CB, the carbohydrates aren't very cheap when processed by Burger King, McDonalds, Starbucks etc.
I've never found potatoes, rice, peas, cabbage, onions, carrots or 20% fat mince [which you boil to float the fat off] to be expensive. There are cheap fish. In season fruit isn't very expensive either. Nor is iodized salt.
Swap out some beer and cigarettes for cabbages and barley. Barley makes delicious soup.
All that was our staple diet for decades. Our children thought mince, mashed potatoes, peas, porridge were delicious. Not to mention halibut oil capsules. Heh, heh... teach them early that cheap food is delicious food. When they visited [some] friends, it was like Aladdin's cave - all the great things which we didn't have.
Mental acuity isn't inversely correlated with TV time in a causal sense. Though apparently infants planted in front of TV is brain degrading. Not just temporarily either and causally. Which isn't surprising as I have a theory that brains record things in 3D with personal movement in 3D. 2D and thoughts, conversations etc are recorded abstractly in association, but not so directly accessible for 3D interaction and thinking/creativity.
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