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The expensive price of fruit in UK.
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delboy604
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Something needs to be done to reduce price of healthy foods.
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Totally free!!
I'm living off blackberries, apples and pears at the moment since I can get all for free within 15 minutes walk of my house, but in general I do agree - sometimes is cheaper to eat junk than eat healthy!8 -
subsidise the cost with higher television license fees m82
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Learn to farm.0
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Everytime I travel and come back to the states I don't complain about our prices here anymore!1
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So fruit is the only healthy food? There are no other healthy foods available in the UK?1
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subsidise the cost with higher television license fees m8
Are you mad? We already get robbed from this outdated tax.
Subsidies should come from the new sugar tax recently introduced, one of the reason it had been set up I believe. Beyond that the taxing of junk food, and unhealthy fast foods would be far more viable.0 -
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I don't think the fruit *is* that expensive. Some out of season & imported things can be, but generally in season uk grown fruits & veg aren't - perhaps with a few exceptions like asparagus. At loca market stalls you can get a weeks worth of fruit & veg for 2 adults & 2 kids for £15, Aldi/Lidl have fruit/veg of the week 6 at 39p each, Morrisons, Asda, Tesco all do bunches of bananas under £1, huge bags of apples £2. I appreciated how low the prices are on coming back from Tennessee - seems like they only grow corn there and everything else has to travel, with the appropriate mark-up on the shelf!7
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Agree with above, fresh fruit and veg in the supermarkets are very reasonable I think.0
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Lidl and Aldi do brilliant weekly deals. Seasonal fruit is very reasonable and frozen fruit is perfectly fine too if you'd be looking for berries in winter...!1
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Food will be tend expensive in the UK. Short growing season, not the best soil. The UK only produces about 60% of the food it uses. Supply and demand, simple economics
The US on thr other hand exports about 1/3 of the food it produces.3 -
OMG, I saw that picture of those blackberries and apples and was SO envious! Then I went for a walk in the park, and now my belly is filled with blackberries and apples!
Fruit is quite cheap where I live, almost always good quality, and in great variety, so that's not why I nick fruit in parks
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JoshuaMcAllister wrote: »
Thread title: The expensive price of fruit in UK
OP post: Something needs to be done to reduce price of healthy foods.0 -
Believe it or not I read the title and post, nowhere does it states in either of those comments that "So fruit is the only healthy food? There are no other healthy foods available in the UK?"
Poor attempt at being funny? I'd say so, nothing to contribute why bother posting?
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Something needs to be done to reduce price of healthy foods.
You need to shop around, I find lots of fruit for less than £1. Buy frozen which last longer or dried fruit.Learn to farm.
I'm thinking that would be more expensive, especially if you don't own any land or a garden. You would have to pay for the land/allotment, pay for tools and any other equipment, the seeds and then there's the time and up keep.2 -
JoshuaMcAllister wrote: »Believe it or not I read the title and post, nowhere does it states in either of those comments that "So fruit is the only healthy food? There are no other healthy foods available in the UK?"
Poor attempt at being funny? I'd say so, nothing to contribute why bother posting?
If you don't like the answer, ask a better question.
The implication that fruit is the only healthy food is there. I tend to read between the lines as well as the lines themselves. Fruit can't be the only "expensive" "healthy" food in the U.K., so why single it out?1 -
It's tough to find good prices on fresh produce. What about canned fruits (in juice or water) or frozen? Is that an option?1
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