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Development of the Spanish Healthy Food Reference Budget for an adequate social participation at the minimum Carrillo Álvarez, Elena Cussó Parcerisas, Irene Riera Romaní, Jordi Economia domèstica - comptabilitat Cost i nivell de vida Família Nutrició Objective: It has been observed that diet quality and food choices vary depending on socio-economic status (SES), especially when measured through income and educational level. Although the reasons behind these differences are multiple, diet cost is a critical determinant in those groups that spend a higher proportion of their budget on food. Reference budgets are priced baskets containing the minimum goods and services necessary for well-described types of families to have an adequate social participation. In the current paper we describe the development and content of the Spanish Healthy Food Basket (SHFB). Design: National dietary guidelines were translated into monthly food baskets. Next, these baskets were validated in terms of acceptability and feasibility through focus group discussions, and finally they were priced. Setting: The focus group discussions and the pricing were performed in Barcelona, Spain. Subjects: Twenty adults aged 30–50 years from different SES backgrounds and their children aged 2–22 years participated in three discussion groups. Results: The SHFB complies with the dietary recommendations for the Spanish population. The monthly cost of this basket ranges from 131·63 € to 573·80 € depending on the type of family. Conclusions: The SHFB does not have the purpose of prescribing what people should eat, but of estimating a minimum budget threshold below which healthy eating is not possible for well-described types of families. Thus, the SHFB is an educative guide on how to plan a healthy food budget and orient policies designed to guarantee food access and reduce SES inequalities. 2025-05-15T19:19:33Z 2025-05-15T19:19:33Z 2025-05-15T19:19:33Z 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/795 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980016001026 eng Public Health Nutrition, 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © L'autor/a. Tots els drets reservats Cambridge University Press