"It's too expensive to eat healthy"

It's true: Healthy foods are more expensive than processed corn starch based foods or fast food. But consider the following reasons when deciding if it's worth shelling out the extra dough:

Somebody that eats fast food each of their 3 meals a day can expect to spend 3* $6, so let's be generous and call it $20.

What kind of nutrition and calories could you expect to get with that kind of "diet"?

• Calories: between 3000 and 4500
• Fat grams: between 120 and 250
• Sodium mg: between 3500 and 6000

What should the average person get in a day?

• Calories: between 1800 and 2500
• Fat grams: between 50 and 70
• Sodium mg: around 200mg

There is not need to talk about vitamins and minerals since fast food and processed food really doesn't have much of either.

So what does this have to do with the cost of healthy or even "healthier" foods? This is how I like to think about it: I can spend $20 a day at the grocery store and focus on fresh fruits and vegetables (that fill you up), rice, potatoes (potatoes can be a good carbohydrate unless they are drowned in cheese, butter, and sour cream), even some eggs and organic cheese and that $20 bag of groceries is more than enough to make for 3 nutritious home-cooked meals and some ready to grab fruit snacks in between. And the best part? I won't be getting the usual double amount of calories, fat and sodium. I'll be frank here: Proclaiming "It's too expensive to eat healthy" makes me think "I don't want to put forth the effort and try to eat healthy".

If you don't know how, that's another story. You can jump on my site at gsgknoxville.com and send me a message under the "contact us" tab. I'll send you some recipes or even a grocery list or jump on google and search the unlimited amount of healthy eating and shopping recipes out there.

Good luck and stay healthy!