No.

Not necessary.

 A Balanced diet is a source of all the nutrients. Balanced diet is a wholesome food with all nutrients in it for well-functioning of a body.

Definition of balanced diet says “a diet consisting of variety of different types of food and providing adequate amounts of the nutrients necessary for good health.”

In fact a person who takes a wholesome food with all the necessary nutrients actually has a balanced diet. With Knowledge of amount of nutrients in the food and requirement of nutrient by the body one can have a balanced diet with no money, no expenditure. With the ability of reading one can find the nutrients in the food mentioned in packaging of food item called as nutrition facts with the expiry date. 5/20 (purple) rule is a guideline. This rule indicates that twenty or more percentage value of any nutrient is high amount, while five percentage or less is low. Healthy diet has six major nutrients like carbohydrates (CHO), fats (lipids), proteins, vitamins, minerals and water. Meat is the major source of proteins; salad is directly correlated with higher nutrient levels. And keeping track of what has been consumed and what to consume one can find way to healthy body with balanced diet with no cost. An expensive food does give a particular amount of nutrient in particular gram in kcal or calories. But with understanding all the aspect of nutrition one can skip buying expensive food and maintain balanced diet. Many times it also seen that expensive food lack for minerals during refine process. Healthy diet has six major nutrients like carbohydrates (CHO), fats (lipids), proteins, vitamins, minerals, water (as amount of water contained in vegetables and also drinking water). By having diet with all the norms of nutrients and by keeping imprints of eating habits balanced diet can be maintained by having inexpensive food available circumscribed.