Now consider the dishes we saw in the slides from Mexico. I personally thought that food looked awesome, and pretty darn balanced for being so cheap. Sure, you couldn't have 3 of them a day for $2, but you could get 1. Unlike here, where eating a home cooked meal these days barely beats dining out on price. $2 here is a couple cans of vegetables, or as in my case, 12 packs of Ramen. 3 packs of Ramen exceeds the DV for sodium and will leave you starving well before 24 hours.
The hunger challenge will be a fun way to experience a little solidarity, a rarity in our culture. I just wanted to share my observation about the state of food in the US, not only nutritionally but how it disproportionately affects the poor. It would really suck to be perpetually operating at level 1 of Maslow's hierarchy of needs!
I completely agree. In a lot of grocery stores, you can buy donuts and cookies cheaper than apples and bananas. No wonder our children aren't getting the nutrition that they need! "Food Deserts" are becoming more and more of a problem in our country.
ReplyDeleteAnother thought - when I was planning, I looked in the grocery store ads in the Sunday paper. There are all kinds of ads for branded, highly processed foods, but not for plain rice, dry beans, etc. No one is making money on these unbranded, generic foodstuffs.
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