Healthy food is sooo expensive! How can a typical family afford all those fruits and vegetables?
Food is expensive- there is no way around it. However, most families will find that they can “pay for” the healthy stuff by cutting back on the less healthy stuff. Here are a few expensive foods you may be able to cut back on to put money in the budget for the healthier stuff: meals out (that’s a big one), drinks when you do go out to eat (order water), cold breakfast cereal (another big one), juice and other packaged drinks, fruit “snacks,” chips and other vending machine snacks, energy and vitamin drinks, individually packaged yogurt (just buy a big tub), bakery cookies and cakes, giant portions of red meat, frozen kids meals, toaster waffles and chicken nuggets. Or, if giving up stuff isn’t your style, here are some tricks for finding cheaper healthier foods: buy produce in season (it’s cheaper and fresher), buy produce on sale (it’s usually in season), get choice rather than prime meat (it is leaner anyway), buy store-brand foods, use frozen fruits and vegetables, shop around (some
