Ready to Eat Foods

This study tells us that access to supermarkets does matter – people reported that they would eat more produce if they could shop more often, however, access is not the biggest factor affecting what people eat. The biggest factor is that many people simply don’t have enough money to spend on food. So, while efforts to improve physical access to healthy foods are valuable, they don’t address the fundamental challenge of affordability.

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The typical American diet, with its emphasis on fast food and frozen food, is a consumption pattern reflective of, and symptomatic of, our production patterns -- what kind of jobs we find ourselves going to day-in and day-out, and the way these jobs encourage us to see the world we live in. If people are more apt to think of themselves as consumers rather than producers, if gratification is associated with consumption rather than working, doing, and making, we have only to bear in mind that this is a society where work is either unattainable or alienating. (Willis, A Primer For Daily Life, "Learning From the Banana," page 59)

People nowadays are so focused on the material aspect of our lives advertised by shiny commercials and social media frenzies that they have forgotten the basic, most rudimentary and essential aspect of our life: food. Now we might say that the consumer is waking up, that he is fed up with all the GMO infused chicken breast, and pesticides used in our crops that are

Sometimes consumers have to pay from quality over quantity when it comes to certain types of food. Rachel Lauden, historian and author who had written extensively about the intersection of food and science, says that ‘modernism had provided what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, novel and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford (Laudan, 1). This is another reason for the popular demand has so much to say about processed foods. They would rather buy processed food because it is cheaper, but then complain that there are too many chemicals and unknown things in their food. Cost is a big role in the obesity factor in this country; we live in a country where cheeseburgers cost less than a salad at a restaurant or a drive

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The body of research literature that currently exists regarding strategies to improve food environment through improved geographic access and consumer experience can be further categorized into a few different stratum. These sects are broadly categorized as; strategies aimed at retail food

Millennials represent over 83 million citizens in the United States which is over a quarter of the nation's population (United States Census Bureau). Although the millennial disposable income is less than the previous generation ($12,000 less), millennials expect more for their money when they spend it (Market line). The expectation for more for their money directly relates towards their food habits. When millennials choose what food they want, they consider the experience associated with the food they purchase. The combination of the unique experience cooking and the affordable meal kit is substantially important to millennials when they choose what food they want.

The fast food industry in America seems to make up to $120 billion a year due to the high consumption rate of their products (Schlosser, 2002). Also, people from the UK are the highest fast food consumers in Europe and the number of fast food restaurants have doubled between the years 1984 and 1993. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in fast food purchases of males and females according to their gender and age in the UK. A survey in the form of a questionnaire was conducted on 200 males and 200 females aged between 15 and 70 from different parts of the UK. Those participants were chosen if they had responded ‘Yes’

The choice of food by a consumer is predominantly affected by convenience. The growth of home delivery for supplies, microwave dinners, drive-thru windows, and internet shopping is an indication that most consumers are driven by convenience in the determination of choices (Jaeger and Meiselman, 2004, p.318). Customers use convenience to establish how, what, why, when, with whom, and where to eat (Costa et al., 2005, p.79). Jaeger, S.R., Cardello, A., V. (2007, p.238), argued that the achievement of proper nutrition by individuals if often affected by the convenience of getting fruits and vegetables. The Australian Bureau of Statistics in their recent report showed that the expenditure on fast foods by households is high in comparison to other healthy foods.

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