Today I realized that I paid nearly the same amount for 1 prescription as I did for 2 weeks of groceries.
One of the medications I'm on has a $40.00 copay because they consider it "unnecessary". There are no generics for it and the other 'comparable' medications do not have the same helpful effect.
So for a similar amount, $45.00, on groceries, I got veggies, meats, snacks, drinks, and tons of fruit for 2 weeks. I'm going on a strict diet for health reasons & I'm trying to keep the costs down.
Staying healthy seems to cost a lot.
groceries and medicine
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I don't always choose to eat healthy (note my McD/DQ run today), but I definitely know what I think it is. And I have found it is actually cheaper to eat this way, you just have to be vigilant to catch the sales. I can get 20 pounds of potatoes for $4 or a 5 pound bag of French fries for $5 or an extra large bag of potato chips for $5. The potatoes are healthier and will last longer. The further a food is manufactured, the less healthy and more expensive it is.
One thing I won't touch is diet foods. They are either no fat because they have replaced it all with sugar, or no-carb because they have replaced it all with fat. And its all got nitrates and nitrites and sulfates and sulfites, and yuck.
Okay, guess I'm kind of opinionated on this one.