We hear it all the time. “If poor people would just cook,” someone says, and they trail off, the implication being that if they’d just get off their lazy asses and use the damn stove to make meals from scratch, they wouldn’t be poor anymore.about this very topic that went viral. Sparkpeople called it the “Twenty Dollar Food Showdown”: basically, what can you get for 20 bucks at a fast food joint, and what can you get for twenty bucks at a respectable grocery store? .
We had nothing to brine it in so it didn’t end up dry. And even if we had managed to shove the turkey in our tiny-ass oven, we’d have had no room left in there to cook any sides. Like stuffing — which would had been Stovetop, because we couldn’t have afforded all the ingredients for homemade stuffing. Or sweet potatoes, which even we could manage to cook. And forget spices. We’d have had to go out and buy them — all of them but salt and pepper. We couldn’t even mash potatoes.
Like many, we were hobbled financially. We were hobbled by our lack of equipment. And we were hobbled by something else: it’s not like anyone ever taught us to cook.
Add to the list the reality that most low income areas are food deserts. You have convenience stores, gas stations, fast food but few supermarkets. If you have to drive 10 miles to get food, you're not.
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