Three things struck me about this graphic:ok. I just saw this on my dashboard with way too much commentary to reblog. First off, this makes no sense. The top picture is a meal for 4 people, the bottom picture is just some snacks/food that doesn’t make a meal. Who eats a nasty veggie burger with no bun and no toppings? How you gonna make french fries with no oil, or mashed potatoes with no cream and butter, or baked potatoes with no sour cream and onions or potato salad with no mustard and oil or mayo? Who the fuck eats just a potato with nothing on it? I’ll tell you who, communists. If you are gonna buy cashews and strawberries, don’t buy the fucking broccoli! Buy some spinach to make a salad…but then you are gonna need some dressing.
This photo is just plain retarded. The people who choose image one are one of two things…a) they have a craving for a whopper/fast food or b) they are too lazy to go buy stuff and cook for themselves. That is all poor eating habits is, a result of laziness and bad decisions. I have lived in poorer neighborhoods. Every grocery store has the shit in the bottom image (maybe not the veggie burgers but who wants to eat that crap anyway. meat, people. MEAT). EVERY ONE OF THEM. Don’t give me that bullshit about how more privileged people have more options. Yeah they can buy more organic crap, and can shop at whole foods but there is nothing wrong with regular grocery stores in regular neighborhood’s food. When I was growing up, my mother didn’t buy organic everything and I turned out fine. If you wanna be all high maintenance and eat only organic, glutten free, vegan products then you may have problems. And good luck finding people (or a restaurant that caters to) to go out to dinner with your annoying ass.
1) WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE SHOPPING? I would love to know where I can pay $2.98 for a pound of beef, $3.26 for a gallon of OJ, or $2.97 for 10 pounds of potatoes (also, damn that is a lot of potatoes…)
I suspect these prices exist only in sparkpeople.com infographics.
I did my own research, and here in NYC, what I discovered was this:
* MorningStar Farms Grillers Veggie Burgers – $4.79 (I do recall, in the past, having seen these as buy-one-get-one-free specials, but you always had to buy 2 and the price still hovered around $5)
* Lean Ground Chuck - $4.59
* Roasted Unsalted Cashews - $10.99
* Strawberries – 2.99/package (on sale)
* Russet Potatoes - $6.00/ 10 lbs or .99/lb
* OJ – $6.98/gallon
* Frozen mixed vegetables – 1.69/ 1 lb
* Brocolli – $2.99/bunch
* Dried pinto beans - $ 1.98 each
TOTAL - $42.38 (ALMOST DOUBLE WHAT SPARKPEOPLE.COM WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE)
2) Is this a Morningstar Farms ad? Notice that none of the other labels have brand names. The OJ container doesn’t have a label at all. Yet the Morningstar Farms burgers sit proudly atop the mountain of food with it’s logo and packaging in full view. It is also the first thing listed at the bottom of the graphic and it doesn’t simply say 1 box frozen veggie burgers like everything else on the list; it is quite specific as to what your $2.98 is buying. I wonder how much Morningstar Farms paid Sparkpeople.com for this kind of recognition?
3) If this were a Top Chef challenge, what could someone make with these ingredients?
