>>>>>>>I would disagree about "crap is cheap" vs "good stuff is expensive" I go shopping to BJ (local food club, like a big store). I see many people loading their carriages with soda bottles and I load my carriage with water bottles. Which one do you think is more expensive and is less healthy? <g>
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>>>>>>I hope you check it really closely. Far too often, even with the big name producers, that bottled water is tap water. And that makes it way too expensive.
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>>>>>>And generally speaking, unless Foxborough has really poor systems, tap water is clean and eminently drinkable. It has won top spot in many a blind taste test.
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>>>>>I think you missed the point I was making.
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>>>>I think I got your point, that people on public assistance should not be buying soda. Agreed. I think Alan and I have a point as well, though -- why buy water? Whoever had the idea of selling water belongs in the marketing hall of fame.
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>>>My point is that to eat healthy does not cost any more (and very often much less) than to eat junk. Period.
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>>>Yours and Alan's point about water bottles or portable water is just a drift from the topic.
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>>Sorry for the drift. I really did misunderstand your point.
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>>You have a road to hoe if you're going to make a case that eating healthy doesn't cost more. Junk food is on sale all the time. Organic food costs way more in any supermarket. I am not criticizing that healthy choice but let's not kid ourselves that it's cheaper.
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>Let me put it to you another way, more diplomatically <g>, people are fat not because they are poor but because they are stupid. They load their food cart with steaks, burgers, hot dogs, chips, whole milk, and soda. I bet you they spend more money on food per person than anybody who eats healthy diets.

Now, now. Some of us are above our playing weight and spend almost nothing on food. A friend of mine lives about 150 miles from my house and works about 10 minutes from my house. So she comes into town on Monday and stays at my place until Friday when she heads home. She feels guilty (I've never figured out why) for breathing the air in my house or some such nonsense, so she (she calls it 'rent'), cooks up a storm on the weekend and brings food for the week. The problem is (though I have no proof), I think she must have been an army cook because she only seems to know how to cook for a large crowd. There are two people eating the food (she and I). I tend to try to make her feel validated by eating more than I should. So, it's not my fault.