Being healthy is so expensive...

Having just made a trip to the grocery store, I'm a little irritated right now. I just spent essentially $60 on a week to two weeks worth of food. Granted, that's not including milk, bread, or eggs - things that I'm constantly running out of. Maybe $60 isn't that bad, but compared to all of the junk and crap you can buy at half the cost of what I'm paying, it's kind of outrageous!

Mostly, I'm just buying stuff for dinner since I have a meal plan that I use during the week. This week though, I don't have Thursday or Friday classes so I'm pretty much on my own for those meals too. It's just kind of ridiculous that in a society where obesity is becoming so prevalent, society quite literally feeds into the problem. Why sure, let's make all of the little debbie cake boxes $2 or so but let's make granola bars or popcorn around $3.50. I'll admit, the price of vegetables has risen, but it's just one of those things you have to get over. I mean, I wouldn't feed my hypothetical kids something for dinner just because it was cheap.

Even at restaurants I've started opting for the healthier choices. And while there are a few places who don't really vary in price (like Panera or McAllister's), most sit down restaurants charge about $3 or more dollars for the healthy choice. Again, it's just sad that it has become that much harder to eat healthy.

On top of that, if you wanted to work, most people have to pay to use the gym. While I am fortunate enough to be provided one through JMU, a lot of people who may get their act together, probably won't because of that monthly $30 fee or so.

In my opinion, it makes sense to me that the healthy lifestyle should be cheaper. I mean in the long run, it'll probably end up saving a lot of money through our health insurance.