The starchy food you list is a not expensive, but you have to cook it. Cooking costs. And I think home cooked food will be a casualty of the fuel price rises. Which is very unfortunate.jois wrote: ↑24 Sep 2022, 6:33pmI don't think that's is necessarily the case. Depending of course on what you call exspensive and healthy.pwa wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 10:50am Sugar is high in calories, and cheap. If I wanted to fill up on sugary stuff I could do it without spending a lot. So even the poor can afford to be fat. But cooking is now becoming expensive, with fuel price rises, so preparing healthy cooked food from raw ingedients is already beyond some people's budget. Meat has become very expensive. Quick to heat ready meals are a costly way to feed yourself. The only cheap way of getting your calories is sugary stuff. With little protein, vitamins and minerals.
Certainly a diet healthier than a load of sugar isn't greatly exspensive. Rice is cheap.pasta is cheap potatos are cheap frozen veg is cheap. Some meat is relatively cheap.
Sugar of course is addictive, there are more issues than finding cheap cals to replace it , to stopping eating so much of it
I don't recommend that anyone resort to a diet of sugar, but I think some people are being nudged that way by a combination of sugar's addictiveness and its cheapness. The cheapest calories out there are sugary.