Idiotic statement on rising food prices

[spinbaby]

At the bottom of this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/acheapeats;_ylt=ApXd4sDtI0nxZETPTQIYUp4DW7oF

We find:

"Economizing often makes you healthier," says economist Peter Morici at the University of Maryland. "In a recession, for example, people tend to move from rich fatty breakfasts toward cereals."

[Mrs. Overall]

1. Yeah, and they go from free range chicken breast and organic steamed carrots to Kraft Mac 'n Cheese

for dinner.

[LiberalPersona]

2. Makes no sense

Healthier foods tend to cost more. That's how companies make money, the more addictive, tasty food costs less so people will buy more of it.

[Mountainman]

3. Is the person an economist or a nutritionist?

Cereals are not cheap either.

[spinbaby]

7. You have to wonder if he's bought cereal lately

You have to look to get under $3 and I've seen it at $5. Add milk and you may as well scramble eggs and make toast.

[Selatius]

4. In the old days, crushing poverty often caused weight loss due to malnutrition.

Nowadays, junk food, like snickers bars at the gas station, often sells for under a dollar. Of course, back in the 1930s and the Great Depression, I don't recall snickers bars and chips being widely sold if at all.

[varelse]

5. From the same article

"Just in the last week I've started paying attention," says Ms. Brown. "My main thing is to make sure we eat healthy foods, and those are the ones getting really expensive. It's becoming a real challenge. If we could save $200 a month on groceries, that's major for us right now."

(Tonya Brown - practical, as opposed to theoretical economist.)

It's pretty obvious who does the family grocery shopping, and who apparently lives in a sheltered bubble where "someone else" clips coupons and tries to fit their family's food requirements into an ever-shrinking budget.

[raccoon]

6. I wonder when was the last time this economist bought groceries?

:sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

8. Yup...LOAD UP on that cereal... (corn was up 80% today)

or so the money-honey gleefully announced this morning on CNN..:grr:

People are going to HAVE to start planting gardens (if they have a patch of dirt) and looking for elderly relatives to teach them how to cook from scratch & can their own "harvest"..

There is definitely something to be said for self-sufficiency..

If people are meat-eaters, they should also look for LOCAL farmers & go together with another family & share a local grass-fed steer.

the problem most people have is a time-limitation. People have grown accustomed to opening a box or thawing something for the microwave.

REAL cooking does require a certain amount of planning time, and that's lacking in many families these days

[Warpy]

9. Don't you love these ivory tower dumbfucks?

I remember a breakfast of air, a lunch of cheese crackers, and a supper of noodles with fast food ketchup.

And those were the days I ATE.