Originally Posted by
SkeptiCallie
Seriously--I am genuinely curious--are there low-cost alternatives to frozen pizza that might be no less unhealthful but equally filling?
Families in the past, without access to frozen prepared foods, might have served potatoes, gravy, butter, along with vegetables, milk, and perhaps meat. (Bear with me for speaking only of my personal experience, not all of which might be transferable. I understand that you are from Paris--lucky you! ^ ) Anyhow, families have faced the problem of hungry teenagers before. It seems that if someone is nutritionally deprived, that person is going to feel hungry and to seek out more and more food--with, unfortunately, that food being deficient in nutrition. I don't know and am not an expert. I do believe that foods need to feel "filling," and that fast foods meet that need in terms of bulk and calories, but they seem to set up a cycle if they scant on the nutritional requirement as well. I.e., that foods, or at least one of the meals a day, need to have (1) bulk, consisting of both fiber and some degree of fat, (2), calories (a given, if the meal contains any fat), and (3), nutrition. which I assume generally means a variety of vegetables and fruit as well as milk and protein.
Anyhow--Just wondering.
Fine to knock frozen prepared food, but don't knock frozen food generally. Before freezing an canning, most peoples' diet was woefully inadequate in the winter months.
Originally Posted by
Tizzette
The fresh seasonal food that costs more money and time to use...that was the diet of rural people a couple of generations ago, grown themselves with physical work. The richer urbanite and suburbanite now eats from farmer's markets and Wild Oats and works out at a gym or runs. The children and grandchildren of the rural working class who used to grow good food a couple of generations ago have become employed off the farm (or in this economy unemployed) growing fat on cheap processed foods. Their kids develop a taste for the processed food, what kid wouldn't want pizza? So when Mom does put fresh vegetables on the table, it goes to waste. And it is such a shame.
Now, this is a myth, too. The diet of rural people a few generations back was woefully deficient in the winter months, when they had limited access to fresh veggies. It was even worse in the cities.