The high price of eating junk.

This past weekend, my husband and a couple of our friends were discussing this life change we are making. And the subject of how expensive it is to eat healthy came up. Well that got me to thinking, is it really that expensive to eat healthier. Yes its cheaper to grab a burger and fries than to get a salad with grilled chicken. But in the long run when you break it down its not, so let me break it down ( I feel like I should be rapping this blog and scratching records hehe).  Eat unhealthy day after day, develop lets say high cholesterol, lab test to check cholesterol... without insurance probably a couple hundred dollars. Have to be put on something for cholesterol without insurance probably about $100.00 maybe more. Even if you have insurance your still going to be paying co-pays and co-insurance. Then heaven forbid your bad food choices have done damage and you have to have an angiogram to check for blockage in your heart. Oh heck we all know that is not going to be cheap... and if there is blockage, either stents or bypass surgery. So that's looking at thousands of dollars. And this is just one of the many, many, many problems that can arise from eating poorly. But hey we saved 2-3 dollars eating that burger and fries!!
So we took our bi-weekly grocery shopping trip to San Angelo yesterday. (86 miles one way) We call it "goin' to town" *with a Texas accent*.  And we did pretty good on the choices we made. We have cut out all types of soda diet or other. Our water intake has been increased 100% (or at least mine has, Freddy has always been pretty good with that). Had the infamous Green Smoothie too this morning, I even shared half the concoction with my co-worker. And I highly recommend it, they taste wonderful, look ehh not so wonderful, unless your a fan of Shrek green! So we are off to a great start, hope you all are too!!