Someone explain this to me...


So I'm at the airport again...
I feel like I am the airport at least four days out of the week these days...no exaggeration.
And I'd told myself I must eat healthy, and exercise, because ever since the beginning of the year, I'd been so busy with work I got lazy and soft in my appearance.

I walk into Cibo Express to buy myself something to eat for dinner before my flight, and as I peruse through the store, my initial reaction is to try and find something healthy to eat. I find a boxed kale salad and think to myself, 'good, just what I can use,' but I flip it over and it's a little discolored and wilted at the bottom. Then I look at the price tag...$12.91. I hesitate. Other salad options aren't looking so hot (or cool...for that matter), either, and equally priced.

Decidedly so, there is a burger grill adjacent to the refrigerated salad section. Cheeseburger is $4.95.

I don't understand why they charge so much more for non-organic cutup bits of greens. It doesn't make it easier for people to reinforce a healthy diet when they have these apparent juxtapositions in prices. It's as if they want to discourage you from balanced nutrition.
I ended up buying myself a cheeseburger, but the buns were sopping with grease and frankly I regretted my choice. Oh well. Next time.


5 comments:

Celeste said...

I feel exactly the same way. Relatively, vegetables aren't any more expensive than junk food.

Anonymous said...

cibo, are/were you in australia????!??

Anonymous said...

Living off of Kale isn't exactly healthy either.

Jacqueline said...

The reason for the high price on vegetable "green" items is due to the fact that most people won't read whether or not it's organic. They will buy it because they know that green vegetables are best. So they price accordingly and continue to get away with it. I believe that most people who prepare "healthy" food are not used to and probably don't consume dishes that are considered healthy so they don't know how to prepare amazing healthy dishes. They tend to be chefs who only know what they learned in school. Steam or grill this and place it on a plate. Make it pretty. Serve. Instead, of thinking of flavor and appearance. It's extremely frustrating, especially if you're a vegan as I am.

Anonymous said...

I love your writings! It surprises me a model can have such a sophisticated level of vocabulary and thoughts. Some are very interesting indeed. I wondered exactly the same when I see expensive salads :) But it still surprises me it would bee a concern to someone like you, being a super model and earning as much as you are.