Well a lot of times no I can't afford it but sometimes I am able to get fruits. I am well stocked up on vegies. I like fruit more than vegies so it does get hard sometimes. I wish they were both cheap.



Bintsy<33

Healthy food is easily accessible; you just have to watch for specials from time to time. Prepared food (frozen meals, usually) are much more expensive than fresh food. Also, for veggies like beans, broccoli and peas, I find that frozen is about the same quality but much, much cheaper. Also, ask your grocer's if he equalizes competitors prices. This can save a lot on gas. Finally, if you have a good freezer, buy in large quantities. E.g.: regular ground beef is cheaper by the pound if you buy it in bigger packages.


Now, when it comes to exercise, you usually don't need a gym membership if your goal is only to "stay healthy". But if you do need a membership, shop around New Year and May, when there are good deals

Thankfully, yes. Honestly, I just slip up when everyone else is eating ice cream and chips and whatnot. During swimming season and track season I just eat a lot, mostly healthy foods. 

It's actually cheaper overall. I find that buying healthy foods for a bit more last longer than one unhealthy meal. (Except for a few things.)

Yes I can ! I always buy myself some strawberries, grapes, yogurt and healthy snack bars. I like to make homemade fruit salads with my favorite fruits so every time I feel like eating chips I have that there to replace it. I also tend to buy Poland Spring instead of juice besides Tropicana orange juice. I can buy certain healthy foods as long as it's not past $7 for just one item.

I cannot afford to eat healthily, sadly. I wish it was cheaper here, but there is not much I can do when everyone feels like it is better to pour money into junk foods and other such useless substances. Do not get me wrong, I like junk food and all, but when it is cheaper than the food that can actually benefit you, it only incites frustration in me. Some of my friends can afford to eat healthily, and let me tell you, I am very jealous of them. I can occasionally get health foods, but that is significantly more infrequent than the non healthy foods.

Yes, I am able to afford to be able to eat healthy. I eat plenty of fruit and healthy other things. I don't eat too many deserts of anything like that. Not too much sugar.

I sure can. In fact, most of the stuff in the fridge is healthy, so i had no choice but to love eating them.

It doesn't cost much at all to eat healthy. You can buy  two loaves of bread, a package of lunch meat, and a package of cheese for under ten dollars. That's enough food to have a lunch meat sandwich every day for about two weeks.

There are all sorts of different ways you can spend little on food. Most of it involves knowing how to prepare your own food. Also, go to your local discount store. They're everywhere, and they offer really good deals for perfectly good food.

I'm currently eating soup only every day so in that sense I'm not eating too healthily. If I had more money I would definitely put more effort into cooking and make my meals more regular. I can't afford cooking both lunch and dinner so I choose to eat "lunch-dinner" somewhere in between. Luckily it's so warm over here so I don't get that hungry during a day, and that saves up money a lot.

Lol I don't know how to eat healty, but yeah I can eat healthy, but that usually means forgoing some of my money towards groceries so my mom can buy better quality food (she can afford to buy good food most of the time, but those fresh veggies and organic meats hate our pockets)

I think it's easier to eat healthy than most people are willing to admit.  For example, I like to buy whole tomatoes and then eat them as a meal.  I'll sprinkle some salt on them first... but that's a very healthy meal, right?  And besides that, it's cheap!  I wouldn't eat them for every meal every day, but if I did, it wouldn't put me out.

I think people just use 'cost' as an excuse and they likely need to be re-informed.

I don't think it's THAT hard to eat a healthy diet. You just need to avoid the types of foods that have lots of products that can hurt you in the long run, like overloading grease, and fatty stuff like that. It's not that hard for me to eat healthy, and I'm glad I am doing it. It's cheap and keeps me in a healthy shape.

This might just be an Australian thing, but stir fry's are a key product for healthy eating, and you can do it large enough to last several meals. Just add the simple vegetables in, and they don't even have to be fresh to get nutrition from it
Another option is to add things to something only slightly unhealthy. For example, I add vegetables like eggplant, capsicum, zucchini and pineapple to a spinach pizza (I don't know if that option is viable for you over there, and I refuse to cave in to believing the stereotypes of the US)

It can be a bit tough to buy healthy foods but eating healthy foods are not the issue. If you can buy foods from the market and make it on your own, you saved money there. However, if you were buy your own salad in a restaurant or something, they can tend to get pricey. It can be rather annoying when unhealthy foods are cheaper than healthy foods especially when people are so concerned about diets these days.

I'm going to be the weird one. I can afford to, but I don't usually choose to. I'm a bit of a bon vivant in the food world.  My mother doesn't cook, and I never learned to cook, we went to restaurants almost all the time. As long as my bad eating doesn't affect my figure, I'm just inclined to enjoy some non healthy food now and then. 

KickinBack : I can afford to get some healthy foods such as brocolli, corn, carrots and peas. Also a good way to eat a little healthy is to get a sub from subway without any condiments for example. Other than that I don't know what to tell you.

I can't afford to eat unhealthy!  Healthy food is so much cheaper if you plan ahead and cook. My parents made sure I knew how to cook since chances were I'd marry someone who couldn't.  It was a wise decision on their part.

I'm not yet married, but I absolutely love to cook.  And I generally chuckle when people say healthy food is more expensive.  I get all the supermarket circulars, and have a fair farmer's market, so all I need to do is follow the sales or just go to the farmer's market and cut out the middle man.

I think the best place to start cooking healthy is to see what's on sale and search recipes on the internet.  I'm currently making a ton of potato-leek soup.  It's my favorite soup in the winter time.

The next best thing to do is garden.  Even if you don't have any land, get some window boxes or see if there is a local community garden- they're in a lot of cities, and the price for upkeep is usually very well subsidized.  You could even start a local community garden effort by contacting your state's (if you live in the states) department of agriculture or land grant university- every state has one. I luckily can keep about a quarter acre in cultivation during the growing season.

yes i can! most importnant is healthy food so stay from bacterias