A few days ago, another report came out stating that the United Kingdom was eating too much salt and stated (for the umpteenth time) that the biggest contributors to the salt intake of the British population was bread and breakfast cereals. Today, as an expermiment, instead of shopping within my means (no more than £20) I went around my local shop in Aberaeron and refused to buy anything with less than 0.5g of salt per 100g and bought my usual items based on that rule. Here's what I bought and the cost

Loaf of bread (did not buy), Soft Cheese (did not buy), Jam £1.50, Shredded Wheat £2.59, Milk 99p, Sugar Alternative £1.59, Hot Meal £3.75 (Small Vegetable Pie), Fromage Fraise £2.70, Pasta £3.99, Packet of Sweet Potato Crisps Total Cost: 18.10

Because my small shop did not have any bread or cheese that matched the requirements, I bought ten slices of Emmental cheese (1g salt per 100g) for £2.25 and usiing a supermarket search engine found that two loaves of low salt bread would cost £5.66 for a grand total of £23.76

Then using that same search engine I looked for the same items but without any salt restriction. Those same items come to a total of just £6.77 (28% of the cost of watching out for salt) and according to the website it says "WOAH! Look at all that salt you have there!"

This is one of the things I shall be bringing up during my local election campaign asking whether the food provided to residents in social care homes (and therefore people who cannot exercise as much as everyone else) is "nutritionally balanced as laid down by UK government guidelines" and at the same time call for a reform of food pricing so that this situation is reversed (so that the low salt foods are charged at the salty food price and vice versa).