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The Cost of Keto
Clean, healthy eating is certainly not cheap. Last week I spent around $150 on Stevia, coconut
oil, almond butter, cream cheese, cocao, almond milk, butter, pink Himalayan salt, Xanthum
gum, vanilla extract, eggs, bacon, chicken breasts, pork chops, steaks, walnuts, pecans, almonds,
and some low-carb fruits and veggies. All that should last me about 2-3 weeks.
Let’s look at the cost of eating out. How much on average do you spend on fast food and gas
station food each day? Five bucks? Ten bucks? Each? How many times a day? A trip to my
favorite fast food restaurant costs about eight bucks per meal per person. If you are a family of
four, that’s $32. Let’s say you eat that way twice a week, plus groceries for cooking every other
night of the week, plus breakfast and lunch every day, you will well exceed the $150 in one week
that I spent to eat healthy for 2-3 weeks.
That doesn’t include the high cost of poor health that comes along with eating bad food which
can cost you big bucks in the form of doctor’s visits and copays and medical intervention that
may be necessary, not to mention the cost of gas or bus fare to get back and forth to the doctor’s
office.
And how much do you spend on supplements, shakes, and pills each month?
How do you want to spend your time and money? I personally would rather spend my time
and money on cooking and eating healthy foods and feeling great rather than eating poorly and
constantly visiting the doctor and feeling sick all the time.
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