Crackdown on brocolli

[cromwell]

Well not really.
Labour want us to be healthier and have told supermarkets that they must "promote" fruit and veg rather than junk food.
I'm not quite sure how they are going to do this.
Supermarkets may be "forced" to reveal veg sales and if they don't hit targets they may face "bans".*

All very worthwhile I'm sure, but supermarkets are in the business of making money, not helping the NHS out.
If people want to buy veg there is tons on sale. Today we're having brocolli, green beans, peas, carrots. When we have a bolognese as well as mince we have onion, garlic, carrots and celery.

There are lots of takeaways selling cheap, low quality food. Maybe start with those first?


*According to BBC news.
Note the language; force, ban. Labour are also mulling over banning ads for alcohol before a certain time. Gosh, growing up when Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins were advertising Cinzano, or Paul Hogan Foster's lager, how did we all avoid becoming alcoholics?

[TheOstrich]

When I read the thread title, my first thought was "thank goodness I bought that big bag of frozen broccoli from Iceland last week "!
Most supermarkets already heavily promote cheap fruit and veg ( although strawberries and blueberries are rather pricey at present) so I 'm not sure what the problem is.

[Kaz]

Our big Tesco has masses of cheap fruit and veg, situated close to the entrance, once you get past the newspapers and sarnies for the office lunch brigade. You pretty much have to walk past it to get to the rest of the food, so I'm not sure what else they can do!.

Plenty of offers, too. I got a big pack of vine tomatoes for 69p last week!.

[Workingman]

it might help if we didn't have so many programmes and articles kidding the hard of thinking that ready meals and takeaways are cheap options, and yes, the BBC has its fair share of those.

Even supermarket own brands and essential ranges are expensive when compared to fresh ingredients, and not to mention that they are chemical cocktails thrown in. They might be cheaper than the big brands but that does not make them money savers.

We also get nonsensical articles saying that healthy food costs nearly twice as much as unhealthy food - calorie for calorie. What they do not say is that the calories in unhealthy food are from energy dense things such as fats and sugars - 9 cal per g for fat, 4 cal per g for sugar. Many common fruits and veg have only 0.2 to 1 calories per g.

One choccy / sweet bar has as many calories as a big plate of salad with a slice of meat / fish / egg / cheese, but which will fill you up more and be better for you for much the same price?

Kaz, all my local supermarkets are laid out like that...

[victor]

Just another load of waffle from liebour trying to paper over the cracks.
As Kaz said the fruit and veg is there. Now how exactly are shops going to make us buy it.

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[medsec222]

Everything in moderation. I eat a good range of fruit and vegetables but when I am sitting down mid-morning with a cup of coffee will it be accompanied by a stick of celery or a carrot? Probably not.

[Workingman]

The biggest problem with high-calorie and unhealthy "foodstuffs" is their availability. Go into any garage /. services station, corner shop. supermarket, high street, pub, etc and there are whole sections, even whole shops, dedicated to the sale of sweets, chocolate bars, cakes, biscuits, crisps, sandwiches, takeaways, pop and fizzy drinks. It's inescapable and alongside its advertising we have become conditioned to buying it, so we do.

Sadly, for many people, they are the only things they ever eat.