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Originally Posted by DoubleF
How would you pitch it then?
I've tried the introducing a meal or two healthy option a week scenario in the past as well only to see it fall flat. I've gone to the store, shown a nice option for around $25 for a day or two of food... "For a few bucks more I'd rather someone cook it for me".
And sometimes, they look at that couple meals a week scenarios and have their hang ups on inconvenience. Then they ask how I do things and that's another problem too, even if I tell them they don't have to do it that way. Like they view it as a slippery slope or something.
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Depends what problem you’re trying to solve.
I’m talking about people who are having trouble affording meals and think cheap garbage is their only option. People who don’t like their current situation and actively want a better one but don’t know how. You seem to be talking about people who are fine to spend the money because convenience is more important, and those are two wildly different issues.
If they want to eat healthier but see convenience as the obstacle and are fine spending more money on it, show them healthier options that are still convenient (that’s where something like meal kits come in).
If they want to eat healthier but see affordability as the obstacle and are fine putting in the same effort they’re already putting in, show them healthier options that are affordable (but don’t pitch a several hundred $ start up cost).
It’s all about healthier, not “healthy.” Small changes lead to big changes.
You’re not going to make headway pulling someone into a grocery store and trying to re-design their life if they don’t already want to do that. Hell, if you’re that close to them, cook for them. Make it easy and cheap, and if they want the recipe write it down for them.
One of the biggest obstacles in bettering mental or physical health is the desire to want better. You can’t invent that in someone. You can only be there when they’re ready and meet them where they are (not where you are, or where you think they ought to be). I know we’re talking about food here, but it applies beyond it.