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healthy shopping on a low budget and easy recepies ideas...

i have zero dollars at the moment so im pretty good with cheap, relatively healthy eating.

canned tuna is pretty cheap and full of good for you stuff. if yopu want to make a cheap tuna salad, find some individual sized packets of mayo and relish and mix it all up. i usually eat it plain or like a salad with lettuce, tomato and cucumber.

try switching to whole wheat pasta and add different things to your sauce.

potatoes are cheap and there are so many things you can do with them, too. sweet potatoes are even yummier and taste amazing with a little sour cream and salt. mm.

i like to go to the store and check out whats on sale ONLY. if i like anything thats on sale and it is reasonably healthy (read: not cookies or frozen pizzas) then ill buy it... and figure out what to do with it later.
 
Its already been said a number of times, but you really should consider whole grain pasta if you use it that often. It tastes much better too.
Also, instead of plain white rice, you could try darker rice (not sure whats the correct term) because that also has vitamins.

This might not be a nice alternative, but if you live on your own, cooking a meal every time for yourself can be pricy if you have to buy whatever you buy just for that meal. You could make a way larger meal than you would normally eat, and eat half of it today and the rest the next day. Larger quantities are usually cheaper.

Good Luck.
 
Jimmy the Gun said:
also, if you don't eat a variety of fruits and veggies every day, you are at risk for a vitamin defficency
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you do know that all foods contain vitamins and minerals right? Especially with all of the fortification in foods?
maybe if you live in the third world you could be at risk for a deficiency just from not eating veggies...
vitamin deficiency diseases are rare in the western societies, and occur mainly in areas of the world where people have very poor diets. source


not saying that you shouldn't eat your veggies, but the risk of vitamin deficiency isn't really that big to most of BLers. just have a bowl or two of any foritied kid's cereal with vitamin A & D fortified milk and you'll be way over your RDA on most nutrients hehe
 
But the nutrients that are naturally contained in fruits, veggies, and whole grains are better absorbed by the body than the added nutrients in fortified foods.

Furthermore, there are a host of lesser known nutrients, such as lycopenes in tomatoes and other fruits, which you can mostly only get from eating fruits and veggies.
 
^^^ I highly doubt that the nutrients in fortified breads and cereals are less bioavailable than those available in fruits and vegetable. Although you are right that many processed foods lack certain chemicals found in fruits and vegetables.
 
It depends on the nutrients, but it is often the case that naturally occuring are better absorbed. An example would be iron, the type found in most fortified foods isn't as bioavailable as that in most plants and animals.

Most of the time the absoprtion is better because whole foods contain a broader array of other nutrients which aid absorption.
 
fairnymph said:
It depends on the nutrients, but it is often the case that naturally occuring are better absorbed. An example would be iron, the type found in most fortified foods isn't as bioavailable as that in most plants and animals.

Most of the time the absoprtion is better because whole foods contain a broader array of other nutrients which aid absorption.
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So to be clear, absorbtion is a function of other nutrients which aid absorbtion and NOT the source (food vs supplement).
 
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I have just discovered kangaroo steaks. I can get around 4 big pieces for ~$4-5 at the local supermarket. They have virtually no fat, and about 25g protein per 100g, and are are a really tender, deep red meat.

Delicious cooked with garlic on top of a warm pumpkin and spinach salad.


what's that skippy? you'd taste great with fresh chilli too?
 
It's bloodier than beefsteak, but i like my meat pretty tender, so it tastes great to me. If you get a well cut piece, it's just like really tender beef.
 
Kangaroo is fantastic - if you can get it unfrozen, the texture is melt-in-the-mouth. I'm also a huge fan of ostrich *kills and eats cute animals* :(
 
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