Eating healthy is not expensive

Totally agree with you, but you have to brought up eating a wide verity of food be familiar with cooking from scratch, be a good cook, don't have a mild eating disorder hiding as as healthy eating, like lentils and pulses, vegetable eat less meat.

Id make that sweet potato in to a sweet potato and black bean chilli served with lime and coriander rice, or a coconut chilli and sweet potato soup.

There is something very condescending about telling other a healthy diet is not expensive especial judging mothers.

It's total different when you in a position of coming home from work, collecting 3 children, and the children saying Mammy Mammy we'r hungry.

A number of individuals who are overly concerned about healthy eating have an eating disorders and ridgit black and white thinking, calling it healthy eating is more acceptable to them than recognising the eating disorder.

There is a named mental health disorder for this, orthorexia. Obsessive preoccupation for clean eating to a damaging extent.

I don't think it's that nuanced. There's no shortage of good ingredients, although particular ingredients like the ones you cite may be, although could that be a result of branded lifestyle profiteering?

I lived in the US and I would absolutely agree that eating well is definitely expensive there, eating unhealthily is cheap in comparison. So when I hear people complain about eating healthily in Ireland being expensive I do wonder if they're just regurgitating what they consume online.

You buy all the fruit and veg you can carry for the price of a pizza. You'll get a chicken for the price of a burger.

Anything even vaguely processed is going to be way more expensive than the raw material.