Anonymous #9 said:

^ the above are very low on nutrients.

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Anonymous #10 said:

Also, yea smoothies and olive oil are expensive...

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Anonymous #1 said:

Anonymous #10 said:

You're probably buy trendy, hipster food that is billed as being 'healthy' but has never been shown to be healthier (ie organic).

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Nope.  I buy fruits and vegetables from a normal grocery store (non-yuppy store).

How much will five servings of veggies and four servings of fruits per day cost you compared to a microwave pizza per day?  There's no comparison.  It is cheaper to eat crap.  Maybe in California and Arizona where the produce doesn't have to be shipped far but I live on the east coast where our produce sections blow and are expensive.

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Maybe you just haven't learned how to shop efficiently.

For veggies:  A bag of frozen peas, a bag of baby spinach, a head of broccoli, five apples and five bananas = maybe 12 bucks, will supply your vegetable needs for a week.  That's about $50/month, for all the plant material you need.  Add more if desired.

A bottle of olive oil (ten bucks) will last a long time unless you are using too much. Use Canola oil for frying purposes, it's way cheaper.

Chicken is expensive, I eat it maybe twice a week.  Frozen chicken breasts are $24 for ten.  Even more economical is one of those eight-dollar rotisserie chickens from the deli section.  You can get four or five meals out of it if you make chicken salad sandwiches.  Top-notch tuna is two bucks a can.  Tofu is about two bucks a pound, can be worked into any recipe.  Extra-large eggs can be had for two-something for a dozen, that's about twenty cents each.  Nothing really wrong with lean ground beef once in a while too.  I buy frozen pollock fillets, two pounds for eight bucks.

Whole wheat pasta, quinoa, or bulghur are all about fifty cents per meal's worth.  Brown rice is even less.  Bread is cheap too.

If those items bore you, add some herbs and spices, all dirt cheap at bulk stores. 

I don't know, even if it ends up being a bit more expensive, you are improving your longevity and your acute physical state.  Shitty food sucks the life out of a person, I wouldn't eat it if it were free.

I live where all the produce is imported in the winter, I doubt it's any more here than the east coast.  And I can absolutely live on $200 a month for healthy food.  I recently upped my budget from $160/month

I think I'm talking to someone who's already made up his mind though.

Anonymous #5 said:

Too keep poor people fat and unhealthy.

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