No one in the first world has it bad…compared to what has been historically.
The worst fed american now?
The american with the most taxing physical job?
Easy peasy.
Only a couple hundred years ago one could be in both those circumstances at the same time!
This means that one would be simultaneously starved, given only brackish water and cornmeal, while being worked to death
“Oh, that doesn’t sound so bad” I hear someone claim, well guess what princess, that’s literally nothing but foul water and cornmeal.
A low calorie , zero protein, zero fat diet with disgusting water while working long heavy hours.
Your inexpensive meal of cornbread doused in melted butter and drizzled with honey while drinking milk on the side is downright luxurious.
You should view it as such.
Ever the moreso with your bowl of baked beans and hot dogs going with it.
Luxurious.
The above sounds like sound nutrition and good calories.
You’re not starving.
Far from it.
Life is good.
For awhile now whenever I think of my problems I compare it to that situation.
Hard labor on a low calorie, zero protein, zero fat diet, drinking rank water – my problems aren’t.
They don’t exist.
Life is good.
It’s first world problems princess, there’s a reason the world wants in to america.
I had a small filipino once tell me of how america has meat, telling me how the minute he landed on these shores he went about eating as much of it as he could as he had none in his native land.
Then he told me of how he fed his sons the opposite of how he ate as a child, and they all grew to ballpark 6′ 250.
He guessed my height and weight accurately taking his own sons into account.
“Yeah, 6′ 255-260, that’s spot on.”
“You look a little stockier than my son an inch taller than you, and a little less stocky than my son two inches shorter than you. I averaged their heights and weights.”
That blew my mind, the first generation born in america growing that big and tall.
This little old filipino was maybe 5’2″ 115. His wife a filipina immigrant.
While I didn’t meet her I assume she was not some giantess – that their sons grew large from proper childhood nutrition and ample red meat consumption.
It showed me something we know instinctively, that most suppress cause the culture says it ain’t so.
A lot of immigrants don’t suppress this instinct having truly gone without, so while the sons of suburbia, the so called “affluent” kids, don’t get enough good nutrition – often only growing to the national average of 5’9″, there are many sons of immigrants, from places where everyone is thought of to be short, growing to heavy 6′ builds.
10lb bags of chicken leg quarter from food 4 less results in children being fed better than a few “proper portion” size/few oz servings of organic chicken breast do at a suburban table.
I got a kick out of food 4 less, all the big and tall hispanics there and I had similar carts – big bags of chicken leg quarters, milk, and rice or ramen primarily.
My relatives (childless I might add) eating organic from whole foods and trader joes – they got maybe a quarter of the calories at quadruple the total cost.
Think about that a second.
Nutrition in america can be 1/16 the cost of what people have been led to believe it is.
There are so many calories available, and life is so easy physically that there is rampart obesity, while some people go to gyms for leisure activity!
It ain’t worked to death and starved to death on corn and water that’s for sure.
Food is always on the table, and once you take charge of your nutrition you can eat as well as you like in this country.
At affordable prices to boot.
Anyone can make $50 or less a week work.
It’s a matter of budgeting and cooking.
The lazy way would just be frozen food and drinking milk.
$7 a day still fits doing that.
It covers a cheap frozen pizza and a gallon of milk.
That’s something like 185g protein, high carbs, enough saturated fat, and around 4500 calories taking nearly no work to prepare.
Do you know how much dark meat cuts of chicken, rice, beans, pasta, and milk you can eat for $7.
It’s staggering.
1000 calories per dollar or better.
Food is abundant, and highly affordable when you eat like an immigrant or like your forefathers did in tougher times.
So smile, buy ingredients you have to cook, and then do so.
You’ll never starve.
You’ll thrive.
Life is good.