The world is hooked on junk food: how big companies pull it off

Moto Guzzi said:
About fruit, it drives me mad coming home from main grocery store with the best looking fruit, only to find I can hardly eat it, most of the times its tastes like acid or like nothing or something else bad, or it must wait another week on which the window of eating it is small, whats going on-?
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maybe GI fruit.
always looks good - but crap to no taste
 
saor said:
I don't really buy that.

1kg lentils: R32
1kg rice: R21
1kg kidney beans: R35
Supplement that with meat every second or third night with a veg or two and it's not that bad.

1kg jungle oats:
R44
That's breakfast sorted for a while.

Are takeaways really that much cheaper?
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I assume you still have to cook those beans and lentils? Costing more money.
I paid R28 the other day for bag split red lentils 500g...
Butter beans and boroletti beans used to be dirt cheap..not anymore.
Prices are just rising, even on the kak most people dont usually buy.
R32 for a head of cabbage, used to be throw away prices...
 
A new McDonalds is being built next door to the VActive gym at the La Lucia Mall. I wonder which will get more visitors?
 
Hamster said:
You are talking so much kak on these forums.

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Maybe not all countries but the idea that South Africa is "expensive" is a joke even when you adjust for salaries.
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4 things in life are certain: Death, taxes, ANC ****ing us all and friendless rvza always having to give his dumb incorrect opinion on everything.
 
rvZA said:
They understand this wrong. Overseas, fast food are cheap and cost-effective, even for the poorest of the poor every single day of the month for their whole family. Only here in SA where it is unaffordable and these companies needs to get creative to get you to spend your whole paycheck on a family meal.
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Say what? We have probably the cheapest junk food world-wide.
 
rvZA said:
Glad you think that....
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Here you go. Burger King Whopper. Adjusted for today's exchange rate:

USA - $ 8.29 = R 150.53
Germany - € 7.29 = R 145.11
South Africa - R 88.90

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Bliksis said:
TL;DR.

What is junk food?
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Foods that are high in calories, sugar, and refine carbs but low in nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and fiber. These foods typically include fast food items like burgers, pizza, fries, hot dogs, and fried chicken, as well as packaged snacks like chips, candy, and cookies.
 
BBSA said:
Foods that are high in calories, sugar, and refine carbs but low in nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and fiber. These foods typically include fast food items like burgers, pizza, fries, hot dogs, and fried chicken, as well as packaged snacks like chips, candy, and cookies.
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Almost every shelf of boxed / bottled and canned food in a supermarket. Even milk has sugar added.
 
BBSA said:
Foods that are high in calories, sugar, and refine carbs but low in nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and fiber. These foods typically include fast food items like burgers, pizza, fries, hot dogs, and fried chicken, as well as packaged snacks like chips, candy, and cookies.
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Don’t forget seed oils. Another huge contributor to insulin resistance yet no one talks about them.
 
Had homemade butternut, onion and green pepper soup yesterday. Great success. Still some left. Sourdough bread dough is rising. Some leftover steak and red wine and onion pan sauce left the day before yesterday in the fridge that will go great on that toasted with lots of butter and a bit of Dijon mustard. Just had a to die for serving of cauliflower and broccoli bacon cheese sauce bake with lots of cheese grilled on top (mature cheddar, parmesan with a dusting of dried parsley, black pepper, cayenne pepper and smoked Spanish paprika). Probably making pizza tomorrow so I must remember to get some fresh basil.

I sometimes really enjoy getting a cheeky streetwise two or fish and chips.

It's still a choice.
 
Meh. I'll eat junk food then whenever I feel like it.

If a pepper steak pie is considered junk food, or a Russian roll, then so be it. It's convenient and cheap, can't beat that if you don't have a packed lunch.
 
saor said:
I don't really buy that.

1kg lentils: R32
1kg rice: R21
1kg kidney beans: R35
Supplement that with meat every second or third night with a veg or two and it's not that bad.

1kg jungle oats:
R44
That's breakfast sorted for a while.

Are takeaways really that much cheaper?
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Why bother with basics (I am a fan of the basic though, but...).
A basic 300g aged steak and chips meal cooked at home is cheaper than most MacDonald's meals that are not kids sized. Face it. Steak looks expensive in the shops. It's not. Not compared to the prices of "cheap" "fast" food. I can cook one of those up in under 30 minutes. Most of that time watching Youtube, giving the cat scritches or reading, while the chips fry.
 
saor said:
I don't really buy that.

1kg lentils: R32
1kg rice: R21
1kg kidney beans: R35
Supplement that with meat every second or third night with a veg or two and it's not that bad.

1kg jungle oats:
R44
That's breakfast sorted for a while.

Are takeaways really that much cheaper?
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Yes, unless you order entire McMeals. Also much more convenient.
 
Bliksis said:
Meh. I'll eat junk food then whenever I feel like it.

If a pepper steak pie is considered junk food, or a Russian roll, then so be it. It's convenient and cheap, can't beat that if you don't have a packed lunch.
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Yep. Welcome to type 2 diabetes later in life.
 
Cosmik Debris said:
Yep. Welcome to type 2 diabetes later in life.
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For grabbing a pie or a roll for lunch when I'm on the road?

Edit: let's say 3 times a week. Or as a lining before putting away some beers at my local.

If I die, I die.
 
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