Are you one of those men who bitches and moans and cry making every excuse in the book like, “but it’s too expensive wah wah wah…”, when you are told to eat a diet that is healthy, good for the environment and abuses less animals? Well you’re full of shit.

In a study from Oxford University, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, found that especially in high-income countries, like the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and the rest of Western Europe, eating a vegan, vegetarian diet, and flexitarian diets will cut your food cost up to a third.

The study reviewed seven “sustainable” diets in 150 countries using food prices from the World Bank’s International Comparison Program.

The cheapest to eat, despite the one being most bitched about, is the vegan diet which cut your food bill by a third (33%). Vegetarian was second lowest. And a flexitarian diet cut the tab by 14%. For those who think a nasty pescatarian diet is sustainable, not only is it not sustainable for the environment, it’s not sustainable for your wallet either as it increases your food cost by 2%.

The study also focused on whole, unprocessed foods and not fake-“meats” and/or going out to restaurants and takeouts, all of which every shouldn’t be doing on a regular basis anyways.

The study did find that following the healthy, sustainable diet can make lower income countries more expensive, it can still make their diet diet a quarter cheaper than a typical Western diet. However, the study did not account that if the world goes plant based, much more food can be produced with the land leading to lower prices due to the higher supply.

However, for all of you in a wealthy country like the United States, your constant whine about how healthy eating is too expensive is unsound.

M Springmann et al. The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health 2012. 5(11); E797-E807