Eating healthy is not expensive

You must be spending a fortune, at least €30 euro on strawberries alone ,one part of one meal, let along the rest of the fruit, have you worked out how much you are paying for fruit alone?

You wouldn't eat any for seven or eight months if you only bought in season.

Healthy diet and all that. The last thing I'd be concerned about for air miles is fruit.

Frozen fruit arrives via sea,so no air miles involved.

There was always plenty of food when I was growing up, maybe a bit limited in variety, but always lots of it. That wasn't the same for everyone.

So it blows my mind that we have become so wealthy as a society that we can fetishise food.

We were talking about only eating in season fruit. If it's not in season it must be imported presumably.

Look at the availability of fresh food now

25 years ago would you have had fresh blueberries from Peru in your supermarket?

Or mini courgettes from Kenya?

Or melon in the shop all year around.

You wouldn't have had strawberries available all year round

You are paying for the availability of those foods being bought in from across the globe

At the risk of repeating myself if you only buy fruit in season you don't eat fruit for most of the year.

Yeah but if you're trying to learn about 'healthy food', just look at all the rules people put on it. Look at the posts in this thread and you'll see how difficult it actually is to get good information. People talking about how you have to get locally sourced food, in season food, and some of the food you might think of as healthy are 'empty calories'.

Eating relatively healthy can be relatively inexpensive, but it's complicated if you try to find out about it for the first time. This thread demonstrates its. Thread starts with chickpeas and sweet potato, then posters slag the poster, then suggestion to use AI and posters slag that. Then additional rules about locally sourced, in season and air miles and disagreement about what is actually healthy.

If you think it's easy, imagine reading this thread if you were trying to figure it out for the first time and see what it's like.

yeah I agree its hard to get fruit here after Autumn and it must be even harder when you're feeding youngsters who want these fruits. However like a few other posters I try and mostly eat what's in season. I don't like the idea of fruit travelling across the world for months in chilled fridges on ships, then articulated trucks and on to the shelves here, only for them to deteriorate within 3 days. They also have no flavour.

I eat Irish apples all the time, not Pink Lady. I also eat oranges for Vit C. The odd banana, that's about it. But I eat a lot of vegetables and reckon I'm getting most of the vitamins and minerals I need from them, and none of the sugar. I only eat what is growing now and in season in Ireland. I suppose I go with Mother Nature and what she provides in the country and climate we live in. I also grow a lot of stuff.

Luckily my kids are grown now but even when they were small they got apples, oranges, pears and bananas in Winter. No melon or berries. In Summer they got everything that was available. They are both prefectly healthy, slim and fit now!

I simply cant imagine the cost of buying all those berries every week, blueberries and strawberries in particular seem to have zero taste and are often mushy. Seasonal eating is also better from an environmental point of view. But like everything it's a balancing act.

I've seen those posts and they're nearly all excuses for choosing not to eat well.

It's just food. All I'm hearing is excuses to not cook, or excuses to keep eating emotional comfort food that's not good for them.

Choosing to eat badly is actually more expensive in Ireland than eating dileroo/just eat, or exclusively from the freezer isle.

I know people who've gone on the skinny jab without changing their diets and then act surprised when they're back to square one, even though their doctor and the pharma companies have explained that lifestyle changes alongside the treatment are required for best result. One such moaner even said "those jabs are a con!"

There is definitely an abdication of personal responsibility. Convenience foods are the con. Their long term negatives actually rob everyone of time.

Even if they are excuses (not sure I agree as some posters seemed to be advocating for those rules about in season, locally produced and air miles). But even if they are excuses, how is someone trying to learn about healthy eating supposed to tell the info you think is good from the info you think isn't good?