Sometimes we take things for granted. We listen to the advertising and look at the attractive sign with the calories listed by the price and think “o.k., this seems healthy. It’s a basic sandwich, how bad could it be.” Restaurant food is made to taste good, no one said it had to be good for you. The same with the prepared foods we buy at the supermarket.
The object of the food industry is to make your food tastes good, and you will come back again. In most cases, healthy food is sort of bland. It lacks the seasoning, sauces, and gravy that gives the flavor that everyone loves. In that respect, the food industry and restaurants have the same goal, Keep the customer coming back.
All that extra flavor that we love adds extra calories but no extra nutrition. In order to lose weight, we want to eat fresh. Buy fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh poultry and seafood, and stop drinking calories.
It’s a well-known medical fact that the more calories you consume, the shorter your life span. Eating fresh and eating clean reduces your calories without dieting. When we stop drinking calories, we can reduce our calorie intake by more than 1000 calories a day. That alone will help you lose weight.
Canned or frozen vegetables will contain some chemicals. If you read the package, it tells you the sodium content, and sugar content. The industry doesn't use the word "salt" anymore. Why, because sodium chemicals are cheaper. Sugar is still used in some products, but most products contain a sweetener that replaces sugar. Not because it's healthier, but because it's cheaper. Many of those companies in the food industry don't like increasing prices. I know that sounds crazy looking back on all the price increases this year. Ever since the 1970's companies would rather use cheaper ingrediency, than raise prices.
Today's price increase are due to labor increases, and transportation costs. Only a small amount of those increase was due to supplies costs.
Yes, the raw materials did increase in price, but why, because the cost of the labor increased Thing about it for a minute, when you buy shirt, it costs more today. Why, because of labor and transportation costs. Why was transportation effected? Because fuel increased and labor increased. The price of food and beverages will come down over time, But the labor part of that cost isn't going to get cheaper.
I'm getting away from the meaning of the post. Processed foods are the foods with the most labor built in. The price of basic fresh foods will reduce in price faster because there is less labor involved in that food.
You will spend more time in the kitchen doing prep work before dinner, but you can save money and eat healthier.
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