by Brett Weber

Created on: May 27, 2009   Last Updated: June 29, 2009

This is a simple question for a person that is raised on a farm, or around a garden. Because the answer will always be, grow your own organic food! So for one to eat healthy on a strict budget the oldest most obvious answer is get yourself some flower pots, get some organic soil, and get yourself some organic seeds. And if you have a garden, or if you have some room to install a greenhouse, (you could buy a great plastic greenhouse for $150 at, search words: Peace Vally Farms) you could start by growing your own organic fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, and grains, could be your first step. Then you could gradually start to only buy organic fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, and grains at the grocery store, at the same time you could start to read and learn what the stores have to say about growing the organic food that you plan on growing. As you gradually change your daily diet into a vegetarian diet, you could always plan on eating your favorite meat on special holidays that you celebrate. Now the first thing you would have to do, is go to your local grocery store and make a list of all the food that you plan on randomly eating through out the week, get the prices and start to organize your budget. And when you are home you would need to boil your drinking water to make sure that what you drink is clean.

In closing between the time you spend trying to figure your own budget, to the best prices of the products that you want at the store, and the strict organic procedures of growing your own food, you won't have the time to suffer from the withdrawl of not having the meat that you are used to having everyday. Organic gardening is a strict daily lifestyle, so is eating a vegetarian diet, so is walking through a grocery store with 100% healthy food on your mind. In addition most of the big money that you will spend on this new diet, (Harvey Diamond, author of Fit for Life, calls it a Natural Hygiene diet) is spent in when you start buying all the gardening supplies. So once you stabilize with the organic vegetarian food list, all you have to do is mix up the recipes through out the week and remember what the old saying means, "An apple a day keeps the Doctor a way". That means that as long as you eat the same apple every day with innocent thoughts, and friendly intentions, one will never get sick or bored of the same apple. That goes the same with a vegetarian diet, learning the patience of growing your own food is a college course in itself. It is a hard row to hoe, but it might prove to be the most affordable diet for your healthy minded budget. You can also go to a book store and buy one of those books that tell you what natural foods are edible in your local woods, or parks, and you can plan some nights eating dinner in the bushes of your local ball park, when nobody's watching of course.

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