If you are a junk food junkie, than odds are good that you might be spending more money on junk food than you realize. Actually, junk food like soda, chips, Twinkies, and candy bars are a lot more expensive than we normally think about as well. Some candy bars, if purchased at any normal convenient store, are about a dollar. But some are more than that, and can even cost up to $1.79. That might not seem like much to us at the time, but actually it adds up to a lot. If you buy one candy bar per day at this price, you will end up spending almost $9 (by the time you include sales tax). This is $45 a month! Now, that is a lot of money to be spending on a candy bar, isn’t it?

Instead, you could almost feed your entire family for that much! For $1, you can usually buy a store-brand box of noodles to heat up for dinner. This will feed two to three people an entire main dinner course! And then, you can use the extra 79 cents to buy a $1 jar of tomato sauce. So, you can either get a candy bar for yourself, or you can spend the same amount of money on a pasta dinner for two or more people! Hmm, which sounds like a better deal…

Another example is soda. You can buy a 20 oz. bottle of soda for like $1.29, or you can buy a 2-Litre from the grocery store for $1. Or, you could buy a store-brand variety and get a 2-Litre of that for 64 cents! Or, you can make almost two liters of store-brand cool aid-type fruit drink for less than 50 cents! So, you can buy a 20 oz. bottle for yourself, or you can serve your entire family store-brand cool aid for two days… hmm, now which of those sounds like a better deal?