Soda Ban = Soda Sale!

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Off to my grocery shopping weekly adventure – all to discover that now I’m debating the soda ban/issue in my head, in public. Great, just great! Why is this bothering me so much? I guess there are several reasons, but of them all, the one that keeps circling my head like an annoying buzzard is – who is being targeted, and what’s the point, because obesity clearly isn’t the bulls eye.

I walked into several supermarkets and “major chains” and discovered super sales on soda! My husband said “obviously people are going to end up drinking more this way now, and paying more at the same time. It’s too cheap to pass up, if you like/love soda.” And I thought, “well not only is he right, but perhaps stocking up now for the long run is what will happen.” The sodas were flying off the shelves. I kept thinking “the Mayor is banning sizes over 16 oz, why is everyone truly spazzing and buying soda like it’s water and we’re about to go into underground hiding?”

At one store, Pepsi was on sale: 12/12 fl. oz. cans or 6/24 fl. oz. btls. for just $11.00. The big bonus is that you can get FOUR of these (so 4 cases of the 12 cans or 4 packs of the 24 bottles)!

Coca Cola Drinks (Coke Included): Assorted Varieties, 6/16.9 fl. oz. btls. 3 of these cases of 6 were on sale for just $11.00.

Coke (2 LITER BOTTLES): 3/$5.00

The list goes on and on – however, the Huffington Post has a GREAT article about drinks that are much more “sugary” than Cola, and none of those items were on sale at the stores!

While that sale had items flying off the shelves, I bought my jumbo bag of frozen broccoli and bag of mixed potatoes and cashed out at $16.00 for both. Again, I’m going to return to my previous post and cry “healthy should get a break, because it’s too easy to eat poorly.”

Have you encountered soda-on-sale or anything else contributing to this issue?

-Dr. Bernard-Carreno

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Yeudy Vasquez
Yeudy Vasquez

i personally don't drink soda. But thats how society is, if you try to ban something the more it will sell. You cant really tell people what not to do because they will do it just because you said they can't. And I agree i think the people who eat healthy should get a break because it is super easy to eat poorly.

Nassim
Nassim

I cannot sometime believe what people eat, even the middle class has adopted these types of food to survive the thunders of this depressing economy... I love broccoli and potatoes in a salad, have you ever tried potato and broocoli salad?

Dr. Bernard-Carreño
Dr. Bernard-Carreño

Book Club Project would LOVE to have a recipe and photo or maybe you can bring it to class picnic?

Nassim
Nassim

Hahaha, I would love to show class if proper ingredients were brought in.

Nassim
Nassim

Hello, I have had nightmares about these horrific machine made disgusting food items. They have been pounded with all sorts of artificial chemical compounds and yet they have been deemed secure by the FDA to be placed on our stores' shelves.

Ana Tafaruci
Ana Tafaruci

The crummy stuff is usually always on sale for less,for example lays chips. A jumbo bag for 99 cents on sale at some sketchy supermarket at my friends house in the Bronx.Low fat vanilla ice cream for only 1.50 that probably tastes like horrible.But at the same time the shell was almost empty on both ends.That low price really does hit the spot for alot of people.Especially when they make healthy foods like the ones you and your husband bought so expensively. I live in a predominantely immigrant infested neighborhood and these are people that come from countries that are full of farm areas. So how is my neighborhood food wise? It has a fresh food market between every 5 or 6 blocks. It also depends on who in the neighborhood is willing to take action to make that change. The only difference though is that our neighborhood is a middle class area. At the same time it only took about 3 or 4 guys in all of Ridgewood Queens to decide to do such things. People have to be willing to take a chance sometimes.All of these markets are fairly priced and their foods taste great. The Stop and Shop and the other franchise type markets that are around our neighborhood arent used as much because there food is more expensive. People will definitely be willing to buy food and get themseleves healtheir but if someone doesn't do anything to chance the enviornment then the people will continue to be unhealthy. In low income neighborhoods since no one has the money to do so then the government should take a chance and put markets like these around.Just a few and see what happens. Use that one billion that isnt touched to do so. I doubt it will use up all of that money but the outcome it will create will be greater than people think. Again strategic thinking and just a little bit of time can make a big impact in the way that out society runs. Well only be bettering ourselves.