Why is it cheaper to eat unhealthfully...

harlanJEN

Its NOT. In more ways than one.

Real foods are not necessarily expensive and the health benefits short and longterm are tremendous. Food is medicine . treat your body well and it will take better care of you.

kumitekg

fit people say its cheaper to eat healthy
overweight people say its not

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I'll chime in here....Fit people know that they do not need to buy the junk and overweight people are looking for as many excuses as possible to not eat healthy!

I am NOT overweight and do not (nor have not really in the past either) buy "junk", but my experience lately has been that (at least where I live), buying fresh, whole grain, non-processed, low fat choices has been costing me more. Sure, as other people have said, there are ways around it and cheaper options sometimes available (if you have markets in your area, for example), but, that said...these differences can add up. No excuses here !

BeetleChe13

It certainly seems like that unhealthy food is cheaper at first, but after eating cleaner for a few months, I know that eating healthy is actually cheaper and has been saving my husband and I some serious money! We can go to Wendy's and each get a single meal for $15, or we can go to the grocery store and get food for 2 or 3 days with that $15.

MyM0wM0w

fit people say its cheaper to eat healthy
overweight people say its not

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I'll chime in here....Fit people know that they do not need to buy the junk and overweight people are looking for as many excuses as possible to not eat healthy!

/signed

needamulligan

fit people say its cheaper to eat healthy
overweight people say its not

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Now we're getting ridiculous. I'm not fit, yet. But I know how to manage my resources and my pantry to feed my family healthy meals. We didn't all come here for the same reasons but let's not draw these ignorant conclusions. There is NO junk food in my house and rarely has been, to the displeasure of my teenagers. Disease, injuries, menopause, pregnancy weight gain, depression, and putting ourselves at the end of a long to do list can bring us here just as fast as quickly as poor nutritional choices.

yoovie

fit people say its cheaper to eat healthy
overweight people say its not

discuss

Now we're getting ridiculous. I'm not fit, yet. But I know how to manage my resources and my pantry to feed my family healthy meals. We didn't all come here for the same reasons but let's not draw these ignorant conclusions. There is NO junk food in my house and rarely has been, to the displeasure of my teenagers. Disease, injuries, menopause, pregnancy weight gain, depression, and putting ourselves at the end of a long to do list can bring us here just as fast as quickly as poor nutritional choices.

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stop responding as though I said

fit people eat perfect and are better with money
overweight people only eat crap and and have awful food budgeting

nothing in my short sentence has anything to do with your rebuttal.

All you said was you know how to have a budget and you feed your family healthily. You didnt even say anything about how much it costs you.

Im also assuming you exercise regularly.... doesnt that make you one of the fitness-oriented ones?

So you are popping off because what? because you fall in the fit category and you dont like it?

my bad.

beckajw

fit people say its cheaper to eat healthy
overweight people say its not

discuss

Now we're getting ridiculous. I'm not fit, yet. But I know how to manage my resources and my pantry to feed my family healthy meals. We didn't all come here for the same reasons but let's not draw these ignorant conclusions. There is NO junk food in my house and rarely has been, to the displeasure of my teenagers. Disease, injuries, menopause, pregnancy weight gain, depression, and putting ourselves at the end of a long to do list can bring us here just as fast as quickly as poor nutritional choices.

You're right, ridiculous as usual. There are fit people who think it's more expensive to eat healthy and there are overweight people who don't think it is. What an irrational conclusion.

ryanherbert

It is simply not cheaper to eat unhealthy food.

To prove a point, from my local grocery store:

1/2 gallon of Skim Plus - $3
Gallon of Whole Milk - $3.99

loaf of 100% whole grain bread (Arnold's) - $4.49
loaf of white bread - $1.99

Any reasonable person would just buy the cheaper version of those products, as the variation in nutrition is minimal and not worth the price differential. What should be compared instead is the price and nutritional value of a meal made from scratch versus prepackaged/takeaway food.

If you make all your meals from scratch, they work out significantly cheaper than unhealthy food!

What I do every Saturday morning is work out every meal I'm going to eat for the week. Then I go to the market (great quality and half the price of a supermarket) and buy all the raw ingredients to make those meals. I normally spend about AUD$100 which gives my wife and I 6 dinners and 6 lunches for the week (and the buying power in Australia is a lot less than the US). For example, minestrone soup is a regular at our table; it's really tasty, nutritious and it costs about $5 to make 6 serves!

If I bought a takeaway meal for my wife and I here, it would cost $25 for one meal and I'd be hungry in an hour.

Ok, you eat white bread and drink whole milk everyday and we'll see who loses weight.

I do eat white bread and drink whole milk every day.

That food isn't going to be the difference between losing and gaining weight. It's going to be the rest of your diary that will decide that. Which is my point above..... it just takes a little effort but eating healthy is cheaper overall.

I'm also 6 foot, 78kg (171lbs) and I don't need to lose weight.