Reply #45: It also means knowing how to cook

[zalinda]

I make huge pots of vegetable soup, when the veggie prices are right. I freeze the soup and then can add other things to it when I thaw it out like potatoes, rice or pasta. I sometimes add meat, sometimes not. I also cook beans in my crockpot overnight, and then make either chili or soup or something else with it and freeze some up for later.

Yes, there are ways to eat better, but tofu is one of the things that poor people probably would not touch. If fact, I haven't used it because I don't know enough about making it taste good. Again, you have to remember, it's feeling like your stomach is full and staying full. This is one of the reasons most eat fried chicken rather that baked chicken, fat stays with you longer.

When you are used to only seeing poor, seeing anything else is very difficult.

zalinda