The Reason we're obese?

[mikekerstetter]

The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA
July 11, 2011
Inexpensive, but costly


— Roughly 28.5 percent of people in Pennsylvania are obese.

Did anyone stop to wonder why? Try going grocery shopping on a tight budget. It's cheaper to buy a TV dinner or anything quick that is not healthy than it is to buy healthy food.

Why spend $20 to buy a roast for one meal when you can spend $20 and get 20 microwavable meals.

Ever wonder why your health care is so expensive? Just go shopping, and you will find one reason.

Jason M. Eisenhuth,

Northumberland

[mikekerstetter]

I don't know about this guy, but I can make 2 or three meals for 4 out of a $20 roast. If he's cooking for himself and sitting down and eating a $20 roast I can see why he'd be obese. I do most of the grocery shopping and cooking in our house and I do most grocery shopping at Aldi's and Surplus Outlet. We don't have a lot of precooked stuff at our house, most everything is cooked from scratch. We eat a lot of fresh steamed veggies. Shopping at the discount stores and looking for sale items at Giant or one of the local grocery stores really stretches the food budget. I certainly haven't found pre-made microwave dinners to be a cheap alternative to making you're own fresh made meals.

[Ritty77]

Packaged, prepared foods are always more expensive. Heck, sometimes the packaging obviously costs more than the food it contains.

My guess is the guy is a tad lazy.