Does Healthy = Expensive?

Recently, I found myself bombarded with this grim statement: “healthy eating is a privilege of the rich”. Even though I already suspected it, just knowing for a fact that I can't afford to eat as healthy as I wished made me a bit sad.

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I kept browsing articles and found things like “the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be obese” and “junk food offers more calories for your cash”. Some articles were more subtle: “getting more calories from saturated fat and sugar reduces overall food costs”, but the bottom line was this: being healthy costs more money.

It's hard not to feel discouraged about this, especially since the economy isn't in its best shape right now, but there has to be a way around this. Fortunately, a Google search on “cheap healthy foods” comes up with over 3 million results. Hooray! There is hope.

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Apparently, more veggies is the path to affordable health and, to my happiness, eggs turned out to be a cheap and healthy protein source. This page might not be updated, but it shows a list of “25 Cheap, Healthy, and Delicious Foods” that we could use for guidance. And according to “The Twenty Healthiest Foods for Under 1$”, oats and coffee are an excellent choice.

It seems that my suggestions on eating eggs and granola and drinking coffee are following the guidelines of tasty, healthy and affordable. We're headed in the right direction!