{"id":13,"date":"2007-08-15T12:27:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-08-15T12:27:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:27:32","slug":"cookin-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/15\/cookin-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookin&#039; Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really become distressed lately at this idea that cooking\/eating healthily is expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s give Ramen a score of ~$0.50 a package.   (I&#8217;ve seen it on sale for less, yes)<\/p>\n<p>For  $.50 a serving, I can have (according to this week&#8217;s local grocery story circular):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two Apples, or<\/li>\n<li>A serving and a half of fresh broccoli or<\/li>\n<li>Two servings of rough cut oatmeal or<\/li>\n<li>Five ounces of chicken (if I&#8217;m willing to cut it up rather than buying pre-cut parts, and that&#8217;s gonna keep you full longer than the fucking ramen)<\/li>\n<li>Four servings of brown rice or<\/li>\n<li>A serving of flavored yogurt or<\/li>\n<li>Four ounces of grapes (which is a lot of grapes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sorry, I don&#8217;t buy that a crap diet is cheaper. I&#8217;ll grant that there are plenty of people who don&#8217;t understand how to make a menu, or how to use leftovers well, or how to employ home-made soups and a freezer to prevent product waste, or don&#8217;t understand how to use fat healthily to promote saiety (read: Olive oil is your friend). But I don&#8217;t buy the idea of a crap diet being cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really become distressed lately at this idea that cooking\/eating healthily is expensive. Let&#8217;s give Ramen a score of ~$0.50 a package. (I&#8217;ve seen it on sale for less, yes) For $.50 a serving, I can have (according to this week&#8217;s local grocery story circular): Two Apples, or A serving and a half of fresh &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/15\/cookin-cheap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cookin&#039; Cheap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-frugality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}