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    Healthy eating low incomes

    Quote Originally Posted by FisherRd View Post
    When we talk about making low income people pay some income tax we're told how it hits them harder than everyone else because they make so much less. Yet, when it comes to a 17% increase in the food they purchase somehow the marginal utility of money isn't so important? I'm not assigning that to Jeff, I'm just making a general observation.

    I'd hazard a guess that McDonalds regular customers are low income people, and the increase would obviously hurt them more than others.
    Time to open a separate thread on why healthy food is so much for expensive and unavailable to the low income population. I have several comments on the subject

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    Time to open a separate thread on why healthy food is so much for expensive and unavailable to the low income population. I have several comments on the subject
    One answer to that is laziness in some cases. What is easier? Getting something pre-made or taking the time to actually make something healthy for yourself. Oatmeal is rather cheap and not bad for you.


    They stock it at Wegmans




    Some apples



    And honey instead of using processed sugar if you want to sweeten you oatmeal.




    Or you can go to McDonalds for Bacon Egg and Cheese Bagel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    Time to open a separate thread on why healthy food is so much for expensive and unavailable to the low income population. I have several comments on the subject
    Grocery shopping takes thought and effort. It's not that it's unavailable.
    It also generally takes a caring parent to shop and cook, which many poor kids don't have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FisherRd View Post
    Grocery shopping takes thought and effort. It's not that it's unavailable.
    It also generally takes a caring parent to shop and cook, which many poor kids don't have.
    You and res are way off in regard to availability.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    You and res are way off in regard to availability.
    Are the poor unable to get to a grocery store?
    It's cheaper to cook than to eat out. It's the lack of effort, budgeting, and planning that the poor generally lack.

    A frozen pizza is easy. McDonald's is easy. Buying nikes, fubu, a cellphone, cable, and weed, are all apparently easy. Groceries (where free money is handed to you monthly) and cooking, not so much.

    Poor decision making leads to poor people more often than not. So do single parent households and high school dropouts.

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    Time to open a separate thread on why healthy food is so much for expensive and unavailable to the low income population.
    This may be the dumbest things you've ever said on here, and you have thrown down some real doozies.
    Most of all I like bulldozers and dirt

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    You and res are way off in regard to availability.
    I'm pretty sure Wegmans along with other stores have Oatmeal, apples and honey in stock.

    I'm pretty sure Guercio's stocks Oatmeal, apples and honey

    Guercio & Sons buffalo ny

    OR save-a-lot

    Or Aldi's...

    Down in the city you can visit

    Farmers Market Buffalo


    Farmers Market Buffalo

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    Quote Originally Posted by nickelcityhomes View Post
    This may be the dumbest things you've ever said on here, and you have thrown down some real doozies.
    Here is a grade A problem solver.

    Its a well known fact that low income areas are suffering from a lack of availability of healthy food choices. Haven't you read about the Urban farm movement?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    Here is a grade A problem solver.

    Its a well known fact that low income areas are suffering from a lack of availability of healthy food choices. Haven't you read about the Urban farm movement?

    Places stock the shelves with what people buy. The corner store on the East Side is not going to stock perisable items because they would just go to waste.

    It's obvious you know nothing about supply and demand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    I'm pretty sure Wegmans along with other stores have Oatmeal, apples and honey in stock.

    I'm pretty sure Guercio's stocks Oatmeal, apples and honey
    You are citing anecdotal evidence as its fact.

    http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2011/nov/10_0231.htm
    http://voices.yahoo.com/lower-income...d-2800511.html

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    Maybe instead of teaching some of the topics they do in public schools they can teach proper eating, basic parenting and how to balance your check book

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    Quote Originally Posted by leftWNYbecauseofBS View Post
    Places stock the shelves with what people buy. The corner store on the East Side is not going to stock perisable items because they would just go to waste.

    It's obvious you know nothing about supply and demand.
    If you are saying that demand is higher for cheaper, unhealthier food then I'm sure I do understand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    If you are saying that demand is higher for cheaper, unhealthier food then I'm sure I do understand.
    If the above quote wasn't true, Mc Donald's wouldn't be number 1
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    There are super markets in poor neighborhoods. Tops on the west side (niagara st), and tops on the east side (broadway). Why don't they shop there for their groceries? That seems pretty available to me...

    Pure laziness.

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    ONe positive thing I see in the city are the community veggie gardens.

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