Food Stress in Adelaide: The Relationship between Low Income and the Affordability of Healthy Food

Table 3

Components of healthy food basket costed in various shopping venues.

Basket items	Product size	Costed in supermarkets	Costed in specialty shops (greengrocers)	Costed in specialty shops (butchers)
Cereal group
White bread	650 g	X
Wholemeal bread	650 g	X
Crumpets (rounds)	300 g	X
Weet-bix	750 g	X
Instant oats	500 g	X
Pasta	500 g	X
White rice	1 kg	X
Instant noodles	85 g	X
Premium biscuits	250 g	X
Fruit
Apples	Per 1 kg	X	X
Oranges	Per 1 kg	X	X
Bananas	Per 1 kg	X	X
Tinned fruit salad, natural juice	450 g	X
Sultanas	375 g	X
Orange juice (100%) NAS	2 L	X
Vegetables, legumes
Tomatoes	Per 1 kg	X	X
Potatoes	Per 1 kg	X	X
Pumpkin	Per 1 kg	X	X
Cabbage	Half	X	X
Lettuce	Whole	X	X
Carrots	Per 1 kg	X	X
Onions	Per 1 kg	X	X
Frozen peas	Per 1 kg	X
Tinned tomatoes	400 g	X
Tinned beetroot	450 g	X
Tinned corn kernels	440 g	X
Tinned baked beans	420 g	X
Meat and alternatives
Fresh bacon, short cut, rindless	Per 1 kg	X		X
Fresh ham	Per 1 kg	X		X
Beef mince, regular	Per 1 kg	X		X
Lamb chops, forequarter	Per 1 kg	X		X
Chicken fillets, skin off	Per 1 kg	X		X
Sausages, thin beef	Per 1 kg	X		X
Large eggs (min 50 g, caged)	700 g dozen	X		X
Tinned tuna (unsat. oil)	425 g	X
Tinned salmon, pink (water)	210 g	X
Dairy
Fresh full-cream milk	1 L	X
Fresh reduced-fat milk	2 L	X
Reduced-fat flavoured yoghurt	1 kg tub	X
Full-fat long-life milk	1 L	X
Cheese, block	500 g	X
Noncore foods
Polyunsaturated margarine	500 g	X
White sugar	1 kg	X
Canola oil	750 mL	X