You can eat well for cheap. But it requires discipline. And that's what lot of poor people lack. (It's a survivorship bias: discipline helps your chances of getting out of poverty.)
Yes, it's true that sometimes you can find healthy stuff for relatively cheap. It's also true that you cannot do it consistently, in order to "eat cheap" in a consistent manner, it means constantly hunting for those deals, which implies trading your time for money. This is something the poor do a lot of, sitting at a laundromat instead of just throwing clothes in a washer, for example.
And I don't want to hear about eating some form of beans 5 days/week, eating healthy implies variety.
It can occassionally be done as cheaply as eating unhealthily, but not consistently over time. Your food bill will go up.
No need for deals. Just stick to the basics, and avoid sugar and other crap.
And I don't want to hear about eating some form of beans 5 days/week, eating healthy implies variety.
Vegetables can be pretty cheap, if you stick to what's in season. Beans are a good start, add lentils, potatoes, carrots, etc. Offal makes for cheap protein (but is not to everyone's taste).
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You can eat well for cheap. But it requires discipline. And that's what lot of poor people lack. (It's a survivorship bias: discipline helps your chances of getting out of poverty.)
You cannot consistently eat well for cheap.
Yes, it's true that sometimes you can find healthy stuff for relatively cheap. It's also true that you cannot do it consistently, in order to "eat cheap" in a consistent manner, it means constantly hunting for those deals, which implies trading your time for money. This is something the poor do a lot of, sitting at a laundromat instead of just throwing clothes in a washer, for example.
And I don't want to hear about eating some form of beans 5 days/week, eating healthy implies variety.
It can occassionally be done as cheaply as eating unhealthily, but not consistently over time. Your food bill will go up.
No need for deals. Just stick to the basics, and avoid sugar and other crap.
Vegetables can be pretty cheap, if you stick to what's in season. Beans are a good start, add lentils, potatoes, carrots, etc. Offal makes for cheap protein (but is not to everyone's taste).
I suppose it depends on your definition of cheap.
As cheap as eating unhealthily? no.
When the wealthy de-stress it's because they earned it. When the poor de-stress it's due to lack of discipline.
Yes, the wealthy have it easier. It requires less discipline to stay wealthy, than to become wealthy.
It has to do with where the stress came from in the first place.
Stress is usually self-inflicted. There are good reasons to subject yourself to stress, and there are bad reasons.