Abstract
A major part of the cost-of-living crisis, which is hitting whānau across Aotearoa New Zealand hard, is the cost-of-healthy-food crisis. Fruit and vegetable prices have increased at a much higher rate than unhealthy packaged foods, and the impact is being felt by low-, and increasingly middle-income households. Doubling the reach of Ka Ora, Ka Ako, the free, healthy school lunches programme, from one quarter to at least half of all school children, is an obvious and readily available policy response to New Zealand’s unacceptably high household food insecurity.