Healthy Food isn't cheep! (prices you haven't seen yet)

Do I have your attention? Tired of spending too much at the grocery store? Of course you are, everyone seems to be now a days. Recently I was scrolling through facebook and I seen a post.... it angered me.

Wow. Just wow. Whoever posted this isn't the brightest, or they refuse to think outside the box. So just for my own entertainment I went out grocery shopping (well the fridge needed restocking too, but this sounded more fun.) and shopped for what I thought was healthy and would make me a few meals. Maybe not a full weeks worth, but more than one or two. 

I did stick to some personal rules, the post didn't buy meat, I didn't plan on buying any to begin with so that made it easier. My other stipulation was that it all needed to be healthy. Now I'm not saying top of the line organic, but no junk food on this run. Here is what I found out. 

I spent a TOTAL of $31.41 (thirty one dollars and forty one cents) So I am about at the same price for my food. However, I didn't buy just food either. I got some shampoo on that same bill, ($6) and a lint roller ($2). So that for food only drops my total down to about $23. So now I'm already $10 a head. But what did I get for so little money you ask? Because of course if $30+ only got those few items what could I even hope to get. Right? Oh so wrong.

I will also say that I did my shopping at Meijer, not Walmart or even Aldi so there is room to even save more. I did get some cups of noodles so those might not be considered healthy, but they are surely better than that McDonalds meal. So I'll even exclude those from this pile. 

What I got and how much it was:

Bananas (4 or roughly 1.25 pounds) for $.63 (sixty three cents)
A bundle of green onions for $.79 (seventy nine cents)

Just shy of a pound of Carrots for $.65 (sixty five cents)

Some cut up watermelon roughly one serving. $1.22

Just over a pound of sweet potatoes (2) for about $1.56

A package of Alfalfa Sprouts for $1.99

2 normal white potatoes for $1.34
A package of egg roll wrappers $2.69

3 Bell peppers (the green because they were on sale) for a dollar each, $3 total

One Zucchini Squash for $.58 (fifty eight cents)

A serving of snow peas (roughly 1/4 pound) $.69 (sixty nine cents)

A bag of baby spinach for $1.67

And last but not least an extra large bottle of coffee creamer, not the most healthy thing so I will remove it from my final numbers.

Total spent on healthy food: $16.81 

So I spent about half the same money, and got three full bags of food. Don't tell me this isn't affordable. I can roughly get about 4-5 meals out of this just by adding something cheep like rice or pasta. Again that's pennies per serving. This doesn't have to be hard, not at all. Just watch what is on sale. That normally means it is in season and the prices are low, and the produce is ripe!

~Skadia, the money saving panther.