Healthy eating can be cheap, if you cook from scratch rather than buying prepared foods, and just use vegetables that are in season. Home made vegetable soup is extremely healthy, and very cheap and filling. We have soup at least once a week, and I make enough for several meals, then freeze it for later, so I save on electricity as well. Healthy foods such as vegetables, pulses and pasta tend to be more filling as well, so a little goes a long way. We eat healthily, and it doesn't cost too much. You don't need to buy organic - that can be very expensive, so steer clear of organic produce.
I have found that the healthier food is a lot more expensive so i do half and half i get veggies and fruits and chicken more than anything as far as chips i just try to get some that aren't so high in fat and stuff also try using coupons you can go to the website for the healthy microwave dinners and they will send you coupons and that will help save too.
Before I moved to my current neighborhood, the cost of fattening foods was more affordable. I spend 200-400 dollars a month on groceries now, because I eat more healthier foods and grocery in my current neighborhood is not very affordable. I shop with lots of coupons when I buy groceries. I also prefer to buy in bulk, because I save more money when I do so.
Fruits and vegetables in my area are a little expensive than the unhealthy ones. But it saves me a lot from going to the doctor and from taking medicines so I stick to them. Junk foods on the other hand are really cheap but of course, the outcome would be more pricey once my healthy was stricken by the diseases caused by it.
I prefer to buy healthier food even though it can sometimes be more expensive. I tend to buy frozen meat and fish because it works out cheaper and lasts much longer. We also buy a lot of wholemeal pasta, quinoa, pulses and lentils as these are great for stews and are inexpensive. We buy a lot of home brand and value items too such as oats as these go along way and are well priced. Healthier food as always been more expensive than food that is bad for you. I saw a supermarket leaflet the other day advertising a bag of salad for £1.20 and a bag of five donuts for 85p. If people had to chose between the two, then most of them would go for the bag of donuts.
I agree. Making meals from scratch does work out a lot cheaper than buying prepared meals. I make soup from a bag of supermarket own brand vegetables. They only cost £1 and all I need is some stock to make the vegetables into a soup. I can get 6-10 portions of soup out of that. I also make double portions of everything and freeze half for later. It saves both time and money and makes sure all of the vegetables etc. get used up so there's no waste.
You have to menu plan and shop what's on sale. A package of dried beans is cheap and goes a long way; the same goes for rice. Lettuce is not too expensive, nor are carrots, so look at foods like that and then plan menus around what's affordable.
Healthy food actually hurts my pocket more just because it is so much more expensive to purchase. Fast food and fattening food is very cheap because it is so bad for you while the organic healthy stuff is expensive. Therefore my explanation is self explanatory.
I find healthy food more expensive. At my local Walmart, half a watermelon is almost $4 but a huge bag of corn chips is 98 cents. A gallon of low-fat milk is $4.18 but a huge, massive bag of chocolate cookies is $2. A frozen pizza is $4 while a pack of chicken breasts is $9. It's almost like they're trying to bribe people to buy junk, and demotivate poor families from buying healthy food. Healthy foods don't even go on sale/markdown that often.
