What grinds my gears

One point I touched on in my last post was the lack of quality food we are able to consume due to the food budget granted to us.  Although this is not always the case (I made some delicious burritos last night), most of the time it stands true.  Aside from breakfast food I have found it hard to maintain a healthy diet throughout the rest of the day.  As much as I would love to eat a turkey sandwich or wrap for lunch everyday (like I did in college) this has proven to be impossible with our teams food budget.  I find this ironic seeing as I am currently in the most obese state in America (blamed often believed to be caused by poor socioeconomics).  Now this is essentially occurring on a smaller scale by a federal funded program, AmeriCorps.  Now don't get me wrong, the government wants us to stay fit, with mandatory physical training 3x a week and mandatory conditioning tests (1.5 mile run, timed sit ups and push-ups), however the food we are in taking after preforming these exercises is not benefiting us, or being efficient to our bodies growth development.  This last camping trip is a prime example of that, working and sweating from 8am to 5pm while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch on a loaf of bread that costs 79 cents, followed by plain pasta with cheap pasta sauce for dinner.  The AmeriCorps program costs the government a pretty penny; I find it absurd they jip out on being able to feed us properly.  Logically, the only argument that could be used to defend these ridiculous budget is by claiming most members actually lose weight and end up in better shape than when they started the program.  While this may be true I would love to compare their results to if the same routine was done on a healthier diet.  Realistically most people were not exercising this much before AmeriCorps so it's no surprise they are getting into better shape regardless of what they eat.  The food we consume for the most part is made to fill us, not to nourish us.  Of course they encourage buying a water bottle and having it filled at all times to stay hydrated, which is the healthiest thing I've heard so far.  But of course water costs them little to nothing so why not?  Each team of 10 breaks into cooking teams of 2 and they decide what will be made for dinner on their day to make food.  Because our budget is so depleted we are forced to pool our money which means everybody has to agree on what is made for dinner.  From my experience, most people enjoy "yummy" food as compared to "healthy" food, which makes healthy people the minority.  I find it funny that people who eat healthy are categorized as "health nuts" while people who eat shit everyday are normal? Really America?
/end rant