anyone with advice on eating right when broke?

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  • LyndaSS52
    LyndaSS52 Posts: 2 Member
    We have a discount fruit and vegetable store called H&W Produce - that sells fresh at a very reasonable price. (but you do have to watch your prices and the quality as you shop. I only purchase the bargains (and end up with variety week after week)
  • disdatdude
    disdatdude Posts: 118
    There is no better time than dieting/monitoring what you eat to have an excuse for spending less money on food :laugh:

    All of the suggestions have been great. My addition would be to find a good grocer and get their discount card or use coupons. Also, if you are a meat eater, there are days that your market will discount it's meat so that they can move it faster. That's the day you want to scoop up your meat at a very nice discount. Nice steaks at Harris Teeter, Chops at Safeway...etc. Usually, they have a rack hidden in a store corner where they offer other things for discount (dry food, drinks, etc).:wink:
  • trudijoy
    trudijoy Posts: 1,685 Member
    healthy foods not that expensive really. shop the sales, build meals around whats on special and low cal vs perhaps what you want to eat, fill up on salads and cheaper veges, make your own lunches and take them along, etc. Apples are cheap, and you can stew them for puddings easily. grated courgette and carrot to bulk out lean mince, you can even add gratged sweet potato to things as a carb.

    eating healthy isn't more expensive, it's just less convenient than grabbing junk.
  • blytheandbonnie
    blytheandbonnie Posts: 3,275 Member
    Why does everybody say 'chicken breast? A whole chicken is much less expensive. You can roast it and have a meal then have leftovers and/or sandwiches and salads, and then make soup. The calories are not that much higher as long as you don't eat the skin. You can get a whole chicken for about $5. p.s. Use the skin for soup and skim off the fat.
  • now_or_never13
    now_or_never13 Posts: 1,575 Member
    Why does everybody say 'chicken breast? A whole chicken is much less expensive. You can roast it and have a meal then have leftovers and/or sandwiches and salads, and then make soup. The calories are not that much higher as long as you don't eat the skin. You can get a whole chicken for about $5. p.s. Use the skin for soup and skim off the fat.

    I said chicken breast only because I never ate the dark meat on chicken or turkey. A lot of people do not like the dark meat and therefore buying a whole chicken would result in a lot of waste if there was no one around to eat the dark meat. Also, where I am it is much cheaper per pound to buy the chicken breast than the whole chicken unless the store has the precooked chickens on sale... but those I never did like to buy unless they were fresh out of the oven as some stores around here weren't popular and therefore had been sitting there for hours. A lot of stores around me don't even sell whole chickens.

    I do agree that a whole chicken can be more budget friendly if you can get them at a good price. The few times I have purchased them I have used the white meat for my meal and my husbands... we would use the bones for making stock and than add the dark meat with some veggies for a homemade meal for the dog.

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