{"id":16550,"date":"2017-07-17T21:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T11:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16550"},"modified":"2024-06-30T06:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T20:40:14","slug":"stop-asking-why-real-food-is-not-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16550","title":{"rendered":"Stop Asking Why Real Food Is Not Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/StopAskingWhyRealFoodIsNotCheap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16551\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/StopAskingWhyRealFoodIsNotCheap-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stop Asking Why Real Food Is Not Cheap\" width=\"776\" height=\"776\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDoing things right takes more time and money.<br \/>\nProducing bad products can usually be done for far less time and $.<br \/>\nAll other things being equal, your health and lifespan is directly proportional to the quality of your food.<br \/>\nAs is the case with most things in life, you get what you pay for.<br \/>\nYou buy cheap, processed food and you get an unhealthy shorter life.<br \/>\nYou buy quality ingredients and spend the time to make your own meals and you miss all those fun visits to the doctor and monthly drug prescriptions with their 75 side-effects per drug.<br \/>\nSorry. That&#8217;s just the way it goes. You miss out big time on the bad stuff.<br \/>\nOver to you now. It&#8217;s your life and your choice.<br \/>\nBut choose careully, only one choice allowed per lifetime.<br \/>\nNah, just kidding.<br \/>\nEvery bite you take in your life you are choosing health or sickness.<br \/>\nBut be careful, the years pass and those bites add up mighty quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing things right takes more time and money. Producing bad products can usually be done for far less time and $. All other things being equal, your health and lifespan is directly proportional to the quality of your food. As is the case with most things in life, you get what you pay for. You &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop Asking Why Real Food Is Not 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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52010,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions\/52010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}