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QueenMama · #1 01-09-2009, 05:31 PM

An interesting article wondering if this recession is going to cause people to gain weight from having to eat cheap but filling food.

Will Americans put on "recession pounds"? - Yahoo! News

It's interesting about the woman who buys value meals from McDonald's for her kids, or they go home & eat cereal. Someone needs to teach her how to cook cheap but nutritious foods for her kids.

I also found the last part of the article interesting about eating the way people did during the Depression.

"Drewnowski said it was possible to eat in an affordable and healthy way, partly by relying on the basic foods which saw America through the Depression of the 1930s.
"The answer lies in affordable but nutrient-rich foods such as ground beef, beans, milk, nuts, cheese, carrots, potatoes, canned tomatoes, soups, and rice," he said, calling it "a diet for a new Depression.""

Nothing on that list sounds out of line for kids except perhaps the rice, unless it's brown rice. Of course, most of this wouldn't be low carb, but it's nutritious food for growing kids, much better than value meals or cereal any day of the week. And even if we had to go to this way of eating due to severe lack of funds, we might be able to keep it moderately low carb, preventing weight gain, until our financial circumstances improved.

It's really hard to do low carb with extremely low income. I know, I've been there. That's one reason I left low carb when I lost the first time. Our finances were so bad that we relied on the cheap, filling foods until things improved. So I do understand that being poor can mean obesity. And I feel for those who truly cannot afford anything but the cheaper foods.

There was a discussion on another forum about this, and some said that they could do it, they'd stock up on ground beef & eggs. Well, people, sometimes there isn't enough money to do even that. (There were times when I had $10 to feed the 5 of us for a week. That's not enough to feed 2 adults and 3 growing kids hamburger and eggs.) And kids don't want to eat just hamburger and eggs. Sometimes you have to rely on beans, rice, cheap canned veggies, etc. It's called survival. And I don't know how this post turned into a rant about cheap eating, I just meant to comment on the fact that sometimes people have to eat what they can afford, and often it's the very stuff that makes us gain weight. And I am so thankful that now I can afford to buy what I want to eat, and don't have to skimp.

Rob · #2 01-12-2009, 08:14 AM

I hear you Nita. Especially at the inflated prices of meat these days. a few years ago you could buy ground chuck on sale for 99 cents a pound. Now a good sale is $2.49 a pound.

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