How To Eat Healthy On A Budget

abcnews.com:

The less money you have, the better you can eat.

That sounds odd, but it can be true. So often people think that only when you're in the chips (cash, not the potato kind) can you have a good diet. Raspberries in February, organic baby veggies from Spain, 89-grain organic bread that was made at the hand of Bolivian monks who never watch television, meat from cows that spent time in a spa -- you name it.

It's easy to think there's no way a family with a modest budget -- even more modest, nowadays -- can have a healthy and decent diet without hawking the house.

It's a huge mistake to think that good healthy food has to cost a bundle. Sure, some of it does, but junk food is even more expensive in the long run. It's not so healthy, and it's loaded with calories, fat, salt and sugar. Even if it's free, it's not a bargain.

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Comments

[DavidMG]

There is no cheaper ( or interesting) way to eat than than vegetarian. My favorite cookbook is " American Wholefoods Cuisine " with its 1300 recipes - a real vegetarian Joy of Cooking.

[scottarino]

Beans and cornbread.

[957]

We get by pretty cheap here in the woods, left over potatoes make good seed to produce more and a bullet for the rifle is around 70 cents and puts venison in the freezer so as times get tough we just "plant more potatoes and shoot more deer"

[sometimeshere]

Isn't it "healthily"? Isn't "eat healthy" like saying "eat round" or "eat purple"?

[iamjoyce]

I think you might be right. Just like everything else today...shorten it so we don't have to think or spell or write too much.