Healthy meals on a budget

6 Minute English

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Is eating healthily always expensive? Pippa and Georgie discuss this and teach you some vocabulary.

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0:00.0	6 Minute English from BBC LearningEnglish.com.
0:07.5	Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Pippa.
0:12.4	And I'm Georgie. In this programme, we're talking about saving money on food. Pippa, are you good at saving money on your food shop?
0:20.2	I think I'm quite good. I plan what I like to cook,
0:23.5	so I don't waste money in the supermarket. How about you, Georgie? I'm not very good. I usually go to
0:29.9	the supermarket when I'm hungry, so I end up buying lots of snacks. Oh, that's a terrible idea. Well,
0:36.0	in this program, we'll be learning about one way to save money on the food we eat.
0:40.8	But first, I've got a question for you, Georgie.
0:43.5	The most expensive restaurant in the world is thought to be a restaurant called Sublimotion in Ibiza,
0:49.4	which only has 12 customers each night.
0:52.6	But how much in euros is a meal per person at the restaurant?
0:57.0	A, 650 euros, B, 1,650 euros, or C, 2,650 euros?
1:05.6	Hmm, the most expensive.
1:07.6	I'll go with C, 2,650 euros. Well, we'll find out the answer at the end of the programme.
1:15.2	Now, food in the UK is getting more expensive as it has been in many parts of the world,
1:20.6	and some people are struggling to afford their food shopping. But BBC World Service programme,
1:26.7	People Fixing the World, has been finding out
1:28.9	about a project called Bags of Taste, which helps people save money on their food shopping and
1:34.5	improve their diet at the same time. Bags of something is an informal way to say a lot of something.
1:40.7	The founder of Bags of Taste, Alicia Weston, became concerned that people in the
1:45.3	UK with less money found it difficult to afford a healthy diet. People in poverty are eating
1:50.7	the worst diets and they are getting sicker, younger, and we know that diets are the single
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