Healthy food for you and your children need not be expensive. There are a few tricks you can learn to help save you money, and help you to eat healthy, cheap.

The supermarket is bad

The supermarket may be your regular place where you buy food, however, for fruit and vegetables and other healthy food, supermarkets are expensive, and sometimes their suppliers use additional chemicals to make produce appear bigger and more colorful than they really should be. This is to make them more appealing to you. Don't be fooled.

The most obvious place to buy your essential healthy food is from a nearby market. A farmers market preferably. Supermarkets oversell, and underbuy. Farmers are usually forced to sell their crops to supermarkets at heavily discounted prices as it guarantees somewhat of a regular income. As soon as you enter the market, you will be overcome with the sights and smells of real healthy food - and it's affordable! Also, if you need help or suggestions for healthy recipes, the person selling the food is far more knowledgable about the food they grow, than any supermarket worker! Plus, the seller will want you to return to them to buy their produce, so their customer service will be far greater!

Fish

The fishmongers in a market will perhaps have chosen the fish they're selling that very morning from the fish market, and so will be proud of the fish they have, and also be experts in preparing it for healthy eating recipes and meals. You really must not be ashamed of asking them what to do with fish, or even for healthy suggestions. Ask for any special offers they have on, if you're a new customer ask for introductory pricing. You're dealing with real people, who want to sell to you, and win over a repeat customer.

Vegatables and Fruit

In the marketplace, spend a couple of minutes looking around the stalls for the better worthwhile produce. Watch how the sales people interact with the customers and gauge whether it's someone you'd want to buy food from. It really is best to buy in bulk, buying all your healthy fruit and veg from one place, rather than a bit from one stall and some more from another to try and save you a few pence. If you notice another stall is cheaper, mention it to the person who is serving you, and quietly ask if you can have it at that cheaper price! Your longterm custom buying their affordable healthy food is worth more than a few pence on one particular day.