You think eating healthy is expensive? Try the alternative!

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Many people complain that eating healthy costs more than the regular diet does - Are you sure? Would you be willing to bet that it really is more expensive than eating the standard American diet?

Check out my newest blog post and see if you can eat healthy on a budget.

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Very good article, thanks very much. :)

Good and insightful article. I left you a comment. Thanks for sharing. :)

Great article Van! - I put a reference to your site on mine :-)

Great topic, there is a myth that organic and good food is dearer, and much myth busting necessary!

In the short run, it often may seem more expensive. But there are things we can do in the short run and we MUST consider the long run.
Van

Have to say I eat white meat around once a week the rest of the time its veg and fruit do not eat any processed food and mainly buy local produce and organic if I can

That sounds like a good plan KatieMac. Local, organic, unprocessed.
Van

I hope so I do like to try and support local businesses as much as possible I live in a small village so shops are meeting points to

For sure, the meat industry cost us on the long term so much more, most people won't recognize or realize that this bio-industry is the main cause of a lot of diseases and the global warming. It's cheapness is gone cost us our total environment. There lies our biggest lost.

Yes, and Educating ourselves is part of the solution Loes!

Try to do my part in it Van

My daughter and I both eat very well on about $200 a month just by NOT buying anything that comes pre-packaged. This means everything is homemade and we don't do fast food restaurants.

Wow Terry, where in the world do you shop? I live on an island in the Pacific where almost everything is imported, and spend much more than that on groceries. Maybe you can share some info on your homemade unprocessed food?

I don't know... If I told you, then everyone would want to know. Just this once though ;) It's called ...Cookbooks. TA-DA! Seriously though, I guess that not everybody is into homecooking, and I have quite the collection of OLD cookbooks, from back in my Grandma's days. They really knew how to cook everything from scratch. For instance, for the price of 2 good loaf of bread in the store, I can buy a 5lb bag of flour and make 3-4 loaves and still have flour left over to make cookies or a cake or tortillas etc...That's where the savings come in. Doesn't take that long either. I can start the bread dough to rising and make the cookies (or whatever) and by the time the "whatever" is done, it's time to bake the bread and the oven is ready to go. If you are interested (and you get the magazine there) try "Taste of Home". I use their magazine but they also have a website you can check out.

I like the good food and the good life. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Harold!

You're so right. It's cheaper to eat healthy than to cure a health problem. ~Debbi

Debbi, We know many people don't think that far ahead, so we have to also find ways to make it cheaper to eat healthy in the short run too.
Van

I have found the greater challenge is being able to eat totally organic. Though the prices are becoming more and more reasonable on a wider variety of items! So as the demand continues to increase the prices will continue to come down! I think it is great that you are continuing to post recipes! :)

I'm in Ireland, but I find you really have to shop around for organic prices, some people are selling it just for profit at inflated prices, but other people are really into organic as a lifestyle and they sell it at the RRP from Europe, these people often do farmer's markets or veg delivery, which is less than half normal shop prices here where most shops get it in from a middle-man and all tend to follow each other.

In the summer that is true here, there are some organic farmer's in the area that are reasonable in price. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the freezer I had hoped to this summer, but hopefully next year, so I can freeze some of those organics for the winter months.

You're right Christabelle, I find the prices for organic produce to be extremely high, so in many instances I forego them and make an extra effort to wash with a little hydrogen peroxide, vinegar or lemon juice to reduce the pesticide load. But I don't allow these concerns to limit my intake of plant foods. I will eat organic when feasible, and eat conventional most of the time. It seems that the bigger issue might be ensuring our foods our as fresh as possible, in which case we should make every effort to buy local and in-season.

To your other comment, I need to be more consistent with posting recipes, hopefully this is a start. :-)

there is less nutrition in conventional, they are weaker plants grown in weaker soil with less minerals, that would be important for a vegetarian or vegan; there is a dirty dozen /clean 15 list which some people promote, I don't if you need healing or health, [I mean if someone is battling with health issues then they have to go fully organic to reverse illness] and also - watch out for GM, that is tearing people's intestines apart and wreaking havoc, which is mostly kept out of organic - so that would be another reason to go organic- to keep up the safety of the food chain and those reliant on it :)

That sounds like a great deal. And makes a huge difference!

I definitely avoid GMO products as far as possible, the problem is it is not always labeled.

As far as the superior nutrition in organic plants goes, the data is controversial, some experts feel the difference in nutrition may not be significant enough to make a huge difference. Your point about the nutrition issue being important for those on a plant-based diet is spot on, however. I wish we had better data.

I've seen The dirty dozen lists, however since the availability of organic is very low where I live, it seems better to me to take the extra precautions with conventional foods, rather than avoiding them altogether. Some experts advise that the benefits of the nutrients in a diet rich in fruits, veggies and whole grains outweigh the risks of the pesticides which remain after careful washing. GMO is incontrovertibly dangerous.

certainly eat veg rather than avoid it if you can't get organic, but as for me, I look out for the organic stuff. As for those 'experts' who say the difference in nutrition between plants grown in balanced mineral rich soil and unbalanced mineral depleted soil with chemicals added, well that is just a smoke screen, there is data out there with scientific measurements that show the actual quantities in each veg, conventional vs organic, and it is huge - but guess what - big industry does not want to make that so plain for good reason, just like they used to say there was no harm in cigarette smoke and had doctors advertising smoking on tv :D

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