This document contains responses from several individuals involved in the fruit and vegetable industry and education regarding healthy eating, barriers to consuming 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day, and promoting healthy diets. Those interviewed include sandwich shop owners, a home cook, a delivery driver, a food technology teacher, and a nursery head teacher. Common challenges identified were cost, convenience, and making fruits and vegetables appealing. Interviewees also discussed strategies for encouraging healthy eating in schools, at home, and within their own diets.

2. 2 SANDWICH SHOP OWNERS
1. What do you think the major difficulties are for people managing to get fruit and vegetables into their
diet?
2. As a shop owner, do you believe that the cost of fruit and vegetables is too high for the average person,
wanting to get fruit and vegetables into their diet?
3. Do you think people get enough fruit and veg in a day?
4. Would you agree or disagree that 5-a-day is too difficult to achieve?
5. Would you agree that customers have increased over the years?
6. In what ways do you try to employ healthy eating into your diet?
7. What are the difficulties in successfully running an independent fruit and veg business?
8. What major difficulties do you face in running an independent Fruit and Veg shop e.g. competing with
supermarkets?
9. Do you think that there is a high demand for fruit and vegetables from your business and in general and
is it increasing?
10. What’s you favourite fruit or vegetable?

3. SANDY FROM BERYLL’S SANDWICH SHOP

4. GARY FROM AS U LIKE IT SANDWICH SHOP

5. MOTHER
1. Do you think the costs of fruit and vegetables are too high for the average person wanting to eat
healthily?
2. What problems do you find in making sure you and your children eat healthily?
3. In what ways do you try and encourage your children to eat healthily and make sure they understand
the importance of doing so?
4. Where do you most often shop for your fruit and vegetables?
5. Is it hard to ensure that you yourself as well as your children are eating healthily?
6. Do you think there needs to be more support for working class people when it comes to eating
healthily?
7. Do you think 7-a-day is unreasonable for a person to consume in a day?
8. Do you get your 5-a-day?
9. What’s you favourite fruit or vegetable?

6. NICCI A HOME COOK FOR HER CHILDREN

7. FRUIT AND VEGETABLE DELIVERY DRIVER
1. Do you get your 5-a-day and how do try and take control of healthy eating within your own diet?
2. What are the difficulties for you in getting fruit and vegetables into your diet as well as your children?
3. What are the problems do you find with working in the fruit and vegetable industry from a worker's point
of view?
4. Do you think that there is a high demand for fruit and vegetables from your business and in general?
5. Do you think that desire for fruit and vegetables is increasing?
6. Do you think fruit and vegetables are more accessible now than they were 5-10 years ago?
7. Why do you think it is important that people get fruit and vegetables into their diet and take control of
their healthy eating?
8. What’s you favourite fruit or vegetable?

8. IAIN THE DELIVERY DRIVER FOR FINE FRUITS

9. FOOD TECHNOLOGY TEACHER
1. How do you try and educate students on the benefits of eating healthily?
2. In what ways do you try and encourage them to have their own independence in healthy consumption?
3. Do you think schools should offer less unhealthy food and if so how do you think they can be changed?
4. How do you make fruit and vegetables more appealing to students, how is this employed into the
curriculum and your own lessons?
5. In your opinion, do schools promote 5-a-day efficiently enough within schools?
6. What’s you favourite fruit or vegetable?
7. Do children seem avid to include fruit and vegetables into their cooking?
8. In what ways is unhealthy eating discouraged within your lessons and the school curriculum?
9. In what ways do you try and take control of healthy eating within your own diet and how are you
influenced in order to do so?
10. Do you think that 5-a-day is achievable?
11. what major difficulties do you find with people eating healthily?

10. MISS KELL A FOOD TEACHER AT A HIGH SCHOOL

11. NURSERY HEAD TEACHER
1. What ways do you get children to eat fruit and vegetables within school e.g how do you make them
appealing?
2. What problems do you find with children eating fruit and vegetables?
3. Why do you think it is important to get fruit and veg into a children's diet?
4. Why do you think it is important to get children eating fruit and veg from an early age?
5. Would you agree that educational institutions enforce enough fruit and vegetables into children's diets?
6. Do you get your 5-a-day as well as your children?
7. What’s you favourite fruit or vegetable?
8. In what ways are you personally influenced to eat healthily?

12. BRUNA KELL A LOCAL NURSERY HEAD TEACHER