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Unlocking Healthy Eating on a Budget: Secrets Revealed · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, folks, and welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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  My name is David, and I'm your beautiful host, your beautiful host.
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  Host, yes, host of this incredible podcast, this legendary podcast,
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  where we talked about a little bit of it all.
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  whatever it is, there's a lot of motivational things that I do and a lot of
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  things that I talked about, it's all in the mind, starts with the mind.
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  As they already know, wherever the mind goes, the body follows.
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  So if you're not feeding the mind right,
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  if you're having negative thoughts, if you're always something going on with
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  your life, sadly, the body's going to kind of drag and just sometimes just give
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  up and be like, Girl, you know,
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  I don't know if you could do it You know what, go ahead, man Do your thing,
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  you know what I mean Go, go, go
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  But you know, we want peace We're like mentally, physically, spiritually.
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  We're all walking in the realm And we all want to take care of ourselves Somewhere,
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  somehow Especially if we can And we should, obviously,
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  But one of the topics that I keep hearing And it's an interesting one Because
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  it's one where I'm just going to talk about And especially what I've experienced
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  And where it comes from And basically one of the things And the other day I'm
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  over here Doing the networking in my socials,
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  And somebody brought up.
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  But they said that, why is it that healthy food costs more than junk food?
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  And you know what? That's an interesting question because I've heard this so
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  many times and I've heard so many people that want to do that little thing.
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  Want to take that step or the right step to say, you know what?
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  Let me take care of myself. Let me do something.
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  But it's a little asterisk. And, you know, when you said but,
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  sadly, the statement that comes before, you know, it will notify.
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  I want to be healthy, but what does that mean?
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  So it is true. And then we are going to kind of explore a couple of things because
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  there's a couple of factors that come in that when people say that,
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  hey, trying to be healthy is expensive.
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  And I agree to a certain extent. Because a lot of times I tend to question,
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  you got to ask yourself, what is actually healthy for you? Eating fruits, more vegetables.
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  Let's say if you're someone who enjoys the meat or whatever the case,
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  what is certain meats that you can afford?
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  Let's say pork, chicken, turkey, you know what I mean?
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  Let's say for some reason, hey, people like to bring in, they like to kind of
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  work out, bring in that little beef, you know, a little extra protein.
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  There's those people that dabble on the pecao, you know, the fish,
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  all that good stuff, the shrimp.
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  Some people are allergic to shellfish. Hey, how I feel for you, man.
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  You're missing out, but hey, I get it. I get it.
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  So people just want to do the, you know, the veggie thing. Can you get the most
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  out of veggies? Absolutely.
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  Can you get protein as much as meat? Hey, absolutely you can.
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  There's a lot of things and there's a lot of factors.
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  So let's go in and let me just give you an idea because you have to factor a
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  couple of things and many things when it comes to why trying to eat healthy
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  or healthy food is more expensive.
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  Again, you got to ask the question, what exactly do you mean by healthy?
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  What exactly it is that you want to accomplish that you said to yourself,
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  okay, for weeks and months and years, all I've been eating is chips,
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  chips, chips, because I love chips, but I want to go healthy,
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  but we have an alternative.
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  Now, what's interesting is this, that I went to my social and I posted these two pictures.
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  And again, another factor comes in, you know, the means, the budget,
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  how many people you got to feed.
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  If it's you by yourself, if it's somebody else, if you have a family,
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  if you're a single mother, single parent, whatever it is.
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  You know, if it's two people and then there's only one provider,
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  you know, there's so many factors.
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  So when I went online and I posted two things.
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  A family-sized potato chip from a big company, I ain't going to name it.
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  Because, hey, you know, the company ain't paying me or anything like that.
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  But no, it's actually a big bag of Doritos. Oh, we love the Doritos.
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  A lot of us grew up with Doritos. A lot of us grew up with junk food, basically.
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  If you're in America, and if you are somewhere in another country,
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  listening from whatever country you're from, from the other side of 10,000 hours away.
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  America loves junk food And what's interesting is this,
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  Even throughout the world Where there are parts that are healthy But even throughout
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  the world Hey, listen, there's a lot of American companies Like Frito-Lays,
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  whatever it is That does Doritos,
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  And people love that little munchie That cheese flavor They got the ranch They
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  got a barbecue They got an old type of Dorito flavors,
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  So I posted on thing of family size, a bag of Doritos.
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  Now, Dorito is like, you know, the big one. You know what I mean?
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  But that bag of chips is like $8. Now, when I posted on the,
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  how can I say to you, the supermarket where I got this as a supermarket that
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  I actually buy from, it was on special, $7.
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  But if it was on special, it was family size, big size, $8.
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  Now, I know a lot of people that don't have family, Whatever the case might
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  be They be buying these big bags I tell people you don't need those big bags
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  man Because then you're going to continue eating them You know a lot of these
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  junk food got certain things That you know they're going to keep you,
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  Addictive And then I grab Let's say what was it A bag of pistachio I love pistachios
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  But a bag of spinach They were on special,
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  $3.50 $3.50 Now, keep in mind, I'm in New York City, so these prices might vary
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  depending on the supermarket, depending on where you're around,
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  depending on where you're at.
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  But the fact is this. Now, spinach is very, very versatile.
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  You can eat spinach like that, put a little bit of dressing.
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  You can make spinach. You can cut it. You can do so many things.
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  As a matter of fact, you could bake spinach, get it a little,
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  how can I say, a little crunchy thing if you want to or you're addicted to the crunch.
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  Because a lot of these food, these junk food, they got certain things that trigger
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  that thing, like that crunchiness.
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  Boom, let's go to Doritos. chips let's go you know
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  there's people that like those only chips that when you put your hand
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  in it your hands is just basically oil matter of
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  fact if they get hot enough you put an egg you fry in the oil you like right
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  there with your fingertips i'm just saying but the fact that there are those
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  things and again keep in mind everybody's background is going to be different
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  based on how we grew up based on the means especially the budget the budget is definitely big.
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  But it is possible to actually eat healthy. Now, in New York City, right?
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  Or if you are at least close to New York City or you're visiting because you
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  got family in New York City, do be a favor.
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  Now, take this with a grain of salt, but I got to show love to some of my fruit
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  vendors somewhere down the line where they just got a little nice tent and they
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  sell a lot of good stuff, fruits, vegetables, for a low, low, low price.
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  And I kid you not, for $20, I could get a whole week full of goodies, fruits, vegetables.
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  Sometimes they got different stuff going on there.
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  What's that? Wait, listen, what's that? What kind of food is that? Where you from?
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  Got these people from different backgrounds, different countries,
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  but they bring the good stuff.
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  So you live in New York City, if you live in New York City,
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  if you're visiting New York city ask one of the
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  peoples that you're around now if you don't got a fruit
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  stand then i don't know where you at you're not
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  in new york city you see them a lot they do off for
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  good prices but again the grain of salt would be you know whether they got license
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  i i don't know i'm just saying because sometimes i've seen stuff where a little
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  uh strawberries little uh box of strawberries It'd be like $2 compared to, let's say,
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  you go to the supermarket. It'd be like $4 or $5.
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  But then you buy those $2 strawberry.
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  Out of 20 strawberries, you could only eat 10. I'm just saying.
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  And then in the supermarket, they all look fresh.
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  They all look. So that's another thing, too.
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  You got to get a bang for your dollar.
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  Just because something is cheap, it doesn't mean that you're going to get a bang for your dollar.
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  And I'm just saying. And also the other thing, too. What exactly it is,
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  once again That you want to do That you want to say I want to start eating healthy.
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  Now, there's people that are close to Walmart. Hey, listen, I get it.
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  Walmart is this big corporation that does this. Boom, bam, boom.
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  But hey, listen, if you're somebody who wants to eat healthy,
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  maybe going to a Walmart.
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  If you're close to a Walmart, Target, one of these big stores that now sells
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  groceries. Who would have thought?
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  I remember 20 years ago, you go to Target, bought TVs, bought VCRs, you know, DVD plays.
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  And you could buy food.
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  Same as Walmart, you know what I mean? Who would have thought on a black fighter?
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  You go to Walmart and you could grab a nice big TV for $100 and you could just
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  go to the grocery section in Walmart and go and get food.
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  And not a bad price. The only thing with a grain of salt.
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  What exactly that these companies are doing to sacrifice to make sure that you
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  get that food for a lesser price?
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  Why does that chicken look a little bit little?
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  You know, I think I seen the movie Chicken Little, but seeing a little chicken,
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  that's a whole different story.
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  And that's the thing that you also have to keep in mind.
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  Now, the other thing that sneaks in, especially, again, and I'm speaking,
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  or I'm going to say in my point of view, in New York City, and this happened a lot.
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  Give me a shout out. Give me an amen. Give me a little comment if this happened.
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  You go out there and you do takeout, $30, $40.
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  There are restaurants out there in New York City that give you food in abundance.
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  That some of this food could probably last like two, even three days, depending.
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  If you're one of those type of people that don't mind eating,
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  how can I say, leftovers?
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  That's why there's microwave. That's why there's other places.
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  I mean, other means to reheat the food.
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  I got an air fry. It has a button that says reheat. I put aluminum. I put something.
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  I put my leftover. Boom. Five or six minutes later, I'm like,
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  yo, this actually tastes better than when I first bought it. That happens a lot.
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  But even if I go 20 years ago, let's say, be surrounded here in New York City
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  once again, I'm pretty sure all the big cities and maybe little cities,
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  little towns, are we called a chicken spot.
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  I can't imagine how these chicken spots, decent prices, even though,
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  you know, price had gone up a little bit, you know what I mean?
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  But the fact, let's say two people, with $20 back then, you could have probably
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  fed or you could have probably done the little bit of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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  With maybe $20, $20, $25. I'm just saying 20 years ago.
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  Yeah, I was a party boy. Let's go. I was chill with my peoples.
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  I was tagging on with somebody. Boom, $20. Yo, we doing it. Let's go. We got chicken.
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  We got a little salad. You go all in the chicken spot. Chicken spot,
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  hey, listen. They're very underrated. They got all that good stuff.
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  But the fact that, you know, what it is, the chicken that they sell is fried chicken.
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  And fried chicken got that little, you know, that little fat that you're enjoying,
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  drinking and all that good stuff, doing that little schmo, whatever it is that
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  you're doing, that stuff hits.
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  And you don't got to cook anything. That's another thing, another factor that
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  I've encountered is that when it comes to healthy food, you know,
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  you just can't grab just healthy food and just be like, okay,
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  I'm going to eat it right there.
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  You could do this with junk. You could open a can or process whatever it is.
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  And then boom voila but process sometimes i mean can process but sometimes the
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  healthy food let's say the spinach
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  whatever it is the veggies you know it takes time to cook to make it,
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  you know the chicken that that grilled chicken you know you got the little nice
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  uh turkey press going on boom boom boom again that's all time consuming they
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  could all be done like in 10 15 no more than 20 minutes.
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  But sometimes that's that factor that some people just want to be able to eat
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  quick when they're starving.
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  And a lot of times junk food eating out, it's the most convenient and in the fastest way to eat.
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  Now, what is, is there a good replacement for, let's say, I love chips.
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  Are there other alternatives out there to eat healthy chips? Ah, sure.
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  Now, again, I just want to take a lot of things especially things that are labeled
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  organic, you know, festival chips, whatever.
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  You always want to, you know, take those things to an arena, you know what I mean?
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  To get you that label, oh, natural, you know, we only use natural oil.
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  What does that mean, natural oil?
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  Damn, what does that mean? There's like a cloud of oil that just once,
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  you know, hovers around your factory only and then you just grab some of that
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  oil. You know, what does that mean?
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  And again, it's a lot of factors that go into why people feel that way that they,
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  why is uh and it is true again and not trying to say anything but I don't want
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  people to get discouraged to say just because,
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  just because this is expensive I can't buy it so why should you just go out
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  and buy junk food now I'll go back to the bag of chips that bag of chips family
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  says depending on how many people could probably last weeks,
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  you know if you close the properly, boom, you're going to have some crunchy chips for a long time.
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  That pack of spinach, you know, it's perishable. So you got to probably eat it within a time frame.
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  And that's why, you know, I say that, you know, when it comes to,
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  let's say, spinach, spinach is very versatile.
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  Another thing, too, what happens is this. There's a lot of healthy food and
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  good food that has that protein that's going to keep you full.
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  And I think a lot of people kind of forget how protein plays a lot to,
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  you know, our lifestyle, what we eat.
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  And when it comes to, you know, again, chips, cookies, all this sweet stuff,
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  even sugar plays a part that keeps you eating that junk.
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  Is that a lot of these junk food don't have protein. So what you do,
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  you keep consuming, consuming, consuming.
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  And you might say, well, why buy these bag of chips? Because they want special for $2.
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  Again, keep in mind, a lot of people have cell phones.
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  And I'll throw a little information here. There's an app called Juca.
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  And I've mentioned this before, and I mentioned this to my, you know, people that I know.
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  Y-U-K-A, it's, I believe it's on the, you know, it's definitely on the Apple,
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  Android, if I'm not mistaken.
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  And you know what this Yuka app does Is that if you go to a supermarket And
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  you scan it And it kind of tells you Hey is it good, bad It has whatever it
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  is that is good Whatever it is that is bad,
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  And that's why sometimes I say to myself And I tell people Just because this
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  generic brand Has the same so-called ingredients As this brand And it's $2 extra,
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  It doesn't mean that it's the same,
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  Trust me I've seen a pack of something cookies Let's say I'm a big.
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  Oatmeal raisin cookie guy. Woo!
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  Hey, I love me those cookies. Cookies!
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  But I could buy a cheap whatever generic brand and then I could buy certain
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  brands that they say, listen, me got all the good stuff in this cookie and it's a big difference.
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  But then I can see, I can understand why that comes into the fact of why,
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  you know, I can say junk food is cheaper because now you see it as a,
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  at least it's an old milk cookie. That's what my kids want to eat.
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  You know what? It's only $2, a whole pack.
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  You know, they can't tell the difference, you know, because they're little kids, which is true.
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  You know, sometimes, you know, our parents, whoever adults, they fed us some
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  junk food. We couldn't even tell, but we loved it.
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  But that's what we grew up in. That's why we gravitate to junk food.
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  Once we see something that's a little bit more money than what we was eating,
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  nah, you know, that's expensive.
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  But again, it all comes into the mean. So there's little factors as well.
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  And I told people, hey, listen, if you want to help each other out,
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  go out there, share what supermarket you went to that they got the special.
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  What did you buy for a certain amount?
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  Can you, one, let's say, single person, weekend, $20.
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  Can you buy groceries for $20? Yeah, you could buy the eggs.
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  Let's say eggs, you know, the prices go up and down, you know,
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  from $5 to $8 to $9 to $10, whatever it is.
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  You could always buy a pack of chicken. How can I say this?
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  These chicken drumsticks, the thighs, a lot of food, you know,
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  certain food that people could, you know, you could get a pack or six pack of
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  chicken legs, whatever it is, for $3 or $4.
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  So, you know, there's a little bit of alternatives there. There's other factors.
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  Again, it all depends also on what exactly you want to eat, what you need to move for.
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  And, you know, are you a type of person that they say, oh, I can't do this. I can't eat that.
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  So let me know what you think. It's an interesting thing, and I'm just going
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  out there, and I'm telling the person, just go out there.
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  Share your information. If you're in a socials and you got a lot of people and
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  you want to help out people, it doesn't hurt.
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  It doesn't hurt. Hey, listen, I'll show you a little receipt when you want to.
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  There's a special. Listen, we're all here. There's certain supermarkets that
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  I know, or certain supermarkets that I know especially, that sometimes we have like 50% off certain.
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  They added like the stake that normally like $16, 50% off, $88, $8. You know what I mean?
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  And I'm like, you know what? Let me grab it. Now, again, a lot of specials,
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  they all come in because either things are expired or my understanding is that,
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  let's say the name of that company, whatever the brand is, they want the supermarket
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  to sell this at a certain price so they could restock, bring new orders, hey, by all means.
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  And sometimes that's another thing too. And I hope that in the United States
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  they fix the, you know, the Best Buy, expire, whatever it is. You already know.
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  You will know when something expires, either the taste of it,
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  how it look, or whatever the case.
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  There's some cookies that say, oh, it expires in two months or a month. You buy those cookies.
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  And then because if they expire, there's like half of them left,
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  and you throw them out, hey, grab a bite. I mean, I'm just saying.
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  I know people are afraid to be like, oh, I don't want to, you know,
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  taste that something that has expired.
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  Might give me a stomachache. Even the most healthiest and the most freshest
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  food, if it has fiber, hey, you'll be using a bathroom. I'm just saying.
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  Don't think something expired. That means that it's bad. You'll know it's bad
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  when you start seeing little extra colors there. You'll be like, ah.
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  But anyways, hit the like, comment. Let me know what's going on.
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  Share all that good information in you out there. Like I said, in your socials.
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  Put it out there. Let the world know. Hey, 50% off, 80% off.
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  Have we up? $2 eggs come and go. Let's get it. Let's make it happen.
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  It's a Deconstructing Topic Podcast, and I'm out. Peace.