lostzombies.com said:
That's the thing which gets me though, it seems directly linked to intelligence. People can eat healthy and it is FAR cheaper than the readymeals you mentioned.
Beg to differ. http://www.iceland.co.uk/category/view/2/Frozen+food_Ready+meals
Ready meals are pretty cheap...
Grab a sack of pasta that will last you 3 weeks, its a couple of quid, vegetables again are cheap, if you can't afford them grow your own. Protein is also cheap, you don't have to have steak you can have tuna etc or chicken. You can buy large amount of incredibly cheap food that is very healthy for you.
All true. This is what I do. But you'd be surprised how many people can't throw some chicken and a sauce into a pan, boil the kettle and stick pasta on, freeze the excess for later dates. Even if they can, the quicker it is, the better. I realise the chicken+sauce+pasta mix is quick, roughly 15 minutes, but that doesn't compare to a microwave-in-60-seconds burger/hotdog/rib sandwich/whatever. It's already made for you, and takes less time. I wouldn't say it's intelligence/common sense, but rather people are both lazy and neither have the time anymore (thinking more business type people, as an example).
It's purely down to a lack of intelligence/common sense/minimal effort.
People go for the minimal effort because it's just an easier alternative, which is the downfall. A parents, possibly single in this day and age, might have 2 or 3 kids. They'll go to school. So she has to:
Go to work for most of the day.
Sort her kids out, i.e. dress them, feed them, send them to school, feed them after school, get ready for bed.
Then she has other tasks such as the washing, cleaning the house, dishes, etc.*
A quick ready meal or a cheap burger and chips is a better alternative for her in terms of effort. The companies in the Industry play on the fact people live in these circumstances, to sell them cheap shit that in the long run will kill you. The logical alternative would be for them to change their money grabbing ways.
I mean literally you can buy a sack of dried pasta that will last you a month for a few quid. If people are so lazy/stupid/ignorant that they cannot figure something out this basic frankly they deserve nothing less than the early grave they dig for themselves
It does get boring though, pasta all month. A good method, but plain. AND we do need a balanced diet after all.
I can agree people are to blame, what with the percentage guidelines coming into place more so, but only to an extent. To give them full credit I find a tad naive, people are being given credit for something they're blissfully unaware of, yet the government (mine in particular) still say "EAT HEALTHY!!".
*Doesn't have to be a mother, just an example.