Do You Find That Eating Well is Expensive?

Yes I do, I like to eat healthy as much as possible.

Just that other day because am on benefits looking for a job at moment.

Benefits are so low, and it was just last week, that I had to eat oven chips, cakes, burgers,

junk food so I don't spend much...

My cooker has a problem too, I think it maybe a fuse, I need a mattress is falling apart.

Which is 10years old, same situation for my shoes and shopping trolley.

I got the shoes, and shopping trolley but need a new mattress and fix oven. .. I don't know if I can get free help for cooker but if I don't I have to pay to fix it.

By time, I pay water, electricity and gas, phone, mobile bills, 15% of tax.

There is hardly any money left for shopping not just food but domestic items as well.

So i don't have much for fruits, and try to get the cheap at smallmarkets but they can get higher at markets.

I've always eaten healthy food since I can remember.

I feel awful when I eat junk food for too long...

I feel physically sick.

I don't find it cheap, prices seem to be increasing all the time. Would love to be able to buy organic produce, local free range meats etc but totally out of my budget. I find it weird I can buy say lamb from New Zealand cheaper than Welsh lamb and I live in Wales surrounded by farms rearing sheep amongst other animals . It's not just the food cost in the supermarket, add on the household, toiletries, laundry products etc that you need and your bill soars

There are so many myths about food; those who think they're eating well by choosing organic foods have been brainwashed into thinking it's healthier, there's not a shred of scientific evidence to support that myth I doubt anyone can tell any difference in the taste either.

A famous nutritional scientist maintained there was no such thing as "junk food" just the quantities in which it's eaten - I tend to agree. Strange how prime steak is classed as eating well but... mince it... compress it ...call it a beefburger and it's then "junk food".

In my view, people confuse eating well with foods that carry the word Healthy in the name, and are usually the most expensive in the supermarket. Anyone can eat well by spending the same for those who do not eat healthy. Eating healthy means that you have a balanced diet, anyone can go to a supermarket and find vegetables and fruits at very affordable prices. Instead of buying a high-sugar cereal, you can choose another one for the same price, but with a smaller amount of sugar.

You may say that this is not as tasty as the other, but then the problem will not be in the cost of the product but in how much you are willing to eat healthy.

Hi zerocenturyzero I buy a lot of frozen fruit and veg. And when the supper makers have there yellow stick on I buy the veg and freeze it. Then I make soup stews fruit pies. It's the same with potatoes. Freeze the potatoes. Then I got bake potato. But the cost of liveing is going throw the roof. That's why I make all my meals then freeze them.

yes, it can be, especially when you compare to all the BOGOF offers they have with the junk food. But it is possible to eat healthy at an affordable price - if you are not fussed about shelf life, you can always get reduced items

No, via Olio App I manged to get 2kg fresh Salmon, various Pret a Manger healthy pots, local market virtually giving good quality unsold fruit & veg for 50p a bowl

Yes.

If I get a box of strawberries, cost £2 and my daughter eats it all, so one box is not enough.

Also it is the same with other fruits. 4 apples cost £2....these things not even organic, just normal produce.

From 2 pounds u can get 2 packs of crisps, which has 5 pack each and that will last for 10 days and it is same with the sugary stuff, also they have longer life so do not need to eat them right away, because next day some of the berries get little white webs around them, some kind of mold and u can not eat them anymore.

I try to get more natural snacks, but it is hard, they also cost like 60p each...very expensive.

I think the best way is to grow some fruits in the garden, like berries, raspberries, blackberries, currants and gooseberries are great. I am already planted one and going to do 3 more...BnQ sells them for 5 pound each if u buy the bigger ones, like 1 m tall, but u can get the smaller ones for £3. I think it is a good investment, because they will have fruits in the future and just need to pick them.

Frozen veg is cheaper. Also buying fresh veg when its heavily reduced or has a yellow sticker helps because you can blanch and freeze it. Take at Christmas a lot of veg was 20p, i bought a load and froze it. Even went to Asda after christmas when it was all given away free and froze it.

I found this video very interesting and I think we should be concerned about the foods that we are eating everyday.

Morrison’s do wonky fruit and veg which are much cheaper.

I think Aldi do them to as got wonky strawberries from there last week, they were only 50p x

I always buy the wonky fruit or the value version. I buy frozen veg as it is much cheaper. I buy frozen mince and chicken as it is cheaper and it means we always have it in the house. I think that eating well is about a balanced diet and there are ways to reduce the cost but it can be expensive.

There was a show on BBC the other day testing frozen, fresh and tinned fruit and veg and the frozen came out top for nutrients every time. Because they are frozen within an hour of picking and the others are taken on the back of a lorry to a processing plant and then packaged and then sat around in warehouses and lorries and supermarkets for weeks before someone buys and consumes it.