Something weird is taking place with food prices. Of course, if the food is less processed, then there should be fewer middlemen in there taking a cut and also diluting the value of the food by putting in frequently unnecessary fillers.... but, yes, there can be a supply and demand issue too in regards to the demands for certain kinds of cuts, including fatty cuts.
Just a few years ago, I could not find fatty cuts at regular markets, and now sometimes they are becoming more available, and I recall going to some of the specialty or "low-end" markets to get some of the fattier cuts (as a kind of scraps), but some of those prices of the fattier cuts seem to have gone up to similar prices as the regular cuts.
I had my come to Jesus moment regarding the value of high fat foods a little more than 8 years ago; however, before that time, I would eat almost anything, and conclude that my activity would kind of "burn it off", but I found that as you get older, your body cannot handle as much abuse and recover from that abuse.
So, I think that there has always been a bit of a premium on buying good quality foods, and I came to a realization that I don't mind paying more for less processed foods, and hopefully coming into bitcoin helps as well - because if we are able to generate decent returns on our bitcoin investment portfolio, then we can feel more comfortable to engage in a decent amount of splurging on good quality foods. If we live both longer and in a more energized way, with fewer (or perhaps no) medications, then we are going to get some empowering from that, too.
I try not to eat any processed food, its harder than you would think.
That part is for sure, and if you go to restaurants, you may have to suck it up with some of the oils that they use for cooking, too.... I try NOT to be too picky about things, but asking for real butter, and they bring you margerine can sometimes be frustrating because I wont eat margarine... but if they cook with margarine, I might not even know that or if thy put sugar or some other fillers in my food, I might not realize it... so I tend to concede that once in a while is ok.. with these kinds of inabilities to control ingredients.
We need some new Yogurt and soy/bean rice patty cake diet to come into fad for the yuppies to get my Porter House/T-bones back into daily chow range.
I know that sometimes it can be frustrating to go out to eat with friends, and the menu options are just not very good.. and it costs an arm and a leg in order to eat the better food.. such as a steak or something like that... Frequently there can be substitute items that are fine for just a meal or two, but if a "friend" brings you to a vegan restaurant, it can become quite frustrating when they act as if the meat substitutes (usually soy) are somehow nutritionally equal to the real deal.. oh shit!!!
Again, I hate to be wishing too much, but let's say if BTC prices go up from here,, 3x or 5x or more, then can each one of us who wants to eat quality food at least stock away enough BTC in order that we can use our BTC profits to pay the extra amount, just so that we can be more healthy, live longer and likely with better quality of energy, too?
Maybe each of us has to put away a few extra BTC, just for the extra costs of improving the foods that we eat (presuming that we are not eating good, now)? I have already taken this step a bit more than 8 years ago.. I don't go cheap, anymore, when it comes to food... and don't get me wrong, I don't have to buy organic shit.. as long as I am eating regular meat with fat, then I don't give any shits about the other premium labels that are placed on foods... and don't be trimming fats of my food, either. hahaha
By the way, a bit over a month ago, I was spending a few days with some family members, and I brought with me a few items, just in case they did not have some of them... Besides some drinks, I brought butter, heavy whipping cream and bacon. I usually buy 5 pound of packs of bacon, so there tends to be a bit of randomness regarding how much fat is in the bacon packs.
I was planning to cook the bacon pack up for breakfast on one of the mornings, for everyone, but one of my aunts beat me to the cooking... Well it was her house, so she kind of wanted to do everything including that she was cooking all of the bacon.
When she got to the end of the pack, I noticed that she had been trimming some of the excess fat off of some of the bacon pieces, and when she got to the end of cooking the whole pack, she had nearly trimmed a half of a pound of fat that was sitting to the side. I asked her: "what you going to do with that fat?" She said either throw it away or send it back with me.
I said that is crazy to do either of those, and why not just cook it up and make it available for people, because the rest of the pack was already cooked. She said, o.k., and she cooked the rest of it. Thereafter she mixed the fatty pieces in with the rest of what she had cooked, and after we were done eating, I asked her if she could determine which parts of the bacon people had eaten and which parts they did not eat.
She said that she could not really see any differences.. and people seemed to have eaten the ones with fat, the ones without as much fat and the nearly pure fat pieces. hahahahahhahaha Hopefully, I did not shorten the lives of all of them by clogging up their coronary arteries with all of that extra bacon fat.
