Nancy Deville: Shopping for Real Food on a Budget
My last blog "How to Grocery Shop Like a Hunter-Gatherer," generated a lot of discussion. One complaint was that eating real food is too expensive for many Americans. I present ideals when I write about food. If only everyone could eat real, whole, living food our health care problems would decline. Unfortunately tax dollars do not go to subsidizing small farmers and ranchers, but to corporations that grow the soy, corn and wheat that go into making the factory food products that are ruining our health. Although I could go on a major rant about that, it's more productive to think of ways to help financially challenged Americans find ways to improve their nutrition. If you're struggling financially, you may become discouraged and sink into the convenience of eating factory produced food. If you're game to begin a real food diet on a budget, begin by committing to a food hunt and to preparing what your hunt brings home. Avoid eating food products that contain the fats listed above.
EatingWell: How To Save $250 On Groceries This Month
By Matthew Thompson, Associate Food Editor for EatingWell Magazine A few months ago, my wife and I noticed an interesting phenomenon: Our grocery bill, which used to be so consistent, had started to slowly, steadily creep up week by week. At first we assumed that rising prices were to blame -- after all, the economy is in the gutter right now -- but a quick double-checking of some of our staple purchases proved this wasn’t the case. No, it turned out that our grocery costs were higher simply because we had stopped focusing on our core money-saving strategies. As any supermarket-savvy shopper will tell you, how you eat can make a huge difference in how big your bill is. Now is as great a time as any to return to smart-shopping values. 1. Make It: 21 Cheap Meatless Meals You Must Try 2. 3. Get the Recipe: Rich Chicken Stew and More $3 Recipes for a Crock Pot Other inexpensive cuts of meat that work wonderfully in the slow cooker include pork shoulder, beef chuck and brisket. 4. 5. 6.
Food for a Month: Week 4 | Food & Drink | Living Frugally
Our Food for a Month series wraps up with one last week of delicious, home-cooked meals. (Click here for recipes for week one, week two and week three.) By now, you know the drill: Click on the first slide for your shopping list for the week, then do the prep work below, which will make the rest of your week's cooking fly by. The Menu Day 1: Sausage-Fried Quinoa Day 2: Asian-Style Soba Noodles Day 3: Italian-Influenced Mélange Day 4: Vegetable Quinoa Salad Day 5: Dinner Frittata With Escarole Snack: Tomato and White Bean Salsa The Plan: Prep the Vegetables 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil (divided) 1 teaspoons salt (divided) 1 pound eggplant, cubed 1 pound butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cubed 8 ounces potatoes, scrubbed and cubed (skin on) Sprinkle about 1/2 teaspoon of coarse salt onto eggplant. Make the Quinoa Bring 2 cups of water to a boil. Cook Off Sausage Heat 1/2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat. Clean Escarole, Bok Choy and Basil Print out all the recipes for the week here.
Frugal Living: WHAT store bought items do you make at home & WHY?
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10 Things to Do With 10 Bucks: $10 and Under Meals | Food & Drink | Living Frugally
Given our packed lives, it's no wonder we return again and again to the simple pleasures. Take, for example, cooking at home. What may seem like a mundane act actually satisfies us on a lot of levels: It's healthy, fun, creative and nourishing, not to mention a money-saver. But not all from-scratch meals are cheap to cook up. That's why we've come up with ten dinners under $10 that are low on cost—and big on flavor. (For more fun ideas about how to spend an extra $10 you find in your pocket, check out the rest of our 10 Things to Do With $10 series.) What Are Your Favorite Cheap Meals? From roasted chicken and pot pie to hearty winter soup, these recipes all feed from two to four. Whether you're craving Indian, Mexican or plain old comfort food, there's a meal here for this evening ... and the next. View Slide Show Get More Under-$10 Meals ... Make grilled chicken with roasted corn, onions and smoky black beans with this delicious recipe.
20 Frugal Tips from Someone Who Lived Through the Great Depression | Steadfast Finances
During another weekend road trip to visit the family for Mother’s Day, I always make it a habit to drop in on Grandma and soak in a few hours worth of knowledge she’s accumulated over her near 75 years. Gifts were exchanged, I overindulged in home cookin’, but in the end, I sat with a piece of paper scribbling notes on what it was like for her (and other family members) to live through the Great Depression. I’m fortunate that I haven’t felt the effects of the recession, so I thought it would be interesting to get her point of view since she lived through one of the harshest periods of American history. In the end, I wasn’t exactly surprised because I’ve heard many of these frugal living rules over and over again, but it’s finally nice to get them down on paper. I hope you can learn as much from her wisdom as I have over the years. Save a dollar for every dollar you spend. by Koshyk
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How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week
Our discussion about how to eat for cheap generated a lot of great tips. Daiko shared a detailed explanation of how he once got by spending just $15/week on food. This is a great real-life example of how it’s possible to eat well without breaking the bank. I’m posting it here so that more people will see it. Although I don’t do this now, I once lived on $15 a week for food in the early 1990s. This was helped by the fact that my workplace fed me five meals a week, but I was still carrying the weight of sixteen additional meals (for slightly less than a dollar per meal). Here is some of what I did: Never allow leftovers to go bad. There may have been other tricks that I’ve forgotten, but with only $15 to spend per week I had to think long and hard about buying anything that cost more than $1. It was much harder when I started this radical budget, because I started from nothing. So, yes it is possible to eat without spending a fortune.
