All the foods the Scottish Government plan to make more expensive

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The SNP are about to wage war on the popadom.

Poverty is rampant, NHS and education are in crisis but our government are concentrating on increasing the price of porridge.

In addition the ban on promotions of food our great leaders deem unhealthy they are also going to restrict practices in restaurants

No more ice cream factory puddings for your kids at Pizza Hut or complimentary prawn crackers with your Chinese

In hotels you can still have a buffet breakfast and eat as many sausages and eggs as you like but only one pastry each.

What's wrong with ready meals? Some are rubbish but some are really good, I eat them quite a lot because of disability.

I'm assuming it's going to hit things like the Co-Op meal deals where you get something like fish, chips, peas and ice cream for a fiver.

Bet it doesn't hit the subsided food at Holyrood.

What really annoys me is the failure to close the loop. I don't agree with the minimum alcohol pricing and it didn't work, but at least if there had been a requirement for the extra money made to be used for addiction programmes or paid into the NHS or something there might have been some benefit. Instead producers and retailers just get to keep it and shopping behaviours remain the same.

A barely a few days after raising the price of alcohol they complain about the impact of UK tax on the whisky industry.

Minimum pricing didn't affect the heaviest drinkers but did have a positive impact on those medium drinkers - those who were drinking too much but hadn't descended into full alcoholism

So there was a benefit it's just a lot of the press wanted to tell a story that it didn't work so they only published a subset of the findings

Ridiculous. They should not be trying to control food choices and if so why not limit how many alcoholic drinks you can buy and cigarettes?
The cost to the country from drunken louts in police and ambulance time would be a far better place to start.

I am so sick of the SNP. They don’t deliver on the things that would really help people outside of the central belt i.e. access to healthcare and safe roads.

It is a lot of work for something which will have minimum impact on health in terms of the general population... If you have an ND kid who relies on snacks, this is truly not impressive.

I used to work somewhere where a canteen - the name of healthy choices - offered the only dessert option, fat free yoghurt. This was following a selection of mains consisting of a square sausage butty or eggy bread.

You could not make this up.

I've never seen poppadoms on any kind of promotion.

Did you ever consider that some people won't help themselves which is why tobacco, booze and now sugary and fatty foods are now a target.

All addiction (including sugar) is complex. Poor diet etc too. Simply increasing the prices of "bad" foods won't do anything.

What will happen is that when a pack of 4 mars bars goes from £1 to £1.50, they'll still buy the mars bars but the extra 50p will come from the pack of bananas they might have bought.

As for the alcohol pricing improving middle drinkers, that's not who it was aimed at. They aren't the people causing social issues, draining the NHS etc. So regardless its been a failure. People will move onto whatever they can to feed their addiction, whatever that may be.

It's trying to treat a broken leg with an elastoplast.

Wonder if Scots will start voting with their feet and crossing the border for supplies?

Bloody ridiculous, I object to them telling me what I can and can’t eat, and enforcing things on me. In the meantime wasting millions on drug rooms (wtf) as a way to deal with the spiralling death rate.
Education and healthcare falling further behind, bunch of jokers.

I have a relative who lives about 30 miles from Carlisle, their nearest big town. They are in the town once a month (from SW Scotland) for shopping as there is bugger all in the town where they live. They are already going to Sainsbury's and taking advantage of their 25% off when you buy 6 bottles of wine.

SNP likes to think of Scotland as a wee island, completely cut off from what goes on in England. They'd love it if the border was closed and nobody got out. But real life isn't like that.

Policing what we eat, curbing drinks promotions and what not as that's the most effective way to deal with the problem of addiction, but changing one's sex (which is impossible) without any checks and single-handedly dismantling safeguarding is fair game? Good one Scottish Gov.

Interesting concept, we started cooking everything from scratch years ago.

We never really thought about picking up some cakes etc. But when you make it and realise how much butter and sugar go into it you realise how bad it really is.

Better butter and sugar than the crap that goes into commercially produced stuff!

Ive always cooked from scratch, including baking, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think people should be free to make different choices from mine….I’m fed up to the back teeth of this bloody Scottish government

Worst thing that ever happened. I just want to buy ordinary sugary drinks without artificial sweeteners in them.

Which makes them sweeter than ever meaning people develop a taste for even sweeter things.

It seems to me to include things like cereal bars which are even just nuts, seeds and cereals with no additives (so for example these eat natural bars or similar), and dark chocolate - neither of which I would have said are unhealthy food choices in a balanced diet. Pop chips or lentil crisps are already more expensive than supermarket own brand crisps. So it seems a bit indiscriminate and I am not sure it will really help with the situation where people are in poor living situations with little access to decent fruit and veg choices and space to store everything to cook from scratch.

In theory, I don’t disagree with making high fat, sugar and salt foods less attractive to consumers, but in practice, if more healthy choices are not made cheaper, all this legislation does is make it harder for people to cope with the cost of living. It doesn’t do anything about the fact that we live in an obesogenic environment, where there are food outlets every two minutes and even places like leisure centres have vending machines full of sweets and crisps.

I think it's a fair list tbh, although I'm surprised at oats on their own.

Ready meals might seem ok but many elderly and disabled rely on ready prepared meals. They have long since replaced ‘meals on wheels’

https://wiltshirefarmfoods.com/

And the Wiltshire meals taste horrible

daffodils I agree completely. As a result, we should subsidise from the funds raised the cost of healthful foods, otherwise it’s just more of a stick with which to beat the poor

I am lucky that I know how to cook and I manage to find the time to do so. Many others are not.

Phew - I was beginning to think the SG were resting on their laurels, now that they’ve sorted out the major issues like the economy, health, social care, education, transport and deprivation. Good to see they’re keeping busy.