Or you could do what I do and at the beginning of the week, pick up food from a place that gives you lots of food for your money and then eat that for a whole week. There's a place down the street from me that's open 24 hours and you can get a gigantic plate of fried rice (it's enough for 3 meals at least) for $7 and a dish of marinated meat for $10. I can eat the whole week for less than $20.
Making healthy food tax exempt just means they'd have to get their tax elsewhere
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I'm going to go to McDonalds right now. Seriously.
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Hmmm.... I wonder where they'd get those taxes. If only someone could come up with an idea about taxing crap food. Wait. Someone did.Originally Posted by Old Manus
Except that it takes half an hour to an hour and a half to cook a decent meal, so it would definitely be faster to go to a restaurant. But even food at the store follows this general reasoning. All that crap frozen stuff is cheaper and takes less time to cook. I spend almost as much money on a meal at home as I do eating out at a cheap restaurant. Something is seriously wrong here.Explain yoself! Going to the store to pick up some food can stock you for a week, thereby saving time from going to get food for seven days. Go out and get fast food once a day and I'm sure it'll add up to more than it takes to stop by the store once. Not to mention the gas with the back and the forth and the so on.
I guess it boils down to what it is you like to eat, then. My main meal is spaghetti with garlic bread and a salad. I can fix that in 10 minutes while doing something else like paying my bills. Or ramen. My god. 35 cents and a meal in itself. Sure, it's not the healthiest thing in the world but I agree with whoever it was that's already said that all it takes is a little exercise to cancel it out. People are just too lazy usually and they don't take the time to figure up how much time they'd save doing one or the other. I'm not going to say it's this way for everyone but, for me, it's faster and cheaper not to eat fast food.
I don't pretend to understand a federal economy, but I doubt it would be that simple.
What makes fast-food so alluring is not that it's cheap; rather, it's the fact that it's terribly conveniant.
Buying fresh produce and the like can prove to be cheaper, yet it cannot be said that it's easier to make or faster to prepare. Obviously, with fast-food, all one must do in means of preparation is travel to the restaraunt, order, and then simply wait.
Additionally, with a nation that has found that it's easier to simply stop by the fast-food chain and pick up food for the entire family at a somewhat reasonable price, it's difficult to tell a mother or father that they are destroying their family by simply not wanting to prepare food for the entire family.
When looking at preparation of a full course meal or the preparation required in ordering fast-food, I imagine most would chose fast-food.
It's conveniant, and thus, dangerous.
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Yes, this and the fact that fast food is, at least most of the time, pretty tasty. It has nothing to do with the cost of fast food - when I eat something from McDonald's or Burger King, it's because I feel like having a cheese burger.. in other words: I like the darn stuff! It's kinda a dilemma because I've turned into quite the health freak lately, but that's a whole other discussion I guess? It's all about the tastiness and the laziness in my opinion.. and the latter has become a really bad epidemic in the Western world as of late.
And people are talking about burning off the calories from unhealthy food like it's that simple. There's more than fat and cholesterol. They put poisons in these foods. Poisons such as high fructose corn syrup, aspartame and crap of which I don't even recall the names. You can't just burn off poisons.
well i only get mickely d's like twice a month and its not because of the cost. i like the food. i mean i think other places are better. taco bell and subway i think are better but dont always have the craving. subway costs about the same amount too as a meal.
all though it might not be so easy to burn off all the stuff in in mcdonalds food it is possible. the reason i stay fit is because i get massive amounts of exercise. and i do a fairly good job of balanceing it out with healthy food. if people can just eat in moderation obesity would go down. and if everyone wasnt so lazy theyd get the exercise they need. some people will claim they dont have the time which is bull i do sit ups push ups and whatever else jsut before i go to bed for like 5 minutes.
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Well, technically you can. You know them Kidney-shaped jazzes at the base of your back? And that lump of meat that sits just over your intestines? Those pretty much deal with poisons. Besides which calling such things poison is just plain ludicrous. If you had said something like Arsenic, which is a poison then your credibility level wouldn't have slumped three points. Hell, why not Alcohol? That's pretty damn poisonous. Maybe we should ban that?
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I had a goddamn tasty cheeseburger with some fries for dinner today, from TJ's. Pretty awesome. Cheap, fast, friendly, and extremely tasty and filling.
If you can give me one reason why I should sod around for any amount of time cooking when I can go get this stuff, I'd like to hear it. Bearing in mind that I don't consider having fast food a couple times a week to be a health risk.
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