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In reply to the discussion: Woman weeps to senator over Social Security cuts: "There's no way for me to eat less!" [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)And many people of that age fed their families Chung King, La Choy, Chef Boy-ar-Dee, precisely because that was a cheap, fast alternative to cooking from scratch in an era where women were in the workplace, but still not given support at home.
It is indeed cheaper to get calorie dense, convenient food than to buy produce and other items that may go bad in the fridge - especially if your schedule is erratic.
It is a major lifestyle change where eating habits are concerned. My mother in law was a well educated, former medical tech who died from Crohn's, and I believe it was exacerbated due to her diet. I suggested that she go the specific carbohydrate route, but she said that she had never been a cook, and had a full schedule volunteering. She ate lots of frozen entrees from BJ's and fixed the limited number of meals that she knew by memory or had bookmarked in her 45 year old Betty Crocker Cookbook.