 book-mole says: Go read the whole article and the comments. You might not want to do all the things suggested, but most of them are sensible ways of saving money and eating better. Good tips, except for the produce isle suggestion. Produce these days is manufactured to look good, but it isn't necessary to have any nutritional value. And it's ludicrous to pay 3x for "organic" produce. I still don't understand how organic costs more. Oh, yeah. Doh! Marketing.... i think it is not "organic" costing more, but inorganic costing less. i think the only way inorganic food can win the buyers' heart is to be cheap. i dont know how you can manufacture produce though.. you mean.. growing them to look good?? i thought you wouldnt want to buy processed food, because those are the things manufacture to look good on cheap ingredients and has little to no nutritional value. look at the ingredients list and you'll be surprised it's full of colourings, flavourings and preservatives The reason "organic" costs more is simply because their markets are much smaller and therefore they have to charge more to stay in business. If more people bought organic, then the prices would fall. It's the same as when a gadget first comes on the market and it costs an arm and a leg but as soon as everyone has to have one, the price comes down. I remember my parents buying VCRs for about $1500 when they first came out. Now you can buy a DVD player for under $50. More people buy them, the technology to produce them got more widespread, competition entered the picture, and the prices plummeted. It's all in the size of the market. To save on food, it's important to buy brands that a... Organic food costing more - there are other factors that increase the cost to consumers. I don't disagree at all with some of them mentioned here (marketing etc). There is also factors like organic farming is not farmed on the large scale as is commercial. Also lower crop yeild due to pests and disease, I don't know the % that commercial farms operate at but depending on the produce, organic farming can run as high as 20% to pests/conditions (this is being developed to be lower in the future - my guess thou this wont bring the price down due to marketing/niche market etc) Rice, pasta, tomato sauce, beans and a few canned veggies that you can stomach. Maybe a pound of ground beef or chicken to brown early in the week and add to the starches to even out the lack of protein. I lived on $50 a month in college for a full year. I got an occasional supplemental gift from my room mate in form of a smuggled sandwich from the cafeteria when he needed help with a calculus problem. Best diet I ever had. Lost 50 lbs that semester. I also started running after I had dropped some weight. But in the end, the poor diet took it's tole. I was so run down I ended up getting a series of viruses that kept me sick most for the following summer. So before you jump on a chall... Cardboard fillers Rice. Rice is cheap. Why not eat like the Chinese, an historically poor people? A 10kg bag cost around 8 CAD and will last for at least 2 weeks of extensive use. There you get your full ration of cereal - which by the way is said to be far more digestible than wheat and wheat-derived products... |
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