I often hear, "I can't afford to eat real food" or "It's hard to eat well."

I don't believe that's true.  We just need to start thinking about our food budget in a different way.

Eating is a basic survival necessity.  Besides all of the pleasure, wonder, delight, companionship, family togetherness forged at the table, you LITERALLY (literally literally) need to eat to survive. Food, real food, CAN be affordable when sought after the right way.