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This is something I noticed ages ago. Fast food was nice because it was fast and cheap. It's no longer fast, and it's no longer cheap - it's just bad.
Yup we might as well just start making our own food
Yea, being poor I just realised that it's far better to go grab a ready meal. It's like a fifth of the price.
It doesn't even taste good anymore. Fast food was way better in the 90s.
Yeah, I've found myself more commonly referring to it as trash food for those reasons. It's more accurate and helps me remember to avoid it when I can.
No longer fast, no longer cheap. But it doesn't matter because the habit is engrained into society. Make the meal 10$ and people will buy just from habit alone.
it's crazy how quick fast food prices rose, it literally felt like it just happened over night.
yeah i went mcd a few weeks ago and was shocked hamburger was $2.19 ea. (also they only gave me two when i paid for three).
Then i wnt mcd again a few days ago and wow its $2.89 for one hamburger 😂
“It’s crazy how fast wages rose…”
@@TandyTerrison 😆 said no one... ever.
@TandyTerrison you mean not at all?
@@TandyTerrison Better to have raised wages for more money flowing throughout the economy as a whole, than to keep it the same and still have slowly increasing prices, which then lessens the number of overall sales and leads to even higher prices to make up for it in a pretty brutal snowball effect that ends up in people not being able to afford it at all even if they tried.
The term “organic”, “farm raised” and even “free range” has been diluted down/changed and no longer mean what you might think any longer.
Anything that has a little bit of stuff in it that used to be alive could be considered organic. A lot of the time, stores have the exact same product, and slap the organic sticker on a third of it and raise the price by 20%. Walmart is guilty of this. Example: organic and regular cabbages roll out of the same truck.
Outrageous! Smh...
When people say they eat organic, I tell them everyone does. Also, the table is organic, as is the gas in my car. It's all just carbon-carbon interaction, so have a refreshing glass of crude oil! Yum! LOL
That’s because the regulators at the USDA are industry plants who collude with major players in the industry to give them enough leeway in the definitions of those words whilst still being convincing enough to the public. A factory chicken farm could have a section without a roof and that’d be enough to label their products “free-range”.
@@SchneltorI'm around all kinds of health conscious people all the time and no one and I mean no one has ever said to eat organic not even once. The term around here is whole foods diet and it does have a very specific meaning.
From a nutritional perspective: organic vs. conventional is negligible. You can use a baking soda soak on your produce if you are concerned about pesticides (organic uses pesticides, the pesticides are just organic, not necessarily better).
THANK YOU! Nobody believes me when I point this out.
Yeah, video was good until he started talking about organic vs conventional. Organic is just a marketing label at this point. It does not mean higher quality. No production method is clearly better for the environment. Risk for bacteria and fungi contamination from organic food and non organic food is the same. Organic uses as much pesticides if not more than conventional, they are just "organic" pesticides. Being organic does not make them safe. Copper sulfate for example, often used on organic apples, is actually harmful to humans. The nutritional value of a conventional and organic produce is basically the same, even when organic is rated higher in nutrients it's often negligible. And your statement about conventional farms using copious amounts of pesticide is naive: pesticide is expensive, especially at scale. In a conventional farm built to maximize profits, this also includes using as little as pesticide necessary, simply because you don't want to burn money in something unneeded. Kurzgesagt has a good video and cited several research papers demystifying organic produce.
Totally agree, I was super interesting in the video until he started talking about organic like the are magic. The most important thing is to have whole foods but they marketing on that produce doesn’t mean what we think it does.
For real. I just found this channel yesterday and binged a bunch of videos in the background while working. I like the channel but organic is bullshit and a waste of money. I think the only thing he brought up that is valid is the beef thing but I dont think that has to do with organic vs regular food. That's probably just organic farms feeding their cows better.
The only real reason to buy expensive food is ethics; the way they treat their animals, their employees, and the environment. Companies that I can verify do one or more of those, I will spend extra money on. Everything else is marketing.
“Organic is not expensive, everything else is just cheap.”
This is an interesting idea. Great video.
It's literally plastered all over many slogans of supermarkets and brands that make their image out of "buy this/shop here because it's the cheapest you can find!" And "Now more for the same low price!". It's been this way for as long as someone figured out the concept of advertising..
@@user-yv6xw7ns3o they were commenting on how organic isn’t actually expensive, doesn’t really have to do with the effectiveness of marketing. Why are people so incorrectly abrasive in comment sections? Even if they were making a point you came to the conclusion you came to already, why the snark? Serious question. I’m always surprised at why people getting snarky over nothing
..... I don't eat fast food so I have no clue on prices.... 💩 that went up a lot...
I've been wondering lately if there's just a lot of underpriced stuff in the US giving us false expectations.
In the case of organic it's more that people naturally have a "food is food" mentality. It makes it easy to believe that organic isn't higher quality than industrial agro-chem foods
@@allisterhale8229 Yes, that's very much what I see going on. There is a lot to unpack for what I'm willing to write about while on my phone in a comment section, but underpricing is a big deal, and so is the overwhelmingly indoctrinated notion that "food is food." The whole issue has more to do with why and how food cheapness is a problem and what effects it has, rather than centering on relative cost between higher and lower quality food sources.
Also, there is truly a problem with overall cost of food and the drastic inequality in wealth distribution in modern society, but that is yet another discussion..
These food companies up their price 3x their price from just 10 years ago but still refuse to pay the workers more and say “we barely make enough money” they are hitting high record sales
The unrelenting struggle of public companies being required by law to try their best to make profits for their investors. Over-simplified I'm sure, but certainly a cause of problems.
if you don't think workers are being paid more now than they were 10 years ago, you're purposely obtuse.
average hourly wage at the restaurant i work in 10 years ago was about $8. today it is minimum $15 and average is about $16.
@@werdwerdus True, even counting inflation $15 is about 25% more. 8 in 2010 would be about 11 now.
@@werdwerdus with inflation and higher fuel costs....WHERE DID YOU WIN?!!!!!
The fact that I can get 2 pounds of ground beef for less than a fast food meal and have tacos for 2 days is fantastic! The only thing people need is motivation and creativity!
More like one pound of ground and that doesn't cover tortillas, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, spices etc. It is cheaper to cook for oneself overall, but the initial investment is considerably higher. It's about 15 to 20 bucks to buy a pound of decent ground beef, a couple of tomatoes, a head of lettuce, cheese, and tortillas.
@@kirbyjoe7484 Well sure, he’s only comparing the beef to one meal of fast food. Once you include the rest of the ingredients, they cost more than one meal of fast food but still less than the equivalent number of meals of fast food.
....You can easily get what fast food restaurants CALL a "meal" for less then $20. If you are the #1 most-poisoned human being on the planet, so the only thing you care about is whether or not you "feel full", then yes of course there is no such thing as a human who can "feel full" after eating a single "Super Size #3 meal" at any fast food restaurant. Regardless, that is what most people order anyway, rather then actually ordering enough fake food to eat, and never once even has that costed $20 like two pounds of ground beef would. And in addition to that, most people will also refuse to eat ground beef alone by itself for their meal! So you're adding at least 5 other ingredients which also cost massive amounts each! There even IS one way to get "at least enough food for a single meal" spending less then $20 at fast food too! And that is a pizza! Which could be as low as $7. ...So yeah just like always you are never going to be eating safe, nontoxic food with zero poison but spending less or equal too what poisonous food does.
@@Rayvn7 I think I agree with you, but the way you have written this is very confusing.
I got a little over two pounds of 85% for $9ish. Tossed some mustard, chili powder and salt in, kneaded it in, it's wrapped and in the fridge overnight. Tomorrow I'll be rolling them into logs, wrap with wax paper (baking parchment is better but I'm out), baking at 300 for 4 hours then letting chill. Bam, mildly spicy summer sausage. Store in fridge and slice and eat as needed.
It's possible to buy meat without pain by following the sales (for example February's the best time of year for beef sales. They gotta clear the storage lockers out of the wet aged parts that didn't get used for the holidays.) I'm doing "carnivore" for February, for my lungs, and I'm not spending all that much more than I did for the almost daily "what fun thing can I buy for a meal that may or may not be crap plus condiments plus more cheese to snack on etc." Actually I'm spending less.
In 2017 I was able to get two cheesy gordita crunches for under $5 dollars, AFTER the nearly 10% tax I have to pay living in Los Angeles. I ordered 2 of them a few weeks ago, and it was $10.59 after tax. So they doubled in price in roughly 5~6 years.
What really sucks is that employees still only get $7 for their meals when they work at Taco Bell. $7 used to be able to get you a whole combo or a thousand Calorie meal. Now, like one burrito and maybe a taco
@@Pobert69they deserve a combo with desert like those bomb ass cinnamon donuts
@@Pobert69 What Taco Bells are you going to? Granted a lot of the menu items are badly priced they still have good combos. There's a box that is 1000 calories of menu items plus a cinnamon twist and a drink for $5 at my local Taco Bell.
LA barely charges tax on food, even restaurant food, it's like 2.5% depending on your county...
I remember the Taco Time veggie soft taco meal was 6.66 at one point. Now it's 13 dollars 😭
Ordered 2 McGriddles a few months ago thinking they still cost a dollar. I was shocked when they told me $7.50. I was starving so I paid but I haven’t been back to McDonald’s since. I’ll eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at home vs getting fast food now. It just isn’t worth what they’re charging for that crap.
You could probably fry up some eggs, sausage, and a toasted bun at home in less time than it takes to drive to McDonald's. Bonus points for being able to add whatever you like and customize it to your taste, instead of having to eat an assembly of the cheapest ingredients the restaurant could convince you to spring for.
For a price of a burger+fries I can get a proper meal at a cafe. And it will be just as fast
@@eyesofthecervino3366 Yeah, I've actually been making my own egg non-McMuffins with cheese (cheddar not American) at home for maybe about $1.75 each. I also like to leave the egg cooked over easy so the yolk isn't totally cooked solid which I prefer.
cheeseburgers at McD's were 0.49 when I worked there. I remember changing the sign to "over 55 million served" a full BigMac meal then was 2.79. That'd be so ridiculous now to take a family of 5 out for fast food!
I remember it , when I was a kid a big mac combo was $3
Covid did one good thing for me: for so many months I didn’t eat out at all. When I was able to eat out again I no longer considered fast food to be food. And I have not gone back.
Same 😊
Sadly I had the opposite effect I ended up eating more of it and am barely breaking the habit
@Darkrai with legs they are chicken 😂
@Remorsefullyhumble shhh don't tell them that, the pink goop is cooler and therefore more real
Agreed, I don’t see fast food the same
:( especially the “originals” like BK, McDonald’s, KFC, Church’s, Taco Bell, etc. They taste awfully artificial. The new ones like Chic fil a, Canes, In N Out, Whataburger. Are the ones that I still enjoy 🤔
Cost is definitely a motivator. I went to a place where I got in a dish that I liked previously and saw the price has gone up quite a bit. So I went to the grocery store instead and bought the ingredients to re-create the dish myself. Making multiple servings at a significantly reduced cost per serving. I guess if you can’t cook, you just have to settle for paying the price or settling for a cheaper alternative prepared meal.
If you can’t cook, learning is an option
Exactly. Cooking might be a chore, but so is not having any money because you spent it all on food.
Or just learn how to cook
There are so many How To TH-cam videos teaching people to cook. Or ask a parent, or even better, a grandparent. Most grandparents know far more about saving money when grocery shopping and can teach you family recipes.
I'll never not be grateful that my mother threw me into cooking and let me muddle through making the family dinner a few times in my life when she wasn't able to. I'd always helped with food prep, the act of learning how to put everything together and. . .as I get old, what flavors go well together is something that has saved me so much money. I enjoy the time it takes most of the time.
Honestly, the best policy I can give to folks is to check the friggin' label. A lot of the nutrition info's online, nowadays, so you don't even gotta go to the store yourself; you can just look up nutrient facts while you're on break or whatever. And for folks concerned about volume: preservation. You have a freezer. If you're not gonna use it within a few days, you can freeze most foods just fine. Hell, frozen fruits and vegetables you get from the supermarket are oftentimes a lot more fresh (and, thus, nutrient dense) than what you'd get in the produce aisle because it hasn't been spending several days in transit and/or on the shelves. Frozen stuff's usually frozen pretty soon after harvest, and that's what makes the difference. In terms of nutrition, about the only thing better you could get would be growing your own or visiting a local pick-your-own farm.
Legit, though, preservation seems to be something of a lost art. Even just dehydrating something can shift its shelf life from days to weeks or even months. I harvest wild mushrooms and the first thing I do after cleaning them is throw them in a zip-top bag with some desiccant packs and cycle 'em til they're devoid of moisture. I have some mushrooms stored away that have been in that drawer for nearly a year and they're still perfectly edible. Depending on your jurisdiction, you can turn some of your leftover fruit (assuming it hasn't been boiled or cleaned w/ soap) into wine if you have a big ol' glass jar, paper towels, a rubber band, and some sugar. Even the non-organic fruits (think grapes, blueberries, strawberries and the like) likely have some wild yeast on 'em that will get nice and happy if you mash them fruits up and put 'em in some warm water with extra sugar. Give 'em a week or two, strain out the solids, and bam. Drinkable wine. The bits that settle at the bottom? You can keep that in a mason jar in your fridge and kickstart any future fermentation because, guess what? That's right: that's yeast. Usable liquid yeast. I've even used it to bake bread.
I ain't about to go idolizing our ancestors, there's a reason the pre-industrial age sucked, but they really knew what they were doing when it came to keeping food (and thus nutrition) available for well past its normal expiry date.
Thanks. I read the comments to learn. Thanks for taking Time. Try Yogurt, Kieffer, Kambucha, y suero de leche, cheese. Then garden so as to localize the photosynthèse rate and microbiota in the plant Roots. Do no wash all of the soil off per say the onions you eat from your garden. Leave the dust on the plant leaves from your garden. Do not be a taste slave. 90 percent of your calor consumption should come from food you produce at home. One gallon of milk can be made into a weeks worth of Yogurt, Kieffer, Kambucha, y suero de leche, and cheese per person. Do not take any food home that has yeast in it. You must consume per say bread right out of the oven. If it sits the microbiota of the bread will continue to grow. At what point does it start to mold? As soon as it cools out the oven. Meat is hard to produce at home but it can be done. Any insects that are on a plant goes into thé soup. What I write is the way it is every place but in the US. The question Is why?
I love this comment so much
I think one of the reasons this is a lost art is obviously because people are lazy and it takes effort, but also that they're afraid. I've had to have "the talk" with so many friends of mine throwing out perfectly good food because it's past the arbitrary date on the container.
It truly is a lost art though, we live in a disposable society, you have your knowledge because you either specifically sought it out of interest or because someone passed it down to you - and that's the problem, no one is passing it down because, at least for now, it's a bygone era.
It only really sucked because of no labor laws and no antibiotics. Other than that, wasn't as bad as people assume. Much easier to make money from your hard work as long as you weren't at a factory. You could make your own business MUCH easier. Hardly any homeless people, and as long as you had the money you could find a place to rent. None of this, "must make 3x whatever the rent is"
our ancestors were better people than us
I'd love to see a follow-up on how to be sure something is organic. Many companies (like Pilgrim's Pride) have been caught lying about their 'organic' food.
theres is, so theres a organization that shorts shitty companies for profit and they do this by having a presentation about it (it's a event idk where). cold fusion had a video that mentioned them in a video about adani.
I believe it's Hindenburg Investments, or something like that. I recently watched a video about them going after Cash App, which is not subject to banking regulations, and is therefore attractive to criminal money laundering.
This is a bit tricky, because organic can mean any number of things depending on the local regulations. For ex, I worked in a natural foods store just as they started to change the regulati😊ons in California, about 20 yrs ago, to REDUCE the amount required to call something “organic”; the product doesn’t actually have to be completely organic. And it’s only gotten worse since. Same with “free range” or “cage free”. Instead of being in a nice big field, they’re all packed together in a tiny pen, with the same problems of disease,malnutrition, etc., but they’re not in a cage, so great, right?
You should do a video on the fishing industry, and fish consumption! 🙏
Not many people realize just how prevalent mercury and other poisons are in fish, having been concentrated through the food chain. Not to mention folks aren’t aware that fish don’t actually produce Omega fatty acids…cut out the fishy middleman!
Absolutely agree. In A Nutshell had a good video about the concept, but you basically have ro break down each company alone
An important thing to remember here is that "organic" is an unregulated marketing term. There's no definition of what organic means in food, so any food manufacturer can put an organic label on their package and charge more for it, even if its identical to its non-organic alternatives. You have to actually do a quick search on a product to know if it fits your standards. You can't trust the package to tell you.
I know in Canada at least, the ground has to be tested every so often. My dad got some farm land, and it was marketed as organic, but that means it has to be chemical free for a certain number of years, and it didn't have the official certification. If he were to sell stuff there are as organic, he'd have to get soil testing and water testing done, as well as have fertilizer meet certain requirements. All we use is 10-10-10 and seaweed. But I've heard the USA is less strict in requirements. I've also had people tell me things were gluten free, and then got sick after, so I don't like going there and trying to find food. Florida was pretty good because a lot of fresh fruit is grown there, including in a relative's yard, and Washington State was good too because they seem to be more aware of that kind of thing and more environmentally focused.
depends on where you live, but you might be thinking of "natural". organic in the us is regulated by the fda
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**On a real note 🗒️ thanks for the tip
Difference between organic and non organic?
$500,000 fee
Organic is just one of those random marketing terms that doesn't actually mean anything. By the original definition, all food is organic.
The problem with organic being that there's a spectrum of quality within the items labeled organic too. It's difficult to tell which ones are substantially different unless you go to the farm yourself.
Also the fact that its a label thats paid for. Smaller farms can surpass the quality and standards of farms with the organic label but you wouldnt know it because they cant afford the label
@@GoblinsAteMyCatsOn this note, i went to a farm years ago that had the licence as an organic farm, but eventually gave up trying to meet the requirements because of the excessive testing and thresholds that werent realistic, plus the sheer cost in doing so. He still operated the same way, but couldnt call his food "Organic" because he didnt pay to do so. Always stuck with me how the term organic really doesnt mean what people attribute to it
the tip to cook with atleast one new ingredient each week is the tip i think ive been looking for, i literally have 3 homeade dishes that i make and they just go on repeat. this is a great idea
You got it...Dog and cat eat the same meal every day and they dont die...So as a human you can have 3 different recipe for dinner if in their composition you found all the vitamin, protein, fat, mineral you need
@@jean-francoisaubrythis is one of those things that sounds deep when you're 14. perfect for this channel lol
Ingredients to try: sumac (barberry powder), romanesco cauliflower, and delicata squash
@@Weimerica8841 - Why would that be "perfect for this channel" when it's literally the opposite of the aforementioned advice the channel actually gave in the video?
@@KingBobXVI are you 14?
My wife posted on Twitter the other day saying how McDonald’s is charging $3 dollars for a MEDIUM soda. With McDonald’s Twitter account replying with excuses. Last night we bought our daughter a SMALL drink at over $2 with a “small drink surcharge”. It’s becoming more affordable to NOT eat out 😂
I wanted something fast last week and a 20 piece Mc nugget was $11.
@@jiml4987 damn that shit used to be at the most less than 5
@@bobshaft1587 literally it’s insane how expensive it is now. Luckily the McStudy comes in clutch
It was always more affordable not to eat out, but the difference just gets bigger
That what we need😂
I recently bought the most expensive eggs I could find, just to see what the difference was. Each egg was heavier than the usual white eggs I still had. Same size. When I broke one open to cook, the yolk was a really deep orange. They tasted better, made me feel fuller, and I had fewer digestive problems later. These differences shocked me. Now I only buy the highest quality eggs I can find.
Eggs are a deal breaker! The difference is worth it especially in dishes where the egg takes center stage.
I notice a large difference between organic vegetables and regular ones as well, especially carrots and peppers
Fresh farm eggs are the absolute best. You know you made it; when you are storing your eggs on the kitchen counter for a month.
@@Ryan-wr8fx I grew a package of rainbow carrots this past year, meaning a variety of different "breeds" of organic carrots in one package. I think from now on, I'm going to grow yellow ones. Huge, juicy, sweet, and good raw or cooked. They seemed to last okay during the winter where ones that were pink outside and orange inside sprouted and got mushy, even in my cold room in a covered box.
@@joylox I've seen rainbow carrots at the store but haven't bought them yet. If I had a balcony with my apartment you can bet I'd be growing as many vegetables as possible. It may make a nice side business as well.
That last statement is essentially what I've felt for years when people say healthy food is "expensive." It's not that healthier or organic foods are expensive, it's just that we've become so efficient at producing garbage foods that they cost (or at least did) significantly less, which really was the whole intent to begin with.
I agree, but I can't get over how weird "organic vs. conventional" agriculture sounds, it should be called "organic vs. modern" agriculture or something like that. Organic methods are the more traditional way, all these high-tech modern advances in agriculture are anything but conventional.
organic isn't a regulated term@@ianglenn2821
....lol, you must be literally retarded. The ONLY way it is even REMOTELY possible to eat every day while being "very very toxic but not quite as bad as P&G products" is if you use all the digital coupons carefully sign up for every rebate app in existence, and then ONLY buy the certain things that are at "extreme sale" that week plus whatever "ingredient" you are out of like coconut oil and dandelion. And then still you wouldn't actually have ENOUGH food to EAT MEALS, but maybe possibly if lucky can take at least one bite of food of some kind every single day. To actually eat SAFELY, on the other hand, requires being a literal millionaire. Not to mention being able to schedule appointments at farms and drive an hour to get to a large grocery store and own a car and etc.!
@@ianglenn2821 Conventional just means common. If the modern way of doing something is more common than a traditional way, the modern way becomes the conventional way.
After I realized that two breakfast sandwiches, a large coffee, and a small oj cost me $18, I started going to my local diner. I could get an omelette with a side of bacon for $20. Adding the tip brought me to a little more than McD's. But I got healthier food (Ignore that bacon thing), and I got served. I hit the diner 3 times a week for breakfast and once a month for dinner. I haven't been to fast food in over a year!
Why "ignore that bacon thing"? Bacon isn't near as bad for you as the industry lied to you about for decades. Do better. Do more research.
by far the hardest part of fasting is the boredom. If you've never done a multiday fast, you have no idea the enormous amount of your daily time is spent thinking about, preparing, or eating food. Depending on your lifestyle, it can be really hard to fill all that extra free time. If you want a fast to be easy, start it when you are very busy
right you are
Oh yeah. And my favorite benefit of fasting is I get way more work/cleaning done because I have the time.
You can also prepare and freeze food for those days you can't spend time preparing something from scratch. It's the best way to keep eating right without losing time.
Excellent advice and it works
Weirdly, I find the opposite. If I am busy, the hunger is distracting and reduces my job performance. Knowing this, I get anxious about becoming "too hungry" and being unable to enjoy/manage my responsibilities. If I am not busy, I resent having to break up my chill time with the effort of getting food into my belly, and there's nothing I have to do properly, so no anxiety.
Cannot figure out why this channel does not have 450K subs. This young man is so smart and succinct.
Unfortunately, you answered your own question. It takes one to know one...
Probably bad algorithms.
Eh. He's playing a bit fast and loose with the facts here.
@@FalconOfStorms How so?
Because there are plenty versions of him throughout youtube.
This pretty much jumpscared me this year. I hadn't eaten fast food since 3 years ago, then I started working in a schedule where I would have to get lunch on the run basically and I was shocked at how expensive and slow almost every fast food place was. I started packing lunches after only a week
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They increased regular menu prices to force consumers into getting their app where they can bombard you with notifications and free (to them) advertising to order their food. The discounts are noticeable enough to keep people stuck with them installed…
I tried the McD's app ONCE... that thing is HORRIBLE to try to use and as you said, ANNOYING.
This money issue is why I actually started cooking for myself a _lot_ more. I was already on a personal diet and only dipped on the way to work at times, but the prices are nuts
If you've got the time for it, throw in base ingredients to cook and you'll save a ton of money
Yeah, well our grocery bill went from $150ish to $300 and we get 30 items on average not a lot of meat either or junk food. So cooking at home is getting tight... I guess soon it'll be eatz zee bugz. This is govt policy at work, just true.
I'm trying to get recipes going for myself but I have trouble finding out where to start
@@Muciatneh Try to learn from my mistakes. Look at what meat, veggies, carbs, and/or whatever commonly accessible meal components you plan on using often. Then, just learn how to cook those until they're edible
Once you know how to make a few basic, healthy meals without too much issue or cost, you can branch out. You can start testing out what spices and herbs you like, how other people prepare things (rice and eggs both have a ton of variety around), and so on. It's important to gain basic knowledge that doesn't require a ton of ingredients so that you can still feed yourself easily and when the wallet is tight
The problem with a lot of recipes is that they'll call for a great variety of ingredients, some of which you only need one or half of one of. This can lead to more expense and frustration when you're wasting a lot more than you'd like. They're good for testing things out, but not for gaining basic knowledge for a daily or weekly schedule
Also, remember that you can make use of stuff even when it isn't done right. If you messed up the veggies, just cook them in a fat (oil, butter, etc.) and lower your fat for the next meal. If you overcooked the meat, you can deal with it or cook it even more and just make a chili. Even if what you're going for didn't pan out, it's rare that the actual food just isn't usable. Find a way to try to make it taste acceptable (different from good). You'll feel proud of yourself and will gain valuable experience
There'll be plenty of failures, boring meals, and bad food in the beginning. Just try to figure out what went wrong, try not to repeat it next time. If something keeps happening and you don't know why, experiment with it and see if changing things up fixes it (or if you can isolate what's going wrong). I'm currently in this process with an unleavened bread I'm trying to bake in the oven to give variety to my carbs!
As someone who cooks for himself for 8 years now, and whose family always cooked for itself, you will be surprised at how many different dishes and flavors you can get with simple and cheap ingredients.
Edit: And I don't even speak spices, spices add another horizon of flavors.
@@remen_emperorAgreed, trial and error, even canned tomatoes and beans are a fast, easy starting point, or ground beef and leafy greens, or eggs and cheese, that's pretty much all you need from the store, the rest is the fine art and experimentation of flavoring
Even 10 years ago I couldn’t afford fast food and would always tell people how much cheaper veggies and fruits were by comparison to fast food whenever they would say I can’t afford to eat healthy…. I’d be like really??? I can’t afford fast food! Because one meal won’t keep me full for a week versus going to ALDIs and getting all healthy food at a much cheaper price
Yeah but all healthy food taste awful so
@@Reefer-Rampage69 Not if you prepare it right
@@Reefer-Rampage69u just can't cook
Highly debatable.
If youre struggling (financially) and can only afford potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and cabbage, it's hard to cook them delicious without overloading on artificial spices.
If you can afford better, you can make great healthy meals.
@@enricofermi3471 The cost of regular spices, not sure what artificial ones you're talking about, amount to cents per day. It's virtually impossible to go through a 20oz container of salt in a MONTH let alone a few days. The same goes for cayenne, oregano, garlic powder, curry powder, you name it. You sound like someone who either doesn't buy spices or doesn't know how to season food in general.
A lot of this resonated with me, my first job was at a kfc Taco Bell and we were given a $5 allowance per shift, you could buy like one thing from the kfc side, but you could go wild with Taco Bell items!! Also, my family was sort of big on fast food growing up and that unfortunately stuck with me. I think you’re absolutely right about the creativity/cooking and education points. I just recently got into keto and intermittent fasting, and now I spend wayyy less on food even though the food I buy is high quality. And even though organic costs more, I’m buying less food over all and feeling more healthy and satisfied. TH-cam was my gateway to all this information and I’m so happy to finally be cooking meals that make me happy to be alive, my new food philosophy !
That's fantastic. I wasn't raised on fast food, but I ate a LOT of junk food growing up and for the majority of my life. I started clean keto and intermittent fasting cooking all my own food 2.4 years ago and have never felt better. It's so good to hear you are doing the same. Food definitely is medicine.
Making your kids eat fast food more than once a week should be considered child abuse
Doing keto has saved me so much on groceries. I've been on it for like 5 months now, and I eat significantly less, since I'm restricted on foods I do a lot of bulk ingredients (dinner is pretty much the only thing that changes day to day), and since I'm saving so much money on both those two things, I'm buying better quality stuff too. It's been awesome.
My husband decided to do keto almost two months ago now, and we assumed that our grocery bill would go up a bit, what with the extra meat and nut purchases (we already primarily ate whole foods). But even during the holidays, usually the time when our food expenses are the highest, we have been spending about 20% less. It's pretty much for your exact two reasons, "snacks" went from little extra things like chips and cereal to big bulk bags of nuts and hard boiled eggs by the dozen-we end up with way cheaper cost per "unit" as well as better nutritional density.
I made a giant pot of soup out of cheap but nutritious meat cuts that other people overlook (pork neck bones, pig feet, rib tip off-cuts), and $20 in meat became 2 meals a day for 2 people for 5 days, that's a baseline meal cost of $1 before adding the other inexpensive meal items (vegetables, eggs, some dairy). My husband packs away food, and I've got a baby to feed, so these aren't tiny portions. Our total cost for both of us to eat each day is somewhere between $6-10, with occasional treats like nice meat or fancy produce.
It's amazing how cutting out breads, rices, pasta, and potatoes actually SAVES you money, isn't it? Plus, NOT buying all the oh so convenient "snack" items - which are actually pricey as all get out!
My Fiancé & I were just talking about this last month. We walked into a McDonald’s to get a drink, looked on the menu and I said “Remember when fast food used to be cheap” when looking at the menu board. He burst out laughing and it started a whole fun little rant between us after we left
What was the point of telling this story 😂Basically you noticed the same thing and laughed?
@la6136 bruh you'll see once you get in a relationship, life gets better but the stories... nah, this ain't even that lame of a story tbh. i've caught myself telling people the most boring shit about my lady lmao
Breaking the fast food habit is hard. I moved to an area that didn't have any fast food and I was too broke to travel. I cried. CRIED. When I couldn't get myself any takeout. I wasn't a 17 year old at the time, I was TWENTY THREE. Quitting smoking was easier than quitting routine fast food, and I only managed to do it because I had access to fast food ripped away from me.
No disrespect, but crying over not being able to eat a big Mac is crazy.
@@Crese1947i think they're acknowledging that.
@@Crese1947 I know, it was psychotic. I wasn't like weeping uncontrollably or smashing shit off the ground or putting holes in drywall, but I did a few of those pathetic whimpers. You need to understand I was eating it twice if not thrice a day. I would skip meals if I had to cook them myself and save that grocery money to get more takeout. It was really bad. My gut microbiome was 95% Wendy's Taco Bell and soda pop at that point.
I'm so grateful I was ripped out of that environment, quitting cigarettes was *laughable* compared to correcting my gut microbiome with actual food with legititmate nutritional value to it. Not just salt, sugar, and fifty different 20 letter 8 syllable chemicals I can't read aloud. I'm confident I could quit smoking again. I have ZERO confidence I'd be able to overcome my junk food binge EVER again.
Edit: replaced month with day.
@@PinkManGuy Sorry to hear that man. I'll eat fast food whenever I can, but only if I don't have food at home that I like.
Food Addiction is real, even though I've never had it so bad that I've cried over it. I mean, I'll buy a bag of chips and tell myself to ration it and end up eating the whole bag in one sitting. It's hard to control yourself with those things.
@@Crese1947it’s truly addictive. That’s the point of why they make the food that way, they don’t care if you die of a heart attack as long as they make more money because their food is so “tasty” because of excess fat and sugar, making it actually addictive
I think the thing that got me off fast food is i had the choice taken away because i couldn't eat garlic or onions or bread anymore. After months of depression from not being able to eat anything other than rice and potatoes and the most basic meats, i had enough. Since then ive been learning how to cook without the things i cant eat, and im learning how to use spices you don't usually think of in cooking, and it tastes as good if not better imo, plus its much healthier than getting a burger at McDonalds. (Honestly i think its cheaper to)
let him cook
Don't know if you already know this but look into recipes for the Jain diet ! They don't eat garlic or onions either (:
@@harshanath2592 thank you i will have to do that!
I’m on day 5 of no fast food. Did home cooked food during these days and I feel amazing.
I for one, have no problem eating the same food every day, I was raised on leftovers, my grandmother would cook and it would last 2 or 3, sometimes 4 days. Now, when I cook for myself(more rarely recently because of switching to 10 hour days and other reasons) I'd make enough food to last an entire week, and it never bothers me one bit.
Yes , this is such s good habit to get into when one is growing up. I grew up this way and can still eat leftovers for days, I don't get tired of it until maybe day 4 or 5. On the other hand my fiance and many of my other family members like cousins get tired of the food by the next day and want something new, which takes so much more time than just heating up something from the fridge
Lol...I'm the same. I only rotate between 2 or 3 different types of dishes anyway...
Now is really the time you need to cook in bulk and eat leftovers. Microwave is a lot faster than a drive through!
I have a feeling that everyone agreeing with this is a dude. I'll happily eat the same shit every day, just like a dog.
It's just simpler, and I'm always really hungry by the time I eat, so it's totally satisfying.
I find that women are a bit pickier, and though they certainly have their favorites, they crave some variety.
@@drea409 What your fiance is looking for is meal prep. Food that can mostly be prepped ahead of time with the finishing steps taking maybe a few minutes. Pizza doughs are surprisingly meal prep friendly, and you can make a bulk dough, then divide it into portions that get even better each passing day for about a week I believe. You can freeze and chill a lot of things, like portioned homemade sauces, *but make sure to label them and make sure they're used in a few days if you fridge them.*
You don't have to cook in bulk and force your way: you can set aside a day to do bulk prep and plan out your meals for the week. Fillings for quick gyoza wraps, some meat for cubanos, some homemade pickled condiments to spice things up. Ethan Chlewbowski on TH-cam covers a lot of this and I think you'll like him.
“Organic food is not expensive…everything else it just cheap.” That’s such a great way to look at it. Everything else is just a cheap, synthesized knock off of real food. We live in a crazy world right now man and our food is no exception. Keep it up.
man organic food isn't even necessarily better than shit grown non-organically. It just means they used very specific pesticides on their crops, some of which are still bad for the environment.
Organic is a scam. Stop promoting it.
A non organic apple would be considered synthetic? Weird logic if you ask me.
@@YourIdeologyIsDelusional "source: I made it tf up"
@@Simon-xi7lb
Yes, all the companies labeling their food organic made up the claim of it being organic, and are not doing anything meaningfully different. This is correct, organic is a scam. :)
Geography and location is a big factor. When I lived in Colorado, the nearest McDonalds was a 5 minute drive away. Any other food place or supermarket was at least 15 to 30 minutes away. Now living in NY I have a McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King, 2 Dunkin Donuts, 4 Pizza places, 2 Chinese food places, 5 super markets, and more all within 1 mile. It takes me longer to decide where I want to eat then to actually get there.
This was one of the most enlightening and well-organized videos on healthy foods I have watched.
This is so much deeper than people realize. I used to be super passionate about nutrition and I kinda fell off. Thanks for reminding me what is important ❤
Same!!
One of the problems I've had with the label of "organic" is that I don't currently have trust that the label means that the food is better. Organic still uses pesticides, and I've heard that they need to use an increased amount of pesticides to be equally effective. And i've not heard that these pesticides are necessarily "better" or "worse" for human consumption, they're just considered "natural", and thus allowed. I don't believe that "synthetic" vs "natural" should be relevant to the conversation, in terms of what chemicals are used, specifically in regards to human health (not necessarily the environmental health).
I also am more in favor of GMOs and the continuation of GMOs. I think that it's more likely that GMO crops will be the long term solution more than anything else. My understanding is that the main problem people have with GMOs is a bit more... political in nature. Laws, advertising, social trends, etc. And this belief that it is more political ends up becoming a distrust in almost any information I hear on the topic.
Combine my distrust with the price difference, and I end up actively avoiding organic. I'd love to see a deep dive into it though. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, even if it's just me being told that my information is just outdated.
I’m never too worried about gmos given the fact that humanity has been selectively breeding plants for centuries now. You don’t even have to look much further than broccoli, cabbage, kale, cauliflower and some others that were all selectively bred for their traits from a singular original plant.
@@worldomino2225 I don't think i'd put GMOs into the same category of selective breeding. I wish they were never combined into a single concept, to avoid confusion.
The differences I'd say are that GMOs are intentionally introducing new characteristics, or even new chemicals into the organism. Something that, if naturally occurring, would have a chance to be subjected to things like natural selection and long term human health observation.
One example is modifying a crop to produce a chemical that acts as a pesticide, something that i would say contains a lot of risk.
Here here! This is basically my thoughts on it as well! Especially when living in a country with much more strict Pesticide restrictions, it’s challenging to know whether the organic label is touting it’s “naturalness” or how they’ve somehow gone around the rules that let them put the organic label on their products.
@@scarflord15 Usually what they do is take a gene from a plant that has a naturally occurring "pesticide" and insert into another plants genetic code so that the new strain of seeds now produce the same naturally occurring "pesticide" while maintaining the rest of the original plant material. I foresee them soon adding in the genetic code that allows cacti to live without much water into water intensive crops so that we can cut down on water usage and so that more arid places in the world can start growing their own food...as soon as people get over their apprehension about GMO crops.
I once read a book on GM foods titled Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith. It was very informative and I recommend it to others who want to understand how foods are genetically modified and some of the politics and motivations behind the creation and use of gm foods. It's a very different process than natural selection and not as exact as some would lead you to believe.
First time on your site. Thanks for the great info; you're a funny guy to boot. When I was a little kid many years ago, my mom would have to plan meals for the week because it was a long ride to the nearest supermarket, and no fast food places where we lived. Nowadays it's too easy to just grab something when you're tired or too busy. I've noticed, though, that people who eat healthy plan and prep their meals ahead, and I admire people like that. Anyway, thanks again for your work in making this vid.
I’m a firm believer you can fall in both the convenience and quality simultaneously. I do food prep every weekend. I focus on healthy/organic foods and it’s convenient because I only have to cook 1 day per week
I also wanna start with food prep, but I just don't know where to start ;/ Do you have any tips or resources for me?
@@Karambolage17 sure. I typically make 3 different proteins each week. I mix the sides up between them so that I get more variation. I would also recommend buying a pressure cooker. You can use 1 pot for most of the recipes and often you can set it and forget it. That will allow you do do other things in the meantime. Lastly, I would pick up some microwave safe/dishwasher safe containers.
You can find plenty of recipes on TH-cam that sure your taste
@@RightStickRob thank youu
I would say the best practice is to buy from local farmers markets and don’t worry about organic. The food will be much more nutritious because it will be significantly fresher than anything you get at any grocery store. In my area most of the farmers do use organic and sustainable practices, but they don’t carry the organic seal because it’s like a huge expense to qualify as usda organic and small farmers can’t afford it. Also you are then supporting a local business and cutting down on carbon footprint or whatever. Local farmers markets are the way to go.
This is really good advice if you have access to a market (although I find the ones where I live are often expensive, but the produce is exceptional and fresh).
so what if you live in an urbanized city? Grocery stores/supermarkets are my only lifeline :(
Some cities have CSA-Community Supported Agriculture-boxes you can buy and pick up in town, a few will deliver. Otherwise, if you can't afford to go all organic, simply compare the prices item by item at your grocery store. Some will have a smaller price gap than others, so start with those. I also like Grocery Outlet or comparable stores for discounted food, and they have a dedicated isle for healthier options. Try tiny gardening such as herbs in a window sill. There may be a community garden where you can get a plot and they would know how to get free seeds. I hope some of this helps.
@@sfcs3743 Most cities have farmer's markets. Look in your area. You can expect to find a few, depending on the neighborhood. There are urban farms that cater to neighborhoods, and there are traditional rural farms that send people and produce to your town.
always research the farmer. they could easily be using more of a bad pesticide because selling from the property allows some freedom or they are skirting regulation.
The boxes of lunch bag chips are $20 for 18 at Walmart! That’s insane!!!
Sam’s has 50pack for $18
I’ve been able to almost completely eliminate fast from my diet, but the habit that I have an impossible time breaking for any significant length of time is the day old bakery goodies at the grocery store.
Just discovered this channel. I feel like I'm getting in early before it blows up. Great content, well researched, and extremely well presented. This was a very compelling video! Well done!
Too expensive, I don't even eat out anymore.
On the creativity note - I'll go to an ethnic market once every other week or so and pick up a new ingredient, seasoning, or spice I've never used before. My seasoning collection has grown over the years and it's really expanded my horizons on the kind of flavors I can achieve with just a few simple ingredients
Oooh, i like this idea. I think I'll give this a shot. Good time to see it, too, there's a new halal market opening about a 4 minute walk from my work. I'll swing by and give that idea a try
I started cooking for myself almost exclusively 2.4 years ago doing keto with intermittent fasting. And since I did it to get healthy I went organic and grass fed. And I've educated myself along the way.
Once in a great while I will choose a more conventional product instead of organic or grass fed because of price, but not too often. Once you learn about the differences it's hard to eat conventional.
I run into ruts sometimes repeating meals or salads because of time or lack of planning, but generally stay consistently eating organic/grass fed. And I do it because I have learned how food and regular exercise are like medicine to the body. If I had stayed where I was 2.4 years ago I would probably be facing chronic illness like diabetes and fatty liver.
I believe I will move beyond keto eventually as I educate myself, but I have more energy, my mind works better, and I feel better than I have in decades.
Man, about 15 years ago Penn. and Teller did an experiment to see if people could tell the difference between organic and non-organic fruits/vegetables. No one could taste the difference either by taste or by looking at them.
Honestly 90% of the time I order food now, its delivery, and by the time I eat it I cannot believe I spent $30-40 for one person. Pizza is one of the last things that cost relatively less
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Modern conveniences have become major financial decisions. If I'm hungry and have nothing to eat at home, I just go to walmart
Recently my Wendy’s habit has been broken. Only because the quality and service speed at the location I would go to has diminished. I waited 20 minutes in a drive thru line with only 1 car in front of me. I walk in there and see they were not using gloves when handling food. Such a great way to break a habit
Last time I went to Burger King I had to wait 45 minutes because they were unfortunately understaffed. Talk about *Fast* food!
Do you think that gloves have magical antimicrobial properties?
People aren't likely to change those gloves nearly as often as someone not wearing them is likely to wash their hands, and those gloves can accumulate filth just as easily as hands.
I'd rather have someone washing their hands often prepare my food than someone wearing dirty gloves.
@@Primalxbeast Yeah really think the guy who ignores the rule to wear gloves in food service is super-keen on washing their hands regularly? I assume you think addicts who share needles also wash their hands after taking a pee?
@Sean Evans I'm 52, so I'm old enough to remember when people in food service didn't wear gloves, and we washed our hands quite frequently. Whenever you got messy foodstuffs on your hands like sauces or food juices or whatever, you could wash it off as often as you liked without worrying about wasting a pair of gloves.
I saw one employee at a fast food restaurant break a raw egg in his hand, and the entire egg ran all over his glove and he just shook his gloved hand off over the sink and went back to work spreading raw egg over anything he touched.
Gloves can be worse than bare hands if they aren't used properly, which includes washing and drying hands each time you change gloves and changing gloves when you touch different sorts of things, and the likelihood of them being used properly is low in fast food joints.
You're probably just weirded out by people touching food with their hands because you were born after gloves became common, and that's what you're used to seeing.
@@Primalxbeast Gotcha. So because you washed your hands 52 years ago, the modern fast-food worker surely will. They can't get an order correct because they dropped out of high-school, but they care a ton about sanitation. Makes total sense.
My biggest issue right now is due to my disability I can't really cook or do dishes, which limits my options immensely. So I get fast food a lot because its the best way for me to get a cooked meal, but that of course makes my health even worse. It's a really shitty trap.
How does the food get to you? Maybe price the pre-prepared supermarket hot food stuff? If it's a walking thing, they can also bring it to your car most supermarkets these days. If walking works, look for the end of day discounted stuff at the supermarket hot food section.
I can't drive, and we don't really have that kind of thing at our supermarkets.
I mostly doordash everything. @@mommachupacabra
I just came across this video and I subscribed in the middle of it. I love how insighful and informative it is and I cannot wait to binge on more of your stuff : )
Agreed man I was like how is this guy not more popular
i always looked at it like eating all that "convenient" food will cost you later at the doctor
That's fair. Cheaper monetarily, more expensive health-wise.
I'm Canadian :D
@@Nick007Gaming ok but that health care still isn't paying for itself. Your paying for it just not directly
Love this episode. Especially love the shirt🎉. So organic can mean several things. My brother owned an organic farm. One thing I learned is there are several different things you can do in order to label your food organic. Many of the things folks buy organic to avoid, are optional. The farmer doesn’t have to do everything on the “organic” list. They just have to do one of them. Personally, I think organic is mostly marketing. The studies I have found are mostly theoretical speculation or meta data analysis. Rarely an actual scientific study to include variable analysis and testing.
Yes, it makes me sad it doesn't make as big a difference as we are led to beleive. A lot of conventional foods use less water and land because their plants are more productive
The thing I don't think most don't realize about of organic is it just means derived from earth. You can buy an organic peach but it may have still been sprayed with copper or neem oil because those are considered organic sprays.
Actually, they cannot put any synthetic pesticides or commercial fertilizer for at least three years to be labeled organic. It is very strictly regulated and it’s against the law to label something conventionally raised as organic.
You have an incomplete view of organic food production. You can't just pick what you want to do for organic production. You have to meet the minimum NOP and or more stringent state certification. Organic means no harmful chemicals. Ever. I just briefly explained food production, not food manufacturing.
Food manufacturing, it organic uses primarily organic materials but not 100%. But it's still processed. Has added this and that's, some organic, some additives do not need to be organic just GRS.
The big push for organic labeling was to ensure pesticides, herbicides were not used. As well as the inputs into the soil, and thus the water were less impactful on the environment.
But in the last decade food manufacturing lobbies, ag lobbies and chemical lobbies have weakened the NOP, manufacturing and labeling guidelines.
The biggest one being Non-GMO program. It's backed by chemical companies lol. I don't think eating round up or other chemicals is good for humans but you will if going by the non GMO labels.
@@hmu958 Organic you can still spray with copper fungicide, dormant oils, neem oil etc. In other words you can still spray. You just use materials derived from the earth. Neem oil works by literally changing the insects brain to stop their reproductive process. That does not sound good either but it is organic. Round Up is used to kill plants. Famers will try to avoid killing their plants as they are losing money by killing their plants.
i noticed the price of fast food a LONG time ago, it's why i now consider just going to a sit down restaurant any time i consider going out
after all, if i'm going to spend $17 on a "value meal" why not just up to 20 and get bottomless sides by going somewhere to sit down
I ordered Doordash one time. Only did it because they offered no delivery fee for the first time. All the food prices were still higher than at the restaurant plus I still had to tip. Never again did I order on it. I cannot fathom how some people are okay with spending $40 for a Big Mac meal.
Defund know-it-alls.... Haha 😂 brilliant
One of the first habits we need to encourage is actually reading such books...
you'd have to actually teach people how to read first... quite a few large cities have less than 2% reading/math comprehension
Another really needs to be a cooking class. For younger kids and older. Also, honestly? Adult cooking classes! No one even thinks about actually teaching people how to cook, just that they should already be able to cook for themselves.
@@theoriginalglitchqueen2544 Do these people not have TH-cam or Google?
Here's what happens when you go to a fast food place, you enter hungry but happy and then you leave full in the moment but upset that you know you'll be hungry again in 20 minutes because what you ate was not actually filling, it was just a shell of food.
As someone who was eating fast food EVERYDAY and sometimes twice a day it was hard not doing it but now that I have I’ve saved ALOT of money ontop of dropping 12lbs in the last month by not doing it so it’s a win win
THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS
I quit eating fast-food on a regular basis years ago because of the price. When I tell people it's way cheaper to get food from a store, I always got push back (like extremely vitriolic pushback, I was even called racist??).
I prefer to either cook my own food or order from some real restaurant as fast food is so expensive here that for the same price I can get like ramen or some chinese stew with rice. And I will actually feel full after eating such food and don't have gastric problems like with McDonalds.
Racist?? That’s crazy.
I started packing a sandwhich for lunch instead of eating out and its amazing how much i save
When I'm at the grocery store and feel that irresistible urge to buy junk food, here's my trick: I picture myself grabbing that box of Oreos, or whatever, from the shelf, and then imagine savoring that first mediocre cookie. But I don't stop there! I work through the whole box, imagining, cookie by cookie, until I've "eaten" the whole box, silently inside your mind 😅. In just a few seconds, I've experienced the joy of the first bite and the bleh of the last one. It works like a charm! 10 out of 10 times, I ditch the craving and leave the cookies on the shelf. 🍪🚫✌
thats a good way of thinking about it. since my early 20s i see the calories and then thing about how much time i need to spend on the treadmill and ask if its worth it 😂. that said i do buy occasionally if its worth it for me.
Fast food tends to be higher quality then what you can make at home. It's not worth buying otherwise. For example, most if not all Pizza is worth buying, but Spaghetti or Pasta is never worth buying. Burgers may be worth buying depending on if you have a grill. Nearly all Mexican food is worth buying, including Taco Bell and Jack in the Box. Cheese steaks are worth buying. Fried Chicken is worth buying. If you get sick, it's easier to prove at a restaurant then if something went wrong from a grocery store. There is more liability and less of a chance that your food is expired, broken, missing, or the inner plastic bag is torn. I also found that I was more healthy and full back when I was eating out all the time as opposed to now that I live on food stamps and can only eat from grocery stores. It's not called a Gross Erie store for nothing.
@@EsotericBibleSecrets You just copypasting the same thing over and over, despite it not being entirely true? Cause I mean, spaghetti and pasta is also worth it as well, assuming you get it at a restaurant 'n all.
Addiction to sugar is a biatch
I do the same thing but with soda
The irony of the whole fast food thing is that you can cook your own food at home faster than you can get in a car go, sit in line, get your order, and go back home.
Its all about the prep. Pre-prep in bulk, and freeze for long term storage. Plan ahead.
It is amazing how much time and money this saves you. Also, eating healthy (if you choose to) is gold.
an added bonus is it tastes better too
I remember my whole life I never liked cooking, never liked eating healthy, never liked eating my greens. I lovvvved fast food, I always got fast food, it was definitely my habit. I’ve been on my own taking care of myself since the age of 14, and I worked fast food jobs when I was young so I ate it a lottttt. Eventually when I was 19 I went vegan. This opened the door for me to learning an entirely new way to cook and prepare food! I began cooking and baking and spending so much time in the kitchen and I found it’s more than just fun it’s a passion of mine. After about a year once I finally got the hang of things I decided to cut fast food out of my diet entirely. During the beginning of the pandemic it was wayyyy too easy to order food all the time and not even give it a second thought. I was bleeding money I didn’t have and I hated how hooked I was on this stuff! So I pulled the plug on fast food entirely. I even stopped eating out completely, I don’t eat food unless I made it at home. It’s been 3 years of this and it worked wonders for me! I’ve had fast food twice since then because someone else bought it and I felt bad letting it go to waste. But otherwise I’ve been able to kick the habit entirely! Me from even 5 years ago would be so shocked and confused at the person I am now lol. I always say it’s better to spend the extra money on healthy high quality food than anything else. It can be harder these days with surging prices, but I grow some of my own food so that’s really helps
This may be a little out of line, but I tend to avoid cooking from some trauma that I'm still working through. I find it difficult to go upstairs and make something, and that makes me lean towards fast food or tv dinners. I really do want to start being able to cook but it's kind of embarrassing to say "I can't cook because I'm scared" to anyone, yk? Especially when you know they wouldn't quite understand.
I'm gonna go buy something good for me and try to cook today, I think it really is about time to at least *try.*
Have a great day, if you read this
Have a lifetime of good days!
I hope whatever you made was delicious and satisfying! Nobody deserves to be stressed out by food
I have certain things I really struggle with due to getting hurt before, but start with something simple. I also really suggest getting a standalone steamer if you don't have one. I have a 3-tier one with a basket, so you put water in the bottom, put the first container on with the basket full of rice, then the next ones are good for veggies, and then you can heat up whatever protein you want with it. I used to do that a lot where I'd have rice with corn and broccoli, then fry tofu and mix it all up with a stir-fry sauce I got from the store (sweet and sour, spicy peanut, teriyaki etc). It was a lot easier and less stressful than trying to cook everything on the stove, and I could just leave it to cook for 20 minutes or so while working on other things without worrying about it.
@@joylox This sounds genuinely great, and I really want to try it out now. Thank you for the recommendation!
I struggle with cooking because of disability but I have found a way to up fresh vegetables in my meals. I use vegetables that I don't have to cook: bell pepper, scallions, radishes, sugarsnap peas, and slice them small (I actually use my vegetable peeler to slice up my bell peppers and radishes). I can only chop veg for short amounts of time before needing to rest. So I will prep one vegetable type at a time and place in an airtight container in my refrigerator. So with my refrigerated stock of prepped fresh veggies, I add some to my usual quick, easy meals: Instant Ramen noodles, sandwiches, instant mash potatoes etc. For proteins I will add cheese, quorn/vegetarian faux meats (I cook/prep & refrigerate similarly to vegetables). If you eat meat or fish, it's easy to find pre-cooked protein that's ready to be added to simple meals.
Id be interested in a deeper dive into organic food and the labels in the US, as I’ve heard that the labeling practices are lax or fuzzy, which makes it so you can’t be sure you’re getting a better product between organic and conventional
That’s why I’ve stayed away from organic in the store. To get quality items, I prefer to shop local for meat and produce with people I trust
Shopping local is a lot of work, but it does seem like the way to go, for a whole number of reasons. Admittedly a lot of my cooking right now is nabbing random stuff from the garden and putting it in ramen, but . . . at least it's a step in the right direction, right?
Time is main motivator so time pretty much equals convenience. You have to prep your meals ahead of time if you have any chance of staying consistent.
I’m in the consistent group bc I have two auto immune diseases and diet is part of controlling them. If I eat fast food I’m too sick to work.
Great video!! I am almost 62. It is horrifying all the obesity around me. I remember when young my parents switch to margarine and corn oil because it was endorsed as healthier.....then society eating and health when downwards... but in last decade a real acceleration.
I feel weird exercising by power walking and walking with light weights as I pass obsessed young women...anyone under 50 to be honest...is young to me.
A dumb guy friend asked if I minded my beauty was fading. .lol...but I said No...I had my days with too much attention. It was younger women turn...lol.
I want these young women to shine with good health...now seeing how they can not even walk properly but waddle. Sad..😪😪😪😪
I can touch my hands flat on the ground...etc...and I survived stage 3 cervical cancer ...6.5 years now. I walked so much all fell back in place and did not have to have a Hysterectomy like most do. I am not as fit as I could be...just moderate...but some think me very fit because of the distortion. I am 10 lbs overweight...a belly...but people think I am thin...only because of all the obesity theses days. Sad.
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TH-cam at our fingertips for recipes! Mediterranean recipes. So freaking easy to make and not expensive. 👍
A well-articulated, outstanding breakdown of many key points on the topics of not only fast food, but nutrition as a whole. Until I was ~37-38 y/o, I ate like a garbage disposal; salt, sugar, fat, and God knows what else. Lots of beer, too. Anyway, I'd often feel tired in the post-lunchbreak hours, & generally just not top performing (or even close).
When I began to learn about nutrition from an old book called "Let's eat right to keep fit". For me, it shouldve been called, "Let's eat right to feel good"
Once I learned the basics of meal planning & balancing for healthy but delicious meals, I knew I could never go back to my old habits.
Fast food sometimes is fine. Hell, even once a week just isn't gonna cause harm. But far more important is what you eat the rest of that week, away from salt/fat/sweet shit we already know we should skip.
PS - Subbed. Thanks for the video (and others)
I used to leave work after midnight and the temptation to just stop off and pick up fast food on my way home was high. It became a lot easier to resist when I started keeping quickly prepared and satisfying foods in my refrigerator and freezer. No fast food can hold a candle to my homemade burritos, containing all of the things I want, and none that I don't. I always have homemade soup on hand as well; it's healthy, inexpensive, and quick.
I think a huge piece is that out current education system does not focus enough teaching kids nutrition and how - to - cook. I'm as Caucasian as it gets. I knew how to make Kraft Dinner, grilled cheese, fries, minute rice, toast, and how to microwave a hot dog hot when I graduated and moved out. Holy cow when I learned about spices 🤯
I remember my mom got an oregano plant as a gift one time, and I fell in love! She had a homemade "chicken style seasoning" that was basically vegetarian chicken stock, but other than that, I didn't know much about herbs and spices. Fresh herbs are life changing, and now I have a few growing in my window. One of my friends recently taught me about buying whole spices, and that's a pretty big difference too, but I don't have time for that, so I buy mine already ground up.
@@joylox Happy to report I now have a double cupboard full of spices!
Anytime I buy anything I always measure how long it took to make the money I'm spending to how much joy it brings to me.
Smart mindset
I've started to go out to eat at actual dine in restaurants a lot more because of this issue. Before, the difference in price between sit down and fast food was night and day. Nowadays, I can take myself and one other person out for sitdown food for near the same cost as fast food.
I used to bring fast food to eat with my students at lunch. I’d bring fresh fruit, a can opener and canned veggies, etc. I hope I made a positive lasting impression.
A couple years ago I learned that conventional techniques for harvesting wheat include spraying the wheat field with roundup to make it easier to reap. Unless it’s organic. I now buy only organic flour (King Arthur - and I called them to ask and they do use roundup except on their organic wheat) and make my own bread.
Uggh....Roundup is so bad. 😖 I grew up on a ranch, and my dad wouldn't even use roundup around the yard, much less on the crops he was growing. But, he was a small independent rancher, not corporate.
Same for oats. I found that out and started buying organic only
I grew up like that, my dad would get organic flour and honey, and we'd make bread in a breadmaker he had. Then my symptoms of gluten intolerance showed up (runs in the family, 4 generations). Thankfully most gluten free breads are organic, even if they don't have as much protein. I sort of moved to not using bread much, but rather rice, corn tortillas, and oats more often. I was also taught the family tradition of growing organic potatoes, which is great. My dad would cut them up, and I'd put them in the ground. Now I have my own garden, but much smaller than his. And we've even found that just using black fabric around plants is much better than pesticides, but we just grow for our family and sometimes give things to friends, not to sell.
yep round up is like "salad dressing" on our food and you have no idea :/
I’m in college and just started working at a fast food restaurant and I am Shocked at how busy it gets. I wouldn’t even eat fast food if I didn’t work at a fast food restaurant. It’s wayy too expensive for what you’re getting 100%
This channel is great. Just subscribed after clicking on a recommendation in my feed. Great presentation and information.
It's often cheaper to take a family to a locally owned restaurant for dinner than it is to eat fast food at this point. Which is what I now do when I dont feel like cooking. Food is better, still get to have family time, and get to support a local business. People need to stop eating fast food for many reasons. Health is just one of them.
Ikr being exposed to nutritional yeast was a total game changer for me.
Best popcorn seasoning! Just with a bit of salt, garlic powder and onion powder, it's great! My mom makes a good vegan cheesy sauce with it too using cashews as a base.
Being a decent cook at a restaurant I find it hard to find a reason to go and pay someone to cook for me when I know I can do it better and cheaper.
My biggest problem is only being a restaurant worker and not being able to afford higher end healthier more beneficial organic food.
Hi there. I am a 66 year old boomer, but a boomer with an open mind. Even so, i had to watch about three of his videos before i took him seriously enough to subscribe. At first glance, he just seemed to be too young to take seriously. He seemed like a kid to me. But as you say, this 'kid' has done the research, and he seems to genuinely care about people. I have accomplished a lot by losing a lot of weight and improving my overall health using the advice of other great TH-camrs. I know enough to know that this young man is on the right track. Best wishes to everybody who is on the journey of better health and well being!
I'm in Canada, where our 2 grocery duopolies have INSANE grocery prices, and for the first time ever, fast food is cheaper here than regular food. It's ALWAYS been the reverse here - I've always heard it was because the US subsidized their fast food. But it's way different now.
Our grocery prices are so bad, we have a saying - "if you see someone stealing, you didn't"
In my house, ever since I was a kid, fast food has been a luxury. We cook all our own food, but then we run into a separate problem.
How do you cook healthy for a family of 6, each with their own dietary needs, without: 1. Breaking the bank - 2. Getting burned out from all the extra work that is. - 3. Not get tired of eating the same things all the time.
You keep listening to people who encourage you and give the facts to you that good food doesn’t have to be elaborate. Just go ahead and do what you have been doing. Keeping it simple for the most part and making it special when it needs to be special.
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I don't have kids, but we have 3 adults in the house. My husband is deathly allergic to wheat, so eating out options are both limited and expensive. Cooking at home can defiitely get mundane and boring when you've lost access to a major food ingredient (his older brother is lactose intolerant, so thanksgiving is interesting), and a $13 gluten-free frozen pizza is just 'easier' and probably not actually better than fast food.
One thing that has helped is making a menu for the week ahead of time, with hot swaps. Going to to a taco night but ran out of corn shells? make it a chili night isntead. Plan what will be leftovers and one or two nights a week is 'fend for yourself' - which I realize may not work with kids - but we've found out we don't always need a whole 'dinner' meal - give yourself a break and do snacks instead - it's still prep work, but it's honestly also a mental break when you need one. Make Dinner Every Day is already exhausting. I can't even fathom it with kids.
One of our go-to meals is white rice and stir-fried extras cooked separately, so you can just dish as much or as little rice as you want and pick protein and veggie toppings. Cook a meat first, put it in a hot bowl, do the veggies and maybe some fried eggs and scoop what you want, top with peanuts or leave off. I'm a big fan of roasting a whole chicken and making soup the the next day. I recently discovered that you can just cut any potatoes into wedges, toss in oil, salt and herbs and roast for 30-40 minutes at 400 and you have 'fries' that are actually delicious.
.. that turned into a lot. XD. sorry
@@fluffydragon84 it's funny, I cook almost all the same things you mentioned. Seems we're pretty similar lol.
I've got two diabetics, three dairy allergies, and one extremely picky eater. You'd be surprised what all affects diabetes. Bread is a big one. But thankfully nobody is deathly allergic to it. That must really suck.
Lately, I've been experimenting with making double batches of our meals and freezing half in those disposable casserole dishes. Create my own "convenience" meals. And with very little extra work since I'm already making the meal.
Of course that only works for some meals. Not every meal reheats very nice...
On the other hand, I've been furiously searching for easy meals I can I bake in the oven. The oven IMO has been the easiest way to cook in bulk. The difficult part is timing when you put things in, and getting the temperature right.
But my biggest pet peeve is when these "food" youtubers offer recipes that are "Quick, Easy, and Delicious!" But the recipe is literally just heaps of cheese and meat. Gee thanks. Really helps me out here /s.
Prep meals for the freezer that can be cooked on a later date and save you some time.
Simply put it on the plate and say "eat when you're hungry... Or don't"
I guess I’m pretty consistent. I’ve been cooking from scratch for myself and my family for nearly fifty years. I’ve rarely ever eaten out, less than ten times a year when traveling since we became empty nesters, because I can always prepare my food way more cheaply.
When I was 17 I worked at McDonalds and we were allowed 1 free meal totaling $7, including a dessert. Today, you can't get a meal for $7 even without getting a dessert item
Bro is underrated. Keep being awesome man, you're way better than the bigger ones out there, trust me.
Johnny! This video was so good I was cackling during the whole thing and I am definitely mostly in the consistent category. It is hard at times because some days you’re tired and don’t want to cook from scratch, but then I just think of that poor strawberry 🍓 being processed lol
I woke up. I drew the line on fast food when I realized it took one item less for me to reach the threshold for no delivery fee (not to be confused with tips). There are a few things that I will sometimes get organic, like beef, but it's not an everyday thing.
Former Taco Bell employee here. You would not believe the outrage when customers found out we no longer sell the $5 box. They have no concept of inflation (or the fact that ads only talk about non-franchised locations, which are like only 10% of our stores).
On the "Organic Food" I generally avoid buying it because of the cost of growing and producing "Organic"
Can you do a video about what “Organic” actually means in terms of regulations (or lack thereof). Hint, hint, everyone: there’s a 95% chance “Organic” doesn’t mean what you think it means…..
Why don’t you tell the class then?
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The propaganda works!
Another thing to be said about grocery shopping, is how shopping carts have increased in size, and forgetting to grab one and having to carry everything in your hands really helps, as you said, in thinking critically about your purchases.
Also, the idea of organic being "better" can vary by product, and unfortunately, ethical standards are difficult to regulate (eg. B Corp status for Nestle) in terms of the human aspect. I could be wrong abt somethings, but I'm living to learn so...
Great video, you've got a new subscriber.
How have I missed this great channel for so long?! Finally, I am here!
The throwaway comment at the end about the socioeconomic issues really, *really* needs to be expanded on. As someone on foodstamps, I'm well aware that my shopping choices are frequently guided by caloric density rather than nutrition, especially with how food prices have increased in the last couple of years.
I'll add to this the day old baked garbage Walmart likes to send to food banks. We had to do food banks a few years ago, sometimes we'd get lucky (an entire case of romaine lettuce because nobody wanted it, for example) but the crap that gets donated is exactly like that.
Would love a more in depth video on regenerative farming
At this point in life, about the only time I'll eat fast food is if I'm on the road & desperate. I'd rather cook C-grade whole food with a few select A-grade components. IMO, cooking is WAY cheaper than most other options. YMMV
This is wild, I was just talking about this days ago. Great video brother!!
Yeah, I noticed this a few years ago. I told my husband that if we’re going to spend $35 on dinner, I’d rather get it from a local restaurant where I’ll very likely have leftovers. I also have a much better idea as to what goes into the dish from a local non-chain place. The places I go use real ingredients, not pre-cooked frozen crap.