Giving the Poor Easy Access to Healthy Food Doesn’t Mean They’ll Buy It

[jwirr]

13. This does not surprise me. Many people have been eating junk food and "poverty" foods for

generations. A lack of fruit and vegetables. The excess use of cheap pastas. There are a lot of foods that the poor eat that are not good for you and they have been eating them for generations. And their children are learning to eat from them. The "ick I don't like that" is the problem of eating with you eyes not your stomach.

And all we need to do is look at Michelle Obama's attempt to introduce healthy food into schools. So much complaining. I have 11 great grandchildren. So much complaining.

And then take a look at my grandson's family. 3 little children. Dad cooks but he seldom uses vegetables and thinks fruits are a snack. He cooks a lot of spicy foods. They get plenty of meats and eggs. Some fruit juice and milk but mostly water. When it is mom's turn to cook - she brings happy meals or pizza hut food and pop. Instead of fruit before bedtime it is more likely candy or popcorn.

Much of this is lack of knowledge about the need for balanced meals and the fast food is just plain laziness. It is also the idea that there was nothing wrong with the way we were living. Just plain resistance to change. I'm okay they will be okay also.

From experience when one has used the unhealthy foods for a lifetime it is not easy to be able to know how to use your money to make the more healthy purchases. It is a common belief to think that it is cheaper to cook the old way. Fruit and vegetables cost more.