Worlds Healthiest Foods….Affordable????

I recently read this article on the world’s healthiest foods. I don’t know about you, but I get completely confused about what I should be doing from a healthy eating perspective. It seems like every time you turn around, they (who is “they” anyway?) are telling us what is best for us to be eating. Even recently, according to my elementary school aged kids, the government has changed its definition of what we should be eating each day and how many servings we should be having. Okay, I will admit, I really don’t know when the government changed its food pyramid. Is it even still a pyramid? They could have changed it years ago and I am just realizing it. All I know is that every time I turn around, I am getting some other piece of information about what I should be doing. Layer in that with trying to keep your kids healthy and a husband who would be just as happy if they eliminated fruits and vegetables completely from the food pyramid, and you have a very bewildered person on your hands…that being me.

Okay, so what does this have to do with budgeting and financial planning??

Here is my answer: Time and Money

Number one, it takes time (and an advanced education!) to figure all of this out. And number two is the money part. Does buying healthy mean spending more money?

Whatever happened to those days of just going to the grocery store and buying your food and coming home? The days I speak of were before the likes of Trader Joes, Tom Leonard’s, Whole Foods and Costco. Now, deciding what section of the fruit and vegetables section of the grocery to shop in seems like a decision between life and death! You head over to buy those grapes that are on sale, only to stop short to purchase them because they are not “organic” which are double the price of the “regular” grapes. Next thing you know, you are in a predicament of whether those “regular” on sale grapes you would like to pack in your kid’s lunch are the equivalent to sentencing your child to some sort of terrible life threatening disease that they later find the root cause was those “regular” grapes you bought on sale 20 years before!!!

Ugh…the pressure! Ok, now what to do?   Not sure. Read on. I don’t have an answer. But I take reassurance that no matter what I do, this article states that “the world’s healthiest foods are affordable.”

– Sharon Kinter, Para-Financial Planner,10-Nov-2010

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