Eating Healthy on a budget?

Question

I want to loose weight and be healthy but I don't have a lot of money. Does anyone have any ideas on what is healthy, cheap, and fairly easy to cook? Recipes and/or food suggestions helpful Thanks

Answer 1

spinache salads are nice, so are different types of salads (you can pick a couple pounds of something green, leafy, and appetizing for only a dollar or two if you go non-packaged, fesh.... lettice is only 70 cents a head thereabouts, but not as tasty).

Also pick up a vegetable steamer and buy large frozen bags of mixed vegetables (Normandy blend from Wal-Mart is my favorite). Steamy stuff is easy and tastes good, can use low calorie dressings and wines for added flavor.

Chicken noodle soup has very low calories, is cheap, is extremely filling, and tastes good.

Diet products and pre-packaged diet meals tend to be way expensive while containing often extremely fattening compounds, so I suggest avoiding them unless the ingredients look fine. Also, avoid products with high frictose corn syrup in them.

Answer 2

Stay away from the center of the grocery store. Shop the outer edges. Real food is your best source of good food. If you cannot pronounce what is in it DON'T EAT IT. the following is my guide. Don't use it as a bible, but keep it in mind when you shop. I sometimes observe people at the store checking out and there are NO GROCERIES IN HER BASKET. Just junk, processed, prepackaged chemicals and overprice convenience items. Not a nutritional piece of food in the cart.
But all three of her children have in their hands, a soda, a bag of chips and a candy bar. I just want to grab her by the neck and throw her into the cart. Calm down!!!!

· It is important to maintain a good diet so you don't compromise your health. Damage done because of lack of nutrition is not worth a nice body. Some diet damage cannot be fixed.
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· When you deprive your brain, the brain will take other body cells to convert to the elements that it needs. And the cells it takes are BRAIN cells. OOPS. I don't want to lose brain cells to have thin legs. But I would like to have both.

Also, a quick weight loss is usually a water loss and that loss will come back ASAP. You cannot loose FAT more than 2 to 3 pounds a week. Any more than that and you are loosing water and muscle mass (not good)

AND DON'T GO ON A DIET. DECIDE TO MAKE A LIFE CHANGE TO A HEALTHY LIFE STYLE.

1) fruits and veggies, all you want, organic, raw, vine-ripe if possible. Steamed is OK, sautéed is OK even canned or frozen is OK, but lots of them.
2) limited or no meat.
3) nothing fried
4) no FAST FOOD- is junk, no nutrition, empty calories
5) NO PROCESSED FOOD. if you can't pronounce it don't eat it.
6) nothing white, salt, sugar, mayo, milk, (or at least in moderation.
7) NO DAIRY-dairy is great for baby cows, your body does not even digest it properly. check out www.notmilk.com
8) EXERCISE- and be sure to refresh your body with water and fresh fruit
9) NO PROTEIN SUPPLEMENTS. Muscle is made from water, replace the water. You get enough protein from the food you eat, You get more protein from spinach than the supplements you take and your body does not get toxic on food protein the way it will with supplements. Supplements can really tax you liver.
10) Good supplement would be Omega 3, and B-12 and Juice Plus+
http://www.juiceplus.com/nsa/pages/Home....
11) NO CARBONATED DRINKS, or at least limited. They actually dissolve the calcium in your bones.
12) Calories in calories out.

AND DON'T GO NUTS, MODERATION.

And the spell check would not work, so if I messed up please forgive.

Answer 3

I eat vitamins everyday & then I can be more relaxed about how many servings i get in a day. if you can't afford enough food servings that are recommended, buy suppliments.