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I didn't want to post this in the how much does a family cost thread, so I decided to start a new one.

Once you know what is in the "conventional" food, and you know it's poison, things get a lot more expensive, because you can't bring yourself to buy the garbage.

We spend between $600-$700 a month here on food, and sometimes more.

If you understand that buying conventional food will end up costing you more in the long run, especially as far as medical bills go, you'll start to really look at the ingredients in your food and feed your family the way they're supposed to be fed.

I would recommend to everyone here to look up a few docuмentaries about the food. One of the most popular is Food, Inc. That is the most publicized one. You can rent it at the video store.

http://www.foodincmovie.com/

If you want to watch online, I would recommend "The Future of Food" seen here.

http://www.thefutureoffood.com/onlinevideo.html

The World According to Monsanto can be seen here:

http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/the-world-according-to-monsanto-full-docuмentary/

Patent for a Pig can be seen here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1669587865067156619#

There is a lot of information here about the milk. This one I consider to be the most valuable one in terms of taking the first step. People talk about how their daughters are going through puberty (thank God mine are not) early. This may answer your questions as to why, and a simple solution of not buying milk with the rBGH hormone in it would be it.

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/GMODangers/rGBHinDairy/index.cfm

I'd love to discuss this further if anyone else wants to. I've been researching this for some time.

How long will you be prolonging your life by eating this way?

Some people barely eke out an existence as it is and simply cannot afford to spend any more money on food because there is no more to spend.

Some people have no medical insurance and, by the time they find out that they have a life-threatening disease, they will only have a matter of weeks to live.

Not to attack you, just to give you another perspective on things.

It doesn't matter what you do or don't eat.  You can't change what the Eternal Father has deemed for you.   :pop:

You also have free will and you can choose to eat twinkies every day and sit on the couch or exercise and eat healthy food. God might factor that into your plan or if he doesn't you'll just have to live the length of life God planned for you very sick/unhealthy. So really, eating healthy is worth it and so is spending that extra money for the best quality you can afford. It really makes a difference.

I agree with you Alexandria.

Eating on a tight budget doesn't mean eating Twinkies, but it does mean drinking the milk on the store shelf rather than buying raw milk from the local farm (we have that choice here, but paying over 2x more just isn't an option). It does mean buying the pesticide-laden celery & peaches (top 2 produce in terms of pesticide content, btw), washing them well, and praying such doesn't kill you rather than buying the organic ones. Although, I do keep an eye on produce prices as depending on sales & seasons, the organics sometimes aren't much more.

Meat is one I haven't figured out. We buy our meat at a local meat market rather than WalMart, but I really don't know to what extent it's any different. The prices at the meat market are the same if not cheaper and we're supporting a local business. I've seen one organic, grass-fed operation in the area, but you have to buy 1/2 a cow minimum and we don't normally eat the more expensive cuts of meat -- mostly just hamburger -- so it would be way more money for us.

When an organic product costs about the same as a non-organic product (I see this sometimes, cereal is probably a good example), it usually means the non-organic really isn't that bad for you anyhow. I'll grab the organic one when the price is the same (this usually has to do with having a coupon for the organic item).

There are plenty of useful tips out there for eating better on a tight budget. I'm sure PFT can give us some tips in that respect even if her family thinks raw milk and grass-fed beef (those are just examples, I could be totally wrong about what she actually buys) are worth the cost while some others would disagree... even after watching Food Inc!  :wink: