9-Year, 105,000-Person Study Links Cancer to This One Food Group

[meadowlander]

19. +1

You also have to factor in what will actually fill you up.

It doesn't matter that I can buy a bag of potato chips for $1 if I can eat the whole bag, have a blood sugar crash and be starving again in an hour. I could have three hard boiled eggs or half a dozen almonds for the same amount of money and feel full for a lot longer. What's the point of a .10 cent packet of Ramen noodles that leaves me hungrier than I started and with a hypertensive headache forty minutes later?

I eat almost no processed food now because of my four years in poverty after the GFC. If you want to fill up on the cheap, you buy beans, rice, oatmeal and whatever produce is seasonal and on sale not Coco Pops, chips and Coke. Poor people who are in it for the long haul (as opposed to college kids flirting with poverty for a few years) learn to make lentil soup, meatloaf, spaghetti bolognese and iced tea. They don't go to Taco Bell or eat Ramen noodles or waste money on soft drinks.