Do working parents sacrifice grocery budgets and nutrition?

Escalating food prices are a sign of the state of the economy. People are spending more and more at the grocery with fewer things to show for it, and the healthiest items are among the most expensive. Predictably, the topic of food budgets is in the news and covered on news websites and it seems everyone has something to say about it. Even though I allow for a certain percentage of crazy commenters when I read a large media outlet site, I have been struck by a theme in many of the comments lately: It’s still easy to eat healthy on a budget, but people don’t because families have two working parents and they’re never home to cook properly, so they just feed their kids fast food all the time. Now, I’m used to working parents being portrayed as the downfall of society (that was a joke, relax), but being judged as a working... [read full story]