There are some surprising places to shop and several ways to get better deals.

“How to Eat Healthy on a Budget.”
There are some surprising places to shop and several ways to get better deals.

Whether you’re shopping at Whole Foods or Walmart, you’ve probably experienced sticker shock at the grocery checkout recently. Food costs rose nearly 12 percent in 2022, on average, according to the Consumer Price Index. Yet it’s still possible to eat healthy on a budget.

“There is a misconception that eating healthy must be expensive, but that’s simply not the case,” says Danice Tatosian, director of community nutrition at the Food Bank for New York City. Try these strategies for eating well and keeping costs down.

Make a Meal Plan
The average household trashes as much as 32 percent of the food it buys, according to research published in 2020 in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

“Wasted food means wasted money,” says Zach Conrad, PhD, MPH, a nutritional epidemiology and food systems scientist at William & Mary in Virginia—as much as $1,300 per adult per year, his research shows. While this is nothing new, rising food costs can be the incentive many of us need to become more careful about what we buy

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