Diet food, tight budget ?!
Question: Im totally broke right now.
For the weekend, including fir/sat/sunday I have measly 21 bucks.
What are some clever ways to stretch it and still eat healthy and well enough ?
Ive eaten so much chicken, tuna and frozen veggies lately i could scream!
Help.
Answers: Im totally broke right now.
For the weekend, including fir/sat/sunday I have measly 21 bucks.
What are some clever ways to stretch it and still eat healthy and well enough ?
Ive eaten so much chicken, tuna and frozen veggies lately i could scream!
Help.
Buy 6 pieces of fruit, and eat 2 for breakfast each morning.
For snacks, buy a bag of baby carrots or snow peas, and use them as snacks. Healthy, cheap, and full of fiber to keep you full :)
For Lunch, check your cupboards and see what you have available, then only buy what you need to complete the meals you already have. (For example, if you have sandwich supplies, buy bread.) Buying soup is great, it's hot, filling, usually healthy, and cheap.
Check your cupboards to see if you have any pasta noodles laying around. If yes, Invest in some vegetables (they're cheap!) and make a large batch of spaghetti sauce. If no, buy the ingredients for a large batch of chili, or something similar. You can stretch it out as your dinner each night since these are very filling meals which can be made cheaply in a large quantity, and stay well as leftovers.
Don't buy meat. Make vegetarian spaghetti sauce or chili - it will be just as good, just as filling, better on calories and much cheaper!
Drink lots of water because it helps keep you satisfied. Good Luck!!
PS - Another CHEAP and FILLING (and healthy) dinner is a baked potato. Baked potato with side salad - cheap and you will be stuffed!! :)
I know this sounds disgusting, but there are people who go to supermarket and go through the big bins the supermarkets dump their unwanted, but perfectly good fruit, veggies, meat you name it. A lot of people in sydney do this to put their way through college and UNI.
You'll be amaze at what you will find, most of the thing they throw out are not even part there used by date, its just because there not presentable.
Yeah I was thinking the same when I first read it, lol.
Have you tried donating blood, that may get you a couple more dollars if you have family, go pay a unexpected visit.
eating healthy is expensive as we all know
like juice is more expensive than soda, so most ppl buy soda...
if you can't afford it, you can't do it
that's why I hate all thse Nutri-System and other comericals - "$300 for one months of food and I feel great!" --- I hate those ppl, they make me sick
if you are an everyday person like the rest us, you can't eat died food that often 'cuz of the high cost
In Minnesota, at my local grocery, i can get a 3 pound bag of salad mix(lettuce and sredded carrot) for about $4.00 and a bottle of my fave lo cal dressing for about2.50. that much salad fixing should keep you in salad for the weekend and maybe beyond. Then, you can add to it. A big salad to start and some homemade soup(with the dreaded chicken and veg!) would make a good lunch and not too spendy. Baked potatoes with salsa (instead of cheese, etc) is cheap too. a bag of spuds and a small jar of salsa shouldn't be more than 5.00 and by my calculations, you should still have a bit of money left to fill in the spaces. Grab a gallon milk(skim) for the protien and calcium. Maybe with another type of meat. Lean pork is no more fattening than chicken and neither is lean beef. Even if there is visible fat, you can trim that after cooking. The bottom line is dieting is a lot cheaper if you can cook your own stuff. You do have to think about it and figure out how to cut calories.