Has healthy eating become a luxury?

[sparkindarkness]

As people know from my previous rambles, including my rant against the pernicious evil that is Wheatabix and my righteous fury against Special K I have some issues with healthy food

Comments

[elrohana]

Its surprising what you can do if you want to. For nearly 2 years I fed myself, DH and a bottomless pit of a housemate (who didn't contribute any money to the household) on our two salaries (neither of which was as good as it is now), as well as the 3 cats and a dog, and we ate very healthily - ironically, better than the 2 of us do now as I have gotten lazy now we have money. We didn't eat meat often but we did eat a lot of tinned tuna and mackerel and very healthy veggie stuff (lots of beans and pulses). I'm a good cook, and I got better years ago when I cooked for 3 years for myself, the then OH, and 3 lodgers on a budget of about £50 quid a week (that included tea, coffee, milk, cereal etc, and an evening meal 7 days a week). I shopped a lot at Netto and at Leeds market. I held down a full time job and kept the house clean and tidy pretty much singlehanded too. Ok no kids involved, but during the cooking for lodgers phase at times I was doing 2 jobs, one full-time plus a part-time pub job 3 evenings a week plus weekends. It CAN be done, but you need to a) know how and b) MAKE the time to do it. I rarely watched telly then and I don't watch it at all now, but back in those days I didn't have much time for hobbies either. I do see your point, and I do agree its hard work to avoid all the crap.

[sparkindarkness]

Oh I'd never weant to say it's IMPOSSIBLE :)

But it's hard. Really damn hard. As you say it's immensely hard work - and it often isn't as appetising, especially if you don't have the skills