Michelle Obama plans grocery store makeover for second four years in WH

While Michelle enjoys her short ribs and fried foods, she wants us to buy only healthy food. I don't think much of her leadership skills, she makes a poor example.

What you say is very true, and I have been saying it for a long time. When a food budget is very tight, when you have food stamps, when you cannot access a discount supermarket, when you don't have the funds to buy produce and meat, then your diet is going to be the filling foods that are cheap. This is going to be pasta and processed foods, packaged foods that come cheaply - like boxed mac & cheese, for instance. These foods are also the highest in High Fructose Corn Syrup which has been proven to make you gain more weight on the same number of calories. I know how much it takes to feed a family. I budget and make up recipes trying to keep the individual serving under $2 each for a meal. This can be done, but since buying a lot of fresh food means a lot of food can perish quickly, it's not easy. The extended period of high gas prices has made the transportation of foods to grocery stores more expensive and eventually those costs get put on the consumer in the form of higher food prices. My cheapest margarine went up 40 cents in the last year or so, meat is higher, even frozen foods and packaged foods are higher. Yes, sometimes its cheaper to buy the $1 frozen meals that you can microwave, because that saves on electricity or gas (depending on your stove). And yes, McDonalds dollar menu is not a bad bargain when the family can't face tuna or spaghetti another night. If you are a mother with children on food stamps, you are more likely to grab the snack cakes that are ten for a dollar than the $4 bag of apples. And your goal is keep everyone fed as well as you can. That often means filling them up with pasta and packaged side dishes, juice drink instead of juice (99 cents instead of $1.69). Obesity would be less of a problem if mothers could stay home and cook, kids could come home and go outside to play and if mothers could afford to buy food that they can cook themselves.

Germany pays mothers (or fathers) to stay at home with their children for the first few years. They don't seem to have much of an obesity problem from what I've seen. If at least one parent could stay home and raise the kids, even if our tax dollars paid for it, we'd come out ahead in the long run by saving money on health care, chronic diseases due to diabetes and obesity and would probably see a big drop in juvenile crime and that would save billions right there. Why can't anyone see this?!

I just wonder if we'll be allowed to buy white flour, white sugar, salt or butter? I can buy all the ingredients to make cookies and cakes and without the high fructose corn syrup. Will they try to limit the sale of these items?

Don't be surprised.

"I for one can say at the age of 55 have never had a mcdonalds meal of any kind and never will. " OMG Lelin! Guess what? That's your choice! Ain't it great to have a choice? Well, I know that a reporter did sit in restaurants cataloguing what Michelle ate: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/10/11/michelles-bad-eating-habits-scientifically-chronicled/ And I know that she downed a 1700-calorie meal at Shake Shack: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013707/Michelle-Obama-spotted-consuming-1-700-calorie-Shake-Shack-meal.html And you can defend her, saying that she has the right to eat what she wants and I will agree with you. I just don't agree that she has the right to tell me what to eat. Now, if you do sit down to dinner at the White House, you'll get some short ribs and lots of hamburgers, hotdogs and other such yummy treats as she served during the Super Bowl. http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/02/21/obama-short-ribs-dinner/ Good Lord, where does this hero worship come from? BTW, if I can't criticize her eating habits because she's healthy and fit, where did she get off telling Olympic medalist Gabby Douglas she can't eat at McDonalds? What's fat for the goose, is fat for the gander. I am an American with the right to buy and eat whatever I wish to buy and eat. You also have the right to buy and eat what you wish to buy and eat. Would you like it if someone decided you couldn't have those healthy foods anymore and to take them off the supermarket shelves? Sorry, you don't get to do this, this is a free country. Or, it used to be.

Hey,I said she can eat what she wants to. How is that being against her? Perhaps you didn't notice but she's not an elected official. She's not supposed to be regulating anything. I refuse to be a sheeple and be told what to do in my personal and private life. I think this hero-worship thing Obama supporters have going on is a little frightening though. It's like an episode of Twilight Zone.

You are just totally against her and everything she stands for and that is why you are writing so negative about her. I personally think she is doing a great job and I believe when it comes to the foods in the stores she is trying to help the kids of this world and their obesity problems. Manly because parents have gotten very lazy and will get mcdonals or any other junk food for dinner instead of cooking a homemade meal. Please don't tell me about how hard it is to work a full time job and then come home to cook everynight because that is exactly what I did. When we have kids growing up today that will not live as long as their parents because of the food intake that their parents gave them then that is a big problem to me.

Sometimes there are people who are on food stamps who don't have proper cooking facilities and couldn't even eat on only unprocessed foods. Yes, it's about control. It's an attribute of the liberal psyche to think they know better than the average schnook how the poor schnook should live his life. They love to feel superior, and don't even see their own hypocrisy. Obama's regulator czar, Cass Sunstein, opined that sometimes people need help to overcome their inner Homer Simpson. Liberal, elitist, mutter mutter mutter....