People always say that part of America's obesity problem is because fast food is so available and so cheap. IS eating at a fast food place, not even daily, but let's say 2 or 3 times a week, really cheaper than going to a grocery store? Please think before you answer. Don't just consider the fact that it's about $ 5 to get a burger or whatever, and at a supermarket, that's about 2lbs of tomatoes. Please consider that when you're shopping at a supermarket, you're purchasing ingredients that make more than just the singular serving one might be purchasing from a fast food place.
Originally I had thought it was around $ 60, but I took a look at my receipts for a more accurate count and it ranges from about $ 120-$ 190 per month.
catherine i
Hello ♫
It's cheapest if you cook yourself !!
Have a nice day,
Cat.
Jess2424
I have actually took the time to analyze this question from an economic standpoint(viewing food consumption today vs when the baby boomer generation were kids) and from my own standpoint. Let me first start off saying, there is no way you spend only 60 dollars a month on food, especially if you are eating as healthy as you do. The more healthy you eat the more money it cost. Right now, food is more expensive than it has ever been in history (on a cost adjusted basis). It is definitely cheaper to eat fast food now then going grocery shopping.
Crazy isn't it, that food has become so expensive.
Fact about fast food....
Unhealthy food is cheaper because our government's policies support its production.
We're spending nearly $ 30 billion a year to subsidize corn and soy production.
Where do those foods go?
Into our food supply as high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated soybean oil (trans fats), that's where!
Since the 1970s -- when our agricultural policies where changed to support corn and soy farmers -- we're consuming, on average, an extra 500 calories (mostly in the form of cheap, artificial high-fructose corn syrup) per person.
Corn and soy are also used to feed cattle for the production of meat and dairy. In fact, 70 percent of the wheat, corn, and soy farmed in this country is used to feed animals used for our food.
The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people -- more than the entire human population on Earth!
So, when our government helps pay for these foods -- well, of course they're cheaper!
That explains the low price tag. But what about the OTHER costs to you?
Bad foods are bad for your health...
Abby
I would say it's cheaper to Cook at home then to eat fast food because If you figure about $ 5 for each fast food meal that's like $ 15-$ 20 a day if you eat 3 meals and a snack. If you go to the grocery store you can get larger quanities and use them for a couple different meals especially if your only cooking for yourself.
amarantine13
Yes, it is cheaper. When you buy bulk packs of chicken etc. you can break it down for future use this saves money, since you can buy at least 2 weeks worth of meat and freeze and the nice part is you make less trips to the store.
Ratrie
I'm disagree with the opinion that fastfood more cheaper than if we cook by ourselves. This opinion maybe if we can't cook by ourselves.
Fastfood look more cheaper only for especially moment like if we don't have time to cook or we need the different taste to eat.
But for a long time, it's so more expensive. Why ? Because we only eat one kind of food without the complete nutrition (maybe we only get carbohydrat and fat)
But if we cook by ourselves, we can modify this food and combine it as my body needed, of course the nutrition more guaranted.
The value added again, we more trust about the clean of food than we buy fastfood.
The last with avoid eat fastfood, we can make our body more healthy.
Try imagine, how much that we must be paid to go doctor and to buy medicine if we get ill like cancer, only because of eat fastfood
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