Just visited a fruit stand run by a farmer friend.

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50. Not buying it.

Here in Orlando several years ago a well meaning man opened a store in the poorest area of the city selling healthy food. Like I said, the vegetables historically we eat in the south are not expensive. We did not grow up on imported asparagus and fresh English Peas.

Anyway he offered good food at a good price. Lasted 2 years and went under.

I can and do easily make a healthy meal for the price of fast food. Beans and rice which I grew up on in Louisiana. Grilled pork with collards and rice. BLT on whole wheat, egg salad. The list goes on and on. We can afford expensive meals, but I get a real challenge trying to make good, healthy food at the lowest cost possible. But we are a pretty high 2 income household only working 8-9 hours a day.

You think the urban poor have time to cook? After working 12 hours a day as a single parent no one is going to come home and spend over an hour cooking.

The diet problem in this country among the poor is not the availability of healthy food. But the availability of economic justice.