I have a budget of $200. How can I eat a healthy and well balanced diet?!


Question: I have a budget of $200. How can I eat a healthy and well balanced diet?
What foods do you suggest?

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A good healthy diet high in fiber, lean meats, eggs, complex carbohydrates, whole grains, antioxidant foods, healthy beverages and low in added sugar and salt help people lose weight, gain weight, lower cholesterol, increase energy, improve brain function, lower blood pressure, reduce cancer risk and have a more positive lifestyle!
You need to eat a lot more food and a lot more fiber!
Fruits and vegetables have good fiber in them. Beans and rice are a great inexpensive complete meal.
Try a breakfast cereal with at least 20% of recommended daily allowance of fiber in it. They are usually low in sugar so there is a double benefit. Blueberries or raspberries on top add more fiber and antioxidants. But fresh or frozen, not the kind in syrup.
Raw nuts are a great source of fiber, healthy fats, and antioxidants. Avocados are the best.
Lots of beans, peas, and grains are high fiber. Whole grain breads. Fiber kicks up the metabolism so you actually burn more calories. These foods will give you more gas in the beginning but if eaten daily, the bacteria in the digestive tract will elevate lowering the gas output.
This will get you on the path for a healthy daily bowel movement. This helps clean the system and aids healthy digestion.
Next, take a basic daily multivitamin. Don't look at your multivitamin as nutrition but more as an insurance policy. Think of it as filling in the gaps in your daily diet as opposed to a primary source of nutrients.
Last, you HAVE to drink lots of water to be healthy. But you can disguise it. Fill your glass all the way full with ice before pouring low sugar beverages. Try iced green tea with a splash of orange juice in it for sweet. More antioxidants. Add lemon juice to water for flavor. Slice up a cucumber and float it in pitcher of water. Gives it salty fresh taste. But you must drink up to 100 oz of water daily to help your body get rid of waste and the toxins it contains.
You must combine a healthy diet with exercise to multiply the benefit. Whether an hour a day in the weight room or just a 30 minute brisk walk every day, the added benefit of a regular exercise program really do increase and accelerate healthy weight and lifestyle.
It is an extremely tough time right now. Food prices are up 15% since January mostly due to oil prices. The cold February weather damaged most of the winter vegetable crops.
My rules of thumb are to buy whatever fruit is less than $1 a pound. That is citrus right now.
Nuts if you can find them under $4 a pound. Hard boiled eggs are always a healthy food choice.
Cabbage and other vegetables under $1 a pound make for filling, healthy food.
Buy whole chickens on sale and cut them up. Clean and grille for a lean protein source. Canned tuna in water when on sale. Another great protein source.
It doesn't have to be expensive to eat healthy.
Stay away from processed and prepackaged food. It is less healthy and more expensive.



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Beans oats and sweet potatoes, chicken, eggs, vegetables and fruit. No name brand stuff, just the basics.




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