Affordable healthy diet

[SpontaneousOrder]

99.9% can afford decent food (if they shop properly and are willing to cook etc). They just prioritise good food lower than other things.
Not saying that's bad - just how it is.
A lot of the time it's bad though - kids eat tulip so mum can buy a pack of smokes.

[speling bee]

99.9% can afford decent food (if they shop properly and are willing to cook etc). They just prioritise good food lower than other things.
Not saying that's bad - just how it is.
A lot of the time it's bad though - kids eat tulip so mum can buy a pack of smokes.

That's an interesting statistic, and I'm surprised it's not more widely shared. Where was it published?

[SpontaneousOrder]

That's an interesting statistic, and I'm surprised it's not more widely shared. Where was it published?

It's more of an idiom, dear.

[doodab]

It's more of an idiom, dear.

You mean you can't back it up at all...

I just spent £11 on two melons and two small boxes of cherries. Decent food isn't that cheap.

[speling bee]

It's more of an idiom, dear.

I see. What % do you think is an accurate assessment?

[Mich the Tester]

You mean you can't back it up at all...

I just spent £11 on two melons and two small boxes of cherries. Decent food isn't that cheap.

Bloody hell!

[northernladyuk]

You mean you can't back it up at all...

I just spent £11 on two melons and two small boxes of cherries. Decent food isn't that cheap.

I'll take that as a firm order.

[SpontaneousOrder]

I see. What % do you think is an accurate assessment?

That would be contingent on the end to which you're collecting the data. 'accurate' for one purpose may be far from 'accurate' for another.

You can think of it like this, if it helps: 99.9 percent can be considered similar to saying 'the vast majority' - just like your mum used to tell you when you were little: 'the vast majority of children go to normal schools, but some got dropped as a baby and have to go to special schools like yours'.

[Mich the Tester]

You mean you can't back it up at all...

I just spent £11 on two melons and two small boxes of cherries. Decent food isn't that cheap.

Kersen - aanbiedingen en prijzen | Supermarktaanbiedingen.com

Cantaloupe meloen, product en prijs van 1 stuk

2 melons; e3.98

2 boxes of cherries; e3.10

total e7.08

E7.08 / exchange rate = a bit more than a fiver GBP

But this is euroland so it doesn't count.

[SpontaneousOrder]

You mean you can't back it up at all...

I just spent £11 on two melons and two small boxes of cherries. Decent food isn't that cheap.

I don't doubt the price you paid, but exotic fruit isn't the same type of 'decent' I was thinking of. A day's worth of rice, reasonable meat-content sausages, a tin of tomatoes and something green (you can buy a large bowl of veg from the market for a quid - better quality that tesco too) won't set you back much more than £1.50 - a bit of salt & pepper and that's a tasty dinner.

People that buy their kids a £1 iceland pizza for dinner should have a hard think about how they could find another 50p each for a proper dinner.