Cost of healthy eating 10 times higher

I have found this to be the case also (at least w/my eating habits). It may be that if you are ill, and your illness stems from lack of proper diet/+ exercise, it is on average more expensive to 'eat unhealthy'. However, examing an average as compared to a single variable won't result in a very conclusive result.

That being said, buying healthy foods in bulk such as beans, rice, oats, is on a whole cheaper if you're willing to take the time to prepare them. I find that what raises my cost of food (proportionally) is the vegetables and lean proteins.

I would also like to mention that my overall goal is to gain lean body mass. This requires I eat more than if my goal were to lose fat mass. Some may find that their cost of eating decreases due to less total food consumed and in what manner it is consumed (eating out a lot vs. preparing all your foods at home).

Lots of factors and variables to discuss..

Interesting thread! Thanks guys.

Fruit has been great recently .25/lb for peaches, plumbs, and nectarines and $1 a pint for blueberries,

wowzers!! i consider it a huge deal when i can get peaches, plums or nectarines for $1.25 a pound! blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are usually $3 a pint when they are on big sale.

Eating fresh fruit is way cheaper!!

I would have to disagree with the article. I think it is more a matter of ease/convenience/habit that we perceive as "cheapness." My husband and I inadvertently tested the healthy-costs-more-than-junk theory the other day. We had gone to the grocery store early in the morning and got 2 lbs of carrots for $1.00, 1 lb of celery hearts for $1.99 (would've been cheaper if we bought the whole celery instead of the trimmed), two large Spanish onions for $1.79, a gallon of skim milk for $2.19, 5 gallons of water for $4.50, 1 lb of rotini pasta for $1.49, 18 eggs for $1.79, a couple pounds of bananas for under $2.00 and a pound of strawberries for $3.99. When all was said and done, we spent about $21.
I pulled some miscellaneous chicken parts out of the freezer to thaw (thighs, drumsticks and one boneless skinless breast that was in the fridge.) We buy whatever kind of chicken is on sale and freeze it until we need it and get AMAZING buys... for example, $0.99 a lb for thighs/drumsticks, $1.19 a lb for bone-in breasts, etc) I also save the bones when I make a whole chicken or another bone-in chicken dish, and freeze them. I save my onion peels and ends, carrot ends, celery ends and the crummy inside pieces you can't eat, and into the freezer they go.
Took out a bag of bones and veggie scraps and made about 2 gallons of homemade stock which can be used for soups, sauce bases, flavoring rice or veggies, etc. No extra sodium or creepy preservatives, no packaging to throw away. Cool, package in reusable containers and freeze what you don't need.
I used a few cups of the stock with half the carrots, celery and one of the onions, half a cup of inexpensive chardonnay I use for cooking, and the chicken pieces, put it all in the crock-pot and let it cook all day. Home made soup for days, can be frozen if needed. Gets better after a day or two. Doesn't taste like an aluminum can. Want rice in it one night? Cook up a bit and toss it into your serving. Prefer pasta? Same deal.
By the end of the day, we were both feeling wiped out (we're in the process of moving and also recovering from food poisoning we got at a wedding this weekend.) We had the delicious soup cooking but decided we wanted to indulge in some old favorites... i.e. junk food. The rule was, eat some junk and then throw away the leftovers so we can just get it out of our systems. We went back to the SAME grocery store. We got frozen pretzels, pre-made cookie dough, bleached white flour tortillas, cheese, chips, ice cream... it was disgusting. We had fewer items than the morning's trip, with little to no nutritive value, and we spent $51!!! That's a little over 240% more than what we spent in the same day, same store, buying healthy items which we are still using days later.
Is it easier to buy crap? Sure. Especially with years of bad habits built up. Is it more economical? Absolutely not. Shop the sales, buy items you can use for multiple different meals (who wants to eat the same thing day in and day out?) minimize what you waste, clip coupons if you want. But we can't make excuses for making poor choices.

It costs an average of 10 times as much to choose healthy food over "junk food"...WOW!

http://eatthis.womenshealthmag.com/slide/2-nutritious-food-costs-10-times-much-junk-food?slideshow=186413#sharetagsfocus

I'd agree healthy eating is more expensive. I'm just starting to try and lose a lot of weight, and I'm having to pay more for food. I'm unemployed so I don't have a lot of money and it's not easy. As an unhealthy meal I might have Sausage, Egg & Chips. I can buy a pack of 8 sausages for 50p, a 2.5kg bag of potatoes for £1 and a dozen eggs for £1. That's £2.50, and as a meal for just me I only need to use half of the sausages, 2 eggs and a couple of potatoes, and all the stuff I don't used can be saved for other meals later in the week. Even if I want some nicer sausages (50p sausages aren't that great), it'll only be a little bit more. I challenge anyone to be able to find a healthy meal for that sort of price, with similar amounts of things left in my fridge for another day.

That article is a load of crap and yet another excuse for people to use when justifying how poorly they eat.

I live in one of the most expensive areas of the US and have an extremely low grocery bill. I eat cheap vegetables in season, buy frozen veg (cheap!) out of season, and cook a lot myself. If you can cook, you can make tons of low cost meals, easily, even if you use all organic ingredients. People end up jacking up their grocery bill when they start buying fake healthy foods, like Fiber One bars and Skinny Cow ice cream.