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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prepared food is cheap. Frozen food is cheap. Anything in a can or a jar or that contains tons of preservatives is cheaper, some aren't healthy.
If that's what you are eating, of course you can spend even less than $500 a month for a family of 5.
Fresh food and produce are expensive. For example, we never buy tomato in a jar or can. We only buy fresh tomatoes and grind it if needed. 
Same with beans. We buy fresh beans and cook it in a pressure cooker. Beans in a can are much cheaper but unhealthy. We don't buy it.

Most people here that think $1k for a family of 2 is too much are probably not eating fresh.

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Whole grains are cheap and dried beans are far cheaper than canned beans!  Fresh fruits and vegetables can be inexpensive if bought when they are in season/on sale.   Personally I find that only garden grown tomatoes are really good and we try to have those ready to eat from June-October.  We buy the grape tomatoes fresh at other times, and occasionally plum/san marzano--but the quality of tomatoes in cans that were picked at the height of the season are better for cooking than 'fresh' tomatoes in the store in the winter.  (Tomatoes are the only vegetable I will buy in a can though for cooking).

I think the idea that people who eat inexpensively must be eating unhealthily is inaccurate but maybe it's something that people who spend a lot feel better thinking.  Our family eats whole grains, fresh and frozen produce, fresh fish, dried beans and generally cooks from scratch and spends less.  We don't buy boxes of breakfast cereal, store-bought bread, prepared sauces or meals or many other processed foods except as an occasional convenience or treat for the kids.  It's amazing how inexpensive food is in the US.[/quote]

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