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Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy
Does Dorothy remember the Great Depression? Growing up with rationing in the 50s was hard but we made do.
No doubt there are people living in comparative poverty but a few lessons in home economics alongside the food parcels may not go amiss.
I don't like to judge but the number of times I see families in supermarkets with a trolley stacked high with processed foods and ready meals, pizzas etc. Some of these families will no doubt be claiming benefits.
Times are hard for a lot of people but perhaps the food banks should also offer cooking lessons for some of the families as well. It is usually true that the most nutritious food are the cheapest. Tinned tomatoes, pasta, carrots, rice etc. All comparatively cheap. A few few simple staple foods which can make filling meals.
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I've just been watching a series on Channel 4 called Secret Eaters in which people who are obese say they have no idea why they are putting on weight. Their food diaries show they only eat three times a day.
Their homes are rigged up with cameras and a couple of private investigators follow their every move, showing that these people are actually stuffing their faces at every available opportunity without realising it - snacks, sweets, alcohol etc, thus consuming sometimes up to three times the calories that their food diaries show and that are healthy limits for their sex.
Most of the meals they consume are takeaways or processed foods and I just wonder how these families can afford to eat like this - I don't think any of them were on benefits, but nonetheless it must put a great strain on family budgets now to mention waistlines.
There's also a new series on BBC2 called The Men who Made us Fat about the ploys used by big business to get us to consume more calories in the form of fat, sugar etc. The first one last week was very interesting.