debate-is it really more expensive to eat heathy?

we were poor I guess, my mom was a single mom and we often would come to my grandparents house and they'd let us get food from the freezer. Lots of times it was hot dog for weeks on end. We didn't qualify for help since she did work(she did an awesome job b**** being a mom).

Where I live it is most definitely cheaper to eat rubbish. There is a natural grocery store here but it's expensive! Fresh fruit is very expensive and about to be more since a lot comes from Mexico and talk of tariffs are going around. It's great if you can get it local. My area does beef, corn, wheat & cotton. Some do peanuts & watermelon. We shop sales for fresh stuff but most veggies are frozen.

It's better cost wise than it was 15 years or more ago but we still have a long ways to go.

If you do the math more food means more money. A 400 pound person eats twice as much food as a 200 pound person. They are making excuses. Healthy food requires more effort to eat. Eating is too easy these days and easy food is calorie laden and nutritionally deficient. This is in part why 2/3 of Americans are fat or obese. The food and medical industries are cashing in by addicting people to junk food. It's disgraceful.

I am here for my sister who may opt for weight loss surgery. She's a junk food junkie. I'm glad that she doesn't have kids. Fat mom = Fat kids.

"More food means more money" is not necessarily correct. You're ignoring caloric density of various food options.

A dollar could buy you a head of lettuce, which has very few calories, or a frozen pizza, which has way more calories.

I actually find it to be much cheaper. Before eating healthy, I ate out at restaurants a LOT, now I almost never do. I also bought a lot of pre-packaged processed foods, and now I prepare almost everything from scratch. Buying groceries that way can be very inexpensive (especially if you stick to inexpensive and in-season produce). Granted, I spend a LOT more time in the kitchen, so there is definitely opportunity cost, but I have really come to enjoy that time. It's sort of my personal relaxation time.

Like Jester, I think I spend less money eating healthy now than I did pre-WLS eating more takeout and fast food.

One huge factor in the price of food is WHERE you are able to buy it, e.g., Aldi vs. Whole Foods. And based on my experience, Walmart is NOT a great bargain in many areas where they're the only grocery vendor.

For the record, my small town has an Aldi and a Walmart. Aldi's produce costs 30-50% less than what the same items sell for at Walmart.

And if you can grow some of your own veggies, you'll save money, too.

It may lack variety and get old eating healthy on the cheap compared to the many boxed chemical **** storms with little nutrition, but I can live on a high protein healthy diet without a problem at all. These people you speak of lack imagination.