 lb dried beans = $1.50
Total Cost: $24.50
Yes, it's a little more expensive than the fast food and YES I would have to prepare it myself, but this also creates how many meals for my family versus the couple the fried chicken meal covers? And if I plan right, I can roast chicken for the week all at once and only have to make sides. OR I could find a crock pot recipe which would require minimal effort on my part.0 -
Looks like I need to leave Scotland for the US then.
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The image gets cropped, you can find it here
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defines-food-deserts
If you google food deserts you can find more detailed images like this one, showing city by city view of the problem in the US.
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Yeah the prices are off for both the fast food and the healthy food. Only difference I see is the convenience of fast food being prepared for you.0
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in…to see where this goes...0
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Grocery prices from Wal-Mart and Meijer in Noblesville, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio; fast food prices from the greater Indianapolis and Cincinnati areas, 2010
http://www.sparkpeople.com/blog/blog.asp?post=what_20_will_buy_at_the_drivethru_and_at_the_supermarket
so comparison from four years ago ..legit...0 -
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$1.67 for 1 lb strawberries?? Try $5.67 Everything on the healthy option is at least 2-3 or more times expensive .
Yeah, February isn't exactly strawberry season.
Fresh almost anything season, for that matter. What season was this list compiled, for that matter. :noway:0 -
The image gets cropped, you can find it here
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defines-food-deserts
If you google food deserts you can find more detailed images like this one, showing city by city view of the problem in the US.
Thank you for the link. Very interesting & enlightening.0 -
I have cooked for a family of 6 for 20 plus years and know how to stretch a dollar but not as much as their calculations are stretched. The only thing they really need to emphasize is that you can feed a family with planning for $.75 - $1.50 per portion for dinners on a regular basis if you shop regularly and have everyday pantry ingredients in your home then supplement a protein and veg!!
I live in Canada so fruit in the winter is like gold! But eating fast food for my family is $35 for 6 meal deals and I can cook fricken steak and shrimp for that price!!
PS I live 1.5 hours away from a Costco but have smaller grocery store with crap product in my town!0 -
Wow, prices in the states are considerably cheaper.
Nope. Below that pic it said the ad was from 2010. You can't touch 2 pounds of chicken breasts for $1.98 anywhere!0 -
Would have been more appealing if they did a side-by-side of fast food and the ingredients of the home-made version of those foods. If I'm seriously thinking about eating KFC a bag of uncooked lentils is not going to do it for me. And those Kashi crackers may have been cheap but they are definitely not a pizza. If they showed me how many pizzas I could make out of $20 worth of flour, yeast, cheese, pepperoni and tomato sauce, I'd be more likely to be impressed.0
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I laugh at these "prices." Everything is at least twice as much for me.0
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Would have been more appealing if they did a side-by-side of fast food and the ingredients of the home-made version of those foods. If I'm seriously thinking about eating KFC a bag of uncooked lentils is not going to do it for me. And those Kashi crackers may have been cheap but they are definitely not a pizza. If they showed me how many pizzas I could make out of $20 worth of flour, yeast, cheese, pepperoni and tomato sauce, I'd be more likely to be impressed.
I could make four or five pepperoni pizzas for 20 bucks. It typically will cost me about t2 bucks to make three pizzas, one cheese, one combo and one pepperoni. My pizzas are about the size of a cookie sheet.
Hey, I have five kids and we like leftovers. .0 -
um 5 large pizzas from ceasars is about $20 w/ tax. I can buy, nope cant really buy healthy food to feed a family of six for $20. I sure can buy box stuff cheap though.
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um 5 large pizzas from ceasars is about $20 w/ tax. I can buy, nope cant really buy healthy food to feed a family of six for $20. I sure can buy box stuff cheap though.
I buy healthy food all the time for cheap. The homemade chicken noodle soup I made last night cost about eight dollars and fed all seven of us with leftovers.0 -
The prices are out of whack (it is mid winter when fruit and veg are at their highest so it should be) OTOH you can always cook something tastier for less than fast food. Part of eating really inexpensive is learning to cook the off cuts that are often overlooked. I'm a pretty firm believer in snout to tail eating which means I've learned to make some interesting things at points (I had very tasty lamb necks as part of a lentil soup the other day - and I'll be making beef cheeks at some point this week) I try to eat local and get a local veg box in winter but it's pretty limited, I'll be glad when the markets kick in again in the late spring. For items like fruit i shop the sales at this time of year (I got a pint of strawberries for $2 the other day - a loss leader for the supermarket i'm sure as I buy flats of 8 at work for $27 )0
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You can't compare what you can buy off a value meal to what you can buy at the store - that's not apples to apples. If you compare a value meal at a fast food place, you have to compare what you can get that is healthy at a fast food place. AND... it is CHEAPER to buy the crap food. It's always cheaper to buy the bad food because that's where the demand is and that's what makes them money.
And people proved my point, response after response... you can feed your family for $10... well, I can feed them cheaper with bad food for around $8.
The real argument here is not that eating healthy is cheaper, it is not. However, eating healthy doesn't have to be expensive. And, if you are on a budget, there are foods you might not be able to afford, however, you can still learn to budget, be wise and find deals.0 -
I just went to Walmart yesterday for ground meat for my man for dinner. 1lb was $4.68 and he eats that in one sitting then has a bowl of cereal. I hate grocery shopping. We go through so much food so quickly. I feel like the only reason I work is so I can go to the store and spend my whole check trying to feed just two of us. I try to go to our local Bottom Dollar when we need stuff because that is literally the most affordable place to shop. I can get a HUGE bunch of bananas for .22/lb there and even the ground meat is less than Walmart's price. Hell, I can get double my groceries at BD than at any other store. Shopping there definitely reduced my bill compared to shopping at Giant Eagle by at least $100 but it's still outrageous what things cost these days.
P.S. Frozen veggies are outrageously cheap at BD, so if you live in the Pittsburgh area, that's where you should be shopping.0
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