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The expensive price of fruit in UK.

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  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    What does this have to do with the price? I'm pretty sure we're aware what a serving of fruits and vegetables is.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    There are tons of affordable fruits and vegetables though. I know you hate frozen but there are tons of options.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    And we need 5 a day so how do u suggest getting that 5 a day? That's one full portion I'm talkin about cheap of a family of say 3 or 4 frozen ain't gonna cut. They need to bring price down

    Vegetables are a better choice than fruit for nutrition, and frozen vegetables are a great deal.

    Fruit where I live is cheaper IN SEASON. I don't blame the gov't or stores for the fact that a good bit of the year isn't a great growing season for fruit (and is never a good growing season for some things, like bananas or mangoes or avocados). I'm just lucky to live in a time and place where those things are available to me anyway. They aren't necessary for health.

    As I posted on the other thread, I can get 3 lbs of apples for $2.99.

    As for "mom, I'm hungry," don't you plan ahead? Cooking frozen veg (which have more nutrients out of season than veg that have been carted in from far away) is hardly the most time-consuming part of making dinner.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    You don't have to eat fresh. Frozen and canned is acceptable too.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
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    singingflutelady wrote: »
    You don't have to eat fresh. Frozen and canned is acceptable too.

    You must have missed how my earlier suggestion of this was laughed off because when a kid is hungry no one wants to wait 20 minutes. I was also informed that you can't buy frozen whole apples, bananas, or oranges. Silly me.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    I wonder how people survived in the UK before bananas and oranges were imported.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    I wonder how people survived in the UK before bananas and oranges were imported.

    Limes
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
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    bpetrosky wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    I wonder how people survived in the UK before bananas and oranges were imported.

    Limes

    NO SCURVY FOR YOU!!!
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    I'm sure you can eat more than 1 serving of something and it still counts.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
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    What happens if you only get 4?
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    edited September 2016
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    I wonder how people survived in the UK before bananas and oranges were imported.
    It's amazing that people managed to live at all in the days before refrigeration, breeding, and high speed transportation made fresh fruits/vegetables available year round in nearly all parts of the world at any cost period.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    :) Potatoes lol no joking aside though berrys frozen here which is classed as one of 5 a day. You need to eat 5 different options a day for it to count

    Count for what? I think it is admirable that you are striving to meet the recommended nutritional guidelines but you seem to be implying that there is some oversight committee who is checking off to make sure that each individual gets the appropriate servings of fruits and vegetables and that only certain things "count".
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
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    WinoGelato wrote: »
    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    :) Potatoes lol no joking aside though berrys frozen here which is classed as one of 5 a day. You need to eat 5 different options a day for it to count

    Count for what? I think it is admirable that you are striving to meet the recommended nutritional guidelines but you seem to be implying that there is some oversight committee who is checking off to make sure that each individual gets the appropriate servings of fruits and vegetables and that only certain things "count".

    There's a dude that lives with me and reports on my eating habits. The government has had me on their hit list for a while now...

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