Looking at the picture above, you probably notice one thing. The food looks absolutely delicious, doesn’t it? We think so too! Here’s the downside though. It’s extremely bad for you and has no benefit to the human body whatsoever. Now, don’t worry. We’re not going to get all “eat healthy” on you but we are going to break down a few reasons that eating healthy isn’t more expensive than eating junk. You know, so in case you ever do decide to clean up your diet, you’ll have no excuse not to. Ready to get started? Good! So are we.

Case Studies

We recently read an article in Men’s Health magazine (it applies to women too) that said that eating healthy only costs, on average, about $1.50 more a day. While that may be true among certain groups of people, we disagree with that. We don’t think it’s more expensive at all but before we get ahead of ourselves, go ahead and scroll down. We’ll dive into this a little deeper and explain our reasoning behind this. You need proof, right?

Our Own Experience

Based on our own experience, it really isn’t any more expensive to eat healthy versus eating junk as long as you’re ready to cut down on eating out. A salad in a popular food establishment could run you $10 or more. If you do this at home, $10 will make quite a few salads. In fact, you could feed your entirely family a salad on $10 or less in most cases. Need lean meat in your diet but can’t afford it? 3lb bags of frozen chicken breast (both boneless and skinless) will run you around $7 a bag for the best of the best. In other words, for $7, you can have chicken for lunch every single day for at least a week if you’d like to.

The Bottom Line

While we haven’t provided you with a ton of detail here, we dove as deep as we needed to. Eating healthy isn’t any more expensive than eating junk. Sure, if you’re going to places like McDonald’s every single day and eating off of the dollar menu, it probably is cheaper. If you start dining in more often and prepare your own meals 3 times a day, eating healthy could actually turn out to be cheaper. It’s also extremely hard to eat too much if you’re eating 100% clean. We know a lot of athletes that eat 100% clean that have a lot of trouble meeting their daily caloric needs. Of course, this doesn’t only apply to just athletes though.

So, these are just some of the reasons that we think eating healthy isn’t any more expensive than eating junk food. Of course, you’re free to come up with your own ideas and theories on the matter and we certainly won’t argue with you. We simply wanted to toss around some ideas, let you know what we thought, and tell you that we know that you can afford to eat healthy. Worried about the mental aspect of it? We believe in you!