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Are you arguing that a complete, healthy evening meal should cost less in Tesco than a packet of crisps? That's not sensible or helpful, or even the underlying problem.

And anyway wouldn't something like bulk rice or porridge be cheaper?

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Obesity has nothing to do with what you eat but with how much of it you eat.

> And anyway wouldn't something like bulk rice or porridge be cheaper?

But would it be healthier? A giant lump of carb laced with arsenic?

Crisps are already a giant lump of carbohydrates, but I wasn't arguing they were healthier, I was saying that making a entire healthy meal in a supermarket cheaper than a packet of crisps is not realistic.

If you were making a statement on poverty, I agree with you. Too many people are poor.

I was joking about the bloody crisps, of course :) That being said, many studies link obesity and income inequality: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1733121/

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