Certainly not "nothing but water," but it should be an occasional treat. Again though, that's not what most people are doing, they need to have a drink with flavor, and probably drink 16oz at a time.
Sorry, but people really drive me nuts when it comes to this stuff. Looking to blame everything and anyone but themselves, and usually in total denial.
Which reinforces what I said: all the people I knew that were into the "low fat" thing had an aim of consuming less that 5% of fat. Ideally, no fat at all, since in their minds eating fat was what made them fat.
Well "low" is relative, and when I said "low" I meant in comparison to a typical American diet, which is probably around 150 - 200g of fat / day.
Now, you said that 30% is much lower than a typical diet. Well, in *my* experience people tend to consume way much more carbs than fat, even the ones who eat poorly. Of course that junk food is likely to screw up with all the macros, including fat.
Sorry, I have to disagree. Yes, people do consume way more carbs (mostly simple) than they need.. but fat content is high as well. Take the original topic, mac & cheese. Regular cheese is almost half fat, by weight. So your mac & cheese meal has about 10g per serving.. quite a bit. Then the other typical foods are pizza (again, cheese is one of the main sources of fat here), burgers, bacon, butter or margine. Oils also come into play, as fried foods are pretty common.. especially in the South.
So if you get 150g of fat, you've taken in 1350 calories... contrast with 300g of carbs, which nets you 1200 calories. Yes, people may also take in more than 300g of carbs.. but the fat cannot be ignored as a huge component. The big problem with carbs is that many take in simple carbs.. which mostly get stored immediately as fat... but gram for gram fat will cause you to put on more fat..
So do I, sort of. So, I won't comment on the rest of that paragraph, you obviously have your diet sorted out. But bear in mind that I was not talking *about* you, but in terms of the "general" public. People that bodybuild or spend any decent amount of time in the gymn are by definition not the ones who need this sort of advices. You can go on a keto diet, or on a fat-rich diet, be "overweight" in terms of BMI (calibrated for people who don't do muscle training), etc. and most likely you will be better than 90% of the population. You are also much more likely to be well informed about things and get past the nutrition fads aimed at people who like to believe that in one month they can lose those 20kg without any effort at all.
I agree, which is why I try to do something about it. But you can't do a keto diet and claim to be "better" than 90% of the population.. low carbs causes mood problems, most severaly depression and damanges your heart and cadio system. A high fat diet won't work either... again, your body needs carbs as fuel and protien to build tissue.. and it's far too easy to take in too much fat, and especially saturated fat. Some people, due to genenics, don't really need sat. fats for hormo production, because their body makes it's own... and you won't know that without testing.
Again, not talking about *you*. The "low fat!" stickers do not target people who know they need X calories per day when bulking and X calories when cutting, but mostly the ones who are not satisfied with their weight and that think that eating 1000 cals of "no-fat" cookies is better than eating a slice of bread with a bit of butter. The same sort of people who cut on the sugar for their coffee and then proceed to eat a "no fat" chocolate mousse, etc.
They might not target me, but someone buying predominately low fat stuff will likely improve their health, all other things kept equal. America has a high fat / high carb diet, and cutting fat is more effective for cutting total calories consumed. Which is my point (plus, if people trade fat for protein, protein has an added fat burning effect as well).
I agree with you. Most of it is laziness, although compounded by by the type of job 8and work hours) that people have. Nothing insurmountable though.
Shouldn't even really be a factor actually... by day I'm a software engineer. You can also find time to work out and plan your meals.
So you were overweight, then enlisted and lost weight due to exterme amounts of physical activity? I think that kinda proves my point.. if it were not for basic training, you'd be gaining weight fairly quickly. It also means your calorie needs are quite a bit higher now, vs. what I was lead to believe before... which is the average person sitting down and eating 1 lb of pasta. Of course, if you're enlisted, you're probably not making your food yourself and I would think the 1lb of pasta you're eating now is cooked weight.. which means take around 68% of the weight off to get the dry pasta weight.
Regardless of sneaky marketing... people think that drinking juice (however you label it) is healthy.
Even 100% has 32g of sugar in it, and it is a simple carb that will quickly enter your bloodstream which causes insuline overreaction. Since muscles / your liver only store glucose slowly, these stores are largely bypassed.. and fat picks up glucose to store VERY quickly.
My point stands, water is the way to go. Otherwise, you might just as well do a reverse lipo procedure.
We'd be safer if the VPs total knowledge of forgien affairs was that "I can see Russia?"
Please the fact is that who the VP is has no impact on our everyday safety.. just like the TSA has no real impact other than to make us waste toothpaste.
Your argument is stupid, and shows you to be pretty arrogant. Buying the proper ram is not an easy task, and knowing that its "ddr1" isn't so helpful (various speeds, voltages, notebook vs. desktop). How about you tell him exactly what he needs to buy?
You're pretty much expecting people that own cars to be able to replace anything in the car that might break down, no matter how simple or complex. you're in the industry, you know more.. but not everyone cares enough about computers and just want to use them.
True, but that doesn't mean that the parent post wasn't correct. The "low fat" fad is indeed a 90's thing, where everyone would prefer a "fat free" snack with hundreds of carbs that would end up as fat anyway. After that came the "low carbs" fad, rinse and repeat.
If you have any clue in the health field, low fat hasn't gone anywhere.. simply for the fact that it is so calorie dense. Fat should be probably at most 30% of your calorie intake.. I'm at 25% right now, which puts me at 69g of fat. That's much lower than the average diet. No where I did say you can eat as much protein or carbs as you like either, but it is important to keep your fat low, because of the calorie density.
Total calories matters, and assuming that the daily total is under control it is not at all unhealthy to have a daily fat percentage of around 20-30% of total calories. Not all fats are created equal, of course, but even the much maligned saturated fact plays a role in a balanced diet. For men, for example, it plays a key role in testosterone production and thus muscle building, etc.
I bodybuild, I know all about what healthy levels of fat are, and yes you need A LITTLE saturated fat. However, given that a serving of cheese is only 28g, and that ONE serving is almost half fat, I think I can safely stand by my claim that fat free cheese is the best way to go... especially given that most people will eat more than one serving of cheese in their mac & cheese. Even with the lean meat and fat free cheese, I still sometimes come in above the 69g of fat I should be getting. It's very easy to get the recommended fat, and cheese will push you over very quickly.
I'm not saying you are not correct in whatever you eat, if it works for you. Just that extreme fat concern is something that is typical of those "wonder diets" that do not work for most of the people.
It's not extreme, I have a prefectly healthy diet, striving for 25% of my calories coming from fat and protein, and the rest from carbs. I do write down what I eat, so I know exactly what I'm getting. Using normal cheese though would throw everything way off... its simply too much fat in a small serving size. 28g of cheese isn't very much at all.
The Mediterranean Diet can reach more than 30% of total calories from fat. The total calories balance is ultimately what matters, and nothing short of mild "starvation" (i.e. consuming less than what is expended) reduces *body* fat. Exercise is key here, and this relates to the topic: low income people are also less inclined to physical exercise, be it because of the number of work hours or some other reason. Add to that the fact that most jobs nowadays are not physical in nature and it becomes very hard to avoid getting fatter and fatter.
Yes, and the normal diet has way too much fat. Look at the food most people eat... it's loaded with fat and simple carbs (which will make you fat even if you only eat the "right" amount). My job is a desk job, and I managed to get my weight under control and live and eat healthy.
It's not people's income that's the driving force; it's simple laziness and whining about "oh, it won't TASTE as good without the fat." But it's no more expensive to eat healthy than it is to eat unhealthy (actually, its probably the other way around.. prepared food is worse healthwise, and more expensive), and it doesn't have to cost anything to exercise.
Well, we don't even know what causes Alzheimers, although there are some things that seem to reduce the risk, exercise and healthy diet being one. I've also heard to stay away from aluminium too, among other things (mercury).
I'm saying both are cheap and can help feed a family of four. In either case, pasta or lettuce isn't a complete meal and you'll have to buy something else to go along with it.
As far as people liking treats.. they do, a bit too much, which is why there are so many fat asses shuffling around.
Ya, and that's probably why you're a fat fuck too. A single serving of pasta is 56g. A pound is about 454g. Each serving has 42g of carbs. So eating the whole box is 336g of carbs... which is what I eat in an entire day, with half my calories coming from carbs. At that point, it doesn't matter if it's whole wheat pasta or not... your spike your blood glucose, which causes excess insulin to be released... and stores all those carbs as fat. Oh, and that makes you hunger to.
Moron. Like the other cheese isn't "processed to high heaven" either? You also assume you can't have organics with fat free or reduced fat offerings.. which is not true.
Calories are the most important thing that matters when it comes to watching your weight. Not fat.
1g of fat has 9 calories. 1g of carbs has 4. 1g of protien has 4 as well, but you don't get to use some of it because it's harder to digest.
Yes, total calories matters. Watching your fat is still important though, BECAUSE IT HAS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE CALORIES OF CARBS OR PROTEIN.
Really? Why stop there? If you make it with no cheese, it is even healthier. And if you don't use noodles, it is healthier yet!
Actually it doesn't; the cheese adds much needed protein, and protein promotes fat burning.
Did you not catch the "tastier" part of the previous comment also? Using fat free cheese is definitely healthier, but not as tasty, or even as appetizing texture-wise.
It tastes the same to us, and the texture while different is still good. Oh, and seriously.. wahhh! Do you want to have taste or be a fat ass that can't do the simpliest physical activities?
With fat free cheese it doesn't bind as well, leaving you with a much less creamy texture. Is it still good? Probably. Is it the same as using regular cheese? No.
My wife figured out how to make it creamy still. And yes, it is just as good, or I would just have given up on it.
But seriously, for food like this use a reduced fat cheese, not fat free. You can have a much tastier food and still have big health benefits over using a full fat cheese.
But seriously, might as well just use normal cheese at that point. Reduced fat cheese gets you from 12g of fat to 8 or 9g. A whooping 36 calories saved, vs the fat free which reduces calories by 108 per serving.
Or continue to lie to yourself and eat your way to an early death.
code that doesn't pass static analysis and is ugly... well that pretty much defines 99% of the code out there.
It's more than ugly, it's difficult to maintain. Also, this point is largely irrelevent; 99% of the code out there isn't spitting out a number that says you're guilty of a serious offense.
The reality is much uglier. Osteoporosis, hearing loss, all kinds of age linked vision degeneration/loss, arthritis, all kinds of cancers, heat attacks, strokes, Alzheimer's...
All things whose risk goes down with continued good diet and exercise. Old people cannot escape exercise as essential to their health, yet that seems to be what happens.
Already a couple studies have suggested that on average covering the care of the lazy fat alcoholic smokers who die at 67 of complications related to their 'unhealthy lifestyle' might actually be a whole lot cheaper than managing the long term care, on average, of people with 'healthy life styles'.
Did that study also focus on the (probably small) group of elderly that continue to live active and HEALTHY lifestyles? You can live past 67 and still be fairly unhealthy. My mother in law is proof of that. She has all the problems you describe... and she's overweight and inactive.
I'm tired of my taxes paying the health care bills of these fat bastards. They eat crap, get overweight, next thing they are in for knee surgeries and lifelong diabetes management.
Fuck you... and not because I'm fat. I'm healthy; I lift, do cardio and live an active life. Yet I STILL enjoy watching TV, movies, and playing video games on my slower days. Why should I have to pay more tax for some of my forms of entertainment because of some fat idoits?
If you want to fix costs, then we need to let insurance companies charge higher rates for unhealthy people. Let the fat people directly pay the cost of their lack of self control... don't force it onto someone unrelated.
You don't need as many as you think. Even 2000 calories is a lot for people to consume. A rough estimate of your caloric needs is to take your LEAN body weight times 11.
The lean meat cuts are significantly more expensive than the 30% fat mince.... Soda is cheaper than juice.
Drink tap water, and use the saved money to get the leaner mean. Juice isn't any more healthy than soda... both have tons of added sugar, and with juice it's far too easy to drink too much natural sugar to be healthy for you as well.
Pasta is cheaper than vegetables.
1lb of pasta is about the same as a bag of carrots or a head of lettuce. Whole wheat pasta is perfectly healthy as well. 1lb of pasta is eight servings, which should be enough for a family of four for two meals.
While I generally agree with you, what home grown mac n cheese recipe do you have that is healthier? All of the recipes we have are very high in fat.
You're joking right? My wife makes it for us, and it's prefectly healthy. The "secret?" Using Kraft Fat Free Shreaded Cheeder Cheese. Honestly, how the hell can you not think of that on your own?
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Certainly not "nothing but water," but it should be an occasional treat. Again though, that's not what most people are doing, they need to have a drink with flavor, and probably drink 16oz at a time.
No its not, because there's no reasonable way to know that the person at Kinko isn't acting on KS' behalf.
No, you need to call delete instead. Not much of an improvement.
No need to be so touchy... you said:
Sorry, but people really drive me nuts when it comes to this stuff. Looking to blame everything and anyone but themselves, and usually in total denial.
Which reinforces what I said: all the people I knew that were into the "low fat" thing had an aim of consuming less that 5% of fat. Ideally, no fat at all, since in their minds eating fat was what made them fat.
Well "low" is relative, and when I said "low" I meant in comparison to a typical American diet, which is probably around 150 - 200g of fat / day.
Now, you said that 30% is much lower than a typical diet. Well, in *my* experience people tend to consume way much more carbs than fat, even the ones who eat poorly. Of course that junk food is likely to screw up with all the macros, including fat.
Sorry, I have to disagree. Yes, people do consume way more carbs (mostly simple) than they need.. but fat content is high as well. Take the original topic, mac & cheese. Regular cheese is almost half fat, by weight. So your mac & cheese meal has about 10g per serving.. quite a bit. Then the other typical foods are pizza (again, cheese is one of the main sources of fat here), burgers, bacon, butter or margine. Oils also come into play, as fried foods are pretty common.. especially in the South.
So if you get 150g of fat, you've taken in 1350 calories... contrast with 300g of carbs, which nets you 1200 calories. Yes, people may also take in more than 300g of carbs.. but the fat cannot be ignored as a huge component. The big problem with carbs is that many take in simple carbs.. which mostly get stored immediately as fat... but gram for gram fat will cause you to put on more fat..
So do I, sort of. So, I won't comment on the rest of that paragraph, you obviously have your diet sorted out. But bear in mind that I was not talking *about* you, but in terms of the "general" public. People that bodybuild or spend any decent amount of time in the gymn are by definition not the ones who need this sort of advices. You can go on a keto diet, or on a fat-rich diet, be "overweight" in terms of BMI (calibrated for people who don't do muscle training), etc. and most likely you will be better than 90% of the population. You are also much more likely to be well informed about things and get past the nutrition fads aimed at people who like to believe that in one month they can lose those 20kg without any effort at all.
I agree, which is why I try to do something about it. But you can't do a keto diet and claim to be "better" than 90% of the population.. low carbs causes mood problems, most severaly depression and damanges your heart and cadio system. A high fat diet won't work either... again, your body needs carbs as fuel and protien to build tissue.. and it's far too easy to take in too much fat, and especially saturated fat. Some people, due to genenics, don't really need sat. fats for hormo production, because their body makes it's own... and you won't know that without testing.
Again, not talking about *you*. The "low fat!" stickers do not target people who know they need X calories per day when bulking and X calories when cutting, but mostly the ones who are not satisfied with their weight and that think that eating 1000 cals of "no-fat" cookies is better than eating a slice of bread with a bit of butter. The same sort of people who cut on the sugar for their coffee and then proceed to eat a "no fat" chocolate mousse, etc.
They might not target me, but someone buying predominately low fat stuff will likely improve their health, all other things kept equal. America has a high fat / high carb diet, and cutting fat is more effective for cutting total calories consumed. Which is my point (plus, if people trade fat for protein, protein has an added fat burning effect as well).
I agree with you. Most of it is laziness, although compounded by by the type of job 8and work hours) that people have. Nothing insurmountable though.
Shouldn't even really be a factor actually... by day I'm a software engineer. You can also find time to work out and plan your meals.
So you were overweight, then enlisted and lost weight due to exterme amounts of physical activity? I think that kinda proves my point.. if it were not for basic training, you'd be gaining weight fairly quickly. It also means your calorie needs are quite a bit higher now, vs. what I was lead to believe before... which is the average person sitting down and eating 1 lb of pasta. Of course, if you're enlisted, you're probably not making your food yourself and I would think the 1lb of pasta you're eating now is cooked weight.. which means take around 68% of the weight off to get the dry pasta weight.
Regardless of sneaky marketing... people think that drinking juice (however you label it) is healthy.
Even 100% has 32g of sugar in it, and it is a simple carb that will quickly enter your bloodstream which causes insuline overreaction. Since muscles / your liver only store glucose slowly, these stores are largely bypassed.. and fat picks up glucose to store VERY quickly.
My point stands, water is the way to go. Otherwise, you might just as well do a reverse lipo procedure.
We'd be safer if the VPs total knowledge of forgien affairs was that "I can see Russia?"
Please the fact is that who the VP is has no impact on our everyday safety.. just like the TSA has no real impact other than to make us waste toothpaste.
Valuing time is easy. It's the most amount of money that people are willing to spend for you to use your skill during an amount of time.
Your argument is stupid, and shows you to be pretty arrogant. Buying the proper ram is not an easy task, and knowing that its "ddr1" isn't so helpful (various speeds, voltages, notebook vs. desktop). How about you tell him exactly what he needs to buy?
You're pretty much expecting people that own cars to be able to replace anything in the car that might break down, no matter how simple or complex. you're in the industry, you know more.. but not everyone cares enough about computers and just want to use them.
Should not every internet request flow over the vpn from the client to the server.
No. Accessing google.com via the VPN would be a waste of bandwidth, when a connection can just be made using the local connection.
You're overweight. I'm 6'2", 180lbs. Keep eating like that, and you'll be at 250 in no time.
Well there's a reason Java and C# have GCs to free you from having to worry about calling malloc and free..
True, but that doesn't mean that the parent post wasn't correct. The "low fat" fad is indeed a 90's thing, where everyone would prefer a "fat free" snack with hundreds of carbs that would end up as fat anyway. After that came the "low carbs" fad, rinse and repeat.
If you have any clue in the health field, low fat hasn't gone anywhere.. simply for the fact that it is so calorie dense. Fat should be probably at most 30% of your calorie intake.. I'm at 25% right now, which puts me at 69g of fat. That's much lower than the average diet. No where I did say you can eat as much protein or carbs as you like either, but it is important to keep your fat low, because of the calorie density.
Total calories matters, and assuming that the daily total is under control it is not at all unhealthy to have a daily fat percentage of around 20-30% of total calories. Not all fats are created equal, of course, but even the much maligned saturated fact plays a role in a balanced diet. For men, for example, it plays a key role in testosterone production and thus muscle building, etc.
I bodybuild, I know all about what healthy levels of fat are, and yes you need A LITTLE saturated fat. However, given that a serving of cheese is only 28g, and that ONE serving is almost half fat, I think I can safely stand by my claim that fat free cheese is the best way to go... especially given that most people will eat more than one serving of cheese in their mac & cheese. Even with the lean meat and fat free cheese, I still sometimes come in above the 69g of fat I should be getting. It's very easy to get the recommended fat, and cheese will push you over very quickly.
I'm not saying you are not correct in whatever you eat, if it works for you. Just that extreme fat concern is something that is typical of those "wonder diets" that do not work for most of the people.
It's not extreme, I have a prefectly healthy diet, striving for 25% of my calories coming from fat and protein, and the rest from carbs. I do write down what I eat, so I know exactly what I'm getting. Using normal cheese though would throw everything way off... its simply too much fat in a small serving size. 28g of cheese isn't very much at all.
The Mediterranean Diet can reach more than 30% of total calories from fat. The total calories balance is ultimately what matters, and nothing short of mild "starvation" (i.e. consuming less than what is expended) reduces *body* fat. Exercise is key here, and this relates to the topic: low income people are also less inclined to physical exercise, be it because of the number of work hours or some other reason. Add to that the fact that most jobs nowadays are not physical in nature and it becomes very hard to avoid getting fatter and fatter.
Yes, and the normal diet has way too much fat. Look at the food most people eat... it's loaded with fat and simple carbs (which will make you fat even if you only eat the "right" amount). My job is a desk job, and I managed to get my weight under control and live and eat healthy.
It's not people's income that's the driving force; it's simple laziness and whining about "oh, it won't TASTE as good without the fat." But it's no more expensive to eat healthy than it is to eat unhealthy (actually, its probably the other way around.. prepared food is worse healthwise, and more expensive), and it doesn't have to cost anything to exercise.
Well, we don't even know what causes Alzheimers, although there are some things that seem to reduce the risk, exercise and healthy diet being one. I've also heard to stay away from aluminium too, among other things (mercury).
I'm saying both are cheap and can help feed a family of four. In either case, pasta or lettuce isn't a complete meal and you'll have to buy something else to go along with it.
As far as people liking treats.. they do, a bit too much, which is why there are so many fat asses shuffling around.
And yet walk the juice isle in the store, and almost all of them call themselves juice and have added sugar.
Opt for pressed/unfiltered apple juice rather than the filtered stuff, for example.
Not much.. you're still drinking a lot of calories. Chewing helps make you feel fuller.
Ya, and that's probably why you're a fat fuck too. A single serving of pasta is 56g. A pound is about 454g. Each serving has 42g of carbs. So eating the whole box is 336g of carbs... which is what I eat in an entire day, with half my calories coming from carbs. At that point, it doesn't matter if it's whole wheat pasta or not... your spike your blood glucose, which causes excess insulin to be released... and stores all those carbs as fat. Oh, and that makes you hunger to.
Learn to eat properly.
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Moron. Like the other cheese isn't "processed to high heaven" either? You also assume you can't have organics with fat free or reduced fat offerings.. which is not true.
Calories are the most important thing that matters when it comes to watching your weight. Not fat.
1g of fat has 9 calories. 1g of carbs has 4. 1g of protien has 4 as well, but you don't get to use some of it because it's harder to digest.
Yes, total calories matters. Watching your fat is still important though, BECAUSE IT HAS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE CALORIES OF CARBS OR PROTEIN.
Really? Why stop there? If you make it with no cheese, it is even healthier. And if you don't use noodles, it is healthier yet!
Actually it doesn't; the cheese adds much needed protein, and protein promotes fat burning.
Did you not catch the "tastier" part of the previous comment also? Using fat free cheese is definitely healthier, but not as tasty, or even as appetizing texture-wise.
It tastes the same to us, and the texture while different is still good. Oh, and seriously.. wahhh! Do you want to have taste or be a fat ass that can't do the simpliest physical activities?
With fat free cheese it doesn't bind as well, leaving you with a much less creamy texture. Is it still good? Probably. Is it the same as using regular cheese? No.
My wife figured out how to make it creamy still. And yes, it is just as good, or I would just have given up on it.
But seriously, for food like this use a reduced fat cheese, not fat free. You can have a much tastier food and still have big health benefits over using a full fat cheese.
But seriously, might as well just use normal cheese at that point. Reduced fat cheese gets you from 12g of fat to 8 or 9g. A whooping 36 calories saved, vs the fat free which reduces calories by 108 per serving.
Or continue to lie to yourself and eat your way to an early death.
code that doesn't pass static analysis and is ugly... well that pretty much defines 99% of the code out there.
It's more than ugly, it's difficult to maintain. Also, this point is largely irrelevent; 99% of the code out there isn't spitting out a number that says you're guilty of a serious offense.
The reality is much uglier. Osteoporosis, hearing loss, all kinds of age linked vision degeneration/loss, arthritis, all kinds of cancers, heat attacks, strokes, Alzheimer's...
All things whose risk goes down with continued good diet and exercise. Old people cannot escape exercise as essential to their health, yet that seems to be what happens.
Already a couple studies have suggested that on average covering the care of the lazy fat alcoholic smokers who die at 67 of complications related to their 'unhealthy lifestyle' might actually be a whole lot cheaper than managing the long term care, on average, of people with 'healthy life styles'.
Did that study also focus on the (probably small) group of elderly that continue to live active and HEALTHY lifestyles? You can live past 67 and still be fairly unhealthy. My mother in law is proof of that. She has all the problems you describe... and she's overweight and inactive.
I'm tired of my taxes paying the health care bills of these fat bastards. They eat crap, get overweight, next thing they are in for knee surgeries and lifelong diabetes management.
Fuck you... and not because I'm fat. I'm healthy; I lift, do cardio and live an active life. Yet I STILL enjoy watching TV, movies, and playing video games on my slower days. Why should I have to pay more tax for some of my forms of entertainment because of some fat idoits?
If you want to fix costs, then we need to let insurance companies charge higher rates for unhealthy people. Let the fat people directly pay the cost of their lack of self control... don't force it onto someone unrelated.
You don't need as many as you think. Even 2000 calories is a lot for people to consume. A rough estimate of your caloric needs is to take your LEAN body weight times 11.
The lean meat cuts are significantly more expensive than the 30% fat mince. ... Soda is cheaper than juice.
Drink tap water, and use the saved money to get the leaner mean. Juice isn't any more healthy than soda... both have tons of added sugar, and with juice it's far too easy to drink too much natural sugar to be healthy for you as well.
Pasta is cheaper than vegetables.
1lb of pasta is about the same as a bag of carrots or a head of lettuce. Whole wheat pasta is perfectly healthy as well. 1lb of pasta is eight servings, which should be enough for a family of four for two meals.
While I generally agree with you, what home grown mac n cheese recipe do you have that is healthier? All of the recipes we have are very high in fat.
You're joking right? My wife makes it for us, and it's prefectly healthy. The "secret?" Using Kraft Fat Free Shreaded Cheeder Cheese. Honestly, how the hell can you not think of that on your own?