Eating Healthy is WAY to expensive.

This is one of the BIGGEST excuses I hear. I sympathize, I really really do, because sometimes it just sucks spending so much of your paycheck on food that you're going to eat and it be gone. It's hard to hand that money over at the cash register. BUT I'm kind of sick of hearing people continuously say that eating healthy is way too expensive. Sure, if you're eating the cheapest of cheap foods you think you're eating pretty crappy food. Is that really what you want to be eating anyway? Does it taste that good?

Did you know that a loaf of bread, lean turkey breast lunch meat, and the fixings for a healthy side salad cost you about $10 and yields about 10 meals?  That’s going to run you about $1/meal whereas eating out can easily cost between $4 (at a super unhealthy fast food joint) to $10-15 at a nice restaurant.  The average American spends about $7 per day on lunch – enjoy a brown-bag sandwich and salad instead and save $2190 in a year!

Redefine “healthy”! repeat after me: 100-calorie packs are NOT healthy, they are pre-portioned junk-food.  100-calorie packs are 16 to 279% more expensive than the larger packs, not to mention there is often NO nutritional value WHATSOEVER.  Grab a piece of fresh fruit for less than 100 calories, get nutrition, and shell out only 19 cents for a banana at the market (or a max of 99 even at Starbucks!) compared to $2.71 for one pack of chips ahoy thin crisp 100-calorie pack.  Exception:  we heart the Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds, 1.5-Ounce (Pack of 12)! 

Go to Costco or Cam’s club and stock up on the non-perishable or freezable items such as lean chicken breasts, big boxes of brown rice, and frozen bags of vegetables that could feed an army.  BONUS: your fridge will be so full that you won’t have room for unhealthy options!

Many healthy recipes are faster than non-healthy options.  check out Hungry Girl 1-2-3: The Easiest, Most Delicious, Guilt-Free Recipes on the Planet that makes eating healthy fast and fabulous!

Have any other ideas? Would you like to see a week meal plan and price comparison to stores in the Wausau area? Let me know in the comments below! 

xoxo

Nikki