Will It Help

[sandra4444]

With the price of food on the up including all the naughty treats of sweets and chocolates, plus takeaways may become a lot less affordable. Do you think it will help obesity problems?

[Zacs-Master]

No, it will worsen them. The hard of thinking can't see past their waistlines and will nearly always default to comfort food.

[naomi24]

Doubt it. I think what people choose to eat is a state of mind.

[Redhelen72]

No - those foods are an addiction and just like drugs and booze there will always be away to find the money to pay for them.

[youngmafbog]

No it wont.

Unfortunately to eat healthily you really need to be able (and want) to cook. Many at the poorer end of the scale do not and rely on cheap junk foods such as sausage rolls or turkey twizzlers, Sunny D and many other similar things as they fill you up. Problem is they also expand your waistline.

[youngmafbog]

Its also down to the moving about, I remember as a kid we would have bread and dripping (loved it) but if that ran out Lard on bread with salt and pepper. But we were not fat as everyone moved around. A Tubby kid at school was in the minority.

[sandra4444]

Due to the rocketing price of frying oil, gas/ electric for fryers, general energy prices for all takeaways may force people to cut back, regardless to them not looking further than their waistline.

A look in the wallet /purse may become more important, and they will have no choice.

[sandra4444]

12.47 Well the massive fuel costs may even see a reduction in the use of hours on the X box. :)

[youngmafbog]

It's not the takeaways, most at the poorer end of the scale dont buy them but you will find them in Iceland buying items similar to what I have mentioned. And they are cheap filling food.

[sandra4444]

Even cheap filling foods are on the up and up. Someone mentioned sausage rolls. The likes of Greggs are struggling, not only with the price of making the roll, but the price of cooking it.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, but they will still remain cheaper by comparison.

Many wont go into Greggs for the sausage rolls but buy them in Iceland.

[sandra4444]

Iceland sell Greggs products so any increase will be passed on to Iceland?

[naomi24]

Regardless of price rises overweight people aren't suddenly going to become huge fans of carrots.

[Prudie]

I'd be interested to know if takeaway outlets are noticing a dip in business lately as a result of the cost of living rises. I seriously doubt it. McDs and KFC for example remain a relatively cheap meal anyway.

[naomi24]

McDonalds isn’t cheap to feed a family, Prudie. A couple of kids’ Happy Meals work out to over £5 - and they are only small meals for small children. They wouldn’t do for bigger kids. Add the cost of whatever mum and dad are having and you’re looking at quite a lot of money for just one meal.

[Redhelen72]

Perhaps the people to blame are the parents of those that now feed their children junk food.
If they had taught their children to cook, their grandchildren would not be eating all this rubbish.

[Prudie]

I may be suffering from blinkered ignorance I accept. To me £10 to feed a family of 4 seems quite cheap. I don't personally use McDs but I thought they advertised a basic burger in a bun for 99p?

[dannyk13]

Schools used to teach Domestic Science(cookery) but I believe they no longer do.

[jno]

would I be right in thinking they only taught it to girls, dannyk?

[piggynose]

I'm a bloke and I got domestic science at school.

[naomi24]

They do offer a cheap plain burger, Prudie, but that’s not a meal. I’ve had a google if their price list and I’d be surprised if a family of four having a meal and a drink would get change from £20 - or even more.