we've been eating healthier, and i have found that healthy food is more expensive... i'm not complaining... i think the expense is worth it... but the food is not cheaper... (i'm comparing unhealthy "eating in" food with healthy "eating in" food)...
How’s your waste level? That’s the biggest problem I’ve found with buying healthier food for home, when you’re used to shopping for prepackaged stuff you tend to shop for 1 or 2 weeks at a time and you just can’t do that when you’re buying fresh fruits and vegetables, they don’t keep that long. But once we retrained to buying for 2 or 3 days the cost dropped. Of course now there’s a mid ground, there’s prepackaged fresh (mostly salads), which might be cheaper over the long haul but is pricier in the short term. Part of it is also where you go, mainline grocery stores tend to have more expensive fresh sections, not sure if it’s to keep equity with the rest of the store or what. Smaller places, like Trader Joe’s, the selection is smaller and more sporadic but the price kicks butt.