Welcome to Recessionfoodguide.com If you have come to this website, I imagine that you are wanting to save money, or perhaps you are just curious. I believe that both savers and curious web browsers will find this website to be interesting as well as helpful. It is my hope that some of you who are just "checking things out" will end up considering this website to be a real find. Over 48 million Americans cannot consistently afford to buy enough food to meet their caloric needs. The economy has not been performng well despite talks of a recovery. New jobs, celebrated with much fanfare in the popular media, often do not pay livable wages. Cries for fiscal austerity have been issuing from government officials for months, threatening programs such as Social Security Insurance, Medicare and Food Stamps. Food pantries have not able to keep up with increases in demand as the number of clients burgeons. Food price inflation has been moderate but continually threatens to take off. Recessionfoodguide.com is a new approach in the arsenal against hunger. I believe that, in time, its simple but powerful approach will impress many authorities who have been working in the area of hunger reduction. Recessionfoodguide.com discusses the very basic but generally overlooked approach of buying foods that are both low in cost and high in calories. It gives information to enable one to select such foods in a nutritionally sound way. Buying low-cost high-calorie foods can greatly increase your food purchasing power. It is a practical way to save money, especially for individuals and families that have difficulty affording to buy enough food to meet their caloric needs. The approach of buying low-cost high-calorie foods may also be used to free up money for non-food expenses. Information on very low cost per calorie foods may be especially helpful for individuals and families that are experiencing a financial emergency. Some foods supply 2,400 calories, whcih is a typical daily caloric requirement, for less than $2.00. The savings that can be had from purchasing low-cost high-calorie foods are quite substantial. In 2007, a researcher at the University of Washington analyzed food price data and determined that the cost of a 2,000 calorie diet based on calorie dense foods [a subset of low-cost high-calorie foods] was $3.52 a day while a 2,000 calorie diet based on vegetables cost $36.32 a day. [I note to readers that I doubled the number of calories reported in the article from 1,000 to 2,000 and doubled the cost accordingly. Such was done because 2,000 calories is closer to being a typical daily caloric requirement in adults]. Buying calorie dense foods reduced the price by a factor of 10. I will add that low-cost high-calorie foods that are not calorie dense, foods such as cooked pasta, rice, oatmeal, beans, and whole milk tend to cost even less on a per calorie basis than calorie dense foods. No one will deny that fruits and vegetables can be an important component of an individual's diet. However, for the many individuals that have modest financial resources, buying substantial quantites of fruits and vegetables can quickly deplete your money. Calorie dense foods have been given a negative image by the media. Such foods are accused of being cheap foods of low nutritional quality that tempt poor people to buy them because of their generally low prices. Even if you subscribe to the notion that calorie dense foods are not optimally healthy, or have even worse ideas about them, there are many low-cost high-calorie foods that are not calorie dense. High calorie foods that absorb water during cooking such as pasta, rice, oatmeal, and beans are good examples. So is milk and a number of other foods. Such foods have never been implicated to be "junk foods" or to cause obesity. This fact is missed by many authorities who lament that buying calorie dense food is the only low-cost option for poor people. If you have a scientific orientation and wish to read futher on this subject, click here to go to the webpage Myths Surrounding Calorie Density, Satiety, and Obesity in www.no-obesity-epidemic.org. The full text version of this web page gives a scientific analysis of the presumptive relationship between calorie dense food and obesity. You will learn that calorie dense foods do not deserve the vilification that they often receive. Calorie dense foods, such as cakes, cookies, potato chips, etc. are perfectly fine (in moderation, if you will) and therefore include such foods as part of my eBook's recommendations. Nutritionists and other authorities create unnecessary fears about eating such foods, ruining our experience of enjoying wonderfully tasty and filling foods. As it is, informal calculations show that eight out of ten of the most popular foods in America are calorie dense. I do not agree with the fearmongering gist of the linked article that goes way beyond a concern about calorie density. I linked to the article only to show that the most popular foods in America are generally not held in favor by nutritionists. Since the status quo in America is a high consumption of calorie dense food by most people at all economic levels, why is an issue made of it when it comes to poor people? In a perverse way, such concern for poor people has been adding to the numbers who are food insecure by stigmatizing the very foods that provide high calories at low cost. We do not need to suffer additional stress because of our choice of foods. In our difficult economic times, a greater sense of pragmatism must prevail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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