so in my never ending quest to save money

[optimusprime 10+ year member]

i found out its cheaper to eat healthy food and not junk food.by not buying any processed food except juice i also lost 40 lbs and saved almost 300 dollars on food that can be put towards car audio at the end of this month. and this is just since the beginning of august.

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[>>SQL<< 10+ year member]

you lost 40 lbs in a month - wow you must have been a big m-f - lol

congrats tho that is a lot for 30 days

 

[optimusprime 10+ year member]

250 on august 1st 210 today and still dropping.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

A lot to be said for that.

You in the market for any big subs? I'm pretty close to you often when I drive up to my farm and I have a few things looking for new homes.

 

[optimusprime 10+ year member]

right now i gotta get myself a strong reliable amp and do the big 3 so no subs this month. maybe next month though.

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

i need to do something myself and lose these man tits

 

[Fiendstolemyamp 10+ year member]

Healthy food is not cheaper than junk food, unless you're just buying a hell of lot less food. Crappy junk food is dirt cheap.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Healthy food is not cheaper than junk food, unless you're just buying a hell of lot less food. Crappy junk food is dirt cheap.

Thats why people who live under the poverty line for the most part are obese. There is a reason there is a dollar menu at fast food restaurants. There is also a reason the wealthiest people in the world are also the healthiest.

 

[optimusprime 10+ year member]

then how in the world am i feeding my girlfriend my son and i for under 70 dollars a week and eating nothing but unprocessed fresh food. feeding them and i a "meal" a piece at the fast food places would cost about 15-17 dollars each time buying **** and making it at home would be comparable in price to buying fresh fruits and veg. but still might be more expensive.

 

[09civic 5,000+ posts]

depends on the healthy food. if your eating fruit and vegies then yes it is cheap. but if your actually trying to get healthy food to taste like its not healthy and is wholesome, it gets expensive.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Food prices are pretty reasonable up that way.

If you look at the price per pound, most junk food is 7$ or more per pound. I can get tenderloin for 6$ a pound in central Maine. Also most processed/junk food contains aspartame, MSG, and other excitotoxins that wreck havoc on your metabolism and many cause insatiable food craving. If I can't pronounce an ingredient on something I don't put it into my body.

 

[infamous_e46 5,000+ posts]

depends on the healthy food. if your eating fruit and vegies then yes it is cheap. but if your actually trying to get healthy food to taste like its not healthy and is wholesome, it gets expensive.

 

[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

anytime i went on my health food eatin kicks it was always alot more expensive than eating bad... food has gotten so much more expensive in the last year or two its ridiculous tho... you spend the same money and get half the food at grocery store anymore..

 

[optimusprime 10+ year member]

you bag of carrots 2 bucks some celery 2 bucks 5 heads of lettuce 5 bucks 5 tomatoes 5 bucks 5 cukes 5 bucks 5 green/red/orange/yellow peppers 5 bucks half a pound of snow peas 2 bucks a large head of broccoli 2 bucks bottle of olive oil 5 bucks bottle of red wine vinegar 2 bucks thats 50 bucks so far throw in some soy fed chicken at 3.99 per lb or some grass fed beef for 4.99 per lb and yeah thats a whole weeks worth of food easy if you arent a glutton.under 70 bucks for three people for a whole week and its ******* delicious.

:edit: forgot the onion for a dollar. and to suggest to save all the veggie scraps and freeze them until you have a bunch and make a veg stock then go buy a bag of beans for a dollar and make some ******* soup and get your protein and iron that way.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

Granted it's kind of late but pretty much you could grow everything you just mentioned for free.