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Let's all be real here. In this world, no food is healthy, tastes good, and is cheap at once.
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Healthy food can be very tasty, and in reality on average only cost just a bit more than most unhealthy food (sugar and fat are cheap - and you need more nutrition than that and a proper balance of sugar and fat).
However, at the lowest level. Oats are very nutritious and very cheap. Add some cinnamon or berries and its cheap.
So to is beef liver, which tastes great to me (with or without onions).
You do not have to spend a lot of money to eat nutritiously, and it can taste good as well.
Healthy food is actually pretty damn cheap. Get a pound of ground beef for what? Like $3? A pound of broccoli is the same. 10 pounds of chicken for like $5. You can eat really healthy on $10 a day thats what I do.
A small amount of healthy, expensive food. We all eat more than we need to anyway.
Healthy food is actually cheap. Budget it properly.
It'a healthier than being sick for 20+ years and paying for medical bills .
Bunny I genuinely need help with this as I am trying to live independently. How did you learn to budget food properly? Are there recipes that are cheap but healthy that you can recommend?
Many people will argue that junk food is cheaper, their total amount in grocery stores will be 30-100$ with that money, they could’ve gotten healthier food. Think smart, the price adds up.
You don’t need to buy organic expensive foods, they are a lot of healthy options. Meat is usually cheap, fruits are decently priced. It’s possible, and you will save yourself from any health issues in the future.
Coupons and sales help. Go to the grocery store that is cheaper, it depends where you live..For me, Walmart/Loblaws is more expensive.
Here’s a link on ways you can budget properly:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/19-ways-to-eat-healthy-on-a-budget#TOC_TITLE_HDR_12.
Link on healthy meals under 10$:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthy/photos/10-healthy-dinners-for-about-10
It's a world with every priorities are highlighted with economical value. Not just food anything which is good for human is a luxury.
I saw this in a tv show as a comedy statement but it's the reality. He says,
Why people make bad cheese and the make good cheese again and double the price. Why they can't make the good cheese at first place. It's like here good cheese for rich people and shit cheese for poor people.
I love me some roasted crispy whole chicken. Don't look at me like that!
Would much rather spend money on good food and live in second hand clothes and a smallish house, because you're giving your body building material with what you put in
You can have all three but you need a budget, a good smell for quality, and having a good cook.
Also quanitiy is also a good question. Do you wanna be full or do you want to enough to keep you going. Even if you eat crap, as long as you dont overindulge in fats and sodium eating a multivitamin will sort out most nutritional problems.
What's your financial situation? Can you afford a freezer and Tupperware style containers? Do you have transport that means you can bulk buy shelf stable items?
If you put some time and effort in, and find a good quality recipe, then you can make seriously delicious food that is healthy and cheap. Make a huge pot of it and freeze portions in Tupperware and it will feed you for ages.
Example - make a huge vegetable or a chickpea curry. If you make your curry paste from scratch and take the time to do it properly with an authentic recipe then it will be fucking delicious and very healthy and cheap. And it will be worth spending half a day doing it because you'll make a huge pot of it and it will feed you for about 20 meals.
Learn how to cook rice properly (personally for a curry I use basmati rice and cook using the absorption method plus I chuck in a few whole cardamom pods for flavour). Buy a big sack of rice at an Indian or Pakistani market, or if those aren't available het the biggest that you can from a supermarket or wholesale place.
The nice thing about cooking rice with aromatics is that it tastes really good on it's own, so you can fill up on that and just dollop a small portion of your curry on top. Makes the curry stretch further, if money is an issue.
Do this with a few different meals e.g. curry, chilli, chunky pasta sauce etc and then you can bulk buy your staples of rice, pasta, dried noodles etc and then you're all set to eat a variety of delicious, healthy meals that are extremely cheap.
I think you're wrong but out of those options I would prefer healthy food that tastes good and if money was an issue I'll sacrifice taste
I eatva mix of fruit, whole wheat bread, freezer pizza, sandwiches soylent and cereal. So I got a little bit of each category going on. My local store always has fresh salmon so I like to get that at least once a week
You've mentioned the soylent here before. I'm intrigued. All I know is the film about soylent green... we all know how that ends.
Does it taste good? I'm assuming it isn't really made of people.
No people haha. It tastes OK. Not as good as huel. So the powder has 2 options. Original and chocolate. Origional tastes like pancake batter. At least I've never tried it but thats what i think of it. Chocolate is ok. I normally drink chocolate. If you buy the bottles there's a variety of options coffee or otherwise but ate far more expensive. The powder is like a 1.50 a meal. Very affordable stuff. It's not gonna make you feel full. It's not gonna be the most enjoyable meal ever but I love it fot work. Takes like 2 seconds to drink my meal and then I can relax and just read without any rush on my work break. But its not gonna fill you like a sandwich will kinda thing. It's a cheap vitman sugary packed meal. Thats about it really. I do reccomend as a meal replacement but not every meal. Just one meal. It saves me alot of time and money.
During black Friday they release soylent buckets wich is 100meals for 100$ bought 6. Ive only used 1 and a half since black Friday and I go heavy on the powder for extra calories.
Soylent.com
8 yhink they have a friend code discount thing 2 so if interested let me know and I'll dig it up for you
Thanks, that's so nice of you to offer. However I am one of those people who needs to watch calories closely, so I probably wouldn't get on well with this. Ever since I had kids I have to work really hard to keep my weight down.
I used to drink ensure drinks, which I think are similar. I had them when I'd been on a big drug bender and couldn't face food for days on end.
My preference for food is anything cheaper ( as in money ) and something that tastes good, it does not have to be healthy. My other preference for food is none of that cheap ass bland food.