Junk food: Wales may ban meal deals to tackle obesity

A loaf of bread is £1.70, 2x preprepped chicken £5.00, Some mixed leaves is £1.10, And tap water is free.

So in total that's £7.80 for way over a weeks worth of sandwiches.

A meal deal of one sandwich and a drink is £5. Is for one day. A week of that is £25.

I will never understand how anyone can see a meal deal as being a deal.

The unaffordability isn't an issue as folk with little or nothing seem to still find nearly £25 worth of Maccy Ds, £20 quids worth of Domino's etc. Multiple times a week out of nowhere as well as buying a sandwich for £5.

If folks can afford all of that junk food and claim they are poor, then they're not poor, they're just dense.

But for anyone that can only afford to make their own meals; they are very poor. So this won't affect poor people at all. Ironically I make my own not out of poverty but because you can afford better quality ingredients when shopping normally and making it yourself; I.e. all of the cost saving goes directly into better meat. The inflated cost for instant food preprepped means folk are paying over the odds for convenience and worse food.

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