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Eating good food is expensive

There exists a wealth of information on what to eat but what is the practicality of eating Good Food.

There exists a wealth of information on what to eat but what is the practicality of eating Good Food. By real food any food that is not processed garbage. Good Food should do 4 things to you. This is courtesy of It Starts With Food by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig of Whole 9 Life.

  1. Promote a healthy psychological response
  2. Promote a healthy hormonal response
  3. Support a healthy gut
  4. Support immune function and minimize inflammation

For more information about that, pick up their book or check out there website for loads of fantastic information. Now, eating food that maintain all 4 of these Good Food rules is not very hard. Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. This is simple information with very profound effects on your health and well being, but how expensive is it? Take a look.

This is what was purchased from a local grocery store recently and as you can tell, it is a lot of Good Food.

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  1. 3 Coconuts
  2. 3 Peaches
  3. A bag of Sweet Onions
  4. 4 Cucumbers
  5. 3 Avocados
  6. A whole Chicken (sale)
  7. Two 5 packs of Bratwurst (sale)
  8. 3 pack of Eye of Rounds Steak
  9. 1 London Broil Steak

How much did all of this cost? $36.48. Is that expensive? Considering produce is basically super cheap, no. This food will last roughly 4 days, possibly longer. Your homework is to figure out how long it would take you to spend $40 eating out, drive through or picking up snacks and what not along the way of your day. How long will it take you to spend $40 is you don’t plan appropriately? Now, multiply that out for a month and think about this. Your are paying that amount only to increase your chances of a heart attack, diabetes, and a host of other life threatening diseases!

You can invest your money into helping prevent the onslaught of disease and dysfunction most people face? On the other hand you can eat what you want and then deal with all of the medical and physical problems later on. It's your choice. Let's hope you make a good one.

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