Poverty budget Food is essential for human existence. In America, foods are abundance and it can be seen in all the grocery stores in America. Anytime you are in grocery store, you feel like buying all the varieties of grocery available in the store, but, is not possible to buy everything at the grocery store because of limited resources but we can buy a healthy food by budgeting on the items and with the available money before going to a store. Been in a grocery store with just $5 and no credit card was not an easy experience, because $5 is too small for my breakfast food talk less for 24hours food; since it was poverty budget I planned very well before buying anything. There are variety of options to choose from, so I decided to go for microwave food that will take like four minutes to cook; because if I have to buy food item that require cooking from the scratch like potatoes, I will only be able to buy one item and is not possible for me to eat the same type of food all day.
Zinczenko claims that “Many single parents claim that working long hours and having low income contributes to why their children eat the way they do” (153). Since children aren’t getting enough attention and care from parents many children turn to food for comforting. Children are away from their parents and have to make their own decisions when it comes to dinner time. They take the easy way out and order high calorie foods at cheaper prices. Their choices of fast food diets are poorly based on the amount of money parents give their children.
Based on my reading from Michael Pollans, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” I’ve comed to realize that I don’t eat for nutrients. I mostly eat for whatever looks good or know tastes good. When it comes to food I am extremely picky, I mainly dislike vegetables. What I mostly eat you could say are fatty foods which are unhealthy. I’m aware of this based on nutrition fats which I have come to see on the food I’ve been eating.
This could affect her diet due to her not getting enough food as she may not be able to walk very far to the shops or catch buses to the shops easily any more. Rose has a range of options she could think about to overcome the problem of shopping for food. Rose could have the ‘meals on wheels’ this is where an individual will bring meals around to Roses house for every dinner time and tea time. The meals are already prepared therefore; Rose will not have the worry of preparing her meals. All Rose would have to do is warm her meal up either in the oven or the microwave.
When it comes to the family eating healthy meals, most parents are caught up between time and a budget. Most things on the market today that are readily done and convenient, are usually the worst foods for people to eat. Most parents today that work a full time job, find it nearly impossible go home and prepare a well balanced nutritional meal for them and their children. Most of the time, parents find their selves buying the more affordable not so nutritional foods. According to the AAFP, ‘a small percentage of childhood obesity is associated with genetics’ (1999).
For dinner, I mainly consume fish, maybe salmon but never fried, mixed vegetables, and boiled eggs. Sometimes I may switch it up and eat plain white rice with my fish or fruits. My diet for the next sixty days is very strict. After my workout and diet plan is complete, I will be more open to different foods but it will be moderated from now on. I want to only consume 2,000 calories a day or less because in order to gain a pound, it takes 3,500 calories, also this is the recommended amount for young women my age.
Morgan Traver English 15 (sec. 300) Mrs. Morgan 20 October 2012 The Downward Spiral of American Eating Habits In today’s society everyone is looking for inexpensive and creative ways to buy and eat food. The economy is though and therefore, people are apt to try and get creative with the eating habits they have acquired. Americans are constantly consuming chemically altered food products. We have the notion to be skinny, healthy and feel good about what we eat, but in reality, it is almost exactly the opposite.
My sister Karen slowly taught me how to cook. She was the reason my eating habits changed. I started eating a diet very high in vegetables and fruits, and shied away from fast food and fried foods. This class has helped me to enhance my diet and take a better look at my food Intake. I had always known what the food pyramid was but it wasn’t until this class I really took the time to understand it.
Americans expect to be able to purchase almost every food no matter what time of year it is, even if a food is not in season. Americans rarely think of where their food comes from or what goes into the process to be able to be sold on store shelves. A simple thing like coca cola, or even a club sandwich, is taken for granted and is expected to be in different stores and the ingredients to make the sandwich available when ever a family is in the mood for that meal. Depending on how available the ingredients for a certain food is, depicts on whether it is in the stores year round or just seasonal. Do Americans think about buying locally versus from big name stores?
Watching what you eat and knowing what is and is not healthy for you. I tried to eat salads and chicken sandwiches when I would eat out, but sometimes the dressing for the salad is more unhealthy than I realized. It is also very hard for me to not eat out because of going to school, so I am still working on solutions for that problem. Although there were not many improvements this week I still did better than last week and everyone has got to start somewhere. It is also an obstacle for me to not drink pop.