Re: Eating Healthy is Expensive. My 400 calories, less than a $1 “cheat” meal. Details inside.

I’ve seen a few post about how expensive clean eating is. I usually always do a carb, a protein and a vegetable.

This meal specifically is very flexible as you can use any meat and any spare veggie.

Eggs are currently $0.99 a dozen at Aldi’s so $0.08 an egg.

I bought a whole cow last year from a local farm, I can’t recommend this enough. It ended up being over 1,000 pounds of beef including steaks, roast and ground for $2,000 and $300 butcher. So about $2.30 a pound of beef. I split this into 1/6ths so $0.38 on beef per serving.

I buy rice in 25lb bags for $12.98 at Sam’s (50 lbs available but same price per pound. 1 pound of DRY rice yields 6 cups of COOKED. So $13 buy you 150 cups of rice. This is HALF a cup of cooked rice. So… about $0.04 of rice.

Two pounds of broccoli are $3.58 I used like 1/4th of the bag and then split it in 1/6th so a 24th of a bag per portion or $0.15.

The sauce is just a bit of soy sauce and a bit of honey. Idk I’m not going to bother to price these two and I guess you can get them for free at Chick-Fill-A and Panda Express.

So like $0.65 per portion.

Eating healthy is as cheap if not cheaper than eating highly processed meals if you prep.

If you are keto, they sell cauliflower to rice, or spinach, and many other vegetables incredibly cheap. Chicken is cheaper than beef so this meal can be cheapen even further.

Hopefully all my math was accurate.

by EngineerDirector