One meal I had for lunch was homemade banana bread, about two muffin size pieces, and a nectarine. The banana bread was, for the most part, made from scratch. The flower, brown sugar, chocolate, oats presumably went through a slight process before reaching my kitchen counter; but aside from that I (my girlfriend, I should say) made the bread with ingredients that were slightly processed to not processed at all. The bananas, which happened to be organic, and chocolate chips came from Trader Joe's and the oats, brown sugar and starch came from Safeway.
There aren't too many health costs in regards to the banana bread ingredients, unless you had a condition forcing you to strictly monitor your sugar consumption. Other possible health cost is carbohydrates and the aspect of obesity. A social benefit from banana bread is the fun, recreational activity of baking it, especially with friends or significant others. It's an environmental plus because the waste goes into composting and is therefore sustainable. It's economically friendly because the ingredients were cheap and have a long shelf-life, minus the bananas which are expected to spoil right before used in baking banana bread
The Second meal was Huevos con Chorizo. The eggs were brown, free range eggs and the chorizo was organic sausage - both from Whole foods. The only negative cost would be the health cost of the eggs, affecting your cholesterol, and chorizo which was lean but still had a reasonable fat content. It had a positive social benefit because I made it for my hungover roommates and, it was definitely needed. I guess I could say that there was a slight economic cost because everything from Whole Foods is slightly more expensive, but for good reason - it's quality food.
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