EBToriginal: I live in the SF Bay Area and let me tell you, it's still just easier to make stuff at home unless you have ludicrous amounts of money to spend going to and eating out in the city.
apehater: so the stuff in a us supermarket that you buy is way better than the ingredients used in fast food chains?
Well it varies greatly, there is stuff that is worse and there is stuff that is just as horrible, there is stuff that isn't as horrible but is still quite bad and I wouldn't go near it, ever, and then there are varying degrees of bad. It all depends how much GMOs, additives, pesticides, artificial crap and a bunch of other junk you are okay ingesting (zero-tolerance here, most people aren't as particular as I am.) The amount of non-food in a US grocery store is ENORMOUS. There are many grocery stores that I will not buy a single item from because they simply don't have a single thing I find acceptable to eat. I live in a pretty good pocket in the east coast where I am lucky to have regular grocery stores that carry some organic food and even luckier to have a niche grocery store where a lot of what they carry is acceptable. Take a person from the general population, even in this area, and put them in the niche grocery store I'm talking about, and they'd be blown away at the difference compared to "normal" grocery stores in the area. Even "Whole Foods" doesn't carry much I find acceptable, it's a lot of show and not much substance (people in the US love to FEEL like they are doing good when in fact they are clueless and just perpetuate problems.) Sure, more is acceptable there than a Pathmark, Giant, or even Trader Joe's (which has wholly unethical practices and I don't shop there, though they are starting to come around a little, it is still super-shady), but not nearly as much as there should be.
