Many people give excuse of not eating healthy because healthy foods is expensive. Actually, on any budget healthy eating is possible. Here are the ways to eat under your budget!
Eating healthy consist of lots of fruits and veggies, lean protein, whole grains – doesn’t have to be more expensive. If you shop smart and plan ahead, you’ll be surprised at how much goodness you can get without breaking the bank.
Planning ahead what to cook
Preparing menus and grocery lists ahead of time can keep you from making impulse food choices, which often aren’t healthy.
Take a few minutes over the weekend to go through your favorite healthy recipes and map out your meal plan. Healthy recipes easily available website, magazines, social media and cookbooks. By planning ahead, you can check the nutrition facts of a meal before you decide to make it and create a detailed grocery list for easy shopping. When you know the ingredients to shop you can avoid buy unhealthy foods.
Avoid eating out as much you can
As most restaurants come with extra large portions and extra large price tags. And options at fast food restaurants are typically loaded with excess saturated fat, salt and sugar. Start to cook at home and prepare with the right portions. If got extra you can refrigerate or freeze and eat later. The reality is, many of those ready-made, super-fast, prepackaged foods actually that you buy outside cost MORE than homemade foods. And they tend to have more #calories, #saturated fat, #sodium and added #sugars
Shop smart to save big
Shop for seasonal produce – fruits and veggies are less expensive during their peak growing times, and they’re also tastier!
Some supermarket might offer 5% discount around the month. Why not shopping at the time to save more and become a member so that you can get extra discount for any products. Keep an eye out for specials. Stock up on frozen and canned produce when it’s on sale. If possible buy local at a farmer's market. The produce may be fresher because it wasn’t picked before ripening to travel on a truck long-distance to get to you. You’ll know where your food is coming from and help your local economy. You can save money by buying in bulk and splitting the cost with friends or family.
Practice make perfect!
Don't give up! Putting a new healthy routine in place doesn’t happen overnight, so don’t give up! Make healthy changes one step at a time so that you wont feel deprived. Good luck!