Table 4 Themes and concepts of barriers to vegetable consumption from the Active Living Census 2019 (n = 9,601)
Theme | Male & Female | Male | Female | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Concept | Quote | Concept | Quote | Concept | Quote | |
Cost, quality, and time constraints | Cook | “Cost and time and energy to cook and plan meals.” (Participant 5588, 36 years) | Lack | “Lack of time at work to eat sufficiently.” (Participant 5970, 26 years) “Lack of cooking skill.” (Participant 4800, 31 years) “Lack of meal planning.” (Participant 9915, 35 years) | ||
Prepare | “Often food preparation is too time-consuming.” (Participant 6493, 18 years) | Poor | “Time poor with 3 young children.” (Participant 3926, 31 years) “Cost is extremely expensive in Wedderburn and quality is poor.” (Participant 9043, 34 years) | |||
Cost | “Cost from local supermarket is excessive & quality is bad.” (Participant 7361, 42 years) | Busy | “Sometimes skip meals as work so busy.” (Participant 5118, 45 years) | |||
Work | “Getting home late from work, long work < hours sometimes leads to poor dinner choices.” (Participant 4883, 29 years) | Meals | “I only have 2 meals a day due to working shift work hours.” (Participant 6421, 51 years) | |||
Day | “Varies each day due to time and availability to me.” (Participant 8302, 20 years) | |||||
Preference and appetite | Meals | “Time-usually eat one main meal per day.” (Participant 22,906, 59 years) | ||||
Serves | “I eat a balanced diet, five serves seems a lot per day.” (Participant 8482, 41 years) | |||||
Day | “I only eat one meal a day.” (Participant 3141, 53 years) | |||||
Food | “Not hungry enough to eat more food.” (Participant 4013, 24 years) “Have other varieties of food.” (Participant 16,904, 74 years) | |||||
Meal choices and unachievable guidelines | Like | “Don’t like them much. They go off too quickly.” (Participant 9935, 45 years) “I eat a balanced diet, five serves seems a lot per day.” (Participant 8481, 41 years) | ||||
Diet | “I don’t eat 5 serves but I eat a very healthy diet.” (Participant 3164, 67 years) | |||||
Variety of food, appetite and satisfied with current diet | Diet | “I like more variety than just veges.” (Participant 22,085, 50 years) “At 69 years my appetite has decreased.” (Participant 12,467, 69 years) | ||||
Serves | “2 serves is ok for me.” (Participant 228,030, 61 years) | |||||