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<blockquote data-quote="SB.25" data-source="post: 2067547" data-attributes="member: 496757"><p>I think the main problem is lots of ‘healthy food’ is expensive. For example if you are a single mother of two on a low income, I can see why you would buy pizza and chips for a meal. This probably costs £2. On the other hand if they were to prepare a meal with meat, veg etc (whether frozen or fresh) it would be more expensive and sometimes people just don’t have the money. </p><p></p><p>On another note, I don’t really think the sugar tax on fizzy drinks had much of an impact. There is little price difference between diet and normal drinks and I found that a lot of the diet drinks went up in price too... which sort of defeated the point. I do appreciate that a lot of drinks companies did change their recipe to reduce the sugar, so that’s a positive thing. However you can still buy own brand energy drinks for about 40p..... Oh, and don’t get me started on fruit juices - they are full of sugar but don’t seem to be subject to the tax (although I wouldn’t want them to as they are a favourite hypo treat).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SB.25, post: 2067547, member: 496757"] I think the main problem is lots of ‘healthy food’ is expensive. For example if you are a single mother of two on a low income, I can see why you would buy pizza and chips for a meal. This probably costs £2. On the other hand if they were to prepare a meal with meat, veg etc (whether frozen or fresh) it would be more expensive and sometimes people just don’t have the money. On another note, I don’t really think the sugar tax on fizzy drinks had much of an impact. There is little price difference between diet and normal drinks and I found that a lot of the diet drinks went up in price too... which sort of defeated the point. I do appreciate that a lot of drinks companies did change their recipe to reduce the sugar, so that’s a positive thing. However you can still buy own brand energy drinks for about 40p..... Oh, and don’t get me started on fruit juices - they are full of sugar but don’t seem to be subject to the tax (although I wouldn’t want them to as they are a favourite hypo treat). [/QUOTE]
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