How to Eat Healthy For Less Money

Has anyone ever noticed it is really expensive to eat healthy food but you can get a dollar cheeseburger from McDonalds for a buck...
I've often wondered if that was a way to kill the poor off.

Heres an idea, eat less and spend less. Its so crazy it just might work.

not sure how planning makes expensive food cheaper

I have been eating fresh fruits and veggies with poultry or fish for the last 4 years now. I am almost an expert in getting my food bill down to the lowest amount.
Two tips I offer is never buy too many fresh fruit/vegetable in one trip. Plan meals for up to 3 days only and purchase only fresh stuff for those recipes. Fresh F&F go bad really quickly and if they don't then they are chemically engineered. I keep a couple of frozen versions just in case and I try to use them within a week or so.
Always thoroughly wash poultry and fish as soon as you bring it home and cut into serving sizes and freeze immediately.

I do not know how much to budget for food as I am unemployed, not receiving any assistance and living off savings. I aim for $20/week or under and it is hard.

How stupid must people be that this video necessary?

Here's a thought, grow your own, 1) Go to hardware store in spring. 2) Purchase seeds or plants, get the small ones they are cheap. Dig up some dirt, it's healthy exercise, till in organic goodies, weed and tend, then pick and eat. It DOESN'T take a lot of area to grow LOADS of goodies. Square inch garden method. If you don't have a yard, join a local garden co-op share in the work and also the bounty. $2 for one tomato, please! $2 will buy you 4 small plants and give you 50 tomatoes, if not more. I have two tomato plants, I currently have 30 tomatoes on the kitchen counter and that many more on the vine. I have Bell peppers, hot peppers. This spring early was radishes, broccoli cauliflower, lettuce, spinach. Swiss chard is a spinach type plant that will produce through the summer and is just as healthy. Ditch the grocery store for fresh produce. Grow your own.

Grow your own. Get a community garden plot. Grow food in pots. Dig up up your yard. A few bucks worth of seeds gets you a whole lot of GOOD food.

i wish they would change the title. Remake America is a bit over reaching.

Eating healthy is great, however we can't cook so it tends to taste like crap.

Fed a family of five for less than $300/month for years and now a family of three for less than $200/month. All our fruits, veggies, eggs and chicken are organic. Our fish are store bought but wild caught. I prepare over 95% of all our gourmet meals, love to cook and love to eat but it's all very healthy and everything in moderation. We drink soda 3-4 times a year, don't drink any alcohol, don't smoke, and we invite people to come eat with us often. We use almond milk, 100% fruit juices and water as our beverage. I use coupons when I have them and I don't remember when I ate at any FF place it's been that long. We eat out once per month at health conscious restaurants and I lust for Chipotle now and then like today. I plan our meals at least two weeks in advance, it helps that we live in the middle of the "bread basket of the world." I wrap my veggies in newspaper to keep them fresh and they last up to 3 weeks if wrapped and refrigerated properly.

If you live in an RV and have no water does that make you poor?

This is bigger than 9/11

Grow as much food as you possibly can, start a food swap. Become independently sustainable in your community. Eat well, and Live Well. Obesity is from the CRAP we have been led to believe is good for you. Milk it does a body good, only if your a cow, which if you take a look around might be more true than not. No industrial meat, No Dairy, No Processed foods (except soy protein products(for me)). Documentaries to watch "Forks Over Knives" "Food Inc." and "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead". Share the info.

GMO corn, and frozen corn may be cheap, but..not healthy.

If you have a full cupboard and regridgerator, take an hour from your day to pack up some groceries and head to your local foodbank. So many families are truly trying but can't keep food on the table AND their utilities on.

WOW! This had zero ideas on "how to eat healthy, cheaper." Budget a plan? That's budgeting, not eating cheaper. The insanely expensive healthy food is still expensive.

I continue to see numerous articles in my local newspaper bemoaning the rampant obesity in welfare people and that they need more money given to them so they can eat more healthy foods and get thin. Remember when welfare people were think and emaciated in photos and we were told that they needed more food to prevent starvation? We then gave them food stamps and they all got fat. If they were thin when they had less then why with more money are they not eathing healthier? Because they like fattening foods and now eat more of them. More money made them fatter so why now would more money make them thinner?

i beg to differ with the good doctor - the USDA is the LAST organization i'd ask for nutrition advice...they work hand-in-hand with the agribusinesses that make big bucks selling food loaded with carbohydrates and totally lacking in any nutritional value

the only folks that make money off of healthy people are the folks that provide healthy food

my doctor told me to lose weight by going on a reduced-calorie diet....which is totally WRONG advice!...i don't know if my doctor is just ignorant or doesn't really want me to be healthy

the information is out there, but you need to find it for yourself...

I can spare you the time needed to wait for the commercial to end:

It's called a salad. Buy some veggies and/or fruits, chop 'em up and combine 'em. Done.