cheapest not necessary the healthiest

That depends on whether you can get to a local food market. Does not work in Manitoba unless you live on the outskirts. And we have a short growing season. Maybe in the Philippines, India,California, Florida, and south you can go to a local market, but if you live in the middle of Winnipeg, you have to drive out to the outskirts and well it has to be July, August, and September. We do have a Superstore that gets food from the local farmers and puts them in bins, but as I said, it has to be from July to the end of September and maybe mid October if the weather is commendable. So from mid October till June, we would be survived on turnips, old potatoes, carrots, and parsley and maybe cabbages if we had to eat just locally grown vegetables.. Does that sound healthy to you? I have to have 2000 mg of vitamin D. That would mean a whole lot of mushrooms and they are not cheap. I do check the labels to see if they are natural and not the chemical based ones though.

If I wanted to get to the outskirts, I would have to take the bus and doubt that they would allow me to bring a bushel of fruit on it, or go with someone who would drive me out there. I am planning a garden next year and that would help. The thing is that our city is really spread out and in fact it is a combination of smaller cities and towns that merged together and I am in the north middle section. Yes having to buy a crate does not work in my case. I do freeze a lot, do not like canning as have to get a canner, we have to pay for our water here. So I love freezing. By the way I need 2000 units of vitamin D as diabetes runs in my family and also a lot of vitamin D. That makes it a bit problem in finding enough food with it in without blowing my budget and gaining weight.

It is interesting how lucky we sometimes are without realizing it. Here we have a farmers market twice a month on the outskirts of the city I live in, the people who sell the products travel from fair to fair (every city, town, village has a predefined day) and sell products that they produce or get from a central market were they also have products from other regions. An example of how it works is that a vendor will sell apples at a third of the price, but we have to buy crate (10 kilos) at a time, which works out if I want to make preserves or other meals and apples unlike for instance cherries don't go off easily, or find someone to split the crate with. I suggested mushrooms, because I really like mushrooms, and yes they are expensive but I enjoy having them every once in a while, http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/10-foods-containing-vitamin-d/ seemed interesting as does http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000102000000000000000.html as it has a lot of different Vitamin D rich foods, although supplements have the advantage of always giving the exact amount needed and 2000mg is pretty high.

I am just one person, but have to spend $70 a week on food and that does not include the laundry soap, and toilet articles and it also takes in account the discount coupons. I remember when there were four of us and we could get away with paying $120 in the winter, and $100 in the summer when we got the fresh fruits and vegetables. I think the trouble is the government t thinks, "the people of Europe pay a higher percentage on food over there, so we should match them." Now I read that next year the price of food is going higher and that leaves less for everything else. I have already cut my home phone and my cable, but still have to pay for utilities and clothing. As for the carbs, I have to be careful, as I think I am sensitive to wheat, but cannot see throwing away all my pasta and exchanging it with rice pasta.

I had lunch with a friend the other day, they have four girls, and they live in an old house, fixing it up, and we just had cheese, jam, and bread for lunch plus milk. The thing is that they have relatives in the Old Country and they go and see them and she does not work because of the four children. And when my husband and I had the two growing up, we did not eat as well as we did once the boys were off and married. So you have to make sacrifices when you are having a growing family. It would have been easier if my husband had wanted a garden. I do think the food would not have gone up so much if those stupid idiots had not compared the cost of food in America with that in other countries. That gave the government the excuse to raise prices.

I have lots of white pasta and am trying to get rid of it. I had bought some rice pasta and whole grain pasta. The trouble is that the pasta does not come in all the shapes that the white pasta does. I also buy lean ground instead of regular ground even though it is cheaper, and would like to buy organic vegetables, but sometimes it is unavoidable. For instance I love broccoli with hardly any stems, but the organic broccoli comes with the big stems. I am not a calorie counter, but I love things a bit healthy.

We have a short growing season, so I cannot not avoid buying fruit and vegetables out of season. If I were just to buy food in season , in winter I would be living on stored carrots, cabbages, and root vegetables. That is what people who have long growing seasons do not understand. And if we were to grow food in green houses, well with the cost of electricity, it would cost a lot. We do buy a lot of food from Chile as their winters are our summers and their summers our winters.

I have to translate that into cups, tsps. etc. I do eat a lot of yogurt and fruit, mostly berries. And I get a lot of salads. Now our store is getting some of the more healthy foods, so it is easier. I thought you had to have only two slices of bread a day and I guess you mean whole grain breads. And I tend to go to six, especially with the multi grain breads.

I have friends who think that cheapest is best. Maybe that will mean that they will get into Heaven sooner, but did not God want us to not take choices with our health? And it applies to other things such as furniture, etc. It costs more to repave items if you just get the cheapest.

I do not want to get diabetes 2 as it is the bad diabetes for what you get blamed for. KIt is not just food but other things such as clothes that I have to pay more for. And yet if I get cheap things, I will suffer and live not as long as I would like.

When we got the cheap noodles, we threw away the package and put our own stuff in it. Anyway I never liked them that much. I would rather spend more for food then eat something that is quick and unhealthy and if possible I will cook my own food. Trouble is that some people can eat cheap and get away with it, but I can't.

Trouble is that I live in the prairies and we have a short growing season, also it would cost a lot to go to a farmer's market in bus fare and car transportation. If I could go and walk to a farmer's market I would do it. And I do not think that I should ask the neighbours if I can have some of their tomatoes, etc.