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human
Whenever the 'healthier is cheaper' debate comes up, I always have 1 thing to pull out:

A 1200 calorie cheesecake is 85p.

Cooking anything for 30 minutes adds another 20p to the cost of a meal.

Find me a meal that isn't basically just potato on a plate that's even comparable.

When your diet is boiling down to cereal, sandwiches (god forbid you want cheese on it) and potatoes, everything else that's actually worth a damn for health is expensive when it needs to be used in a meal.

Meats are still pretty cheap right now too because of subsidies etc, but god knows someone will complain to me about that as well.
gpt
Where do you pay 85p for a 1200kcal cheesecake

1200kcal in pure sugar alone would be ~300g, which would cost you like 30-40p in most 1st world countries.