Hanno wrote:Marmite wrote:Nahhh, that's a myth that has been debunked https://iea.org.uk/media/healthy-food-c ... -research/
I cook myself and getting quality food costs me a lot more; especially here where many things are imported..... But even many years ago, when I lived in Luxembourg, decent meat was considerably more expensive than the packed meat in the supermarket, as where any bio products. Even the free-range eggs were double the price of eggs from the huge factory farms.
I think you're getting far too granular. The debate isn't between the relative prices of 'decent or packed meat' or freerange v factory farmed eggs. The debate is about fresh produce versus processed and fast or instant food.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are incredibly cheap in the UK. Sure you can pay a lot of nicely packaged imported apples at Marks and Spensers, but the markets are full of great stuff. There is a street stall less than 300 yards of me now where I can go and get 2kilos of potatoes for a quid, a kilo of satsumas for 60p and five avocados for a quid also.
And if you can't be arsed to prepare it yourself, supermarkets are full of ready mixed salads of a hundred varieties. A large bag of that, perhaps some starch like baked potatoes, and a pack of chicken breasts or lean pork chops or fish grilled or baked with some spices is a ridiculously cheap meal, perhaps around £1.50 max.