Food & Drink

Why is Healthy Food more expensive then Junk Food?

Food & Drink

Posted by: theblues

17th May 2011 08:57am

Am I the only one that has noticed that it is cheaper to buy junk food or fast food for your family then it is to buy healthy foods?
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.

jjdrer
  • 27th Jan 2014 02:10pm

Occasionally produce is sonetimes before it even reaches the supermarkets. I have seen some arrive on trucks that I would feed to the fowls or pigs.
Sometimes but not always they are affected by weather conditions. I recently bought some plums that had rub marks on them. I think they may have just rubbed against the branches of the trees. They were perfect on the inside.
Some vegetables are damaged by overhead watering or rain running through the leaves. My now late Mother was a buyer for a small shop during WW11 and related to us many stories that she had been told. Years later she lived next door to a market garden and saw the damage happen herself.
Year later when she married my Dad and we had fruit trees and grew a lot of our own vegetables we had the same problems. When my Dad was unable to grow them he taught me the basics too. I grew some vegetables for approx. 30 years My brother hated gardening so he cut the lawns while grew vegies - mainly tomatoes, beetroot, carrots, cauliflowers and cabbages. The birds were a problem with peas and they forced their way around the netting I used so I gave up on them and bought frozen instead


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