Eating unhealthy foods to save money???

Please don't tell me this is really going on.with all the health education going on it seems riduculous to me.It is really easy and cheap to cook with veg and fruit.If you are having a hard time try potatoes and leek soup,or potatoe and any veg cooked together make a very nutrional meal.Maybe a cheese sauce mixed in with it a few nights a week.Fruit juice or veg juice is very good for you and can be purchased quite reasonably.All that cheap food is full of salt and fat,it will make you obese and ruin you kids health.There is nothing to hunt where we live but we find chicken wings or thighs and legs are sold in packs fresh from our local supermarket for a few pounds.We eat quite a bit of chicken as it is low in fat.It is so versatile mixed with a few parnips,carrots,onions and potatoes in the same pot cooked slowly is very nutrious with a bit of stock or gravy powder costs about a pound each there are three of us so call it four pounds a night,delicous an full of good things as long as you don't boil it and kill off all the vitamins.Tinned veg are just as good for you as fresh beleave it or not,frozen veg is fine as well.I just cannot see the sense in not eating properly as it is a false economny and some people save on the wrong items.You are just storing up problems with their bowls ,blood pressure,stroke or even heart attack or worse.Like you say some people are so unaware of the damage they are doing to thier bodies.I normally cook from scratch and it is not that expensive.I spend about fifty pound a week on food and like you we have veg and fruit everyday and eat really well and healthy.xx

I live in Fl., where the fresh veggies come from and I could not feed myself fresh veggies and fruit for $30 for 1week. Where do you guys live? I have to have a garden to be a veggetarian. That way I only have to buy fruit, rice and potatoes. Wow. I knew the price of food had gone up here, but now I know how much. Its a good thing I don't eat meat! Every once in awhile I shop for my neighbors and the price of meat is insane. Which is also stupid because Fl is still 3rd in the nation for beef production. Of course, everthing produced here is shipped someplace else and we import from elswhere to keep the prices up and folks employed. Makes sense to me. Yeah right. Shalom~Adoniah

It's not frugal to buy prepackaged and frozen meals at any savings because the medical bills will eat up anything you've saved. With the cost of health care, it's cheaper to eat well! I can still buy groceries for about a hundred dollars a month for one person and I eat very well for that. I wish I could get deer meat, but I buy bison and grass finished beef instead.

If you drink alot of water and are working like hobby horses, I could understand it...especially if you grew a portion of your food in the back yard. It'd be sufficient for survival and health in these times, then...especially if you all are working really hard, like I said. In times like these, I'll do a double take. I mean, maybe she's lacking the opportunities a good amount of people have nowadays...farmer's markets, neighbors with veggies to sell for cheap or trade, or barter for. I'll share the outrage if it's out of ignorance, sure, if she has all those things but hasn't thought to for them.

Hi reiny! I agree with you! I don't think that buying all frozen meals for a family is the right thing to do even if it does mean saving money! The frozen foods as you said are full of sodium and not well balanced meals at all! They are full of things that are definitely not good for a healthy well balanced meal, especially for growing children! I can see feeding it to them once in awhile, but not everyday! Children as well as adults need fruits and vegetables in their diets, not tons of sodium and preservatives and fats!

I think one of the problems is that no one actually cooks anymore. All of those prepackaged meals could be made from scratch if a person has the gumption to do it. I try to cook from scratch as often as possible. I love to look up recipes online and try different things. One of our bad habits is eating out too much when we can afford it. I am pregnant and I CRAVE Mexican and Chinese food often. I try to behave myself. The $30 we waste at the restaurants can be put toward groceries that will make the same meals at home plus there will be left overs for later on. I try not to buy the prepacked food unless it is for the kids to cook for themselves when I am not home. I try to buy all of our groceries in bulk when I can, this saves quite a bit also. I feel for the poor woman and her family who is only eating these unhealthy prepackaged foods.

Frozen vegetables are usually nutritious and cost-effective. A good stew can be made from cheap cuts of meat and will be very good for you. If you brown your meat in a little oil and put it in a large enough crock pot to serve your family, you don't even have to stand there and watch it. Just put everything in, turn it on, and leave it while you do whatever else you need to do. You will not lose any nutrition this way, either. Scrub the potatoes and cut into the proper size with the peel still on. Just remember that the bigger you cut the vegetables the longer it will take to cook until done. Our crock pot is the most valuable kitchen appliance we have.