After listening to the debate on radio 5 yesterday Richard Bacon was making the point that it was easy as the portions were small.
No, they're really, really not!
I've just looked at the Daily Mail run down of how much you have to eat and I think it's actually prohibitive financially.
2 nectarines,
3 heaped tablespoons of sweetcorn,
Quarter of a big broccoli or cauliflower,
3 heaped tablespoons of mangetout
7 spears of asparagus
Half a pepper
All one portion
Seriously no one can afford that. In Aldi it's only 4 spears in a portion to buy for 79p so I need £1.60 to buy one portion of asparagus - obviously I wouldn't as I'm not an eejit.
Eating seasonally not so easy either as you can only get your nutrition from one thing twice in a day. So only two apples.
I reckon shopping in Aldi I'm going to need to spend about £8 a day for a family of 3 adult eaters for fruit and veg. So that's £56 a week just on fruit and veg.
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To think that the vast majority of people can't afford or won't buy 7 portions of fruit and veg a day
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LaurieFairyCake · 02/04/2014 08:04
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