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In reply to the discussion: I'd like a minute to talk about food .. in light of the Blue Apron thread [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,198 posts)It is time for me to mention an idea I've espoused here before. While I absolutely agree that the Orange Menace pulled this box delivery thing out of his ass, and it is impractical for many, many reasons, there is one thing that is in there that I do agree with, and that is encouraging people to learn how to cook simple meals, rather than buy fat and salt laden prepared foods from the freezer case.
What if we incentivized and de-incentivized certain grocery store products? I'd leave the status of at least two-thirds of what you find on supermarket shelves alone, but what if we had a situation where prepared TV dinners would cost an extra, say, 25% if paid for from a family's SNAP allowance? And basic ingredients that were used to prepare real home cooked meals were 25% cheaper, when used with SNAP benefits?
I'd do that for anything from the produce department that is indeed a raw food, and I'd even extend it to cheaper cuts of meat. By making it possible to get more food if a family or an individual is willing to expend some effort on making a real meal instead of some nuked culinary atrocity, we encourage people to take better care of themselves.
Just a thought that has been running through my mind for years that came to the fore after this proposal emerged.
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