Buying wholesome, non packaged foods (including fresh cut/ground meats) can be a little more expensive at least where I live.
The additional cost is negligible when you take into account that we almost never eat out anymore. When my boy's sports teams were in season, we did drive thru way too often.
Now that we have a family commitment to eating better, it's almost impossible to eat out since we won't eat what they serve.
I'd rather have a homemade BLT than fast food any day, especially with an organic tomato.
If anyone else is wondering why all the fuss about organic vegetables, eat a sandwich made with a really good tomato. I'm at the point that I'll do without a tomato than suffer a bland hot-house hybrid.
Life's too short to eat poorly.
The unusually cool spring here has slowed the growth of my tomato plants and other veggies. I’ve been getting organic ones from California at the farmers’ market 20 miles from here, but they still lack that fresh picked taste from being in a refrigerated truck for shipping.
I go to a meat market that sells free ranged beef and pork, too, if no nearby rancher is slaughtering and selling meat right then-after having eaten fresh/organic food, the caged/feed lot stuff is like eating wood pulp...