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The poor are eating rubbish food because healthy food is too expensive?

by Whaleoil on September 2, 2010

Low income New Zealand families would have to spend up to a third of their income to eat healthily, a researcher says.

A separate study reveals about 40 per cent of New Zealand households go hungry, skip meals or scrimp on ingredients because they are not “food secure”.

Food security is a key topic for discussion at a national dietitians conference in Dunedin that started yesterday and runs until tomorrow.

Professor John Coveney, associate dean at South Australia’s Flinders University, said yesterday people in low socio-economic groups were more likely to have a diet-related disease such as diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.

His Australian research, which will be presented at the conference, showed low income families would have to spend up to one-third of their weekly income on buying a shopping basket of healthy food.

In comparison, a “healthy food basket” cost just 9 per cent of income for high income families.

A low income family would normally spend about 18 per cent of its income on food.

Riiiight, and the cost to buy some seeds/vege plants and maintain a vege garden is?

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  • michaels

    This is the biggest crock of shit ever. Walk through a food hall and just look at the people eating there…….. 95% of them are FAT FAT FAT!!! Unhealthy lazy FAT cunts!!

    I have proved over and over and over again that it is dead easy to serve up a fabulous healthy meal for 4 for under $10.

  • peterwn

    Could Social Welfare and food banks somehow tap into Corrections food purchase contracts and make food parcels available at $4 per person per day?

  • grizz

    The problem is people do not know how to eat healthy. Healthy food can be cheap. Last night I made a huge red cabbage coleslaw for under 2 dollars, and there is still some left over for today. Much cheaper than fried chips!

  • giblet

    It’s curious that the so-called poor who can’t afford enough for supposedly nutritious food do have enough dosh to be pay for a Sky TV subscription.

  • statlerandwaldorf

    “Rii­i­ight, and the cost to buy some seeds/vege plants and main­tain a vege gar­den is?”

    Hang on !! Breasel’s “relative” only ate vegetables and rice – and she got fat.

    Morbidly so.

  • blondie

    Michaels – “This is the biggest crock of shit ever. Walk through a food hall and just look at the people eating there…….. 95% of them are FAT FAT FAT!!! Unhealthy lazy FAT cunts!!”

    Pray tell me – what evidence, if any, do you have that these people are universally poor?
    So what, exactly, is the premise of your argument?

    If you are trying to argue that people who choose to eat in foodhalls do so because of their lack of financial resources, and that doing so causes them to become obese, then your logic is overwhelmingly unconvincing. After all, the people most likely to be eating in a mall foodhall are those who have been shopping; an activity which is usually avoided by those who can’t even afford to buy food.

  • cadwallader

    I don’t know too much about foodhalls except the accoustics in them are frequently vile.

    I can tell Blondie that those who volunteer for charitable foodbanks are routinely abused if the food we gratuitously hand to the poor requires more than a few minutes in a microwave. I have had canned food and verbal threats tossed at me by the allegedly poor (and the allegedly hungry) because it required modest preparatory tasks. I think the foodhall observation that those in there are lazy, parasitic and mean of spirit. Yes, and of course obese!

  • michaels

    blondie September 2, 2010 at 1:27 pm

    Michaels – “This is the biggest crock of shit ever. Walk through a food hall and just look at the people eating there…….. 95% of them are FAT FAT FAT!!! Unhealthy lazy FAT cunts!!”

    Pray tell me – what evidence, if any, do you have that these people are universally poor?
    So what, exactly, is the premise of your argument?

    If you are trying to argue that people who choose to eat in foodhalls do so because of their lack of financial resources, and that doing so causes them to become obese, then your logic is overwhelmingly unconvincing. After all, the people most likely to be eating in a mall foodhall are those who have been shopping; an activity which is usually avoided by those who can’t even afford to buy food.

    Blondie go to the Manukau Mall, the home of unemployment and DPB lazy pricks. Here you won’t find many flash cars in the carpark, inside you don’t see to many diamonds, what you see is…….

    BIG FAT FUCKERS.
    Now just maybe these people are here day in day out because they have well paying jobs at night, but I doubt it. Go there on benefit day and the place swells at the seams, maybe this is just by chance blondie.
    Now of course there is always the exception, I saw 2 just last week.
    Also, food halls was just an example, go to the many takeaway outlets and you’ll see the same people. Go to the vege section in Foodtown and….. opps, they ain’t there Blondie!!

    • Blondie

      I don’t go to Manukau. But I did have half a kebab in the foodhall at 277 Broadway recently, and I didn’t spot too many people who looked overweight or broke while I was there.

      But still, – so you don’t see too many fat people in the vege section of Foodtown? Well, of course not. If they ate lots of veges, they wouldn’t be fat.

  • michaels

    Manukau V’s Newmarket hmmmmm…….

    Ask Brewer if there is a slight difference.