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"Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch" - Slate
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 16:41:19 -0800 (PST), wrote:
> > Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. Yes, it opened easily. -- sf |
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"Gary" > wrote in message ... > wrote: >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad to join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. -- http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ |
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"Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch" - Slate
"Ophelia" > wrote in message ... > > > "Gary" > wrote in message > ... >> wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. >> >> I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. >> >> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > > I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad to > join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. Yep. |
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wrote: >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > >I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > >http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > > To see the article you need to be a member of slate plus. Cost $5 a month or $55 a year. Not worth it for one article. Robert |
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Ophelia wrote:
> > "Gary" > wrote in message ... > > wrote: > >> > >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > > > > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > > I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad to > join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. HA! *FINALLY* a benefit of using an old OP system (Win98) and an old browzer (Netscape 4.7). lol After all these years, I finally win briefly. :-D |
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Robert wrote:
> > "Gary" wrote in message ... > > wrote: > >> > >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > > > >I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > > > >http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > > > > > > To see the article you need to be a member of slate plus. Cost $5 a month or > $55 a year. Not worth it for one article. > > Robert If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch to work. |
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"Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch" - Slate
"Gary" > wrote in message ... > Robert wrote: >> >> "Gary" wrote in message ... >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. >> > >> >I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. >> > >> >http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html >> > >> > >> >> To see the article you need to be a member of slate plus. Cost $5 a month >> or >> $55 a year. Not worth it for one article. >> >> Robert > > If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 > pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other > was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling > you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch > to work. Thanks  -- http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ |
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"Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch" - Slate
"Gary" > wrote in message ... > Ophelia wrote: >> >> "Gary" > wrote in message >> ... >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. >> > >> > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. >> > >> > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html >> >> I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad >> to >> join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. > > HA! *FINALLY* a benefit of using an old OP system (Win98) and an old > browzer (Netscape 4.7). lol > > After all these years, I finally win briefly. :-D Pah you are just too posh <g> -- http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ |
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On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:33:52 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> >If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 >pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other >was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling >you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch >to work. They lie. Are they going to me how going out for a $5 to $10 lunch is cheaper than a leftover chicken thigh and scoop of mashed potatoes or a similar lunch that I take? I guess I didn't miss much not seeing it. |
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On 12/9/2015 7:53 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:33:52 -0500, Gary > wrote: > > > >> >> If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 >> pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other >> was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling >> you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch >> to work. > > They lie. Are they going to me how going out for a $5 to $10 lunch is > cheaper than a leftover chicken thigh and scoop of mashed potatoes or > a similar lunch that I take? I guess I didn't miss much not seeing > it. For years we had a company subsidized cafeteria at work, they might have been right there. Who has that anymore, not too many people. And if you work in a city, your sandwich is going to cost more, if not you probably have to get in your car to go get something for lunch. That alone adds up. It makes no sense to say you won't save money by bringing your lunch. Maybe they bring way fancier lunches than I would. nancy |
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Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > Gary wrote: > >If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 > >pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other > >was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling > >you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch > >to work. > > They lie. Are they going to me how going out for a $5 to $10 lunch is > cheaper than a leftover chicken thigh and scoop of mashed potatoes or > a similar lunch that I take? I guess I didn't miss much not seeing > it. Since you are the third person here that can't see it, here it is all below. First the picture on top of the article: http://i63.tinypic.com/2im7xue.jpg Now the text. Sorry...this old browser shows layout info too. It's normally hidden but you can read past that and get the entire article. ----------------------------------------------- Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch Everyone says brown-bagging it is cheaper and healthier. Theyre wrong€”but it wouldnt matter if they were right. By L.V. Anderson http://i63.tinypic.com/2im7xue.jpg Photo illustration by Slate. Sandwiches by Lori Sparkia/Thinkstock and iStock/Thinkstock. This summer, New York public radio host Leonard Lopate launched a campaign pushing listeners to quit their takeout habit and start bringing lunch from home. Citing statistics about how much money Americans spend—and how many extra calories they absorb—eating lunch out, Lopate asserted, “We need to change our lunch habits, together.” L.V. Anderson L.V. Anderson is a Slate associate editor. Lopate’s campaign reflected the conventional wisdom: Bringing lunch from home is better, for your health and your wallet, than eating lunch out. You can find online calculators that take your cost of making a bagged lunch and buying lunch out—it’s taken for granted that the former is less expensive than the latter—and tell you how much you’d end up with if you invested the difference instead. There are entire books devoted to converting readers to the bagged-lunch cause. The subtly titled Huffington Post essay “Buying Your Lunch Is a Terrible Idea. The End. No More Debates” has been Liked on Facebook more than 14,000 times. I’m sick of this bring-your-lunch consensus. It’s based on questionable assumptions about what’s inside your brown bag and how much you paid for the ingredients. It’s also obnoxiously moralistic—which makes sense, since it’s about diet and money, the topics Americans most enjoy lecturing one another about. First, the math. It’s probably true that the average takeout lunch is more expensive than the average homemade lunch, but the numbers vary a ton depending on what you’re eating. Sure, if you compare a homemade turkey sandwich (the HuffPo writer’s lunch of choice) to a Chipotle burrito bowl, you’ll come out ahead when you brown-bag it. But if you try to replicate that Chipotle meal at home, guacamole and all, your savings are a lot slimmer. (The Billfold’s Mike Dang calculated that a homemade Chipotle bowl cost $4.03 when assembled from cheap ingredients from Trader Joe’s, but (a) most grocery stores are more expensive than Trader Joe’s, and (b) Dang budgeted a quarter of an avocado per serving, which is not nearly enough avocado.) And the cost of ingredients ignores the time and labor it takes to shop for, cook, and assemble your burrito bowls—time and labor that you could spend on more lucrative or more enjoyable activities. If you dislike cooking and have a bit of disposable income, it might be rational to outsource lunch. Secondly, homemade lunches are not necessarily healthier than takeout lunches. That turkey sandwich leaves a lot to be desired, nutritionally, and even if it’s lower in calories, that doesn’t make it healthier than a burrito bowl. It’s true that you have more control over your ingredients when you make your own lunch, which is especially useful if you have a dietary restriction, but there are plenty of new fast-food options that serve vegetables, beans, and whole grains—like the salad joint Sweetgreen and the Asian rice-bowl concept ShopHouse. I often patronize Dig Inn, a New York chain that serves a variety of interesting salads and freshly cooked vegetables (a selection of three costs only $6). Obviously, whether you have access to a healthy takeout restaurant depends on where you work—you’ll have more choices in a major city. But the notion that takeout food is intrinsically bad for you grows less and less true with each passing year. It should go without saying that the healthfulness and cost of your lunch depend more on what you eat than on where it came from. And yet so much of the discourse around lunch insists on the oversimplified dichotomy homemade lunch good, takeout lunch bad. The aforementioned HuffPo article derides the notion that going out for lunch makes some people happy by saying, “Think of how happy your future children will be when you can fund their college education, people!” The press release for the study cited by Lopate quotes an expert saying, “Going into debt for a tuna sandwich isn’t worth it,” which is helpful advice if you’re an insane straw man. (The study, by the way, found that the average American spends a total of $936 eating lunch out each year, which doesn’t strike me as an outrageous sum.) A Time article on lunch begins with what may be the most condescending lead of all time: For years—no, decades—I’ve marveled at the lunch habits of my friends and colleagues. Where did they get the money to eat out every day? And even if they earned decent incomes, why did they choose to spend them this way? The brown-bag crowd ignores not only the evidence that homemade lunches are not necessarily cheaper and healthier than the alternative, but also the fact that preferences vary from person to person. Not everyone values saving money more than they value the pleasure and convenience of a takeout meal. This doesn’t make people who buy lunch reckless ignoramuses; it makes them human beings. (Also: If you find that you can’t save money, it probably has more to do with flat wages and rising housing, education, and health care costs than with your profligate lunchtime spending—but that’s a topic for my colleague Helaine Olen.) As I write this, I’m eating a lunch I brought from home: leftovers from last night’s brown rice–tomato pilaf. As much as I hate the moral smugness of brown-bag evangelists, I confess that I like bringing lunch from home. It’s not about cost or health so much as it’s about feeling like a competent adult—or engaging in “self-care,” if you prefer. I also feel less wasteful when I’m not throwing away tons of packaging from takeout meals. This pilaf tastes fine, and it’s relatively cheap and healthy, but I wouldn’t want to eat it every day. Which is why I’ll be going out for lunch tomorrow, and refusing to feel guilty about it. ---------------------------------------------------- |
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"Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch" - Slate
On 12/9/2015 6:31 AM, Gary wrote:
> wrote: >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > I can get it but they want me to sign up for $50 a year... no thanks. Jill |
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On 12/9/2015 7:33 AM, Gary wrote:
> Robert wrote: >> >> "Gary" wrote in message ... >> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. >>> >>> I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. >>> >>> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html >>> >>> >> >> To see the article you need to be a member of slate plus. Cost $5 a month or >> $55 a year. Not worth it for one article. >> >> Robert > > If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 > pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other > was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling > you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch > to work. > They'd be wrong. I never took crappy homemade sandwiches for lunch. I took leftovers like pot roast with gravy & veggies to be heated in the microwave. My co-workers, OTOH, always came back from their lunch break with bags from some fast food joint that cost them at least $5 a pop. (Meanwhile, I paid just over that for the entire home made pot roast meal, not just what I brought for lunch.) Then they'd complain about not having any money. Jill |
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> > My co-workers, OTOH, always came back from their lunch break > with bags from some fast food joint that cost them at least $5 a pop. > (Meanwhile, I paid just over that for the entire home made pot roast > meal, not just what I brought for lunch.) Then they'd complain about > not having any money. I never buy lunch at work but my co-workers do every day. They spend 5-10 dollars a day, 5 days a week. that's $25-50 per week just for lunch for 5 days. Ha. I eat nicely all week and all meals for the same price. |
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On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 2:01:31 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "Gary" > wrote in message .... > > wrote: > >> > >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > > > > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > > I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad to > join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. > > -- > http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ Just view the page source and read it in HTML. On my Chromebook, the shortcut is Ctrl+U. I don't know what it would be in your browser, but it's going to be easy as pie to do. You could then read it off the source or copy and paste the text onto a HTML editor and read it on a web page view. You have to really want to read that article though! |
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On 12/9/2015 10:27 AM, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote: >> >> My co-workers, OTOH, always came back from their lunch break >> with bags from some fast food joint that cost them at least $5 a pop. >> (Meanwhile, I paid just over that for the entire home made pot roast >> meal, not just what I brought for lunch.) Then they'd complain about >> not having any money. > > I never buy lunch at work but my co-workers do every day. They spend > 5-10 dollars a day, 5 days a week. that's $25-50 per week just for > lunch for 5 days. Ha. I eat nicely all week and all meals for the same > price. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against getting out of the office for a bit, there's value in taking a break and I do enjoy eating out. I just don't pretend it's just as cheap as bringing food from home. nancy |
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"dsi1" > wrote in message ... > On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 2:01:31 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote: >> "Gary" > wrote in message >> ... >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. >> > >> > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. >> > >> > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html >> >> I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad >> to >> join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. >> >> -- >> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ > > Just view the page source and read it in HTML. On my Chromebook, the > shortcut is Ctrl+U. I don't know what it would be in your browser, but > it's going to be easy as pie to do. You could then read it off the source > or copy and paste the text onto a HTML editor and read it on a web page > view. You have to really want to read that article though! Thanks, Mr D. I would, wouldn't I? <g> -- http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ |
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On 12/9/2015 11:21 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 12/9/2015 10:27 AM, Gary wrote: >> jmcquown wrote: >>> >>> My co-workers, OTOH, always came back from their lunch break >>> with bags from some fast food joint that cost them at least $5 a pop. >>> (Meanwhile, I paid just over that for the entire home made pot roast >>> meal, not just what I brought for lunch.) Then they'd complain about >>> not having any money. >> >> I never buy lunch at work but my co-workers do every day. They spend >> 5-10 dollars a day, 5 days a week. that's $25-50 per week just for >> lunch for 5 days. Ha. I eat nicely all week and all meals for the same >> price. > > Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against getting out of the office > for a bit, there's value in taking a break and I do enjoy eating out. > I just don't pretend it's just as cheap as bringing food from home. > > nancy > > > Sure, I went out to lunch every once in a while. Just not every day like most people seemed to do. They were the ones carping about not having money yet they spent $5-10 on fast food every day. That adds up! Any article that says differently is obviously slanted. Jill |
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On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 6:30:33 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" <> wrote in message > ... > > On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 2:01:31 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote: > >> "Gary" > wrote in message > >> ... > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > >> > > >> > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > >> > > >> > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > >> > >> I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad > >> to > >> join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. > >> > >> -- > >> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ > > > > Just view the page source and read it in HTML. On my Chromebook, the > > shortcut is Ctrl+U. I don't know what it would be in your browser, but > > it's going to be easy as pie to do. You could then read it off the source > > or copy and paste the text onto a HTML editor and read it on a web page > > view. You have to really want to read that article though! > > Thanks, Mr D. I would, wouldn't I? <g> > > -- > http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ I predict a tinge of disappointment if you take the trouble to read the article. Well, I sure did anyway. I guess I'll go have some waffles then. Hee hee. |
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Gary wrote:
> Robert wrote: >> >> "Gary" wrote in message ... >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. >> > >> >I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. >> > >> >http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html >> > >> > >> >> To see the article you need to be a member of slate plus. Cost $5 a month or >> $55 a year. Not worth it for one article. >> >> Robert > > If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 > pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other > was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling > you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch > to work. baloney |
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"dsi1" > wrote in message ... > On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 6:30:33 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote: >> "dsi1" <> wrote in message >> ... >> > On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 2:01:31 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote: >> >> "Gary" > wrote in message >> >> ... >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. >> >> > >> >> > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. >> >> > >> >> > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html >> >> >> >> I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the >> >> ad >> >> to >> >> join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ >> > >> > Just view the page source and read it in HTML. On my Chromebook, the >> > shortcut is Ctrl+U. I don't know what it would be in your browser, but >> > it's going to be easy as pie to do. You could then read it off the >> > source >> > or copy and paste the text onto a HTML editor and read it on a web page >> > view. You have to really want to read that article though! >> >> Thanks, Mr D. I would, wouldn't I? <g> >> >> -- >> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ > > I predict a tinge of disappointment if you take the trouble to read the > article. Well, I sure did anyway. I guess I'll go have some waffles then. > Hee hee. I did read that Gary kindly posted -- http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ |
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> But baloney sammiches are cheap! They usta be. I recall back in about '64-'65, a HS buddy of mine hadda older brother who had jes married. The OB was in his early twenties and he and his young bride had a typical young adult marriage. Kid on the way, earning a buck, tight food costs, etc. I recall him proudly announcing jes how cheap a baloney sammy was. "With balloon bread, cheap mayo and cheap baloney, I've figured each baloney sandwich costs exactly eight cents." Now here comes hard-core foodie, notbob, wanting to recapture that same ol' baloney sammy goodness. Best Oscar Meyer beef baloney ($5), Orowheat Old Fashioned White Bread ($5), and BestFoods mayo ($4). Glorious! ....at about $1.00-$1.50 each. Not bad inflation fer half a century.  nb |
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On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 8:23:07 AM UTC-5, Nancy Young wrote:
> > It makes no sense to say you won't save money by bringing your lunch. > Maybe they bring way fancier lunches than I would. Or they're trying to trick people away from shopping for groceries on sale. |
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> > First, the math. It’s probably true that the average takeout > lunch is more expensive than the average homemade lunch, > but the numbers vary a ton depending on what you’re eating. > Sure, if you compare a homemade turkey sandwich (the > HuffPo writer’s lunch of choice) to a Chipotle burrito bowl, > you’ll come out ahead when you brown-bag it. But > if you try to replicate that Chipotle meal at home, guacamole and all, > your savings are a lot slimmer. Well, duh. ANY sandwich with a dozen or so ingredients (not counting things like pepper and salt) is likely to cost a good deal when you make it at home, mainly because of recipes that demand a tiny amount of something that can only be bought in large amounts, like celery. (I simply cannot make myself eat celery every day.) Which is why I go for a sandwich with four ingredients at the most, much of the time. One can always cook, divide and freeze large amounts of soup or chili, of course. That's relatively cheap too. Lenona. |
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 12:01:20 -0000, "Ophelia" >
wrote: > > > "Gary" > wrote in message ... > > wrote: > >> > >> Can anyone actually ACCESS this article? I couldn't. > > > > I got it fine. Try again. If no luck, try a different browser. > > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > > I can get in but after a couple of seconds it is covered up with the ad to > join the mailing list. It makes it completely unreadable. If there's no way to x it out, try hitting your ESC button. That ususally does the trick. -- sf |
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"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message ... > On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:33:52 -0500, Gary > wrote: > > > >> >>If that's a problem with any here, I can copy and post the text. The 2 >>pictures were of some crappy looking homemade sandwich and the other >>was some super nice purchased sandwich. The article basically telling >>you that you don't really save lunch money by bringing your own lunch >>to work. > > They lie. Are they going to me how going out for a $5 to $10 lunch is > cheaper than a leftover chicken thigh and scoop of mashed potatoes or > a similar lunch that I take? I guess I didn't miss much not seeing > it. Depends on what you bring and what is available to you. When there was a military dining hall or mess or whatever they call it, my husband could certainly eat for cheaper there. And some large companies have cafeterias where the food is cheap. |
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On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 6:26:44 AM UTC-6, Robert wrote:
> >http://www.slate.com/articles/life/s...healthier.html > > > > To see the article you need to be a member of slate plus. Cost $5 a month or > $55 a year. Not worth it for one article. > > > Robert > > I was able to read the article and the comments and I'm not a member of Slate. |
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"Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch" - Slate
On 12/9/2015 8:44 AM, Gary wrote:
> Now the text. Sorry...this old browser shows layout info too. It's > normally hidden but you can read past that and get the entire article. > Thanks for posting it. > ----------------------------------------------- > Stop Telling Me to Make My Own Lunch > First, the math. It is probably true that the average takeout > lunch is more expensive than the average homemade lunch, > but the numbers vary a ton depending on what you are eating. > Sure, if you compare a homemade turkey sandwich (the > HuffPo writer’s lunch of choice) to a Chipotle burrito bowl, > you’ll come out ahead when you brown-bag it. But > if you try to replicate that Chipotle meal at home, guacamole and all, > your savings are a lot slimmer. (The Billfold’s > Mike Dang calculated that a homemade Chipotle bowl cost $4.03 when > assembled from cheap ingredients from Trader > Joe’s, From my observation, 99.9% of home made lunches are a sandwich or leftovers. Raise you hand if you ever duplicated a Chipotle burrito bowl just for lunch. Red herring argument. > Secondly, homemade lunches are not necessarily healthier than takeout > lunches. That turkey sandwich leaves a lot to be > desired, nutritionally, and even if it is lower in calories, that > doesn’t make it healthier than a burrito bowl. Either bought or brought, healthiness is a choice and can go either way. > > The brown-bag crowd ignores not only the evidence that homemade > lunches are not necessarily cheaper and healthier than the > alternative, but also the fact that preferences vary from person to > person. Not everyone values saving money more than they > value the pleasure and convenience of a takeout meal. I can agree on that. We have choices and are free to make them. |
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On 12/9/2015 1:57 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> the > article is full of bullshit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ost > Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:18:00 -0600 MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 She should call the cops. I've already publicly admitted it is me so a conviction should be a piece of cake and then forging would stop. So what's stopping her? I think she suffers from Bovism - she just loves the attention and drama and screw the rest of the group. -sw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And before that the subhuman virus stalked poor Omelet right of the net! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ost > 3/18/2011 3:49 PM Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1162 readnews.com - News for Geeks and ISPs fa35d278.newsreader.readnews.com Sorry I don't fit either of your Ideal Psycho Pal Profiles. -sw --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd prefer you use a sniper rifle on me from a few hundred yards away. There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The facebook group is much more pleasant. Only because you cower there in mortal fear of being booted by the admins. You're _done_ here virus, I mean really done. |
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