Why does eating healthier food cost so much?

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Silly_tree

05-05-2013

Originally Posted by curvybabes:
“I got mine with home delivery think the picked the smallest ones possible ”

Funnily enough when my food was delivered today the cod was TINY. The seabass looks to be an ok size though. You'd think it'd be the other way round.

heavy_rotation

05-05-2013

It's quite hard to afford it all if you want it all fresh and nothing processed or tinned. I started eating healthy a few days ago after living on junk food, pot noodles and ready meals for most of my life and my shopping costs more and is half the size it used to be even though I'm choosing the cheapest options of what I buy... I want to buy good quality meat and fish as well but it's just so expensive!

Originally Posted by Welsh-lad:
“Healthy food is cheap as anything.

Vegetables are incredibly inexpensive. As for fish, I had herrings for supper last night - 36p each. I had three and felt nicely full afterwards.”

36p for a fish? Where?

Darcy_

05-05-2013

Originally Posted by annette kurten:
“i find it much cheaper.”

It is much cheaper.
Firstly, I don't believe a word of the OP as no doctor would advise duck and venison as an option, especially as duck can actually be quite fatty.

Secondly things like home made soup made with a base of root veg is nutritious and cheap as chips, especially when you consider how many portions can be made. Same goes for chillis, curries and the like which can be bulked out by pulses if your budget doesn't stretch to lots of meat. They will also keep you fuller for longer than ready meals or take away foods.

People that say healthy food is expensive are normally just to lazy and unimaginative to bother with the alternative.

TelevisionUser

05-05-2013

Originally Posted by heavy_rotation:
“It's quite hard to afford it all if you want it all fresh and nothing processed or tinned. I started eating healthy a few days ago after living on junk food, pot noodles and ready meals for most of my life and my shopping costs more and is half the size it used to be even though I'm choosing the cheapest options of what I buy... I want to buy good quality meat and fish as well but it's just so expensive!”

It is good to hear about the positive lifestyle changes, heavy_rotation, and there might be some tips that can help you here: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&gs_rn...w=1024&bih=600

It can require a bit more time to look around for the cheapest fruits and vegetables in supermarkets and shopping centre stalls but it is possible. Good luck!

heavy_rotation

06-05-2013

Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“It is good to hear about the positive lifestyle changes, heavy_rotation, and there might be some tips that can help you here: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&gs_rn...w=1024&bih=600

It can require a bit more time to look around for the cheapest fruits and vegetables in supermarkets and shopping centre stalls but it is possible. Good luck!”

Thanks.

Admiral Star

06-05-2013

So what's an alternative to oily fish for vegetarians then?

heavy_rotation

06-05-2013

Originally Posted by Admiral Star:
“So what's an alternative to oily fish for vegetarians then?”

Nuts, seeds and green, leafy vegetables - if you're talking about the omega content??

Source: http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/nutrition/faqs.html#2

Pumping Iron

06-05-2013

Originally Posted by Admiral Star:
“So what's an alternative to oily fish for vegetarians then?”

Flax seed

Andy2

07-05-2013

Originally Posted by Clank007:
“Hi
i have been told by my doctor to exercise more and to start eating healthier. When I asked what she meant she told me not to eat rice or pasta in the evening as it sits on my stomach overnight and becomes fat.

She advised to eat oily fish like carp and trout, , meat such as Venison and duck, along with plenty of fresh vegetables .
So at Tescos on Sunday I went to buy all those things only to find the cost was extortionate. Vegetables werent too expensive but duck and venison was ludicrously priced as were the fish she told me to get.

I thought chicken was healthy - but even that cost £3.50 just for a few small strips of it.Why does eating healthier food cost such a lot more than the greasy foods such as burgers and sausages? Do supermarkets not want us to be healthy?”

Don't buy it in small strips then, as you are paying for the process that makes it into strips rather than the chicken itself. Buy a whole chicken - you can get a Sunday dinner, chicken sandwiches for tea and if you add a few fresh veg or rice you can make a soup or a curry for later in the week. Cheap and wholesome.

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