Is proper nutrition expensive? Any food can be costly if you make your purchases thoughtlessly and don't count the money at all. How to ...
22 tips on how to save on proper nutrition
1. Always give preference to seasonal products - they are both more valuable for the body and cheaper. This mainly applies to vegetables, fruits, berries, herbs. A local lumpy apple is always better than a "wooden" unripe mango. It is useful not only to eat seasonal products here and now, but also to freeze them for the winter. For example, tomatoes, peppers, berries.
2. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower are recommended to be taken loosely in the freezer - this is much cheaper.
3. Buy buckwheat, rice and other cereals not in boiling bags, but in ordinary kilogram or nine hundred gram packages (this is more profitable - the price is the same, and the weight is about twice as much).
4. Hercules, which requires cooking, is much cheaper and healthier than various "quick-cash". In large chain stores, oatmeal of a little-known brand can cost from 10 to 25 rubles. One person will have enough of such a package for almost a week (for breakfast).
5. The same applies to crispbreads. The expensive ones are not always the best advertised. In stores, you can find dozens of types of crispbreads that are cheap and have a normal composition on the package.
6. If you buy frozen meat and fish, it is better if it is dry freeze - no ice. It greatly increases the weight of the item. As a result, we pay a lot, but we get a doughnut hole. Sometimes literally.
7. By the way, it is cheaper to buy whole chickens, rather than breasts and legs. The skin can always be removed. Thrifty housewives are taught to purchase several poultry carcasses at once, cut them into pieces and pack them in plastic bags. The backs and wings go for soup, fillets for hot dishes or for cutlets, legs can be baked with vegetables in the oven.
8. Buy offal more often: chicken and beef liver, chicken hearts, ventricles. By-products cost less than meat, but they are digested faster and do not burden the digestive system. And they saturate no worse.
9. If you are in the habit of carrying water with you in your purse, it is not at all necessary to buy bottled mineral or drinking water every time. Take the filtered one with you from home. Buy a special sports water bottle or have an attendant ”(select from the empty container).
10. Fall in love with white cabbage! It can be stewed, fermented, and various fillings can be made with it. Cabbage costs a penny, and there are a lot of cooking options. In addition, cabbage can be even healthier in winter than gum tomatoes and watery cucumbers.
11. Try to take nuts and dried fruits by weight, and not in multi-coloured packages or on substrates. However, it is worth remembering that products by weight should be washed more thoroughly.
12. If eggs, then chicken.
13. Do not fall for the tricks of manufacturers: not everything that is marked "eco", "fitness", "Gluten-Free" should be immediately swept off the shelves. Think first, do I really need it? This also includes various superfoods such as carob and goji berries.
14. Do not be afraid to buy products with discounts, which are about to expire (provided that you intend to eat them today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow). The entire civilized world practices this. And the expiration dates on products are always set with a "margin".
15. If you don't have enough money for steaks or redfish pulp, buy a soup set. It usually includes the head and tail of a salmon or trout. From such a set, you can prepare a rich fish soup or an appetizing "meat" aspic.
16. If you want exactly redfish, eat pink salmon, it is cheaper than salmon, trout and salmon, but also very tasty.
17. You can also eat canned tuna or saury, but when buying it is important to carefully study the composition.
18. To save money, try to take low-fat cheeses from domestic producers. The quality, of course, is not Swiss, but such cheese is also inexpensive. Just remember to read the information on the packaging.
19. Don't chase olive oil, ordinary sunflower oil is no worse. Sunflower oil contains a large amount of omega-6 and vitamin A, vitamins E and D. Remember that unrefined oil is healthier, as this product contains all-natural ingredients.
20. Try to cook as much as you intend to eat. It is important to get your hand in this business in order to stop throwing away food.
21. Buy as many products as possible from wholesale stores. Yes, the quality and assortment in some of them often leave much to be desired. But the price is sometimes very different.
22. Finally, the most important thing: stop focusing only on price and brand - always (!) Read the composition. It happens that a branded advertised product is of terrible quality and is stuffed with harmful additives. Conversely, “unnamed” local products can be ideal in terms of price/quality ratio.
A thoughtful approach to everything will allow you to save on a variety of food products without compromising your health!
