The cost of healthy eating....

[Somnambulist]

The only thing with supermarket reductions is that you often have 'The Reducer' to compete with; that special brand of person that waits around - sometimes every day - in stores for hours, following staff doing reductions and hoarding the reduced products before they've even been transferred to the reduction cabinet itself. Typically they're miserable looking, venomous harridans whose trolleys consist entirely of reductions and will work in teams to get stuff for each other, meaning often other people miss out entirely and never get first pick.

Sundays are good days for reductions given places like Tesco's are only allowed to trade for 6 hours and are usually 10-4 jobbies, so popping in at lunchtime never hurts, although it's also when Reducers are out in force. The secret is to be friendly with the staff and joke with them about these types of customers being greedy and following them round all day like flies on **** e.t.c. and you can get them to save stuff for you if they find it (typically they work off a list of products earmarked the day before as having expiry dates for the next day).

 

[Hanuki]

Eating unhealthy is rather more expensive in my opinion, if you eat the right foods and the right times your likely to eat and also buying veg, fibre (poridge, brown bread, err various amounts of vegitables) in the extra bags for value can go along way and it rather cheap and chicken is cheap anyway - but obviously if your shopping in waitrose and top end supermarkets to those of As/da or tesco, even the sunday market it works out cheaper. if your gonna **** the process food that is full of suger and complex carbs your gonna get hungry quicker

 

[Hanuki]

Also Noodles are reletively cheap and filling just need to be little creative with ingridence sorry about my spelling aswell also i ment to say your likely to eat less

 

[8of9]

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I remember this when I worked in Asda. There was always one woman who would wait by the chilled reduced counter, and actually come up to me and ask me to reduce the stock for her as she knew it was going to be reduced anyway.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Eating unhealthy is rather more expensive in my opinion, if you eat the right foods and the right times your likely to eat and also buying veg, fibre (poridge, brown bread, err various amounts of vegitables) in the extra bags for value can go along way and it rather cheap and chicken is cheap anyway - but obviously if your shopping in waitrose and top end supermarkets to those of As/da or tesco, even the sunday market it works out cheaper. if your gonna **** the process food that is full of suger and complex carbs your gonna get hungry quicker

Narh, if you eat out for lunch you will soon realise that junk food cost nothing to stuff yourself with where as nice quality fresh lunch will cost a bomb.

Most supermarkets does meal deals for £3. Bottle of coke, crisp and sandwich. But look on the packet. Crisps 200 cal, coke 250 cal, sandwich 600 cal. That's easily over 1000 cal for lunch!

Get a Cornish pasty will be like £1 but it's like 700 cal!

Try get a nice salad, it will be about £4 from M&S, or £5 from EAT, £4 from Pret a manger, often thats not enough so I want some fruit. Fruit sald box £2, or even an apple cost the same as a packet of crisps! They also sell water the same price as coke too.

Even M&S salad bag are like £1.99! No dressing, no meat, just lettuce and a few cherry tomatoes in it. If you buy a tin of tuna to mix it with £1, some olive oil £3, you are looking at £6....

So £6 for tuna salad or £3 for a chicken bacon sandwich with a bag of McCoys and coke? It is SO easy to fall into that trap because it is more filling and cheaper.

 

[Dave M]

Me and the other half were discussing last night at how expensive it is to prepare and cook healthy meals from scratch.

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Im sure you can see where im coming from with this. The population is generally getting fatter, in my opinion due to convienance and the cheap cost of unhealthy food, vs the more expensive cost of healthy eating.

What are your views?

I don't agree at all I'm afraid.

If you're buying out of season, yes, it's expensive - tomatoes and salad veg has a short season in the UK and is expensive even then.

On Monday I bought some spuds, onions and a casserole veg pack from Sainsburies, total cost about £3. I added to that a chicken breast I had in the freezer (bought fresh then frozen myself, frozen chicken is yuck), tin of chicken broth and a few veg + chicken stock cubes.

Made a huge pan, put in oven for an hour, then put into containers. It's done my packed lunch and dinner for 4 days this week with a few slices of bread (made toasties with the last bit last night).

Total cost about £6.00 for 4 days lunch and dinner.

If I'd gone to maccy's for lunch and ate nuggets for dinner (this is something I actually do when I don't have proper food to hand) I'd have spent £27.

 

[Hanuki]

Narh, if you eat out for lunch you will soon realise that junk food cost nothing to stuff yourself with where as nice quality fresh lunch will cost a bomb.

Most supermarkets does meal deals for £3. Bottle of coke, crisp and sandwich. But look on the packet. Crisps 200 cal, coke 250 cal, sandwich 600 cal. That's easily over 1000 cal for lunch!

Get a Cornish pasty will be like £1 but it's like 700 cal!

Try get a nice salad, it will be about £4 from M&S, or £5 from EAT, £4 from Pret a manger, often thats not enough so I want some fruit. Fruit sald box £2, or even an apple cost the same as a packet of crisps! They also sell water the same price as coke too.

Even M&S salad bag are like £1.99! No dressing, no meat, just lettuce and a few cherry tomatoes in it. If you buy a tin of tuna to mix it with £1, some olive oil £3, you are looking at £6....

So £6 for tuna salad or £3 for a chicken bacon sandwich with a bag of McCoys and coke? It is SO easy to fall into that trap because it is more filling and cheaper.

I eat out quiet a bit, i be honest with you i spend over a week £4 or even less if there promotions that a nice big bag of apples, bananas, and i make hard boiled eggs water comes from tap . If you wanna buy cheap go to ready cooked section and buy chicken at as little of 40p+ in sainsbury plain ones are cheap and healthier cos dont have that marinade on it - there always a way to be healthy at a budget... you just need to look around or if you are from a posh area make pack lunch it not hard

M&S i am not surprised they are a top end supermarket im talking in regards of tesco, asda, and sainsbury - well water in sainsbury a 1L is 45pence maybe little more a coke on the other hand is 55-60pence it always changing, plus that rubbish full of sugar and caffeine wont keep you hydrated for long and i wouldn't be surprise if you would be thirsty not so long after

 

[ojrules]

im probably reiterating points made before, but healthy eating or meals made from scratch should be cheaper than ready meals.. As a student the only "ready" meals i can stand are pizza or oven fish... once you know how to make the real thing, a ready meal just isnt worth the time..

 

[Ace Modder]

Total cost about £6.00 for 4 days lunch and dinner.

I will give you £6 bring me that into work every day next week

 

[Xelene]

You dont pay 20% VAT if you cook yourself.