to wish you could buy large packs of healthy choices

[Ithinkitsjustme]

why do every supermarket stock shelves and shelves of white pasta but teh only wholewheat pasta you can get hold of is in 500g bags which work out far more expensive. The same for basmati rice; while wild rice and brown rice are nowhere to be found at all. It seems wrong when there is so much pressure to feed your family with healthy food. If anyone knows where i can buy large (and I mean large) bags of these products please let me know

Costco

do you need a card for costco, and if so how can i get one?

Yes you do but I can't remember what we had to take in to get one, it costs about £28 membership though.

Don't you have to be a business to use costco?

No you can get individual membership for £25

Well... first the assumption that the "whole" versions of the product are healthier is not completely sustainable (depending on the whole diet they may be, but whilst they do contain more nutrients of some sorts, they also contain an awful lot of stuff which makes the body unable to absorb nutrients both from the rice/wheat and other foods you're eating) The processed versions remove the anti-nutrients aswell. And in any case they don't contain hugely different amounts of nutrients, as a part of a whole meal they'll make little difference. Remember many seeds have evolved to be spread by being eaten and excreted, so if animals could digest them easily they'd soon die out.

Changing from white rice to brown will not change your family from an unhealthy to healthy diet. I'd save your money and use the cheaper product and use your savings on your food budget elsewhere.

Oh and of course there's another reason on the rice - white rice will last years in the cupboard, brown will only last months unless you keep it in the fridge. There's no excuse with the dried pasta on that one though.

Costco only sell things in ridiculously large sizes, they don't tend to do the normal big sizes I would be able to store.

YANBU OP.

I would imagine because it is less popular so there is not as much demand for it in the high st supermarkets.

Mainly it's to do with demand.

They don't sell enough for them to consider using more shelf space. Shelf space is valuable, particularly eye level space, if they are going to introduce larger packs which take up larger space for products on which they are quite possibly making less profit on than the 'white/unhealthy' choices, those products need to pay their way and it means the removal of another product.

It's all about cost and profits (briefly did this job).

Fredfred, my daughter has just been diagnosed with diabetes and apparently she needs the "whole" version - and it's not very practical to cook two different meals most of the time.

Ruby - I know it's about demand - just frustrated right now.