Most healthy food is not actually very expensive compared to junk food it just appears that way. People see stuff like 2.99/lb for a fruit or such and think it is expensive, break it down though, that apple or whatever is usually 40-50cents. Then you add on top of that the fact that healthy food is actually more filling to the human body than having to fill up on empty calories which take larger amounts to fill up on, you are spending less because of that as well. So really anyone claiming price as a reason is just being silly, lazy, or both because it really makes no logical sense not to eat healthy.
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very few? i have to disagree. and free-range eggs cost almost twice as much as battery.Jeremy+3 said:
Too many people i know live off "reduced to clear" shelves, so can't really blame them for not choosing to eat healthy and eco-friendly.
and how healthy is a meal which you cook from not the best quality products?:nah:
Sad to admit, but in UK fruit and veg are really expensive and quite bad quality. (if to compare, lets say, with Germany)
I have chicken and eat their eggs..when I remember to buy the right food. We grow a lot of our produce and can during the summer months. I buy from a local butcher, where I know the cattle comes from.
But when that stuff runs out, it get's expensive so corners do get cut. We eat healthy, but no where near as healthy as we should. It isn't cheaper to buy an apple where I live eaither. Produce, during off seasons, is very expensive. During peek seasons you can pick it up for nothing (why I can). When on a budget, you do what you have to do.
Now off topic I just ate 10 pieces of chicken nuggets..yummy. lol
But when that stuff runs out, it get's expensive so corners do get cut. We eat healthy, but no where near as healthy as we should. It isn't cheaper to buy an apple where I live eaither. Produce, during off seasons, is very expensive. During peek seasons you can pick it up for nothing (why I can). When on a budget, you do what you have to do.
Now off topic I just ate 10 pieces of chicken nuggets..yummy. lol
They're not twice as much, morrisons value eggs are free range, asda's value eggs are free range as are tesco's, sainsburys and the co-op. Fruit and veg aren't pricey either, as I said you can buy an entire stew pack for £1 you can get enough broccoli for a family of four for a meal for £40p, you can get 2KG of potatoes for 90p, you can get 1KG of carrots for 80p-£1.20 depending on where you shop, parsnips and swedes cost far less. You can get 8 full size banana's for £1 at morrisons, you can get a bag of ten apples for £1.10 and a punnet of nectarines for 80p-£1.50 depending on where you go. I know morrisons, sainsburys and co-op do not stock any non-free range eggs, I'm not sure about tesco or asda.TabascoNatalie said:very few? i have to disagree. and free-range eggs cost almost twice as much as battery.
Too many people i know live off "reduced to clear" shelves, so can't really blame them for not choosing to eat healthy and eco-friendly.
and how healthy is a meal which you cook from not the best quality products?:nah:
Sad to admit, but in UK fruit and veg are really expensive and quite bad quality. (if to compare, lets say, with Germany)
Fruit and veg aren't bad quality here at all, and definitely not when you compare us to Germany, plus apart from oils, cereals and asparagus they barely grow any food crops, they're more into rape etc.
It's what canola is made from. But I think you can eat it. I think it's like mustard greens or turnip greens, but really, really bitter. I don't know why I think that, but somehow that's in the back of my mind.bssage said:
We used to eat something in China called rape, but I'm quite sure that is different. I think that is related to broccoli and was just called rape because it resembles rape.
rapeseed oil is basically what we call canola oil. The British just assume we know what they are talking about.bssage said:
I would have been absolutely furious. How dare a bureaucrat tell me my child couldn't eat the lunch I made for him/her. If I had been there, I would have told him where he could stuff those chicken nuggets. The government needs to pull back.
LOL I was waiting to see what the answer was to Bssage's question. Now I am off to Wiki it..ElliottCarasDad said:rapeseed oil is basically what we call canola oil. The British just assume we know what they are talking about.
Its kinda like making flat meatballs. Take the chicken brest and throw it in the food processor grind it up and mix in some breadcrumbs and an egg mix it make it into little balls and squish them then coat the outside in breadcrumbs. Bake. They taste very similar to store bought ones and u can take 2 full breasts and feed 5 kids LOL that's the best part.[/QUOTE]momtoallkids said: