It costs more to eat healthily than it does to eat ****

? this is probably the most ridiculous comment I've read all day, and believe me there's been some.

Diet is around 70% of achieving a good body, or even staying 'healthy'

To be fair he did say "providing they eat less".

I'm sure if I compared my healthy eating plan with someone who eat's a junk food plan, they'd have more money in the wallet afterwards. Which is pretty sickening when you think about it.

Of course, but working out and keeping active can easily help balance out even the most horrendous diet.

Simply doing hard workouts can yield decent results alone, coupled with a healthy and balanced diet your on your way to being an athlete!

so let's say instead of 5 big mac's a day, someone has 3 big mac's a day, probably see improvements in term of health, but would still have problems and still wouldn't be looking healthy/good body

so let's say instead of 5 big mac's a day, someone has 3 big mac's a day, probably see improvements in term of health, but would still have problems and still wouldn't be looking healthy/good body

Well mac and cheese is just pasta in a bechamel sauce. So you can buy a bag of pasta for like 40p and you can buy jars of bechamel sauce for less than £1. And from that you can get 2 or 3 servings. So works out less than 70p a serving.

Not exactly a great meal to be having often though

I'm sure if I compared my healthy eating plan with someone who eat's a junk food plan, they'd have more money in the wallet afterwards. Which is pretty sickening when you think about it.

A bag of pasta for 40p? What century are you shopping in?

Regardless, the original poster said healthy. You just provided an alternative method of making the same **** with fewer chemicals and preservatives.

The start up costs are always going to be more expensive when you are cooking properly, so no matter what answer I give you you are still going to claim your readymeal is cheaper than my ingredients. It's only over time cooking becomes cheaper , when you have your ingredients and you're making the most out of them. Like I can make several meals (probably up to 5 or 6 meals out of a whole chicken that costs £4, and I can make soup from the last bits of chicken that can last for a few days or be frozen for batch meals.

Ahh as I thought you're picky
There is nothing wrong with low range supermarket stuff like basic kidney beans or chopped tomatoes. And it's certainly no worse than just eating ready meals so that's an awful excuse.

As for most people not having access to those things or similar alternatives, that is just complete nonsense. People are just too lazy to look for them and so pick up a back of biscuits instead. Because let's face it it's easier to stuff biscuits in your face then get off your arse and cook.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=251477765

granted it's not the best pasta in the world and it's not wholegrain but it's pasta. And it's no worse than the more expensive bag of tesco pasta, it just has less pretty packaging.

Yes that was the original post intention but I was just responding to the poster who was talking about mac and cheese, and I have already said in a later post that yes that isn't healthy and I personally wouldn't eat it. But that particular commenter asked if it was possible to make a meal (I chose the meal he said) for less than 70p and it is.

What about the busy working Briton? They do not have time to find the ingredients that Jack does. With little more than a Tesco Express and Sainsbury's Local, they won't have many other options than to buy the expensive chicken fillets and veg.

What about the snacks? Grapes for £2 compared with two chocolate bars for 50p? How do ya explain that one? smh

Can confirm, 100% of local markets don't let you in without a middle-class person card.

What a bizarre system we have going on here. The government and its medico-experts are determined that we are to eat healthily and lose weight.

But we're in the situation where healthy foods seem to cost a lot more than **** foods.

For those of us who don't have the benefit of a middle-class farmer's market, a tiny pack of raspberries costs £2 from Tescos; grapes £2 again; strawberries even more. Packets of green veg costs a fortune: £2 for a few green beans.

Yet, the **** junk food is either always on offer or dirt cheap.

How can the government expect us to eat healthily when healthy food is way overpriced?

Yeah I googled pasta and found it, madness so fair point to you.

Still though, it adds nothing to the idea of eating healthy which is probably and underlying point of the person you quoted.

No it doesn't

If I eat junk food instead of cooking properly I spend a lot more money.

Cooking properly takes more time and effort, I'm willing to bet that is the main reason a lot of people don't do it. Laziness. Although it takes more time, it doesn't have to take that long, so it's not much of an excuse.

That's true. I was just responding to that commenter and I didn't mean for that comment to have anything to do with anything else I've said. If you've seen the rest of my responses I am big on healthy eating and I just don;t buy most people's excuses.