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>Poorer people aren't viewing fast food as a luxury item. It's legit cheaper than getting all the ingredients to make a meal and it'll probably feed more people.

I eat instant oats and fruit every morning with some cinnamon and nutmeg for flavoring. The whole thing costs like <$1 for a meal lol, but the fat poorcel MUST have their Big Mac.

>“People don’t choose this,” she said. “They don’t wake up and say, ‘I’ll be unhealthy and fat today’

lol yes they do

>The worst part about it is all the guides that have come out of America in recent years for 'eating healthy while poor' go "here's how to eat on a budget, all you need to get are these simple ingredients..." and then doesn't mention the oil, the spices, the various pots and pans... You know... The stuff you actually need to be able to cook and cost money.

I bought my stainless steel pan I use to cook smaller things for $4 from Kmart in 2007, I still use it today. Poorcels are too busy buying new shitty shoes or w/e lol.

>Not everyone has access to a fridge or a freezer, either.

one of my fave /r/australia lolcows, the boss likes to sneed about aboriginals

>Yep. Breakfast is cereal. Lunch is toast or two min noodles. Dinner is a can of soup. Once a month I cook up a lentil stew and chicken curry and freeze that in portions to have instead of the soup. No more coffees or dinners out. I’ve lost 4 kilos since I ceased receiving FTB when my youngest moved out.

turns out all we need to do is cut the dole and the poorcels will finally drop the pounds

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People acting like a pot and a pan is some sort of heavy investment when cooking would save you enough over a year to buy a full professional set of utensils.

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Cereal is terrible for breakfast. Not filling, super processed, expensive for what you get

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Cooking a decent meal for yourself takes very little investment. You can buy like a month worth of oats for the price of one fast food breakfast meal.

The system is working as intended: it imposes costs on them for having high time preference and choosing comorbidity food over cooking.

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