stardust21
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I’m really sorry, but I am just about to get on my soap box and have a good old rant…
I hate “yOuR oNlY JealOus” arguments. The fact is, I’m privileged and I know it. I’m in my late 20’s yet own my own house. I have a job that pays well and I enjoy. I have disposable income that means I can go to restaurants as expensive as Ella’s and do other things with my friends. None of this is meant as a gloat or whatever, I just mean that I am perfectly happy with the life I have and don’t particularly want Ella’s.
And honestly this is why Ella frustrates me. My household income is higher than the average, and I don’t have any children. Yet eating the way Ella does would be so costly for me. All organic (she has spoken a lot about “the dirty dozen” in the past). No ultra-processed foods etc is incredibly expensive. I do buy organic fruit and veg because of the pesticides ruining the insect population but the only reason I can afford to do this is because I am privileged. I wouldn’t be able to do it if I had 3 children for example and I needed to pay for their nurseries, clothing etc. I wouldn’t be able to do it if I was earning 18k and having to support myself fully.
There is a major issue in our food supply chain that means that eating majority fruit and veg diets, especially organic, is out of reach for most people. The average household in the UK is 2.4 people and the average food spend is £97 per week, which includes eating out. A meal at Ella’s restaurant will set you back £70/£80 for two people. That’s nearly the average households entire weekly food spend on one meal.
Fruit and veg cost nearly 50% more per calorie than ultra processed foods. If you have a limited amount of money to dedicate to food, of course you will opt for buying a readymeal for £2 instead of spending your income on multiple ingredients to make a meal.
That is completely forgetting about people who are time poor, and people who do not have education on the pros and cons of eating processed foods. It’s also a complete disregard for the fact that companies like Coke, McDonalds, Dominos and other major food manufacturers spend billions manipulating food to make people crave it. The Van Tulleken Dr Brothers have done an absolutely fantastic podcast on this which actually discusses all of the barriers people face.
For Ella to preach about the environmental impacts of meat and processed foods etc, is in my opinion really fucking shitty. Simply because she does absolutely nothing to alter the obstacles that exist for most people. She has 2million followers on Instagram, she could easily be running campaigns to help improve public health diet. But all she wants to do is latch on to the latest popular thing to say so her audience boots her ego.
She doesn’t give a fuck about the environment. She’s made it perfectly clear her diet was completely based on health benefits. She doesn’t give a fuck about people otherwise she would acknowledge and try to help people who can’t access what she has…
All in all, slating Ella doesn’t mean you’re jealous of her. I slate Boris Johnson all the time and I’m not jealous of him
I hate “yOuR oNlY JealOus” arguments. The fact is, I’m privileged and I know it. I’m in my late 20’s yet own my own house. I have a job that pays well and I enjoy. I have disposable income that means I can go to restaurants as expensive as Ella’s and do other things with my friends. None of this is meant as a gloat or whatever, I just mean that I am perfectly happy with the life I have and don’t particularly want Ella’s.
And honestly this is why Ella frustrates me. My household income is higher than the average, and I don’t have any children. Yet eating the way Ella does would be so costly for me. All organic (she has spoken a lot about “the dirty dozen” in the past). No ultra-processed foods etc is incredibly expensive. I do buy organic fruit and veg because of the pesticides ruining the insect population but the only reason I can afford to do this is because I am privileged. I wouldn’t be able to do it if I had 3 children for example and I needed to pay for their nurseries, clothing etc. I wouldn’t be able to do it if I was earning 18k and having to support myself fully.
There is a major issue in our food supply chain that means that eating majority fruit and veg diets, especially organic, is out of reach for most people. The average household in the UK is 2.4 people and the average food spend is £97 per week, which includes eating out. A meal at Ella’s restaurant will set you back £70/£80 for two people. That’s nearly the average households entire weekly food spend on one meal.
Fruit and veg cost nearly 50% more per calorie than ultra processed foods. If you have a limited amount of money to dedicate to food, of course you will opt for buying a readymeal for £2 instead of spending your income on multiple ingredients to make a meal.
That is completely forgetting about people who are time poor, and people who do not have education on the pros and cons of eating processed foods. It’s also a complete disregard for the fact that companies like Coke, McDonalds, Dominos and other major food manufacturers spend billions manipulating food to make people crave it. The Van Tulleken Dr Brothers have done an absolutely fantastic podcast on this which actually discusses all of the barriers people face.
For Ella to preach about the environmental impacts of meat and processed foods etc, is in my opinion really fucking shitty. Simply because she does absolutely nothing to alter the obstacles that exist for most people. She has 2million followers on Instagram, she could easily be running campaigns to help improve public health diet. But all she wants to do is latch on to the latest popular thing to say so her audience boots her ego.
She doesn’t give a fuck about the environment. She’s made it perfectly clear her diet was completely based on health benefits. She doesn’t give a fuck about people otherwise she would acknowledge and try to help people who can’t access what she has…
All in all, slating Ella doesn’t mean you’re jealous of her. I slate Boris Johnson all the time and I’m not jealous of him
that is not what balancing motherhood is.
