Think it's too expensive to eat healthy?

joehempel

Think again:

Shock_Wave

Think again:

Problem people are lazy and do not want to take the time to cook and clean the dishes or just don't make time since they are supposedly so busy. People sure would have to take/make the time to cook if there were no more fast foods so to me its mostly a crock..

wellbert

Uhhhh

2 Big Macs = 3
1 Cheeseburger = 1
1 6pc nugget = 2.50
2 medium fries = 3
2 small fries = 2
2 medium cokes = 2
2 small cokes = 2

Total cost: $15.50

What, did they leave a $12.39 tip for the guy in the drive through?

Ironman2be

Think again:

27.89? think again

beckylawrence70

Yup, it usually has to do with convenience and people not having any time to cook, and yes I agree with the poster that the McDonald's meals for 4 is not that much.........

MartinaC32

I don't know where you live but where I live you can not get 2 big macs for 3 dollars. You can barely get one. Same with all the other food. Right now, because they have the $1 drinks all summer long you can get them for that price but outside of summer you definitely can not. $27 bucks for that meal is on par where I live.

On a side note. I haven't eaten at McDonalds or any other fast food restaurant in over 2 years. I don't miss it AT ALL. So repulsive.

Krazy_Kat

Damn it! Now I want a double cheeseburger.

ItsMeRebekah

i dont care what anybody says. IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY.
When can you just buy 4 pieces of bread for .75? and 4 baking potatoes for 2.98? I dont think so.
This is misleading.

ashlinmarie

It isn't that much at all.

2 big mac meals is under 12 dollars and two kids meals is 6 dollars so it is about 18 dollars. And I have seen them get the same thing large size with all shakes and it was still 23 dollars.

Smuterella

I really don't think many people are that busy, everyone used to have time to cook before we started spending so much time sat in front of screens. It is now that we have to fit in internet time, TV watching etc, that we no longer have time for the real stuff.


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jamainet1

good point and @wellbert I dont know what area you live where you can get that McDonalds meal for $15

AwkwardPumpkin

I think McDonalds prices might be regional because that seems about right for where I am, but I live in a city. I know they are cheaper up where my boyfriend is attending school in the country. Also my mom has had this opinion forever, and I showed her we could buy groceries for $40 versus her normal $120. So, eating healthy can be cheaper.

estrange22

a big mac is three bucks by itself

Ironman2be

I don't know where you live but where I live you can not get 2 big macs for 3 dollars. You can barely get one. Same with all the other food. Right now, because they have the $1 drinks all summer long you can get them for that price but outside of summer you definitely can not. $27 bucks for that meal is on par where I live.

On a side note. I haven't eaten at McDonalds or any other fast food restaurant in over 2 years. I don't miss it AT ALL. So repulsive.

buy a value meal

iiiEllie

You realize prices are different all over right?

That first healthy meal would be 3 times that where I'm from.
Chicken is 13$ a pound here on a good day.
Romaine lettuce is 4-5$
2L of Milk is 5$
Whole grain bread 5$ a loaf 4 on a good day.
Fish and seafood is insanely expensive.

For myself and my boyfriend to eat healthy all month it's about 800$

Dethea

Uhhhh

2 Big Macs = 3
1 Cheeseburger = 1
1 6pc nugget = 2.50
2 medium fries = 3
2 small fries = 2
2 medium cokes = 2
2 small cokes = 2

Total cost: $15.50

What, did they leave a $12.39 tip for the guy in the drive through?

http://www.mcdonalds.com.pk/products/view/menu-pricelist

Big Mac is 2.75

DonttrythatwithME

Uhhhh

2 Big Macs = 3
1 Cheeseburger = 1
1 6pc nugget = 2.50
2 medium fries = 3
2 small fries = 2
2 medium cokes = 2
2 small cokes = 2

Total cost: $15.50

What, did they leave a $12.39 tip for the guy in the drive through?

is that right? here in the UK we would get 2 meals for that price.... :S

ashlinmarie

I don't know where you live but where I live you can not get 2 big macs for 3 dollars. You can barely get one. Same with all the other food. Right now, because they have the $1 drinks all summer long you can get them for that price but outside of summer you definitely can not. $27 bucks for that meal is on par where I live.

On a side note. I haven't eaten at McDonalds or any other fast food restaurant in over 2 years. I don't miss it AT ALL. So repulsive.

I work at McDonalds and most restaurants are doing $1 drinks all year now. Big mac meals (with fries and drinks) are 5 something with tax. Ringing the meal up rather than everything separate helps you save about 60 cents on the fries.

I can see if you lived in a big city it being that much, but I see people ordering about 3x this much food on a daily basis for under $30

Buddhasmiracle

i dont care what anybody says. IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY.
When can you just buy 4 pieces of bread for .75? and 4 baking potatoes for 2.98? I dont think so.
This is misleading.

I agree. The "costs less to eat healthy" thread(s) periodically resurface like a bad fortune on the eight ball. Some folks must be shopping healthy on Planet 9.

Dethea

You realize prices are different all over right?

That first healthy meal would be 3 times that where I'm from.
Chicken is 13$ a pound here on a good day.
Romaine lettuce is 4-5$
2L of Milk is 5$
Whole grain bread 5$ a loaf 4 on a good day.
Fish and seafood is insanely expensive.

For myself and my boyfriend to eat healthy all month it's about 800$

Where do you live and shop?!?!? That's ridiculous!

tony2009

People, food costs vary so much from place to place, stop arguing. It's like buying fruit here in WV where a lot of produce is local compared to somewhere that doesn't, it's gonna be more expensive. All based off of location, and time of year.

stylistchik

i dont care what anybody says. IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY.
When can you just buy 4 pieces of bread for .75? and 4 baking potatoes for 2.98? I dont think so.
This is misleading.

Don't you think they took the cost of the package and divided it up? Even then, .75 is steep for 4 slices of bread when even a "nice" loaf is at most $4 and the baking potatoes probably came from a 5 lb sack. My friends tried to argue this point with me earlier but to this day we only get "treat" food (meaning convenience foods from trader joe's) when we have extra money for it. You can make it better and cheaper yourself.

iiiEllie

Where do you live and shop?!?!? That's ridiculous!

That's normal here. I'm on an Island in the east coast of Canada.
A 10 pound bag of potatoes here, and we grow potatoes, is 10-15$ depending on the potatoes.

gemiwing

i dont care what anybody says. IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY.
When can you just buy 4 pieces of bread for .75? and 4 baking potatoes for 2.98? I dont think so.
This is misleading.

This.

You can't buy 55 cents worth of salt and pepper. Try buying four slices of bread too- see how the grocery store likes that.

Cindym82

Think again:

This must be an old picture or not from the northeast coast. Milk cost $3.50 a gallon here, bacon when on sale is $6 a package, romaine lettece is $3.99 a bag (3 heads in it)....i could go on. While I could go to mcdonalds and get the dollar menu, I don't but eating healthy is extremely expensive

Dethea

iiiEllie-
Food is going to be more expensive if you have to import it all from somewhere else. So.. it makes sense that it would be more expensive.

Erihppas

You could probably shave those 5 cents off the healthy meal by stealing salt and pepper packets from work.... just sayin

wrecktechno

The thing is that if you bought a chicken, a lettuce, a bottle of milk, potatoes, bread, oil etc, you wouldn't have food just for one meal. You'd have food for 2 family meals. Of course, Australia is ***** expensive for groceries but so is take away food.

GoodMorningGirl

When our family used to eat at McDonald's, it was usually around $20 for 3 of us (and two were children), so I don't think $27 is out of line for a family of four. We weren't ordering anything extravagent either.

However, I think the real point is that we can't even begin to calculate the costs, both monetary and otherwise, that our rising rates of obesity have on our families and our country as a whole. In our family, I spend about the same amount eating healthfully as we did eating junky, but we don't have to pay for prescriptions, doctors' visits, time lost from work, etc. We all feel healthier and more energetic.

I saw a very overweight man at the grocery store joking with the checkout clerk about how bad his diet was, and saying it didn't matter how unhealthy he was because he didn't have a wife or kids. And I would never say it to him, but I thought that his carelessness contributes to health insurance rates skyrocketing of all of us. (Sorry if that sounds judgmental.)

ElizabethRoad

You can't buy 55 cents worth of salt and pepper. Try buying four slices of bread too- see how the grocery store likes that.

Lol I don't think you understand how this works...

dkoroschetz

i dont care what anybody says. IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY.
When can you just buy 4 pieces of bread for .75? and 4 baking potatoes for 2.98? I dont think so.
This is misleading.

I know prices are different in different places, but I can buy an entire loaf of bread for $1-1.39 depending on the sale that week and I can get a whole bag of potatoes for $3.00 (which will last me for weeks).

What's most expensive is the meat! I can not use the kind of meat that is pictured, strange, but I can't stand the bones. If I have to tear it apart, I won't even be able to cook it!

So I'm spending $7.50-8.50 on 1.5-2lbs of chicken breasts and we go through at least 4 packs of this a week. I'm on a very high protein diet right now and eating meat three times per day where before I would maybe eat meat once a day. I'm also spending a similar amount on ground white turkey and using a few packages of that each week too.

When I changed to eating this way (more meat, more veggies, liquid egg whites, etc), my grocery bill did increase well over $75 for the month. With that said, we are not eating out as much and we are still spending less money over all! And it's an investment in our health!!!