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I think having a balanced diet on a budget is difficult in any country. Just look at the US/UK where people on very low incomes resort to eating junk food.
You can have a balanced diet just as easily in China as anywhere. Fruit, veg, eggs and meat are all available at similar or cheaper prices to the west. The real issue, as tigerkuma pointed out, is the quality of the goods. It seems that every month there is a new scandal about food being tainted with some poisonous chemical, or some unscrupulous farm or factory owners mislabelling them.
@tigerkuma – I completely disagree with your friend on the bottled water. While boiling tap water will kill the bacteria. It won’t get rid of any chemicals inside it. You might have noticed from the smell occasionally when showering that China adds A LOT of chlorine to the water.