Healthy and Inexpensive: Is It Possible?
You’ve heard it before: it’s too expensive to eat healthy.
Sometimes that is indeed true, but there are other times where healthy choices are actually cheaper than their less-healthy counterparts.
Other times, there are equally healthy choices, but one is a bit cheaper. Here are a few examples:
1. Eggs for breakfast are about $1.84 a dozen (and you only eat 2) compared with $4.00 for a box of cereal.
2. Dry lentils are about 1.18 per pound, and full of protein, whereas brown rice (healthy but not a great protein source) is 1.59 per pound.
3. Canola oil is a great source of unsaturated fats and 31 cents per pound. Olive oil (also healthy, but more glamorous) is 2.42 per pound.
4. Bananas are 63 cents a pound, where apples are 1.26 per pound.
5. Frozen blueberries are 1.75 a pound and fresh are 1.90
6. Cauliflower is .33 a pound; broccoli is 1.76.
7. Cabbage is .62 per pound; romaine lettuce is 1.91
8. Top sirloin is 4.99 per pound, and T-bone is 6.90
9. Chicken legs cost 1.48 and chicken breasts run 2.37 per pound.
10. Catfish is 2.52 per pound and halibut is 4.00 per pound.
Note: this material comes from Men’s Health Magazine, and prices reflect those from Men’s Health, not Super-1 Foods.
Published 03/10/10
