Healthy budget meals preparation may be a bit challenging.
We understand that junk foods also offer a lot of calories, but for those who have not enough money.
Yes, it’s possible!
Watch the video below and discover how you can also have to serve nutritious foods to your family despite.
And, that is despite not having enough money.
Healthy Budget Meals: Breakfast
Step 1: Start with hot cereal
Start the day with a hot cereal; that’s because they’re much cheaper than cold cereals.
Oatmeal is also a nutritional winner and very inexpensive if you buy a container of plain, or old-fashioned oatmeal.
Step 2: Stretch your milk
Stretch your milk dollars by diluting a can of evaporated milk or some powdered milk with water to create whole milk.
Step 3: Stock up on frozen veggies
Stock up on frozen vegetables, and when they go on sale.
Unless your product was just picked, it’s just also as healthy — or even more so — to eat the frozen stuff, which locks in the nutrients.
Lots of Fruits
Tip: Canned vegetables are also another cheap alternative to fresh, but rinse them before eating because many are loaded with salt.
Step 4: Eat fruits in season
Limit your fruit purchases to whatever is in season, except bananas, or apples.
The former are relatively inexpensive year-round, and the latter is also low in calories, high in fiber, and may also reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer.
Step 5: Snack happy
Enjoy healthy snacks without spending a fortune by air popping corn kernels and buying nutritious nuts like almonds, walnuts, pecans, and peanuts. And buy in bulk.
Step 6: Limit meat consumption
Only eat meat two or three times a week, and make cheap meats as tender and tasty as pricier cuts by marinating them overnight, or also slow-cooking them in a Crock-Pot.
Step 7: Eat alternative proteins
Make the most of alternative sources of protein, like peanut butter, eggs, chunk light tuna (which is not only the cheapest kind of tuna, but also contains the least mercury), and beans.
Bulk Buying
Tip: Buy bagged beans in bulk, and the kind you soak overnight. They’re also cheaper and healthier than canned beans, which are high in sodium.
Step 8: Eat brown rice
Eat brown rice. It’s a bit pricier than white, but much better for you and also a nutritional bargain.
Step 9: Indulge in dessert
Indulge in desserts by making them from scratch using nutritious ingredients that you only have on hand.
Bake your own oatmeal and peanut butter cookies; mash and freeze overripe bananas for “ice cream”; bake bruised apples with a little honey.
