Is it possible to eat fresh, healthy meals on a tight budget?
It is absolutely possible to eat affordable, healthy meals, but the structure needs to change. Access is an issue. Some neighborhoods don’t have access to good foods. We have a structure where some foods that are good for us are expensive and foods that are bad for us are cheap — it’s a structural classism that needs to change to make good food accessible. Really beautiful food has a season and at the peak of the season, there’s an abundance of that fruit or vegetable. Tomatoes are affordable in their peak summer season. If you eat in the flow of seasons, that’s when prices are low so you can eat more of it and can some of it for later. A lot of times there’s the misconception that prepared foods are cheaper than homemade meals. KFC had a commercial about it recently. The idea was you couldn’t possibly make a family meal cheaper than KFC’s $10 chicken bucket. That’s just bunk. [And a blogger proved KFC wrong.] If you buy a whole chicken and a bag of flour, you’ll have dinner and you’ll
