Why is Healthy Food more expensive then Junk Food?
Posted by: theblues
17th May 2011 08:57am
I want my children eating healthy fresh fruit, vegetables, meats and fish, but the costs keep getting higher and higher that it is harder everyday to cook healthy meals. To help I have turned my garden into a vegetable garden but that isn't the solution for all of us.
trix56
- 22nd Nov 2011 10:02pm
You know, I read all your replies before answering. Yeah, I know where to get my fruit an veg cheap. I also have a car so I can get there.
My son relies on his feet. He also has little fridge space where he lives. He lives on pasta and noodles. I feed him up on vegies when he comes here. He'salso lactose intolerant. Milk costs more. They've just bought out a lactose virtually free ice cream but it's $5.99 for 1.2 litres.
You can go to Subway and get a reasonably healthy sub for $6.95. A pie costs $3.50. Don't even ask me the price of Nutrigrain or Nuttella. And grain breads. I get my unhealthy white for $1.00.
I do buy raw sugar because it actually is cheaper! But not wholemeal flour.
If you knew the growing conditions and what goes into those frozen veg you wouldn't buy them. They're laced with chemicals that are banned here but they're re-routed through New Zealand so you don't know.
I grow tomatoes, spinach, capsicum but I've only got a small garden. I can't grow it all.
Yes. Junk food is cheaper but sometimes to make ends meet, it's all you can buy. Only the rich can stay healthy.
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