Is Food Expensive?

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I have been noticing recently that if you try to buy whole, organic, raw , fresh foods that are not Mcfood and crap for you , your groc bill really gets obese. Is it not justified though? I mean is food not one of the more important things to spend money on? Or should I give up and shop for my food at Target?

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

this is so true, hanle y. its criminal how expensive vegetables are, even in season. theres a growers market here every saturday morning, which is really cheap, i never get to go to it cos i have to work. but it makes me aware of how much profit supermarkets rake from what they sell. and i'm not even talking organic food, which i can't afford to even think about. its true that shitty old fast food is cheap. the nz govt is going to introduce a "fat tax" for unhealthy food, which is in no way going to solve the problem. some people can't afford the best most healthy food and this is the problem.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard New Zealand produces a lot of really tasty and healthily made foods, like butters and eggs. I never thought much about organic foods until I recently bought organic oranges. They tasted so good! Most non -organic fruit seems to be bred for size and appearance, not taste

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say that most food is artificially cheap. Although it's amazing how much cheaper a proper green grocers is than the supermarket. Processed food is artificially cheap at least.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 19 July 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

good food seems to be getting more expensive ie: the organic produce di talks about.
i have found that trying to offer my son a good healthy diet is becoming more and more difficult, as the most basic foodstuffs increase in price. even the good old kumara ( sweet potato ) is expensive now, and fruits are the same. as for meat, forget it. in nz the price of meat is amazing ( $17kg for crappy beef ).
i despise the fast food thing and never go that way, but it is becoming so expensive to buy the 'real deal' that i can understand why people go and buy a burger etc rather than purchase good food themselves and make a meal.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 19 July 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess thats a good excuse for me to eat lots of bad food. "Savin' money" Is there Mcdonalds innew zealand?

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 19 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, it even have a "kiwiburger" (its not made out of kiwis).

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i have to ask: do the majority of the people in other countries enjoy being condescended to by our corporations vision of your culture? cuz it sure seems that way.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

kiwis looks as if when they walk they will immediately get their beak stuck in the ground and have to stop

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

or someone's leg

http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/jwalker/kiwi.gif

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually had a Kiwiburger when I left NZ as I needed something to tide me over at the airport. It had a beet in it, and I was bemused.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

rainy had a croissant with a beet in it!! she said it failed as food

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

This demonstrates her valuable wisdom.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

beetroot hataz! you're out of the band!

jess, i suspect most new zealanders like it. most new zealanders don't care how their meat is packaged, as long as its meat. grrr uggg.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

beetroot hataz! you're out of the band!

:-( I have been beeten down. *flees to avoid the Pun Patrol*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 July 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

*pheeeeep!* Come back you urchin you

― The Pun Patrol (Matt), Sunday, 20 July 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

puns have no place in tis thread , behave all of you . or back to the cellar with no beets!

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 20 July 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

*fears and hides*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 July 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

beets suck (not as much as peaches, but close) ... and beet-haters should be glad they're not slavs, since beets are the active ingredient in borscht (which grandma used to love to make).

and hanle y, didn't you once compare organic zucchini to the grinch's cock? i guess you changed yer mind re organic foods then!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 20 July 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

we have the aussieburger which i suspect is exactly the same thing as a kiwiburger.

food here is cheap and bountiful. you can get expensive fancy organic stuff yeah, but i think the 'normal' equivalent from the vic market or other markets is often just as good. organic food is bred for size and appearance (small and wonky)

― minna (minna), Sunday, 20 July 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont like the look of organic food, but I havefound I ike the taste. i wonder if the grinch is ready for a new way

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 20 July 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe my situation is unique, but I've actually found produce here to be quite inexpensive. Not the chichi, "I'm very picky about what I buy" "organic" produce, but the regular kind. A head of lettuce over here is just about $0.99, a bag of carrots $1.99, cucumbers are 2 or 3 for $1.00, oranges are $0.89 a pound, etc. And even with buying everything else in the store and going home and doing the home cooking thing exclusively throughout the week, it still turns out to be less expensive than going out to eat even at a fast food place. I'm certain that a pot pie dinner using those frozen pot pies is a whole lot more nutritious than a burger fast food meal, and the pot pie dinner is about $2 less expensive per person.

Hm. Do you guys have warehouse clubs over where you're at?

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 20 July 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

if everyone ate organic food we'd all starve. organic farming yields are not anywhere near farming using synthetic fertilizers. the actual threat from pesticides and fertilizers and the public perception of those same threats are nowhere near synchronous.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 20 July 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

kiwis looks as if when they walk they will immediately get their beak stuck in the ground and have to stop

that is why they are so easy to catch and make into burgers

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 20 July 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Or should I give up and shop for my food at Target?

*Cries into her bowl of target-bought cereal.*

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 20 July 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

This foood is £10k.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44142000/jpg/_44142180_dessert_body_ap.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 28 September 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

― Sébastien, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

FOOD YOU DO COST TOO MUCH you seductive little whore.

Okay so I was playing scattegories the other night; category was pizza toppings and letter was F. I said "food," but got voted down. Why? Food is the only thing you put on a pizza! You don't put plastic toy soldiers or earrings on pizza. Is this ruling just or unjust?

― Abbott, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

just

all pizza toppings are food but not all food is pizza toppings

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 September 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Clearly you've never been to Japan.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 September 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

a guy i work with put a cookie (ginger snap) on a piece of pizza last week.

― ian, Monday, 3 November 2008 23:07 (seventeen years ago)

Did he have to pay a lot for that?

― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 04:25 (seventeen years ago)

chances are, he paid dearly

― Skipping 1 messages at this point... (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 04:27 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Bunny-Forest-13-Pack/dp/B0065QA1DO/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1389118481&sr=1-1&keywords=honey

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:18 (twelve years ago)

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