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When people shop, they should shop the perimeter of the store. That's where most of the best food is.

Interior for things like flour, stocks, pastas, etc. Stay out of the rest of the aisles.

ALWAYS have a list.

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I don't know if this is a thing everywhere, but in Kenosha last summer I was in line and a lady was using some sort of a government card to buy food. The checkout lady had to set about 8 things aside, as her card would not allow the purchase.

Kraft Mac N' Cheese, some fruit snacks, pop, frozen treats, frosted flakes. 

Has anyone else ever seen that?

The shitty US diet can be blamed on many things, but mostly one big one:  advertising.  We have largely been raised on TV and commercials and bright colors and toys in the box and on and on and on.  We eat what we grew up eating, by and large.  We like food that can be stored for awhile.  We like food that is salty and sweet.  Advertisers prey on us endlessly. 

Take all of the Cheez-It ads you've ever been exposed to and compare it to all of the cabbage ads you've seen.  It's not close, it's total.  A total discrepancy.  And with online now being the #1 thing in kid's lives, all the ads there do the same as TV ads used to. 

Do you think they have less advertising in Europe and Asia? Or that in those regions, that advertising of unhealthy food is forbidden or limited? 

Do you think they have less advertising in Europe and Asia? Or that in those regions, that advertising of unhealthy food is forbidden or limited?

They usually have fewer channels in France anyway, and some have no ads.

I've tried to move more to "real cooking" at home, with simple ingredients bought recently.  It's more time consuming than heating up a frozen pizza of course.

I think this is important.

Cooking at home can be much more cost-effective than eating out. It's usually not, the way I do it, but it can be lol...

Again this is something that I think is cultural, and has a "trickle down" effect from rich to poor. Go back a few generations and cooking at home was just the standard. People started making more money, and there was a status symbol effect to eating at restaurants. People did it because it was more expensive and more "fancy". And as the poorer folks started to increase their wealth, they followed suit as much as they could afford to be like the rich people.

We're seeing this change. It has become fashionable for wealthier people to cook. What we took for granted two generations ago [mom in the kitchen, dad on the grill] and then lost, has again become a thing. Heck, you can all even see it with me--I'm not likely to take a picture and post on IG something I order at a restaurant, but I'll do it with something I cooked myself that I'm proud of. I suspect COVID and the lockdowns will accelerate this as well, as a lot of people who didn't cook suddenly were forced to; hopefully many learned they enjoy it. But again, it might require the same sort of cultural trickle-down effect before it becomes fashionable for someone with less money to cook at home rather than flaunt it by eating out at a restaurant.

convenience

it's more convenient to not have a job

it's more convenient to not cook

it's more convenient to not parent your children

it's more convenient to let the government worry about your children

What type of Laptop Computer is the best bang for your buck?

I don't need all the bells and whistles that double the price, but I don't want some cheap piece of junk either.

Dells seem to work great up until a certain point, at which time everything just kinda goes to Hell all at once.

The question is really what you want it to do...

Is it a glorified dumb terminal for getting online? Do you have specialized applications (for work or otherwise) that you need to run on it? Will it be used for any "power user" type tasks, like video/photo editing, etc? 

A lot of people will disagree, but for basic ability to get online I'd look at a nicer chromebook before looking at a low-end Windows notebook. If you want "bang for your buck", it's a very lightweight OS so you don't need tons of RAM or processing power (or storage). Battery life is typically really good as well. But... It's very limited in what it can do. If everything you do can be done via the browser [which is increasingly common], it's great. If you want it to do anything else, it's not.

Beyond that I can't tell you much about brand. What I will say is this: don't cheap out on RAM [I'd prioritize the spend there over processor], and make sure you get an SSD rather than HDD. Most people don't need more than say 128GB storage, so a 128GB SSD will be a MUCH better user experience than a 1TB HDD. Once you get past the basic specs, you're looking at form factor (do you want something ultra thin and light--which you pay for), screen size, battery life, etc. 

Now, if you're a power user, you'll need a lot more. But most power users aren't asking this question, so I'm guessing it's more of a simple "I need a computer to run a few applications and get online" question, in which case you can get by with less.

You know this - sacrificing quality to make an extra dollar in order to maintain (impossible) perpetual growth. 

My obvious point is that 3 cents isn't going to make a material difference to a $2 lunch.  I didn't say anything remotely about some hypothetical perpetual growth, that came from nowhere.