Comments on: Silly statistics

By: MatGB

MatGB — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:48:11 +0000

Then there’re other points. My parents (in Devon) still grow a lot of their own veg. Allotments are very popular up here in Yorkshire, where there’s a fair bit of spare land.

How much land for growing your own is there in London these days?

We used to buy a bag of fresh washed salad leaves every week or so, now we have window boxes with everything we need, giving us more money for those unhealthy crisps…

By: Monty

Monty — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:36:52 +0000

Timmy, if you’re interested, I could give you a regular update on prices of fresh produce. I’m in Northumberland.

I don’t fart around at Marks and Spencer, I go for the best value and that usually means the discount supermarkets like Aldi.

But there is another tack. The major supermarkets have websites don’t they? And you can log on and build a shopping basket for say Tesco. But they require a delivery postcode. If we sorted out a standard basket of items, it would be interesting to see the price comparison between the North, and the South East, for the same items.

Just a thought…

By: Wolfie

Wolfie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:32:29 +0000

So if I want to save money I should buy snack food rather than fruit and veg? Thanks for the tip.

By: Ian Reid

Ian Reid — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:21:35 +0000

Notice the denormalisation of snack food creeping in there. All snack food is unhealthy don’t you know. No evidence is ever presented for this claim of course. If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth.