400g of cooked lentils is $4 at the IGA near my dad. That’s 2 RDI servings.
I can get a 400g tin for about 80c in the city where I live, but I can also get 250g of dried lentils for $2-3, which will easily give me 1kg of cooked lentils.
The tuna is only a 110g can for $1.50, one RDI serving.
Both the tinned tuna and tinned lentils contain a lot of water weight, which is why I’m focused on “per serving”, where the tuna is cheaper.
I’m not arguing that protein per gram per cent, the dry lentils are always cheaper, but they litteraly don’t sell dried lentils at the shop near my dad.
That’s what I’m saying, food deserts are strange places where import costs, supplier contracts and shipping logistics means that lentils are expensive and tuna is comparatively “cheap”. Just 250km away lentils are a pittance and tuna is a reasonable expected price. ($1.50 for 100g of tinned tuna is average almost everywhere across metropolitan areas in Australia from my quick look at swapping my postcode around on woolworths, small town IGA is harder to check because they’re independent, so I’ve only got my local metro IGA and my father’s remote IGA as reference. My local metropolitan IGA price matches Coles and Woolworths pretty closely, but it’s the wild west once you’re out malee)
The idea that food is the price it is and that’s the price to expect everywhere is how small communities in food deserts end up slipping through the cracks when grocery prices shift in either direction in larger population centres.
Huh?
400g of cooked lentils is $4 at the IGA near my dad. That’s 2 RDI servings.
I can get a 400g tin for about 80c in the city where I live, but I can also get 250g of dried lentils for $2-3, which will easily give me 1kg of cooked lentils.
The tuna is only a 110g can for $1.50, one RDI serving.
Both the tinned tuna and tinned lentils contain a lot of water weight, which is why I’m focused on “per serving”, where the tuna is cheaper.
I’m not arguing that protein per gram per cent, the dry lentils are always cheaper, but they litteraly don’t sell dried lentils at the shop near my dad.
Your prices are whack. You have the cheapest tuna in the world, yet the most expensive beans in the world.
That’s what I’m saying, food deserts are strange places where import costs, supplier contracts and shipping logistics means that lentils are expensive and tuna is comparatively “cheap”. Just 250km away lentils are a pittance and tuna is a reasonable expected price. ($1.50 for 100g of tinned tuna is average almost everywhere across metropolitan areas in Australia from my quick look at swapping my postcode around on woolworths, small town IGA is harder to check because they’re independent, so I’ve only got my local metro IGA and my father’s remote IGA as reference. My local metropolitan IGA price matches Coles and Woolworths pretty closely, but it’s the wild west once you’re out malee)
The idea that food is the price it is and that’s the price to expect everywhere is how small communities in food deserts end up slipping through the cracks when grocery prices shift in either direction in larger population centres.