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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#12 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Mezmerized

I keep hearing this about fruits and veg costing less, but it's actually not true. My boyfriend is a vegan and i can tell you that our weekly food bill is just ridiculous. To get a package of organic 6 or 7 bananas, you could buy 10 chicken drumsticks at one of the supermarket here. As a former meat eater, i know that we are spending MORE to eat healthier than we did before. I guess the problem with me personally is that i came here not so long ago(or so i think..lol) having been used to non pesticides farming, so i am mortified of what it is in the skin of some fruits and veg here.

I grew up in a farm which we grew our own organic foods, hence i was raised to think that if it's non organic, you might as well starve because of the chemicals in the everyday fruits and veg. I have tried, really tried becauseof the current economic situations, but i simply can't eat non organic fruits and veg.

So from what i have experienced, it's actually much chaeper for one to eat unheathly....one can get a meal from KFC for £4(about $7 or $8) but it cost us a bit more to buy say organic quinoa, or organic African red rice add the fish adn veg for the meal and your costs just mount up.

People needs to go to healthy food stores to see how bloody expensive it is to leave a heathier lifestyle in the West...funny thing is, people back home take it for granted what they have, all thinking about Europe when they actually have better food and climate to boot...lol

For now i'd rather cut out unecessary snacks rather than buy just any fruits and veg....i'll stuff myself with water if i have to....

Hmmm...I don't know if I can agree with that. I can get bundles of greens (turnips greens, mustard greens, calilou, etc.) for the price of a pack of meat. One of those bundles in my pot will last me at least 2 days of dinner and usually even a lunch or snack. As PH stated, the markets are even cheaper. We have a Farmers Market in several places in Central Florida at least twice a week to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables (even organic). I'll agree that buying everything organic is much more expensive, but here's why I only buy it if I have to...

You are not going to eliminate all the chemicals from your body that you eat. In all likelihood, the food you eat when you are out and about will not be organic. So what I do is eat mostly fruits and vegetables, but do a natural detox about once a month. Unless you refrain from non-organic foods because of the taste, I see no reason to exclusively buy organic as you cannot possibly monitor all the food and liquids you put into your body...let alone the chemicals even in the air.