The Illawarra Healthy Food Basket was developed as one measure to monitor the affordability of healthy
eating in Australia. It consists of 57 items selected to meet the nutritional requirements of a reference family of five.
The basket was first costed in the Illawarra region of Australia in 2000 and again in 2001 and 2003. The present
study aimed to repeat the costing of the basket in 2005 and 2007 and to assess the trends in affordability since
2000.