Democrats Continue War on Poor People: Talks of Banning Dollar Stores

[Gun Nut]

I'm not defending anyone. I'm saying that it is cheaper and easier to buy foods with less benefits to them, and those foods will be bought because there aren't many other options, regardless where you buy the food. And even then, those foods are too expensive. Food just costs a good deal of money and poor people can't afford it. Heck, I'm not poor and we have to budget the grocery bill.

And using Whole Foods as an example or where to buy reasonably priced foods is ridiculous!

I don’t think he was arguing that Whole Foods was the best place to buy reasonably priced foods. Regardless, MY point (and I think his too) was that buying and preparing healthy food is comparable to buying and preparing shit food as I just demonstrated—$5/family meal for dogshit vs. $6/family meal for healthy protein and veg twice daily—PLUS all the medical costs you’ll save over a lifetime, so take the better option.

I used Whole Foods as an example because it is pretty attention getting to say that whole foods is cheaper than McDonalds... because it is.
Not even taking medical bills into consideration.

The reason for the popular "Whole Paycheck" joke about whole foods being too expensive and only for leftist liberals to waste their money on comes from two things"

1) they sell expensive prepared foods that cost what it would cost in a restaurant to buy. And it's good quality.. but when you compare a restaurant to any grocery store, price-wise, it is rather unfair. So you have the lazy American populace looking for the easiest way to get their 5 daly doses of their sugar fix and say - that easy stuff expensive!
2) the food poisoning industry wants you to hate anything low sugar that can result in a reduction in your addiction to their product.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

^ And the flipside of that... McDonald's is expensive! I hadn't been there for a long time, but stopped by one today and was surprised by the prices. Its not cheap at all.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

And just for shits and diarhea, a Big Mac consists of 7.04 ounces of burger meat. At the Whole Foods (in New York), one pound of fresh burger meat is $5.49, or 34 cents per ounce, so a comparable fresh burger from WF would cost about $2.40. Russet potatoes cost 79 cents/pound.

You only need one or two potatoes to make a comparable amount of a large fry from McDonalds, so we're talking about 10 cents worth of potatoes? 15? Let's say 15 cents.

A freshly prepared multi-grain bun and fresh pickels and mustard and onion (real ones, not the reconstituted ones of McDs) would add, what, another 40 cents total? Let's call it a dollar just to really cover our bases.

Big Mac combo meal made of poisonous death: $8.

Home cooked burger and fries made of quality ingredients, unprocessed meat and properly prepared: $3.55.

And by "properly prepared" I still mean making the fries deliciously fried, just using better, healthier oil and a simple trick (you bake the potatoes first the night before, having some with your dinner and others you put in the fridge for the next day). Take the cold cooked potatoes and slice them into fry length and then heat up some peanut oil or sunflower oil or the like in a skillet. No need to fully saturate them, just a little oil will do because the hot oil isn't being used to cook them, just heat them up and give the outside a nice crunch.

WAAAAY better flavor and much much better for you than McD's version.

 

[Gun Nut]

And by "properly prepared" I still mean making the fries deliciously deep fried, just using better, healthier oil and a simple trick (you bake the potatoes first the night before, having some with your dinner and others you put in the fridge for the next day). Take the cold cooked potatoes and slice them into fry length and then heat up some peanut oil or sunflower oil or the like in a skillet. No need to fully saturate them, just a little oil will do because the hot oil isn't being used to cook them, just heat them up and give the outside a nice crunch.

WAAAAY better flavor and much much better for you than McD's version.

baked and then fried potatoes? mind blown.

 

[Half-Life]

And just for shits and diarhea, a Big Mac consists of 7.04 ounces of burger meat. At the Whole Foods (in New York), one pound of fresh burger meat is $5.49, or 34 cents per ounce, so a comparable fresh burger from WF would cost about $2.40. Russet potatoes cost 79 cents/pound.

You only need one or two potatoes to make a comparable amount of a large fry from McDonalds, so we're talking about 10 cents worth of potatoes? 15? Let's say 15 cents.

A freshly prepared multi-grain bun and fresh pickels and mustard and onion (real ones, not the reconstituted ones of McDs) would add, what, another 40 cents total? Let's call it a dollar just to really cover our bases.

Big Mac combo meal made of poisonous death: $8.

Home cooked burger and fries made of quality ingredients, unprocessed meat and properly prepared: $3.55.

And by "properly prepared" I still mean making the fries deliciously fried, just using better, healthier oil and a simple trick (you bake the potatoes first the night before, having some with your dinner and others you put in the fridge for the next day). Take the cold cooked potatoes and slice them into fry length and then heat up some peanut oil or sunflower oil or the like in a skillet. No need to fully saturate them, just a little oil will do because the hot oil isn't being used to cook them, just heat them up and give the outside a nice crunch.

WAAAAY better flavor and much much better for you than McD's version.

I think when people eat there, they are talking about the dollar menu. You can go there with $5 and a little change and get 5 hamburgers.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

And just for shits and diarhea, a Big Mac consists of 7.04 ounces of burger meat. At the Whole Foods (in New York), one pound of fresh burger meat is $5.49, or 34 cents per ounce, so a comparable fresh burger from WF would cost about $2.40. Russet potatoes cost 79 cents/pound.

You only need one or two potatoes to make a comparable amount of a large fry from McDonalds, so we're talking about 10 cents worth of potatoes? 15? Let's say 15 cents.

A freshly prepared multi-grain bun and fresh pickels and mustard and onion (real ones, not the reconstituted ones of McDs) would add, what, another 40 cents total? Let's call it a dollar just to really cover our bases.

Big Mac combo meal made of poisonous death: $8.

Home cooked burger and fries made of quality ingredients, unprocessed meat and properly prepared: $3.55.

And by "properly prepared" I still mean making the fries deliciously fried, just using better, healthier oil and a simple trick (you bake the potatoes first the night before, having some with your dinner and others you put in the fridge for the next day). Take the cold cooked potatoes and slice them into fry length and then heat up some peanut oil or sunflower oil or the like in a skillet. No need to fully saturate them, just a little oil will do because the hot oil isn't being used to cook them, just heat them up and give the outside a nice crunch.

WAAAAY better flavor and much much better for you than McD's version.

I think when people eat there, they are talking about the dollar menu.

The "dollar menu" is a special promotion that is not always available (and McDonald's loses serious money every time they offer it). Regardless I've found the standard burger at McDs in Baltimore costs $1.31

The patty itself is about 1.06 ounces.

For 1.06 ounces of Whole Foods burger meat, that would cost a fraction over 34 cents, so we'll round it down to 34.

Regular burgers come with pickles, reconstituted onion, ketchup and mustard on a bun, so add those costs up for one burger and you're adding, again, about 40 cents (but likely far less), so we're at 74 cents for a comparable much healthier burger for a savings of 73 cents, or about the cost of TWO McDs burgers.

Iow, you could cook yourself TWO comparable burgers for the price of ONE McDs standard.

 

[Axulus]

Where are you guys getting the McD prices from? In my area, they are running a promotion (going on 3 weeks now) of 2 for $5. Choices include 10 nuggets, big mac, quarter pounder, or fish filet.

And where is the evidence that their burgers and/or fries are more unhealthy than the typical burger or fries from just about any other restaurant?

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Where are you guys getting the McD prices from?

Do you not know what a link is? I provided them in every one of my posts.

In my area, they are running a promotion

Which are temporary and thus not applicable to any kind of long-term budgeting, but fine.

2 for $5. Choices include 10 nuggets, big mac, quarter pounder, or fish filet.

Ok, let's do quarter pounder this time using the limited promotional price. Two quarter pounders would equal a half a pound of processed dogshit McDs meat .

As I posted above (with the link), one pound of fresh burger meat from Whole Foods is $5.49, so half a pound would cost about $2.75. Even if we use the same overinflated price of 40 cents for a multigrain bun, fresh pickles and fresh onion and double it, that's 80 cents more for a total of $3.55 for the equivalent of two quarter pounders.

You've saved $1.45.

Add the fries I noted previously for an additional 15 cents and you've got a total of $3.70 for two quarter-pounders with large fries for a savings of $1.30 over McDs.

Hell, let's do the [link warning]fish filet too. It's evidently made of about .6 ounces of actual fish (pollock). The rest is breading.

I couldn't find fresh pollock at Whole Foods, but I did find fresh [link warning]wild caught turbot for $12.99 on sale in a Baltimore WF, but non sale price is $15.99/pound so let's do that first. That breaks down to about $1/ounce, so 60 cents for .6 ounces.

But since breading and deep frying will kill you--especially when you slather on horrific tartar sauce and slap it all on a bun with a "cheese" petroleum slice--let's really splurge and instead of making two comparable fillet of fish sandwiches for $5 with a total of only 1.2 ounces of actual protein, let's bake a hefty 4 ounces of fresh fish with a little olive oil and shot of lemon, with, let's say, blanched broccoli for $5 instead.

WAAAAAAY better for you, incredibly easy to make and since we're going with promotional pricing, if you bought the fish on sale, you'd easily come in under $5 and/or be able to buy a 6 ounce filet and REALLY go to town.

And where is the evidence that their burgers and/or fries are more unhealthy than the typical burger or fries from just about any other restaurant?

Who said anything about some other restaurant?