What I'm saying is that bulk food is cheaper than buying at the regular super markets- and that stays constant as food prices rise. Also, I've not seen the bulk foods rise as fast in price, which is nice.
So no, it's not just about postponement.
I don't have the space for a crate of oranges - I just leave them out on the floor near the sink where I use them. I'm not sure why I have to use the cardboard boxes the oranges come in as my coffee table. I'm not seeing the logic there. I just recycle the cardboard. Since we go through a box a week, it's no trouble, and it's easier to have them handy. The bulk apples I buy I wash and put out in bowls on the table for the kids to eat when they want snacks. The bulk rice lives in a big snap on pet food container in the corner by the pantry- it's too big to fit in the pantry.
If people are educated, they will still be able to eat healthy even with rising prices- for they won't be buying overpriced crap- like potato chips, sugared cereals, pop tarts and candy- which often rise much faster than foods that actually have some nutritional value. But, of course, we'll have to teach poor people, or ignorant people who aren't poor, how to eat properly. Most people don't really know how to eat well (and those food pyramids on the cereal boxes still - criminally, imo- show grains as a much larger part of the diet than they should be.) And further than that, they don't understand the inexorable and rather horrible consequences of their bad eating. If we could drive that point home, we'd probably see some improvement. I'm also in favor of limiting food stamp purchases to healthy foods. After all, it's a subsidy, and the government should not be subsidizing crap- it should at least subsidize healthy foods if it's going to pay for food. |
