Thanks, Churchill.You sound like you’re cooking for one, not four. In any case, your Dinty Moore recipe is not a good idea. The amount of carbs, sugars, calories, and sodium is a surefire way to give yourself type II diabetes. The cheapest meats are also the fattiest. Canned or frozen vegetables are also less nutritious than fresh, due to the oils, preservatives, and sodium added. Also, I will assume you are older, and therefore your metabolism has slowed to the point where you can monitor portions and not grow hungry even if you are eating less than you perhaps did 10-20 years ago. If you are retired, even more so, since a sedentary lifestyle requires less high energy foods to maintain itself. Imagine trying to use your same budget to feed a few kids, adding $2 a day per dependent (the average food stamp payout) You will find the kids not getting the nutrition they need from the fresh food section, and instead being hungry all the time. This is where the poor resort to junk food (although your Dinty Moore recipe is filling, I can’t stress how unhealthy it is). Too many people make an assumption that just because they are able to do something, everybody else can. You can live within a specific budget, but that won’t work on a young family. Someone may know how to cook anything and make it good (my wife), while others can make sandwiches, but otherwise find a way to burn water (me). Everything comes down to what choices they make in life, but unfortunately not everyone has as much freedom in the choices they CAN make. I can’t look down on the single mother who buys a $1 bag of candy for her kids because she is using the last few dollars on their EBT card and that candy is replacing a meal. She does not have the option of going back to school, learning a new trade, or moving somewhere else because it would mean the kids would have even less food if she did that. Our country constantly belittles teachers and complains about our schools, but if more money went towards education, and people took it seriously, you would have less hungry and less poor because more people could advance through the workforce instead of having to settle for minimum wage careers.
Thanks, Churchill.You sound like you’re cooking for one, not four. In any case, your Dinty Moore recipe is not a good idea. The amount of carbs, sugars, calories, and sodium is a surefire way to give yourself type II diabetes. The cheapest meats are also the fattiest. Canned or frozen vegetables are also less nutritious than fresh, due to the oils, preservatives, and sodium added. Also, I will assume you are older, and therefore your metabolism has slowed to the point where you can monitor portions and not grow hungry even if you are eating less than you perhaps did 10-20 years ago. If you are retired, even more so, since a sedentary lifestyle requires less high energy foods to maintain itself. Imagine trying to use your same budget to feed a few kids, adding $2 a day per dependent (the average food stamp payout) You will find the kids not getting the nutrition they need from the fresh food section, and instead being hungry all the time. This is where the poor resort to junk food (although your Dinty Moore recipe is filling, I can’t stress how unhealthy it is). Too many people make an assumption that just because they are able to do something, everybody else can. You can live within a specific budget, but that won’t work on a young family. Someone may know how to cook anything and make it good (my wife), while others can make sandwiches, but otherwise find a way to burn water (me). Everything comes down to what choices they make in life, but unfortunately not everyone has as much freedom in the choices they CAN make. I can’t look down on the single mother who buys a $1 bag of candy for her kids because she is using the last few dollars on their EBT card and that candy is replacing a meal. She does not have the option of going back to school, learning a new trade, or moving somewhere else because it would mean the kids would have even less food if she did that. Our country constantly belittles teachers and complains about our schools, but if more money went towards education, and people took it seriously, you would have less hungry and less poor because more people could advance through the workforce instead of having to settle for minimum wage careers.