Costs a Pretty Penny to Eat Healthy

The cost of eating a healthy, well-balanced diet continues to go up in Northwestern Ontario.
The Health Unit has come out with its annual nutritious food basket survey for 2009.
Dietitian Julie Slack says their main concern isn’t the cost of food in the region, so much as how people on limited incomes are managing to eat health meals.
Slack says the cost of feeding a family of four has risen to $825 in 2009.
Slack notes they averaged out the cost of 67 grocery items at 25 stores in the Kenora and Rainy River Districts.