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Forget what you think you know — the rules are changing

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Kimberleygillan — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:54:28 GMT

A step-by-step guide to eating healthy on a budget with practical tips

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Kimberleygillan — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:17:11 GMT

How to beat them at their own game.

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Kimberleygillan — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:40:38 GMT

Practical strategies for health-conscious families

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Kimberleygillan — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:53:24 GMT

How to manage your grocery budget in a time of uncertainty

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Kimberleygillan — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 02:30:43 GMT

Because even in an egg crisis, you need cake

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Kimberleygillan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:42:23 GMT

Sharing a kayak with my alter-ego.

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Kimberleygillan — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:16:06 GMT

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Kimberleygillan — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:00:26 GMT

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I found myself in 2023 on a year-long quest. Rather than being armed with a sword, I was armed with the most basic form of economics. I wanted to know the lowest price you would have to pay to meet dietary guidelines in Australia today. This wasn’t supposed to be a critique of the guidelines themselves but before long I stopped in my tracks and realized that, for average incomes, the Australian dietary guidelines were utterly unworkable. So I pivoted to two other countries to see what they did and whether their dietary guidelines were working for them. It turns out that in the U.S.A, U.K and Australia, less than ten per cent of the population are following their country’s dietary guidelines.This should concern us. None of us can reach our full potential without good nutrition. Today, even in these three wealthy nations, malnutrition is impacting as many as one in five of us. It is being raised as a concern in economic forums and it is factoring into life expectancy.

It’s a hidden epidemic because in a wealthy nation you can be morbidly obese and still have malnutrition. Perhaps if we saw emaciated children asking for food on the streets of our brightest cities, we might take action. Instead, it is invisible.

Even the person suffering malnutrition rarely recognizes the early signs. After all, aren’t we all tired these days? Don’t we all suffer from brain fog sometimes? Perhaps when the symptoms become more obvious such as hair loss, frequent infections or rashes, the health care system is called upon for assistance. By then the damage, particularly for childhood development, is already done. It is easier then, to blame the victim or their carers. After all, the dietary guidelines are there, they just have to follow them.Australia has the most stringent guidelines but all of these countries have the same approach. Your diet should be mostly fruits and non-starchy vegetables. Having a background in Food Security this rang alarm bells for me. I was beginning to join the dots and my research was going in a direction I didn’t want to go. This book was never supposed to be an attack on the system. I’m not a nutritional scientist — my work before retirement was economic development and strategic planning. Who was I to question another field of endeavor?I clung to my principles and kept researching, knowing that whatever I came up with was going to need to be airtight. When my feelings of Imposter Syndrome reared up, I reminded myself of the Medici Effect.In 2004 Frans Johansson coined the term ‘the Medici effect.’ It is the idea that innovation can happen where two or more disciplines intersect. Basically we benefit from ‘outsiders’ coming into our profession with a different way of thinking and shaking things up. A great example of this is Jane Jacobs. In 1960 she had no qualifications and yet this sassy American fundamentally turned the field of urban planning on its head. Today every planner across the western world studies her ideas in their first year of university. Her philosophies seem obvious now but were considered radical then.We need a Jane Jacobs wrestling with dietary guidelines today.My belief is that the largest of many obstacles for compliance to these guidelines is cost. Twenty years ago it was still possible to purchase seasonal produce at low prices. Maybe even five years ago. Recent USA figures show that fresh fruit has gone up 21.8% in five years and fresh vegetables 11.3%. Australian and UK prices on fruit and vegetables show a similar inflationary trend.This was not unexpected. In the field of Food Security, it has been predicted for at least two decades that fruits and vegetables along with dairy and meat would be exposed to a litany of challenges right about now. Okay, I don’t recall any price gouging related to the end game of Capitalism being predicted but even without greed coming into the picture, we were always going to be facing higher prices at the checkout for fruits and vegetables.It won’t end here. Brace yourselves because unless we deal with increased extreme weather events, soil depletion, encroachment of housing on farming land, loss of pollinators, more frequent disease epidemics, ageing farmers and depletion in the planet’s potable water supply — fruit and vegetable price inflation is just beginning. As clever as we humans are, I don’t see all of these challenges being overcome in a timely fashion.

If you’re on an above average income in a wealthy country, you can adjust to the higher prices. If you’re not, you’re probably already adjusting. Many are reaching for processed carbohydrates such as ramen noodles, white rice and white bread because they are a cheap way to fill yourself and your family. If you can, you will buy some fruits and vegetables just to color the plate but your diet is overwhelmingly processed carbohydrates. This, I believe, is the main cause of our hidden epidemic.

The end result of my year long quest was to throw away the current recommendations based upon serves of dairy, fruits, vegetables, proteins and fats. Instead, I followed government food composition tables and the recommended amounts required for 17 vitamins and minerals. Plant foods are still plentiful following this method but it favors pulses, seeds, herbs and spices and less sweet fruits. It still follows nutritional science just not the guidelines. In fact a dietitian informed me that my approach was “fine” but dietary guidelines were based upon the five food groups to make them easy to follow. Given that the approach I have used is about 60% cheaper and practically no one follows their approach anyway, this seems a poor excuse. If I was a struggling young mother, I would want to know the alternatives and their job, in my opinion, is to pave that path for us to make it easier.

Food security has never been a more pressing issue. All nations, including the wealthy ones, need dietary guidelines that are realistic for today and tomorrow. While I remain critical of the nutrition sciences, they are not alone in operating within their own bunker, making their policies in isolation. Oh, sure, we all have our public consultations. These are almost always about data gathering to obtain more funding, or worse still, a tick the box exercise. I can say this because I was required to be part of that same system in my own profession and saw it unfold all around me.

It is demoralizing and yet I suspect that there are countless policies and guidelines throughout the world that are not making a damned bit of difference to the problem they wish to tackle. They persist because we can point to them and say that we are doing “something.” Where this occurs, these professions would benefit from other disciplines and those directly impacted by the problem, coming to the table and scattering their papers, even stomping all over them, before sitting down to join them in a true collaboration.

You can find out more about my book: How Low Can You Go? Nutritious meals from $30 per week

About the Author

Kimberley Gillan has a Bachelor of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning and Community Development from La Trobe University Victoria graduating with honours. She also has a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New England, New South Wales with her 2015 dissertation “Dreams of a Northern Food Bowl” on the need to plan for the coming crisis in food production. Kimberley has had a 30 year career in Community Development, Urban Planning and Economic Development all within rural areas of northern Victoria and far northern Queensland. She now writes full time.

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Kimberleygillan — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:45:09 GMT

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The eggs in my local supermarket have tripled in price in a year. Even the caged eggs have a price tag that should come with a ransom note. Avian flu in the southern states of Australia has seen tens of thousands of commercial chickens slaughtered. For the remaining nervous suppliers, it is now a seller’s market. So, a couple of months ago I scratched some figures on the back of an envelope and told my husband, “I’ve done the sums. We’ll get a return on our investment with nine chickens.”“Nine?” he asked, bemused.“Exactly nine. This is statistically the number of chickens that naturally form into clusters or family groups according to studies of commercial barn hen behavior. Happy hens lay more eggs.”“Well, you’ve done your research.”“This is based on a two-year return and selling a dozen eggs per week to cover grain costs,” I added for good measure.Two hours of You Tube analysis and I thought I was set. I had worked out costs for hens, a home-made chicken tractor to house them, feed and an average egg output of five eggs per week per bird over two years.Economic principles teach us that when one sector of the market goes up it can have a ripple effect on other, related sectors. It seems I wasn’t the first one in my area to decide that purchasing point-of-lay hens was suddenly a good idea.

I couldn’t get Isa Browns, the breed that lays the most eggs according to my research. Demand had exceeded supply to the point of a collapse in the Isa Brown market. Instead, I purchased nine Line bred New Hampshire hens. They were not just pure bred, they were line bred, the breeder informed me as she shoved the first flapping, screeching bunch of chestnut feathers into my arms. Being line bred apparently justified the much higher price tag for these nine supermodels. I reminded myself that I had built in a buffer on my ROI and all would be fine.

It turns out that line bred is a polite word for being in-bred. It is all about meeting show standards. Oh, and the egg outlay of these exceptionally beautiful hens is expected to be 3 eggs per week each on average. As my sums required 18 eggs, I figured I should still break even. I wasn’t sweating on it yet.

We changed our minds about keeping them in a chicken tractor because, well, not for economic reasons. It was just so nice to watch them run and flap about after seeing how they had been crammed in together in their previous home. Other people in our area had chickens free ranging around their house. Why not us?This is where Scarlet Houdini O’Hara comes into the picture.She is the prettiest of my flock and she knows it. Her deep russet red, copper and black plumage shines as if each feather contains its own inner light. It’s all too easy to get suckered in by her looks but here is a bird of uncanny intellect.On the first day of free ranging my little flock did stay near the house but the next day Scarlet was gone. After hours of searching in the dark with a flashlight, we gave up on ever seeing her again. At feeding time the next morning, she was skulking about outside the coop like a teenager returning after a night on the town.Neighbors advised clipping her wings. We refused. Instead we set to work building a chicken run big enough for running in. Many trips to the hardware store followed. I threw caution to the wind. This would be a chicken run for flapping and even flying in. Le Coop de Chill, we called it. Chicken heaven.Only Scarlet Houdini O’Hara didn’t think so. If the slightest breeze ruffled those pretty feathers, she was gone…with the wind. Higher and higher we built those walls. So, she went under. The more gaps we filled, the more she found. Not content to escape on her own anymore, she would incite a stampede taking the whole flock with her. She was now the alpha chicken.I should mention that chicken feed has also gone up exponentially on my initial figures — that whole ripple effect I told you about earlier. So has chicken mesh, chicken feeders and the special supplement meant to encourage egg laying.Many weeks on we got our first egg. It was Scarlet’s. I watched her lay it, standing on the side lines cheering her on. Perhaps we connected in that moment when her eyes looked into mine and I congratulated her on being a woman now. Yeah, nah, probably not.After a python took two of our ladies in just over a week, leaving me in a wobbly state of tears, we decided we needed a better coop. Besides the ones in the hardware store looked like little cottages with their pitched roofs and Georgian windows. Never mind the price tag. Our ladies did start laying more eggs though. I suspect the lack of pythons had more to do with it than the Georgian windows.That brings us to today. At this point, 10weeks into the project we have a total of 14 eggs on the balance sheet and over a thousand dollars invested. I estimate that we would need these hens to lay 3300 eggs to break even. Yet when I let them out each morning and watch them stretch and flap, I linger a while. Watching chickens is great therapy so in other ways I am seeing a rich return on my investment.Scarlet Houdini O’Hara and her harem remind me that economics is not a science. At best it is a flawed and highly optimistic set of calculations kicked into the dirt and trampled on by humans and chickens alike, each with their own agendas. It is a parody of how we think we will behave but seldom do. Yet we continue to navigate the world with all its absurdities and complexities thinking that we can manage, even control this chaos with theories of how we will behave in a given scenario. Despite my longing for answers through the prism of economics, it is hardly surprising that with so many moving parts, economics alone will get it wrong more often than it gets it right.

Using economics it establishes the lowest price you need to pay to meet nutritional requirements.