The cost of Healthy Eating?

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Ok, can I suggest there are many, many uneducated people out there & different life styles lead to different food choices also.

I didn't know ANY vegetarian choices til we owned a cafe. Then I was cooking tofu & lentil burgers. That was my first introduction to that side of food. Our father was a shearer. One of the hardest physical jobs going. They need energy & strength. The best way they know to get it is through protein & carbs. Meat, veg & pasta. They don't know there are other alternatives. They are also often supplied with 'killers'. Free sheep to cut up & eat. So meat is always there to eat. That saved them loads!

And while I suggested the cheap pies & chips for dollar value, the people who choose those options every day DON'T often know better. They want something quick & easy (and yes, lazy), that will fill their families up & get them to bed. They think meat & potato. Often mash is the choice over chips, I just used chips as an example.

They also don't realise you can make things taste better with different recipe's. I don't know anyone with free internet access. I know people who have no net access as all. And not everyone can afford to buy recipe magazines, or books.

Average Australia doesn't know better. We grew up with what our parents fed us & went from there. Thats the basis of our diets now. We figure if its ok for us, it should be ok for our kids.

Can I ask what everyone elses average meal plan is for a week? Because an average week for us is meat 5 or 6 nights of the week, coz thats how we were brought up. Potato is almost every night. Though sometimes its pasta, or rice instead. Veggies are usually at least 6 night a week. Sometimes once night I won't bother because we will just have pies & chips etc.

Snacking is different to meals. Snacking is a little easier to switch than dinner time meals. We all know an apple is better than a chocolate. What we don't know is that white bread is full of sugar. That pre made jars & packets are full of additives that aren't healthy. The average Aussie see's nothing wrong with pies & chips tonight, crumbed steak & mash tomorrow, steak & potato bake the next night. Take away pizza for a treat. They don't see that the pasta's, sauces, carbs etc are all contributing to weight problems & high colesterol. They think if they're not eating chocolate, macca's, kfc, bikkies, cakes, etc every day then they are eating healthy.

They don't understand that no cereal is really healthy. That they are pretty much all sugar coated. And how do they work all this out when the ads etc go on & on about how healthy these foods are? How are they supposed to know better if noone actually tells them???


And yeah, information is only a click away. If you are lucky enough to have internet access.