Good health on a strict budget = eating food as close to the way God made it as possible.  The more mankind fiddles with food the less nutritious and the more expensive it becomes.

Shop along the walls of your grocery store where all the fresh foods usually are and stay away from the aisles where all the bags, boxes, and cans are.

Make your own!  It's cheaper and tastier and won't be loaded with HFCS, sugar, salt, fake fats, preservatives, excitotoxins, etc.  If your grandma and GG did it so can you.

Marsha

My quoter appears to be broken  :dancing:

Check out a Latin American market often in a bad neighborhoods for good selections on tropical fruit and roots.

I wonder about the claims of so many different types of illness cured from food. From 15  -22 I tried all sorts of different diets, including some fasting type of diets for female problems and nothing helped or made a bit of difference just less money I had!  Coke is the only thing that helps with nausea but none of the diets relieved any symptoms.
I've also tried grape fruit extract, colloidal silver, and garlic for infections and they did not help, only antibiotics did. It was foolish of me to use those instead running to the ER. My teeth are horrible despite taking cod liver oil and drinking bone broths frequently.
Apart from drinking Coke for nausea, for years now I've eaten very little HFCS, no white flour at all, many times walking everywhere our of necessity, and I've been over 150 lbs overweight for years. Healthy food and exercise doesn't cure the underlying illness causing me to be fat and staying away from excess or bad food and regular activity doesn't cause me to lose weight.
 

Ggreg most of our food cost is the transportation and processing, not the raw commodity.

That is included in the above figures Tiffany.  They are not considering the wholesale price but the grocery bill as a proportion of income.

Food is historically cheaper today than it has ever been for a US resident.  It's a poor decision in terms of the best economic use of your time, to grow your own food rather than simply buy the healthier food at the supermarket.  If you enjoy it as a hobby fine.  We grow a few things here so the children can enjoy watching them grow and then eat what they grew, but for the bulk of people with normal jobs it is stupid to promote growing the bulk of your food and connecting it to a better economic strategy for life.

If you buy a balance of fish, meat, eggs, veg, fruit, bread, rice, pasta eat them in moderation from any supermarket and exercise you will be perfectly healthy and live a long life.

There is no evidence that modern food, if you eat a balanced diet and get moderate exercise, is bad for your health or that modern foods are "loaded with toxins" that your body cannot process and excrete.  That is just hype that stupid people believe.

Any qualified nutritionist will simply tell you to avoid too many processed foods with lots of added salt and sugar and to drink plenty of water and get exercise.

Simple proof look at what Olympic athletes eat.  I know several.  They eat healthy food and are very strict about what they eat and when they eat it, but they all buy the food from supermarkets.

If supermarket food was unhealthy, at all, the marginal difference would show up on the track and in the swimming pool and the winners of the medals would all be found to be eating home-grown organic produce.

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I'll have to tell the others waiting for the food bank to put stale bread out or being chastised for taking too many stale pastries they won the lottery of life. What a ridiculous article.

Yes, why don't you do that, all while swilling down another can of Coke to avoid being sick.

There is no argument against a fact and the numbers speak for themselves.

Food is historically speaking cheap.

I agree food is historically cheap, due to technology/agricultural advancements and transportation.

Does anyone here make their own yogurt?  Maybe that would be cheaper.

There's been a thread on it, Elizabeth.

Thanks, Per Evangelica!!  :chef: :chef:

I see by the dates that the start of school blew the information right off of my radar.
 
This sounds way better than making home-made ice cream.  My mouth is literally watering.   Vanilla honey yogurt.  Thanks so much for taking the time to find the old thread!