Save Money Buying Healthy Food: Eating Right is Less Costly

Often times when I am promoting eating right to others, they come back to me with the “fact” that buying healthy food is more expensive than buying unhealthy foods. There was a time when I believed that too but I do not believe it any longer. On the surface healthy food seems more expensive but once you really get honest with yourself you will see that it is actually cheaper.




If you eat actual servings according to the FDA Food Pyramid, you will not spend more money than you do now. In fact, you will likely spend less money because if you are eating healthy, vitamin rich foods, in their proper serving sizes eventually your body will adjust and trust you more by not sounding the hunger alarm as often to make sure it gets the nutrients it needs.




If you eat healthy foods and drink healthy water, you will suffer less illness, which will result in less expensive health care costs. You will stay healthier longer which will afford you more opportunities to earn more money over your lifetime, spend less on health-care, spend less on insurance, and you will ultimately lead a richer life.




Serving sizes in the have increased dramatically over the last 20 years. This is becoming known as Portion Distortion. Americans are getting fatter and unhealthier as diets become more and more popular. The diet industry is a $40 billion dollar business and they do not want us to succeed. If we succeed, it will put them out of business. The food service industry is just as guilty. I am not sure what would happen to our economy if everyone ate healthy, natural foods in their proper proportions and only ate sweets sparingly as we should.




Challenge yourself to create true healthy meals. Create meals that are appropriate in portion sizes for each individual in your home for the next month. Skip the sweat tea, skip the fake sugar, skip the fake fats, and eat good, whole, healthy foods in their proper portions, cooked as naturally as possible. Try to avoid eating out.