WHY IS EATING HEALTHY SO EXPENSIVE?!?!?!111

Plus as my mass shrinks, I have less square footage; to bathe & shave, so I am buying less body wash, shaving gel, razors and lotion! Also I'm spending less time, doing those things & since time, is money; I am saving even more money!

Misleading title!
Yeah it's pretty amazing how much money you can save by...changing your shopping and eating habits. Most of my peers are spending $20-40/day on food for a shift (eating 2-3 meals per day). I bring a fully loaded cooler for probably under $5 per day.

Not all grocery stores are created equal either. The biggest "chain" store around me is also the most expensive. I only shop there as a last resort. I typically find that I can get the same foods for (often much cheaper) from other places. I pretty much only shop at Sam's Club and Aldi.

Yes!! Fresh veggies and fruit are a lot more reasonably priced than I thought!

This is a false equivilency. It's cheaper to cook healthy food at home than it is to eat outside the home all the time, but those aren't really comparable. If you are already eating at home most of the time anyway then grocery shopping is going to run you a lot more eating lean proteins and produce than it will eating lots of mac and cheese and Ramen noodles. Beans and rice are healthy, but also have a lot of calories.

Likewise, it's more expensive buying healthy food while out and about than it is buying unhealthy food in many cases. I can buy three slices of pizza at 7-11 for less than it would cost me for one container of fresh fruit. Which do you think is going to stick with me for longer?

Wish this applied to Vancouver. Come for the overpriced housing, stay for the expensive food.

Where I live, it's cheaper to cook at home than order food generally, but it's by no means cheap. There are some healthy foods I don't even bother with anymore, they're too expensive to risk having them go bad before we eat them. Looking at you, strawberries.

ninerbuff wrote: »

One can eat better nutritionally, but eating alone isn't the only factor to improve health. One can have the best diet in the world, but if stress, lack of sleep, inadequate physical activity, unbalanced life in general isn't also addressed, then eating "unhealthy" isn't that much of an improvement. CICO still is what matter for weight loss more than WHAT you're eating.

Yes, if all one is interested in is mere weight loss, eat whatever but in a deficit.
Some of us are interested in weight loss along with optimal health and wellness.
And for such people, what you eat matters greatly!

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

Those people who claim they can't eat healthy because it is too expensive are usually just looking for an excuse to not lose weight. Stop eating out and be a little creative and it's really not bad at all. Of course I am a terrible shopper and I like to eat out so I always spend too much money but that's a whole other issue...

It depends on where you start. If your "before" diet consists of off name boxed and canned food, generic white bread and the like, you are going to have a really hard time getting an equivalent amount of healthy foods including produce and fresh meats.
Back when my kids were very small and we were totally broke most weeks, a typical dinner for four would would consist of;
Stuffing, made from a box mix $.99 at the time from Save a Lot
A can of chicken mixed in $1.49 at the dollar store
A can of cream of something soup poured over the top $.59 at Save a Lot
A can of vegetables of some sort. $.39 at Save a Lot

Less than $3.50 fed us. Not well, but we weren't hungry. If I knew then what I know now, dried beans would have been a headliner but, I didn't know. I did the best I could at the time. There was no money for fresh vegetables, fruit or fresh meat unless it was on sale for a very good price.

I still shop at Save a Lot, but now I can shop the perimeter and I don't have to keep a running total and watch my pennies.