254: A Plant-Based Diet Is Expensive And Not Budget Friendly?

0:00 Hey friend, around here we're all about undoing the lies of the enemy, because we don't want you to stay stuck. So today we're going to unravel a lie about whole food, plant-based living being expensive. Let's do this. Hey sister, welcome to the Power On Plants podcast. Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health? Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do? Hi, we're Jared and Anita Roussell, christ followers, health care professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food.

0:40 We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers to traditional routes. So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant-based living. The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods and it's not hard. You just need the way that's realistic and delicious so you never feel deprived. If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place. So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started.

1:22 Welcome back sunshine. We love talking whole feet plant-based goodness, and one of the amazing things about whole plant foods is that they are not expensive. Now I guess you can make any way of eating expensive if you wanted to like, if you just set out to buy the most expensive thing in the world. But let's just talk about this for a minute. I want you to wrap your heads around something that just happened to me, and I want you to kind of go in your grocery store and have the same experience. Walk by the meat counter. I about had a literal heart attack the last time I walked by. I don't usually look at the meat counter Seriously. I saw actually it was in somebody's baggie. I saw a slab of meat and the big ol' price tag on it.

2:03 I thought I was going to pass out for a minute. I have to keep an AED machine with me whenever we walk by that because I look at her like is she gonna be okay? Yeah, okay, she made it this time. Alright, how in the world no CPR needed. No, how did we afford to eat that way? Again, it is one of the most expensive things to eat. Okay, not just meat, not just meat, all animal products. So think about cheeses how expensive cheeses are. Think about it. Let's just talk about eggs for a minute. What in the world? How are people affording to eat eggs right now? I don't know. I mean maybe if you have a farm or something, but that is craziness, right there. Milk Think about how expensive milks are, things like that when I can take water, throw in a couple of nuts even if they're organic nuts way cheaper than any milk I'm gonna buy at the store.

2:50 So easy, it's done in like two seconds. Tastes much more amazing when you know how to make it than any plant milk or regular milk you're gonna buy. But yeah, you can buy plant milk still cheaper. But let's just talk about the whole plant foods. Beans Alright. After you've priced the mint, after you've priced the dairy, after you've looked at eggs, walk down the dry bean aisle, or even the canned beans, and start looking at how many cans of beans could I buy to replace the cost of this meat? I'm serious. I want you to think about that for a minute. Price flax seed and chia seeds and start thinking about how many flax or chia eggs can I make with this? It's one tablespoon per egg that you're gonna make. How many quote eggs can I get out of this bag of flax and chia seeds?

3:31 It's crazy y'all. I'm gonna go off into something else here in a minute because this is just gonna get my blood boiling, because we believe these lies from our enemy and from people around us that don't have our best interest at heart and that aren't even telling the truth. But let's just look at the categories, the five power foods Fruits Okay. Bananas Not that expensive. Apples Oranges Not that expensive. Now, organic's gonna cost you a little more, but so is organic meat ultimate cut. So if you choose to eat organic or not organic, just eat more fruits and vegetables. We'd organic when we can. We definitely choose more organics from the Dirty Dozen.

4:11 That's a great place to start. If you want to start eating more organics, yeah, it's going to be better for you. Stop worrying about all the little things like organic or not organic at first. The first thing is start eating the foods Just get started. Just eat the foods and find ways to enjoy them, because you're going to be far better off eating the plants, even if they're conventional, than not doing it at all. Foods are cheap. Rice is inexpensive. Vegetables Cabbage Not expensive. You got to think about the bulk that you get out of head of cabbage. When you cut that up and you cook it it doesn't really wilt down like lettuce. You get a good amount of food. A huge head of cauliflower, I mean. I can buy that for really cheap. It's not that expensive. So good for you, though.

4:53 So good for you. It's very filling because of a lot of the fiber that's in there. Of course, all the health benefits, the anti-cancer properties, anti-inflammatory properties, all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals that you get with that. Whole grains, not expensive Rice. I mean beans and rice. You got to think about the countries that exist eating these foods. They're the poorest countries, but they're eating the richest foods, and I'm talking about they're the richest foods because in it lies the wealth of your health. There's nothing worth more to you than feeling good and being able to live the life you want to live. This is wealth. Well, I shouldn't say there's nothing more valuable Like having your relationship with your creator.

5:35 Okay, more valuable, but in order to live out your purpose for him, you've got to feel good, and that starts with what you're putting into your body. I could say you can't really put a price tag on that, but we've got to talk in this day and time when our dollar doesn't quite go as far. And how do you make this budget friendly? How? do you make it work with real life? Yeah, I mean, that's just the practical aspect of it, since most of us don't live on a farm where we're growing these things ourselves. But yes, it is a consideration. But I want to compare the two because when you look at grains, you're typically buying them dry, right? So if you get a pound of rice, if you get it organic, we've seen it anywhere from two to $4 for a pound, depending on where it soars.

6:17 It may even be cheaper if you go to certain places. Well, it may be. There are discount stores where you can buy a huge and bulk and store them. You can cook it up, you can freeze it. There are so many ways to save money. This is the kind of stuff we talk about inside Power and Pleats Society. This is how you do the life, but you've got to know these steps to take. But just in and of themselves, these foods are less expensive. Yes. So you get a pound of rice for a few dollars. You get a pound of meat for how much? A lot depending on what type of meat it is. I mean, if you're getting steak? I don't know. I honestly I haven't priced meat in a while $15, $20. You said you almost had a heart attack walking by it. It depends on what kind it is $10, $12 a pound. Way higher if you're looking at a really quote nice steak.

7:00 But then something to consider is that you cook that rice, then with the water it's going to expand and you're going to have more than just what that volume is. That you see. So it's not just that little bag. It's going to be, it's going to be more filling. You're going to actually feed more people for that amount of money. And, on the opposite, what's going to happen with the meat when you cook it as drinks? I hope there's no, that's true. Think about when you used to buy a roast or something and cook it. I mean, you buy this big chunk of meat and you cook it in it, it's being this little tiny. It cooks down. It's just not good. Okay, I can't even talk about eating meat anymore. Y'all, something happens when you stop eating meat and stop eating these foods. It's not that you just don't crave them anymore or that you don't desire them, because you find your new favorites.

7:42 Some of them start to repulse you and I'm talking. This is reality. This is what really happens. Because these foods start tasting amazing to you. You learn the way to make them that not only tastes good, but that's easy on your wallet. So there is some strategy involved. We talk about this inside the membership and they're going to do so more as we move forward. But because you've got to learn how to make this easiest on your budget and I say easiest because it's just naturally easier, because Jared's making these comparisons like you look at rice and then you look at steak, let's compare something similar that people don't usually think of rice as protein, although it has protein and amino acids the building blocks were protein in it, right 8% protein. Oh, there you go. Yes, and if what we ate was only two to 3% protein, we would have enough.

8:27 So rice right there, plenty of protein. It's plenty of protein, more than what we need. But most people would compare beans. So you get a pound of dried beans in a bag. It's going to also expand and grow It'll expand and that we've seen Fill you up faster. In the two to four dollar range, again depending on organic versus not small farm source versus large. Again, don't get hung up on that in the beginning. Find the best quality that you can. If you just found conventional beans, you might even find them for less than a dollar a pound. You're not going to find meat for less than a dollar a pound and if you do question it, question where it comes from. Is it even really meat? Yeah, I've got things popping in my mind right now. I'm not even going to.

9:08 Sometimes you don't need to always say what you're thinking. So I'm just going to curb myself, right here, Okay, we just compared a couple of. I mean, we could go on and on with the comparisons of dollar to dollar, just in any store. But what I want you to start thinking about is this isn't just about the cost of the product. There's so much more at stake here. Yes, I can show you, and Jared can show you, where do you get things cheaper, what brands are better deals and are going to, in the end, probably help you feel better because of the area of the country they're grown in. All that kind of stuff. And also time of year affects cost. Oh, there's so many different things we go through and we teach about the cost and how you do that, and I'm going to have more coming out about that inside the membership because it's really important.

9:53 You need to know what are some ways I can shop to make it cheaper, make it quicker, make it more convenient for me. All those things are important and there are a ton of things you can do to cut cost. It's unbelievable how many options there are. It will blow your mind. But I want you to think deeper. I want you to start thinking deeper. Let's you got to start thinking beyond dollar signs, because, yes, the dollar signs are going to be lower, they just are by nature. Like Jared was talking about, just food to food. But then let's start thinking about all the time that you have to take off work to be in the doctor's office or be in the hospital. All the time you have to take off work and you can't go because you don't feel good because of the side effects of the medicines.

10:34 You're taking All the lost wages there. Let's talk about the doctor's bills that you have to pay. Let's talk about the medications that you're paying for the pharmaceutical cost on top of pharmaceutical costs to deal with the side effects of those medications that you're having to pay, that your insurance isn't covering. Let's talk about the insurance bills you're paying and the premiums that are going up because of all the medications that everybody's taking. Let's talk about other things, yeah, Well, I mean, those are the major highlights there, but you want to think below just that initial cost. You want to dig deeper below the surface, because there are other hidden costs. I mean, they're not really hidden, it's just costs that we don't think about because it just seems so natural Like, well, I've got this problem, I've got to go to the doctor, get a medication and even generics.

11:22 These days I've been practicing now for 21 years Things that used to be dirt cheap $4. They're not always $4 now. Sometimes they're $20 and $30. And if you're on two or three of those, how many groceries would that buy for you? Right and the big thing for me was just starting to question and ask myself what is eating this way costing me? What is it really costing me? Not just these things we've talked about. It's costing me the ability to live the life I want to live, to go to the places I want to go to. I can't do that. I don't feel like it. You know, after work I wanted to do things with friends. We wanted to get together and build our relationships. It was costing me relationships because I didn't have the energy to go out or spend time with them in the evenings, and the weekends was my time to rest and recuperate.

12:09 I wasn't going out, I wasn't able to do those things. It was costing me my relationships with my children because I wanted to have the energy to plant the seeds in them that I was placed here to plant and I just didn't have it. I mean, I was barely surviving the day and there was a time when At least a good year and a half, where you couldn't even tuck them in bed, couldn't climb one flight of stairs. You should go give them a kiss goodnight and hug them. It's true, it was ridiculous tell the kids I love them, tuck them into bed. And if I had just had somebody say to me look at what this is costing you. Did you know that there was something you could do? Did you know that five years from now, did you know that, honestly, for me it was probably a month, two months from now that you could be climbing these stairs, tucking them into bed.

12:53 Did you know that just in a week or two weeks time, you're gonna have so much energy that you're gonna have to Force yourself to go to bed at night? That's still my story today. I cannot believe I. I literally have a problem. Y'all this is a problem I have. I have a sleep problem and it's because I don't want to go to sleep. It's not that I can't sleep. My sleep problem is I feel so good at night. Sometimes it's when I get some of my best work done because I still have so much energy, just still have things I'm trying to change and just still have things that I'm tweaking with my help. That is still getting better, absolutely. I ate 40 plus years Stuff that I thought was healthy for me because it was clean and organic in the, even in the last 20 years or so, but even before that just grew up on junk and eating and my mom cooked.

13:40 She cooked at home, but we still ate a lot of the junk foods and just the foods that we were cooking. We just didn't know. I mean, we were from the south, we just didn't know what we didn't know the meat and the dairy you got to get your protein and calcium and our eggs, eggs and cheese. And then you got to have some chips every once in a while. We still eat chips, but we just eat them in a different way. We love them just as much. Don't miss the other things. But you've got to find those new favorites. But there's a cost there. What is it costing you? You've got to ask yourself what is it costing me? What's the price I'm paying here, daily, in these foods that I think tastes good, but daily Waking up and just wishing with all my heart that I could just roll over and go back to sleep, because I'm already aching, my joints hurt, I'm stiff, I can't move like I used to, like I used to could, if you.

14:36 Know. I had frozen shoulder a couple of times. It has totally healed with whole food, plant-based. Praise God, he showed us how to eat this way. Like I see people who can't even put at our age, like 52, 53, around our age, can't even lift a foot. Like I had something on my fifth the other day and I lifted my foot up and put it in the sink, in my sink, in my bathroom, to wash something off. Because you could, because I could, right, and I was thinking there are people that can't do this. They can't even bend over to get a pot without hurting or being afraid they're gonna do something to their back or I mean back out. I had a knee injury that completely healed on its own. I never had surgery, even though the doctor said you have got so much torn up in there you need to have surgery.

15:22 This is bad. I chose not to and thank God it healed and I think to a huge extent it has healed because of how I fed my body. So what is the cost to me? Ask yourself right now, what is it costing me? And list, make a mental list or listed out on paper, and just figure out Is that something you're willing to live with for the rest of your life? Because if you're on a path to that, if you're like me, it's not gonna get any better. It wasn't getting better, it was daily getting worse. Because we had not asked that question and hadn't really thought about it. We had things going on. We didn't even realize we're going on with our body. We started eating this way and Jared's going wow, my aches and pains were gone. I mean, just you kind of gotten used to him.

16:02 It was just how it was. It's kind of like how we're taught oh, what's just your age. Oh, it's just getting older. As you get older, your blood pressure just goes up. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. All these things are lies. You look at the countries where they're not eating these expensive foods. The plant-based cultures. Their blood pressure actually goes down as they get older, as they age. That's normal. That's normal. These are all lies. We've got to undo. What is this costing me? Because it's so much more than dollars. Yes, you can eat plant-based cheaper. Yes, we'll show you how. But you've got to understand that there's so much more of a cost. There's so many things that are more important than money, but it's costing money in more ways than it is dollars.

16:45 On the price tag We've talked about that too. Yes. I want you to think about the actual dollars. It's cheaper. Tell yourself, it's just cheaper. Rice and beans are cheaper. Potatoes are cheaper. Like these are the cheaper foods. Why have I believed this is going to be expensive for me? Why have I believed these lies? We're going to be talking about another one of the lies in the next episode, because we want you to be free. You were born, created to live free from all this junk and we've got to clean it out. But what's really important is when you undo things from your life and you remove things be it bad foods or bad ideas you've got to put the right thing in its place. So we don't want to just say, oh, you can't have those foods because they're expensive, or you shouldn't eat those because they're expensive.

17:26 We want to say, well, what's the alternative? Oh well, I can eat foods that are not only cheaper on the label, but that will save me money, because they're going to give me my time back, and time is money. They're going to decrease the doctor's bills that I'm getting. They're going to decrease the hospital bills. They're going to give me a longer life on earth in which I can be more productive and earn more money, but they're going to give me all these treasures that aren't dollar bills, these memories that I never would have had with my children and grandchildren, all the people I could have served, people that are now entering into the kingdom because I was able to be there and share the gospel with them. What is that worth? Can you put a price tag on that?

18:06 It's immeasurable. There's no price tag for that. So if you want to learn the ways to make this cheaper dollar wise, we're going to show you that inside Power On Plants Society. We're going to keep talking about these things and show you the methods to do it. But I want you to wrap your mind around. It's about so much more than just that, and when you're ready to finally say enough is enough. I'm sick of traveling to places that I want to see and viewing them from my car, because I know that if I park and get out and walk there, by the time I get there to walk around downtown I'm going to be so tired I'm not going to get to really enjoy it. I'm sick of not being able to be out and about to greet people and talk to them, to develop the friendships that I want to have, to be able to plant the seeds that I was put here to plant in my children, in the strangers I might meet if I was out there and not stuck in my bed all day, not stuck on the couch all day, and if that's you right now.

19:02 Right now is the time to make 2024 your best year ever. Yes, if you're just listening to this when it's airing right now. We're still in 2023. But this is a time to plan for your best years ever, 2024 and beyond Maybe you're listening to this in 2025 or 2026. Go to Power on Plants right now and find out how can I get involved, can I take a course, can I get in a membership, can I get in their mastermind, can I get coaching from Jared and Anita and, most importantly, can I get around a group of people who are on the same journey, who are not going to let the enemy keep lying to them, who are going to live out their purpose because they're intentional, king-demanded people who want to know how to get the most nutrient-dense foods into their body in a way they actually enjoy, so they look forward to living it every day.

19:50 There's no willpower in through that. There's no breaking the bank over that. You're going to learn the ways to make it cheaper. This is about so much more than money. Friend, if you're tired of worrying about all these things that just aren't true, go right now to poweronplantscom for a slash society and get your name on the wait list and then set a reminder on your phone for December 28th. Don't wait till the fourth, when the doors close. You might miss out. And when the doors are closed, they're closed and we're working with our members and we're getting them results. We want you to have the results you're after today. We want you to be the one that says I finally feel better. We want you to be the next one that says this disease has reversed.

20:32 I cannot believe this has gone. Why did someone not tell me that this was possible before? I mean, I thought my body should be able to heal naturally and I went to all these doctors looking for the solution, but nobody told me this. Why didn't someone tell me this? We're not going to let you stay there and keep worrying about it. We're just going to keep moving forward and getting you result after result so you can fully live the active life that you longed to live, that you were placed here to live. So step number one is set your reminder on your phone right now for December 28th and come in as soon as the doors open. Do not wait because you might miss out. And when you do come in, you get immediate access to everything to us, to all the videos, but, most importantly, to the community.

21:18 You're gonna come into the community and get involved so you can start gaining that support, getting the ideas and taking action, because that gets the ball rolling and that is what's gonna get you to the future that you want, and I have a feeling, sunshine, that you're gonna get there a whole lot sooner than you think. So go right now to poweronplantscom forward, slash society. Set your reminder we will see you on the inside of Power on Plant Society and look, while you're waiting for the doors to open, just do one thing today. Just one thing that's gonna help you feel better. Have one plate-based meal. Pretend it's Meatless Monday, even if it's not Monday. Right now, get something great into your body that's gonna make you feel good.

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