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Post by tloonya on Apr 11, 2014 10:31:09 GMT -5
Yes, but some people on this board live in a very tiny box and apparently don't recognize any of these problems. I am convinced they have never been farther than 20 blocks from their own home (if that!). So who's responsibility is that to get those people access to a clean water? People who live in a very tiny box? Or local government?
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Post by 973beachbum on Apr 11, 2014 10:32:49 GMT -5
For posters who think people in the US can't be poorer than people in India.
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Post by tloonya on Apr 11, 2014 10:40:04 GMT -5
I don't care if liver gives you eternal life. I am not eating it! Does anyone making you? so... I want to explain something about liver and 'gross' stuff. Liver is good for your hemoglobin in your blood. Anemic children were giver liver as a medicine. Some of the organs full of iron. Fish oil was given to kids mandatory in my youth. Then it stopped. Now it is back again! Some are great for other vitamin deficiency. However we do not HAVE to eat it anymore if we don't feel like it because you can pop a vitamin and have it all! Doesn't matter that vitamin only gets absorbed by your body by 10% or so...and if you ate piece of liver you would have it better? Who cares! Vitamins don't taste gross.
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Post by swamp on Apr 11, 2014 10:42:20 GMT -5
The point you seem to be missing is that some people genuinely believe they are eating a balanced diet. They don't see it as being "stoopid" or NEEDING to learn anything - because to them, their diet of mac & cheese and poptarts is fine. While we might see some foods as intuitively bad - how could you ever think X is good for you? - growing up in certain communities, it's never questioned. I've told this story on here before, but when I waitressed, I worked with a woman who swore up and down that our fried cheesecake was healthy, because it was breaded in cornflakes (they're a breakfast food! and made of corn!) and the cream cheese had protein and calcium. Yes, this was mind-boggling, and I'm sure I posted about it jokingly on Facebook, but to her, that was a healthy food. (Look at all the different diets out there. Carbs are good, carbs are bad, protein is good, protein is hard on your kidneys, iceberg lettuce is bad, spinach is good, non-organic fruit is bad, butter is good, fake butter is bad, no, wait, fake butter is OK...) It's hard enough for educated, upper-middle-class folks to figure out which foods are healthy or not. Why do we hold poor, often uneducated, often insulated people to a higher standard? My FIL told me Cheetos were healthy because they were made from corn.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 10:44:28 GMT -5
I know everyone is all Hunger Games happy, but i've been a Jennifer Lawrence fan since Winters Bone. Seriously people. Watch it Or Justified... there is a train wreck my husband puts on the TV and I just can't look away from...
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Post by tloonya on Apr 11, 2014 10:49:24 GMT -5
For posters who think people in the US can't be poorer than people in India. So who is supposed to help these people? Me? It's been 41 years since Robert Kennedy called on the rest of America to reach out and help the people of Appalachia. These are the descendents of Davey Crockett, Daniel Boone, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline and the families of legendary soldiers and pioneers who helped open up the treacherous mountain passes and create an American continent. They are fighters steeped in family, ferocity and faith.
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Post by movingforward on Apr 11, 2014 11:06:15 GMT -5
I know everyone is all Hunger Games happy, but i've been a Jennifer Lawrence fan since Winters Bone. Seriously people. Watch it Or Justified... there is a train wreck my husband puts on the TV and I just can't look away from... I watched Winter's Bone a few months ago (got it from the library). In fact, I believe you were the one who mentioned it on a different thread and enticed me to watch it. It truly is hard to believe people live that way but they do...
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 11, 2014 11:06:53 GMT -5
The one advantage of eating a salad along with dinner is that you tend to eat less of other things along with it.
However, we eat a LOT of salad in this house. I just bought 5 heads of romaine yesterday and we will go through this the next week. Even bagged salads can be dressed up with other things.
I guess that if if things were bad enough that I needed to get help or food, I wouldn't be giving anything away. I'd find a way to eat it....even liver and okra.
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Post by movingforward on Apr 11, 2014 11:07:11 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:09:58 GMT -5
I'm not sure my salad is all that healthy. I use romaine, but it's topped with diced up chicken (often chicken nuggets ), thousand island dressing, shredded cheese.... In the summer I'll have cucumbers, radishes and red peppers to add to it, but I never buy those. It's just when I have my garden and can grab them easy (and free).
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Post by lexxy703 on Apr 11, 2014 11:10:11 GMT -5
I like salad a lot but 10 bags of salad seems excessive. The bagged salad seems to spoil quickly IMO.
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Post by movingforward on Apr 11, 2014 11:14:24 GMT -5
There is also a lot of talk about how healthy eating home grown food is but that depends on how you prepare it. My grandparents ate off the land. They had a huge garden and grew tons of veggies. There were 2 apple trees and they raised hogs and chickens. As a kid I remember my grandfather going to the grocery store and buying nothing but flour and sugar. They were two of the UNHEALTHIEST people I have ever met. You can eat veggies all you want but if they are cooked in lard they are not going to be healthy. I never saw one of them just eat an apple from the apple tree, they were always cooking into a pie or apple turnovers (they called them something else but essentially it was an apple turnover). The chicken was always fried, etc. My grandparents lived about 3 hours from us and I remember going to visit them and my mother not wanting to eat hardly anything because it was all fried unhealthy stuff. I am pretty sure any lean cuisine would have been healthier than what they were eating...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:21:50 GMT -5
I dont' know... i'm coming back around to lard ... Again, there is so much disparate information about food out there, its difficult for even an educated person, who knows to look for options, to navigate.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:22:02 GMT -5
I'm not sure my salad is all that healthy. I use romaine, but it's topped with diced up chicken (often chicken nuggets ), thousand island dressing, shredded cheese.... In the summer I'll have cucumbers, radishes and red peppers to add to it, but I never buy those. It's just when I have my garden and can grab them easy (and free). I don't think your salad and the word healthy can be in the same sentence. Why don't you buy cucumbers, radishes and red peppers to put on it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:33:13 GMT -5
I'm not sure my salad is all that healthy. I use romaine, but it's topped with diced up chicken (often chicken nuggets ), thousand island dressing, shredded cheese.... In the summer I'll have cucumbers, radishes and red peppers to add to it, but I never buy those. It's just when I have my garden and can grab them easy (and free). I don't think your salad and the word healthy can be in the same sentence. Why don't you buy cucumbers, radishes and red peppers to put on it? That was my healthy meal! I hate buying fresh vegetables because they always end up going bad before they get used up and they seem so expensive. In the summer I have so many cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, peppers... I end up giving bags of them away. Paying $1/piece for them (or whatever it is) when I've tossed them for months bugs me.
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Post by greeniis10 on Apr 11, 2014 11:34:21 GMT -5
In instances like these I've found my juicer comes in very handy! Any time I have a surplus of fruit or vegetables I juice them and either use the juice immediately or freeze it for later. I hate to see food go to waste.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:37:18 GMT -5
I freeze a lot too, but thawed red peppers and tomatoes out of the freezer aren't so great on salads.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:37:21 GMT -5
Bags of salad greens ain't filling you up if you are poor.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:37:44 GMT -5
I don't think your salad and the word healthy can be in the same sentence. Why don't you buy cucumbers, radishes and red peppers to put on it? That was my healthy meal! I hate buying fresh vegetables because they always end up going bad before they get used up and they seem so expensive. In the summer I have so many cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, peppers... I end up giving bags of them away. Paying $1/piece for them (or whatever it is) when I've tossed them for months bugs me. oh wow, we run out of fresh veggies before the next shopping trip....you need to figure out why you won't eat them when you buy them but will eat them when you grow them
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:39:01 GMT -5
That was my healthy meal! I hate buying fresh vegetables because they always end up going bad before they get used up and they seem so expensive. In the summer I have so many cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, peppers... I end up giving bags of them away. Paying $1/piece for them (or whatever it is) when I've tossed them for months bugs me. oh wow, we run out of fresh veggies before the next shopping trip....you need to figure out why you won't eat them when you buy them but will eat them when you grow them No one wants to eat vegetables when it is -20 degrees outside.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:39:56 GMT -5
oh wow, we run out of fresh veggies before the next shopping trip....you need to figure out why you won't eat them when you buy them but will eat them when you grow them No one wants to eat vegetables when it is -20 degrees outside. what does the outside weather have to do with anything? I eat vegetables year round
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:41:08 GMT -5
No one wants to eat vegetables when it is -20 degrees outside. what does the outside weather have to do with anything? I eat vegetables year round Because it is outside. And cold.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:42:11 GMT -5
what does the outside weather have to do with anything? I eat vegetables year round Because it is outside. And cold. and ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:44:14 GMT -5
Because it is outside. And cold. and ? it is all frosty and shivering and not in the fun Olaf kind of way.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:45:40 GMT -5
and ? it is all frosty and shivering and not in the fun Olaf kind of way. are you eating outside?
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Apr 11, 2014 11:46:58 GMT -5
and ? it is all frosty and shivering and not in the fun Olaf kind of way. Damnit Archie, now I've got "Hi, I"m Olaf and I like warm hugs" as he makes a beeline for Elsa in my brain.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:47:33 GMT -5
That was my healthy meal! I hate buying fresh vegetables because they always end up going bad before they get used up and they seem so expensive. In the summer I have so many cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, peppers... I end up giving bags of them away. Paying $1/piece for them (or whatever it is) when I've tossed them for months bugs me. oh wow, we run out of fresh veggies before the next shopping trip....you need to figure out why you won't eat them when you buy them but will eat them when you grow them Because I don't really like them. I just know I need to so I force them down. We have tons go to waste from the garden picked stuff too, but I don't mind tossing it when I'm getting grocery bags full every day for free. Dice half a cucumber for my salad, throw the other half to the chickens. Now, the 3 year old really likes veggies, so I have been buying more for him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:48:03 GMT -5
it is all frosty and shivering and not in the fun Olaf kind of way. Damnit Archie, now I've got "Hi, I"m Olaf and I like warm hugs" as he makes a beeline for Elsa in my brain. Just picture the guy who;s voice it actually is. That should cure you.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Apr 11, 2014 11:50:26 GMT -5
Sigh. It's not stopping the voices.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 11:51:12 GMT -5
what does the outside weather have to do with anything? I eat vegetables year round Because it is outside. And cold. Actually, he kind of does have a point. It is more fun to eat out of the garden. I pick beans and pea pods and whatever and eat them while working out there. Stuff I'd never normally go and buy. When you slave all spring/summer keeping the weeds and bugs away from your plants that red pepper is amazing tasting.
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