Eating healthy is not expensive

Yeah and the other side of it is the advantage that you get if your family does teach you to eat healthily from the beginning. My immediate and wider family was always into cooking. Cooking food for family occasions was important and people talked about it and enjoyed it. It became a social norm for me.

I gained an understanding of food from a young age and I didn't earn it, it was given to me. That's why I can't jump on the bandwagon to bash people who don't have a clue about food because I know I didn't have to educate myself, it was gifted to me.

It's too easy to overlook an advantage like that. Eating healthily is not necessarily expensive but, eating unhealthily is probably not necessarily expensive either. Both can be made expensive depending on how you do it. Eating salmon and beef fillets is probably healthy and expensive, supermarket home brand frozen pizzas and chips is probably not healthy but cheap.

Expense is only one part of it. Knowing what is healthy, balanced and cheap is not simple. Well, it's simple as long as you eat plenty of lard and avoid lard, plenty of oil but not vegetable oils because vegetable oils are perfectly healthy, worry about air miles and also don't worry about air miles, only eat in-season, locally produced food but also don't worry about that.

It's fine for everyone cosplaying as nutrition experts, but if you're not willing to pretend to be an expert, it's difficult to actually know what's healthy and what isn't. And that's probably the issue, education

Agree 100%, some people consider frozen chicken burgers and chips and jars of Dolmio etc. as home cooked meals.

FYI it was Luke Wilson not Adam Sandler😉

You havent seen one cause you dont want to see one, and would rather poopoo any counter point.

You've done a spectacular job in proving your own point, that "some people just dont want to learn"!

It boils down to wilful ignorance when people wilfully chose the obese lifestyle.

As the discussion is about the affordability of healthy food I feel we're in agreement that it is.

Therefore a crap food lifestyle is a choice.

Worked with a guy who had the worst diet I've ever seen. He'd eat anything and everything. He would butter individual pieces of a scone as he was eating them, going through 4 or 5 of those little pats every time. Mad for the pints, chicken fillet rolls, chipper, bacon fries…..he would keep the salt cellar beside his plate and add salt toe very individual forkful before eating it. I once saw him going through a bowl of wings that someone had already eaten, saying "plenty of atin' left on them", picking them clean with his teeth. Wasn't a pick on him, however. I found out he was a cross country mountain runner and had the highest metabolism of anyone in the whole building. He'd run home, in slacks and shoes, after a night out in town. It was all just fuel for the engine, as far as he was concerned.

Our little one in creche get a hot meal about 11.30 -12.00pm. We give a packed lunch which he eats around 2pm, then he's picked up at 5pm on the way home from work. It's not always possible to have something prepared in advance, but most days we'd have leftovers or something mostly prepared from the previous day. He's hungry at 5, and would be starving at 6 if he hadn't been fed. If there's no shopping in, it's nearly 7pm by the time we're sitting down to eat. He is 100% on a different schedule/clock than we are. There is no way we'd be able to keep him unfed from 2pm to 7pm, there'd be murder in the house.

Eat together at the same time, even if it is different food.

There have been qualified dieticians on several radio shows lately pushing high carbohydrate diets, which will drive diabetes. The establishment are still pushing decades old outdated advice.

We Got that in transition year. The brought us to another school which had a home economics setup and they taught us to cook. It wasn't about nutrition but it was really valuable to me.

For me at least, knowing how to cook gave me an interest in food more generally.