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eating only healthy expensive food, listing the dishes eaten for breakfast, dinner, supper?

2006-07-18 04:24:08 · 2 answers · asked by Like 2 in Food & Drink Other - Food & Drink

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I work at a womans shelter and observed a lot of differences between income and diet.One major factor however is education!Most of the women are second or 3rd generation foodstamp recepients.i say 90% never learned proper nutrition or cooking from their mothers,a lot of them never learned how to plan a meal or shop wiseley.i see most of the women spending their foodstamps on convinience food like tv dinners,chips,cookies,bologna,canned meats etc. once i took a lady to the grocery store to show her how to fix healthy meals on a low budget,she didnt even know how prepare fresh carrots!her main complaint was that she didnt want to "waste"her time in the kitchen!go figure!beside the frustration i encounter every day...here is a meal list for a typical day foodstamp recipient versus(for lack of other options) my house(yesterday)
BREAKFAST
FOODSTAMPS - MY HOUSE
poptarts/sausage bisquit - cantaloupe /pancakes

SNACK
Chips - Yogurt with fresh fruit for the kids for the kids
LUNCH
FRied bologna sandwich - Chickensalad sandwich
AFTERNOON SNACK
Chips - carrot sticks with dip
Cookie

DINNER
Tv dinners - BBQ smoked sausage
home fried potatos,
green beans

i might add that the foodstamp recipients also drink a lot of sodas and kool aid versus juice,milk or tea.
i believe that the quality of the diet has more to do with creativity and information then income(we live on a military salary and my minimum wage part time job with 3 kids)sure rich people can buy higher quality products and low income cant but it is wrong to blame poor nutrition solely on income many factors like transportation,education,creativity,convinience and resourcefullness are just as important.At the Shelter we provide the Basic foods like Milk,Bread,Eggs,Fresh produce and Meat(mostly ground beef and chicken).Usually the Fresh produce goes to Waste because the woman either dont know how to prepare it or dont want to spend the time(i may add that all of our ladies are homeless with children none of them work) it is a frustrating job but every once in a while we do have success stories!

2006-07-18 05:58:40 · answer #1 · answered by petra0609 4 · 1 0

there's a million possibilities
what's the point

2006-07-18 05:23:40 · answer #2 · answered by samsonjedi 4 · 0 0

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