Is eating healthy foods more expensive than eating junk food?

Someone was complaining to me that their doctor told them to eat more healthy foods and include fruits and vegetables in their diet, but healthy eating is so much more expensive. I’ve heard complaints from people who started eating more healthily that, as a result, their grocery bills increased significantly. But, we don’t know if their “dining out” costs were reduced. Eating out is definitely more expensive than cooking your own meals. If you were to compare healthy snacks to junk food snacks, for example, eating an orange instead of a bag of potato chips, it would probably be the same cost. Although a bag of potato chips would keep me full longer, but it would be mostly empty calories. In the long run, I think eating healthily would be cheaper since it would mean avoiding the high costs of medical care as a result of heart disease, hypertension and all of those diseases associated with an unhealthy diet!

Remember, you are what you eat!