Say for example, a laptop is more expensive than a computer.
Why? It is handy and convenient. It has lots of features. It is modern technology.

A computer isn’t handy and it’s heavy and you can’t even bring it back overseas with the keyboard and CPU, etc.

The same thing goes to differentiate the good and the bad.

Also, there are so many additives within processed food that if you took a buger that you made at home, the meat you used could make 5x (Just a quick guesstimation) that in McDonald’s hamburgers… They are also mixed with other things, for example chicken nuggets were not always 100% chicken..

Another thing that makes fast food cheaper is all those additives raise the shelf life of these foods, that way they don’t waste as much money on having to throw out food that has gone bad.

The reason why healthy food is more expensive is because it isn’t nearly as processed as much as fast food. And the reason why organic fruits/vegies are expensive is because they take more loss in their crops than non-organic farmers because they don’t use pesticides or anything to keep bugs from eating their crops or to promote irregular growth.

People feed them to their children and wonder why they have a four year-old that weighs 90 pounds and looks like a pot bellied pig.

If you eat Healthy food then your medical bills will be low and may live to 100 years old.

Fast Food= poor quality of life
Healthy food= good quality of life

In general, it is CHEAPER to cook from whole foods than it is to buy packaged or processed foods. If there is no inexpensive fast food in your part of the world, make your own. Learn to cook, buy in season fruits and vegetables and make large quantities, then freeze some for when you are too busy or tired to cook. Learning to cook isn’t a fast answer, but take this for an example. Do you like hummus? Don’t pay $3.49 for an 8 ounce plastic tub of it. Buy a can of garbanzo beans (chickpeas) for 80 cents, add a few cloves of garlic, some lemon juice and olive oil, some spices, and you have a pound of it for a little over a buck, and it doesn’t have unnecessary preservatives. No cooking required, just pulverize it in a food processor for about 10 seconds, put it in little reusable plastic containers in the fridge, and you have about 8 servings of high quality protein for less than 25 cents each. Like a good vegetable soup? Go to a farmers market, buy whats cheap, local and in season, and you can make over a gallon of soup for about $10. Add some beans or barley, and you will have at least 10 servings for about a buck a piece. You can make a huge batch of potato soup for about three dollars right now. I used to have a budget of $10 a week for food (in the 1980’s). I learned how to make homemade pasta (eggs, flour, salt) and soup and grew veggies and herbs, and lived very well. Now, there are two of us, we eat 3 meals a day, gourmet cooking, and our food bill runs about $50 a week including organic milk, eggs, veggies and meat. That is about $2.50 a meal per person. A couple times a year we have big purchases like the 22 amish chickens I bought for the freezer last week (164 pounds at $1.25 a pound). Thanksgiving rarely costs me more for 16 people than it does for the two of us for the week because of all the deals in the grocery store.

Just learn to cook, and enjoy life. Leave the cheap rainforest destroying hamburgers to someone else.