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Speaker 1: Few of us can afford to purchase the healthy food

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Speaker 1: that we need at the supermarket. Data from the Ministry

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Speaker 1: of Social Development shows that nearly half of us are

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Speaker 1: cutting back on our food and veggie intake at the supermarket.

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Speaker 1: Why you guessed? At cost A Living the number has

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Speaker 1: doubled since twenty eighteen. Michael Vanders sorry van der Elson,

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Speaker 1: is host of Eat Well for Less and joins me

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. Michael get a after Ryan, you're right, yep,

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Speaker 1: very well, thank you. Is it how hard is it

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Speaker 1: to afford healthy fruit and veggies?

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Speaker 2: Well, I hasnen't to not ask that question. I asked

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Speaker 2: the question of if we are not buying fruit and veggies,

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Speaker 2: what are we buying to fill our bellies? Are we

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Speaker 2: just going without? Or are we going to the likes

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Speaker 2: of fast food places?

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately the numbers speak for themselves on that, don't they.

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Speaker 2: So what do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's the latter. So is the supermarket? Where

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Speaker 1: do you get your your groceries from? You know, your

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Speaker 1: fruit and vegel Is it supermarkets or do you go

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Speaker 1: to a fruit and veggie shop?

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Speaker 2: Well, we grow we grow it all here on our farm.

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Speaker 2: But I was leading up to this, I was doing

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Speaker 2: a bit of research. I was just running through some websites,

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Speaker 2: having a look at some supermarkets, and you know, proptly

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Speaker 2: is two dollars fifty ahead, carrots are two dollars thirty.

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Speaker 2: Potatoes are three dollars twenty nine. Half a cabbage is

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Speaker 2: four dollars fifty. I don't see a crazy price in

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Speaker 2: what I would put onto a plate at nighttime. Yes,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to put grapes on there at fourteen dollars,

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Speaker 2: maybe we won't go down that road. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: kind of like dairy has gone through the roof in

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Speaker 2: the last you know, it's six months to a year.

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Speaker 2: Are we cutting back on the amount of butter that

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Speaker 2: we're using and we're cutting back on the amount of

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Speaker 2: yogurt that we're consuming, Yes, we probably are. But when

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Speaker 2: it comes to fruit and veg I don't see a

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Speaker 2: massive spike in prices. Maybe for the the more kind

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Speaker 2: of wanter haves, maybe the pineapples and the watermelons and

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Speaker 2: the plums and things that we shouldn't be eating at

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Speaker 2: this time of the year. But look at potatoes, look

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Speaker 2: at our basics, our basic fruit and vegetalles that will

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Speaker 2: pull us up. You know, bananas at three dollars sixty

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Speaker 2: nine a kilo. Has that gone bananas in the last

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Speaker 2: six months to a year in price? I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: So where where is this data coming from that they

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Speaker 2: are saying that it's all gone up so much? Because

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Speaker 2: I don't see it in the everyday products that we buy.

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Speaker 2: I just don't.

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Speaker 1: Is there a problem with doing frozen veggies? Are they

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Speaker 1: literal nutritious?

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Speaker 2: Not at all? Bobby? If not more because they are

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Speaker 2: snap frozen right there when they're collected. Kelo of frozen

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Speaker 2: vegetables and a supermarket just around the corner from where

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Speaker 2: we live in commune three dollars sixty nine for a

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Speaker 2: kilo of frozen vegetables. The beauty about frozen vegetables is

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Speaker 2: you use what you need. What you don't need remains

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Speaker 2: in the freezer. They stay good for six months. Once

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Speaker 2: thatt's gone, you go out and you buy some more

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Speaker 2: and it stays in your freezer. Frozen mixed Berry's ten

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Speaker 2: dollars for a kilo bag. You know, if you're having

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Speaker 2: you smoothie in the morning and you're having to go

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Speaker 2: without because mangoes are six dollars fifty just buy the

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Speaker 2: frozen ones. They're just as good, They're just as tasty.

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Speaker 2: And when they go into a smoothie, who knows if

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Speaker 2: the fresh or frozen, they're probably better frozen. So I

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Speaker 2: think when people say fruit and vegetables are to afford

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Speaker 2: or too expensive to afford, I think we need to

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Speaker 2: kind of just step back and go what are we buying?

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Speaker 2: Are we buying strawberries in winter? Are we buying plums

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Speaker 2: in winter? Are we buying stuff out of season? Because

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Speaker 2: from what I see when I go past the fruit

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Speaker 2: and bed shop and they've got the big blackboard out

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Speaker 2: there with all the chalk on there going two heads

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Speaker 2: a cauliflower for a dollar fifty, I buy them. You

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Speaker 2: just need to use your nuts a little bit. You

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Speaker 2: need to think about what you're buying and the time

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Speaker 2: that you're buying it, and sometimes we may not get

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Speaker 2: what we want at that particular time of the year.

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Speaker 1: Michael, appreciate your time. Michael Van der Elson, who's host

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Speaker 1: of Eat Well for Less fourteen after four bread read well,

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Speaker 1: how's that for a strong opinion to start the program?

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Speaker 1: How do we feel about that? Do you do you agree?

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a farm, so I'm sure some

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Speaker 1: of you who shop weekly will be saying thinking otherwise.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the numbers from stats and

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Speaker 1: they have gone up. But as he said, it's seasonal stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can pick and choose, and not everything

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Speaker 1: has gone up astronomically, has it? So what do you

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Speaker 1: do at your house? Nine two ninety two.

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