I don't know how anyone can afford to shop at Whole Foods!

If you want fresh veggies and fruit for cheap, go find an Asian supermarket. If you walk in and realize you're the only non-Asian, then you're in the right place.

I can easily buy enough fruits and vegetables to last a week for $15. We're talking multiple serving of both for lunch and dinner for 7 days.

Or at farmers markets! Can't upvote this enough. I go to the indian and asian markets and only buy certain things at costco where the quality is slightly better (fruits) or I get more quantity for the $.

If there's not much of an Asian population, Asian supermarkets aren't nearly as common and so not very convenient.

Where I live, buying rolled oats off the shelf from a regular grocery store will run you $0.00244 per gram. A serving of oats as indicated by the packaging is 3/4 cups or 65.7g of oats by weight. That works out to a whopping $0.1647 per serving. Prices are fairly average if not a little higher where I live so yes most people can get oats for $0.20 a serving. The secret is probably not buying at whole foods.

Honey can be a bit more expensive, for me it's about $0.012 per gram when not on sale. I use around a tablespoon in the morning so that's about 21.25g by weight which gives $0.255 in cost. Once again, that's hardly unmanageable on a daily basis. I don't know how much cinnamon you generally put in your oatmeal but a couple of shakes usually does it for me, not sure what it would be if measured but certainly less than 1/4 tsp. and it takes me a long time to go through a bottle (125g) or bag if I buy the cheaper stuff and refill a bottle ;) so the couple dollars I spend on it only gets shelled out every 2 - 3 months.

You can also order those ingredients from amazon:

50lbs bag of rolled oats $57.99 (0.00255/g) [1]

220z x 3 raw honey $28.80 ($0.0154/g) [2]

18oz. ground cinnamon $8.48 ($0.0166/g) [3]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Regular-Rolled-Oats-Bulk-Pound/dp/B007...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Y-S-Eco-Bee-Farms-Honey/dp/B000Z93FQC/...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Ground-Cinnamon-18-oz/dp/B00...

20 cents wont get you a serving of oats? Oats are like 80 cents a pound, dry! A quarter pound of dry oats is plenty of food for breakfast...