How to Eat Right - On the Cheap
You read all these articles about how to eat right, how to go for nutrition and not junk.
For the most part, you agree.
Fired up with a new level of awareness for what goes into your body, you rush to the grocery store all charged up hoping to finally figure out how to eat right.
Once you step into the supermarket though, it's almost as if you stand at a crossroads.
Go one way, and you choose convenience, taste and affordability.
Go the other way, you choose nutrition, health and an empty wallet.
How exactly are you supposed to follow all the advice in these articles to do with eating healthy - if you don't know how to do it on the little money you have? But it is possible.
It does take a little getting used to, and it does need you to be little creative with what you cook.
But possible, it is.
Even if the health-conscious first lady does exhort the nation to abandon packaged juices altogether, we never seem to get the point.
Not only are juice boxes expensive, they aren't good for you either.
They are just laden with sugar and they have precious little actual fruit.
Skipping coffee, alcohol, boxed juice, soda and even bottled water is a great way to avoid an atrocious waste of money.
Your body doesn't need anything other than tap water.
Just stick a filter on that spout and drink away.
You'll save money, you will keep unhealthy liquids out of your system, and you will have money for healthier and better foods.
Sometimes, processed foods can be cheaper (usually because they're mass-produced and they have very little by way of nutritional value) and sometimes, they can be expensive (as in convenience meats that are completely prepared for you beforehand).
The first kind is nutritional junk and you want to stay away from it; and the second kind gives you the convenience at a steep price that you want to stay away from too.
In fact, you can get as much nutritional value for far less outlay than you would spend on meat, if you used substitutes like soy and tofu.
A few years ago, a child famously wrote Jay Leno asking him about the last time he ate a vegetable.
Filling up on vegetables can be terribly healthy.
And it can help you lower your food bills if you buy produce that's in season.
Find a seasonal produce chart on the Internet, and buy them when they are most plentiful when in season.
Stores try to keep information away from you about what happens to be in season.
They hope that you will believe that some expensive vegetables and fruits are that way just because that's what they happen to cost.
Make sure that you don't buy anything at an organic produce store.
While the health benefits for organic produce can't be denied, it's not the way to go if you're trying to stretch your dollar.
Shop at farmers' markets instead.
You'll find often that their prices are even cheaper than they have at the grocery store.
For the most part, you agree.
Fired up with a new level of awareness for what goes into your body, you rush to the grocery store all charged up hoping to finally figure out how to eat right.
Once you step into the supermarket though, it's almost as if you stand at a crossroads.
Go one way, and you choose convenience, taste and affordability.
Go the other way, you choose nutrition, health and an empty wallet.
How exactly are you supposed to follow all the advice in these articles to do with eating healthy - if you don't know how to do it on the little money you have? But it is possible.
It does take a little getting used to, and it does need you to be little creative with what you cook.
But possible, it is.
Even if the health-conscious first lady does exhort the nation to abandon packaged juices altogether, we never seem to get the point.
Not only are juice boxes expensive, they aren't good for you either.
They are just laden with sugar and they have precious little actual fruit.
Skipping coffee, alcohol, boxed juice, soda and even bottled water is a great way to avoid an atrocious waste of money.
Your body doesn't need anything other than tap water.
Just stick a filter on that spout and drink away.
You'll save money, you will keep unhealthy liquids out of your system, and you will have money for healthier and better foods.
Sometimes, processed foods can be cheaper (usually because they're mass-produced and they have very little by way of nutritional value) and sometimes, they can be expensive (as in convenience meats that are completely prepared for you beforehand).
The first kind is nutritional junk and you want to stay away from it; and the second kind gives you the convenience at a steep price that you want to stay away from too.
In fact, you can get as much nutritional value for far less outlay than you would spend on meat, if you used substitutes like soy and tofu.
A few years ago, a child famously wrote Jay Leno asking him about the last time he ate a vegetable.
Filling up on vegetables can be terribly healthy.
And it can help you lower your food bills if you buy produce that's in season.
Find a seasonal produce chart on the Internet, and buy them when they are most plentiful when in season.
Stores try to keep information away from you about what happens to be in season.
They hope that you will believe that some expensive vegetables and fruits are that way just because that's what they happen to cost.
Make sure that you don't buy anything at an organic produce store.
While the health benefits for organic produce can't be denied, it's not the way to go if you're trying to stretch your dollar.
Shop at farmers' markets instead.
You'll find often that their prices are even cheaper than they have at the grocery store.