Rant about healthy food!

[deschain]

Originally Posted by bullandbear

and rear animals from their backyard the old fashion way.

You raise animals and rear children.

Anyway, good point. In places where eating that crap is extravagant,
amazingly, they aren't as fat as us in the places where you can get burgers for less than a cup of flavored coffee.

It does make it hard to buy healthier things when shopping for a family.

I like Kashi stuff, but it's hard to buy that when the other granola bars are not too far from half the price (although I fully recognize the diff in ingredients). Same goes for their cereals and other items.

Olive oil is the most expensive oil on the shelf, and nuts are pretty high as well. It's hard to pay 4$ for a little bitty bottle of olive oil, when it's a buck or two for a huge bottle of vegetable oil. To me, it is worth it, but I can see why so many don't do it.

[Lost Dog]

Originally Posted by deschain

You raise animals and rear children.

Anyway, good point. In places where eating that crap is extravagant,
amazingly, they aren't as fat as us in the places where you can get burgers for less than a cup of flavored coffee.

It does make it hard to buy healthier things when shopping for a family.

I like Kashi stuff, but it's hard to buy that when the other granola bars are not too far from half the price (although I fully recognize the diff in ingredients). Same goes for their cereals and other items.

Olive oil is the most expensive oil on the shelf, and nuts are pretty high as well. It's hard to pay 4$ for a little bitty bottle of olive oil, when it's a buck or two for a huge bottle of vegetable oil. To me, it is worth it, but I can see why so many don't do it.

So true. Although CostCo has huge bottles of very good tasting olive oil pretty cheap. It'll last a while.

And, a good alternative the vegetable oil is canola oil. It's right next to the vegetable oil. Same size and same price. Even the store brand prices. It contains no soybean or corn oil and you get the same taste and cooking characteristics.

[deschain]

I've never even seen a CostCo (or a Trader Joe's for that matter). lol We do have Sam'sClub in this area (not in my town) - but we don't pay for the membership since it's always so hit and miss with what you will find, that and when you combine the cost of the membership, and the extra cost of gas to go over there - it almost negates the savings anyway.

I generally have a bottle of canola, and a bottle of olive in the pantry. The canola is much cheaper.

[andrew_plamondon]

It's pretty useless to use EVOO if you're cooking at a high temperature anyway.

[deschain]

I've heard that before, but I can't remember why that is.