Food Costs

Do we know what food costs, not strictly from a monetary since but what it takes from our bodies, and our well being as well as our wallet.

I understand food costs, both as restaurant professional, as well as a dude who shops at the local grocery stores.

We all, everyone everywhere (kinda) knows that a salad is better for you than a hamburger, caloric-ally speaking at least, and we as a culture set what the stores buy, based on what we buy. If we as consumers want unnatural, and digestibility questionable foods for our convenience, that's what we get. In reality, as much as the individual sees that there dining choices are far from the most health conscious, its hard to go to the healthy foods, because even with the time and knowledge to cook and eat these foods, they are increasingly cost infective, and i see the trend going worse, quick. The consumers are forced to buy the edible junk, because they are feeding the home team on a budget, and the stores keep stocking more of it, manufacturers, keep manufacturing (mmm dining Ikea this evening) and they are doing great, making this... product, at a faster rate, so they can afford to buy in huge quantities from the actual producers that we could, if they would sell it to us, buy from. They wont, cause we aren't buying mayonnaise by the metric ton, so we cant get it as cheep, so we are stuck buying the pre-packaged, OK, I'm full, so I cant tell in just dieing slower "Middleman Stan"s pre-pressed-undressed, I bet a buck, you can't' digest chicken breast. (if the ingredients read "meat"... run)

So what do we do? I suppose that is the question of the day. I figure that if more people bought healthy food, we would be buying less junk, so "Stan" gets less money, and his provider, in an effort to sell his wears to someone, starts to branch out to the local grocery store level... Mayo anyone?

We set the market in a capitalist society. If we don't buy it, they wont make it, or sell it. its logic. They will supply what we demand.

With a little knowledge, we can make a difference. In our society, our community, our family, our homes and our selves.

Thanks again, see you soon.

Patrick M. Floyd
Culinary Consultant
Email: homecookeddc@gmail.com
(920) 559-9425