Are you Loving it?

I continue to hear over and over again that eating healthily is too expensive and many people do not eat healthily because it is too expensive. This woman wrote the following comment on a website “I believe one of the reasons so many Americans are overweight has a lot to do with the high cost of eating healthy. The average hard working American cannot afford to go to the grocery store and buy Meats, Vegetables, and Fruits.” This woman claimed that she would go to McDonalds and get 2 double cheeseburgers and feed a family of five for $10. Okay, I have not been to McDonalds in like forever, but since when can you feed a family of five with 2 cheeseburgers? All I remember about McDonalds is that their burgers were not that big and definitely did not look like those in the McDonalds commercials.
Personally I went to Safeway last week and chicken breasts (okay it was not free range chicken) were $1.99 a pound, so I got about 3 pounds of chicken for about $6.00. Do you realize how many meals 3 pounds of chicken can make? I can buy an entire cabbage for less than $2.00 and it will serve several meals. In my opinion, if you were to give people a choice of free food and one choice was a healthy meal and the other was junk food, they would choose the junk food. If the choice was fruit over a bag of chips most American’s would choose the bag of chips. When are people going to stop making excuses? The fact is Americans like junk food and that is what they eat! I was buying blueberry yogurt yesterday and the cashier said to me, “blueberries and suppose to be good for you but I don’t like them because they don’t have a taste”! My thought was what the hell is wrong with your taste buds – Nuff Said!