Fast Food Prices ⤴. Will More People Cook Healthy Food?

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“I can’t afford to eat healthy!” You’ve heard that excuse often. I’ve always maintained that making healthy meals at home is less expensive than eating unhealthy fast food when you look closer at the math (and put in a modicum of effort into planning and cooking).

And now, it’s easier to make that case, even with grocery store prices increasing:

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I wonder what caused this increase in fast food prices, he asks sarcastically.

But I seriously wonder if normies will start cooking more, especially those who’ve used the above excuse. Or will they just buy more frozen dinners that cost 3X as much as making the same foods themselves?

Your thoughts?

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Looking at all of the obese land whales all around me everywhere I go, I have to believe that almost nothing will stop them from shoving garbage into their mouths. A fatty is never going to be heard uttering “oh man, that McDonald’s combo meal is really expensive, I think maybe I’ll give salads and grilled chicken breasts made at home a try!”

Not only would they hate the taste of the healthy food, but you forget, another reason for their extreme mass is their unbelievable level of laziness! Cooking at home would also require standing on those lymphodema legs for too long at the stove, or having to actually use their arms to chop ingredients into a salad—wait, nevermind, they would never do that, it would be a pre-bagged salad if this imaginary scenario were to happen.

Nah, like most red blooded Americans, fat people will bitch and holler about the price increases but they will keep opening their wallets for the convenience AND the greasy/fatty/salty/buttery taste! Ha, now I’m imagining Homer Simpson drooling and eating at that all you can eat seafood buffet that he put out of business. Speaking of…how in the hell does the golden corral not go out of business? OH, sorry, that’s unrelated.

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Plenty of garbage still available to buy at the grocery store.

Just because they might avoid fast food doesnt mean they will change their eating habits.

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I don’t see fast food habits breaking due to price. The price only indicates how much people are willing to pay for a good or service.

I’m waiting for fast food to become a lower class status flex like those dumb shoes that cost hundreds of dollars to buy but pennies to produce in china.

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Lol are you referring to the shoes that, once on your feet, allow you to instantly be able to dunk a basketball or “fly”? The secret is the magical air pocket/bubble.

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Yeah, Jordans or what ever shoes are the thing now.

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Oh boy, I have thoughts about this. And feel qualified to answer.

I don’t think it’s people being lazy, just exhausted. Time is money. Working a night shift, single-income household, on-demand scheduling, working 2 jobs, etc?

Remember when Hugh Grant got caught with a prostitute and was asked why a famous movie star needed to pay for sex, and he responded “I wasn’t, I was paying her to leave.” Same thing with me as a private chef. Planning, procurement, traveling, cooking, serving, cleaning, storage . . . I budget 6 hours a day for an event. If you can’t afford this and are wiped out already, then 30 seconds just to get some calories with nothing to do but throw away some trash looks pretty good. You only see me for dinner.

Plus, I have seen some shitty kitchens. Even people who have fancy apartments in big cities, the kitchen sucks. I bring my own equipment, but it’s telling their cooking skills by what they have. Most of the time it’s obvious the wife bought something pretty, and the husband doesn’t know dick about cooking. But buying stuff can be a big investment for people, vs relying on a restaurant with a fryer big enough to fry a cat.

I have worked for three billionaires and all of them wanted simple stuff, unless company was over. People all want the same thing.

The food industry is the second largest employer in the US behind the government, and it’s good at finding what people want, but their employees are also getting shift meals and discounts. Why wouldn’t you take that?

Yup.

Home ec back in schools would make a huge difference.

Also I’ve pitched cooking classes to so many gyms to increase their trainers success rate but not much interest. Some gyms might be as bad as fast food at keeping people fat to make a profit.

On that note, I’m going to make dinner.

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Cigarettes are $15 a pack.

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My local gym has started stocking meals for people to buy. Shit is just so expensive here I eat like crap - bread, pasta, protein shakes.

Hate to sound like my parents, but I remember when a cheeseburger was .49 cents.

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:man_shrugging:t2:. Haven’t bought those in a while!

Not surprised though. They were about $6.50 (in PA) when I quit.

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The idea was that trainers could add a personal chef package to their programs. You set the macros and timing, sell an add-on package that would have tiers - Intro interview to design and send recipes, meal drop off, or in house cooking.

After all, if your client can stick to your meal plan you’ll have better results, so you look better. And I offered 10% of the purtchased package to the trainers, so free money.

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I was supposed to go to Spain with a gal. She is tiny, gained three pounds, felt fat, joined a gym, was proud of herself.

I asked her if she was doing calf raises.

Trip canceled.

Nobody truly wants to do the hard stuff, including me. Even buying prepped meals is too hard because you will pay more than McDonalds and still power down a quart of Ben and Jerry’s.

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Whoa, they’re like half that in my neck of the woods.

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Man, everything here is expensive - ground beef is $10.99 a pound for 85/15. If I buy six pounds, I can get it down to $6.99 for 80/20.

In Portland, I get Totinos Party Pizzas for .98c - here, $3.50.

Crazy!

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Typical American is an undisciplined, demoralized slob. Food is their drug of choice.

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I have a few hundred of these laying around. You think it will be a good diet to develop discipline?

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Asking for a friend

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I was around when the dark brown bag MRE was still a thing… BBQ Pork and Rice, Tuna w Noodles, The 4 Fingers of Death. These new ones are whack

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I remember those.

The only things I liked was the Tabasco and the gum.

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The granola bar mixed with the cocoa was prized… fist fights in the field over those. The Pork Chow Mein was the worst. My fav was spaghetti and BBQ pork. I’d always bring some old school protein bars, drinks with me. One had 1000 calories and was like pure glucose.

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For some maybe but among the poor, who don’t work and get government benefits, what’s their excuse? In inner cities, restaurants like McDonald’s have tried to have EBT cards become acceptable payment. I used to work in a supermarket, so this is just my experience, and you could pretty accurately predict when a customer was going to use food stamps based on what they were buying. For example, lobster, junk food and soda.