Trying to be healthy.

It is really expensive to eat really colorful. The nutritionist says you should make your plate as colorful as possible in order to get the nutrition you need for the day. I went to the store yesterday and I bought fruits (peaches and apples) and my favorite spinach plus lean meats and healthy stuff and it cost me $80 bucks. Now i know that it enough for two weeks so it adds up to $160 a month and prob less(considering I hadn't gone to the store in over a month and a half) but normally I would spend half of that every two weeks. I need food stamps. But the University of Florida has found another way to screw me over with those as well. I'm trying to figure out if fruits and vegetables are so good for you why are they expensive to come by. I can see why a family of 6 will get obese or have a bad lipids panel: its so much cheaper to eat bad.
Also in the efforts of challenging myself I have decided to compete in a triathlon. I have been thinking about it for quite some time. I consider it a stepping stone to making it on to Amazing Race. I was going to train for one in October until I started reading this website on Triathlon training for beginners and I saw just how delusional I was. I'm giving myself a year. By next summer I want to compete in my first Triathlon(I don't know how many more will actually follow) Its going to be interesting considering I just learned how to swim, can't run two miles continuously, and learned how to ride a bike at 17 and was never any good at it. But I'm a moderately active person so the goal is just to push myself.