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Tips for Eating Healthy (and being kind to your bowels)…Wednesday

June 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Tips for eating healthy turned out to be tips on being kind to your bowel.  For decency’s sake, I won’t go into which bowel movement I’m talking about, but I will say that I’ve spent less time sitting with my pants around my ankles lately…too much?  Oh well, it’s true.  Eat what makes you bowels happy.  That’s  the one of the best tips for eating healthy that I can give.  However, here are a few other tips for eating healthy that come from Micheal Pollan’s book, “In Defense of Food” Buy whole foods in place of processed foods.  The whole is greater than the sum of the part (read the book, you’ll understand), In the market, try not to buy things your great grandparents wouldn’t recognize as food.  And here’s the overall slogan, “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”

Wednesday’s Menu (and more tips for eathing healthy)

B – Avo shake (milk, 1/2 avo, raw sugar) $0.70, banana $0.30, edamame (boiled and salted soy beans) $0.30 – $1.30

L – Cafe Fresh Turkey Avo Wrap courtesy of my work (spinach tortilla, veginaise, lettuce, tomato, onion, avo, turkey) cantalope, melon, grapes. – $7.50

Tips for Healthy Eating - Fajitas

Tips for Eating Healthy - Fajitas

D – 4 Fajitas (2 each per person) – same ingredients and about the same cost as yesterday’s – $4.50

Total Cost – $13.30

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Eating Healthy On a Budget…Tuesday

June 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Eating healthy on a budget isn’t quite as hard as I thought it would be.   True, it takes a bit more time and money than I thought it would, but after all these years of setting the microwave to 3 minutes walking away only to return once to stir, I’m finding that I enjoy cooking.  So, eating healthy on a budget isn’t so much the issue as I see it.  The issue is taking he time and most of all, the effort, to plan and prepare a healthy meal.  Any way, if eating healthy on a budget is the concern, no worries.  Check these costs out.

Eating Healthy on a Budget…Tuesday

B – Oatmeal with half a banana (I just ate the other half, don’t worry Janelle – I’ve been talked to about saving old food).

L – 2 Fajitas (yellow, orange, green peppers, chicken, chedder cheese,

Eating healthy on a Budget - $5.86/day

Eating healthy on a Budget - $5.86/day

avocado, sour cream, corn tortilla), avocado smoothie (milk, raw sugar, 1/2 an avocado)

D – 3 Leftover fajitas

S – Smoothie (banana, frozen fruit – grape, peach, mango, strawberry), milk, raw sugar.

Cost:

  • Breakfast (0atmeal – $0.06/bowl, banana -$0.30, milk – $0.10) -$0.46
  • Lunch (Yellow and orange pepper $0.60, green pepper – $0.20, chicken $2.00, cheddar cheese $0.25, avocado $0.50, sour cream $0.20, corn tortilla $0.05, avo smootie – milk $0.15, avo – $0.50, raw sugar – $0.05) – $4.50
  • Dinner (leftover fajitas) all cost already calcualated in lunch
  • Snack – 2 smoothies (frozen fruit – $0.50, milk $0.30, raw sugar $0.10) -$0.90

Eating Healthy on a Budget - Avo Shake

Eating Healthy on a Budget - Avo Shake

Eating healthy on a budget costed – $5.86 (hmmm…that’s about what I would’ve paid at Jack in the box for 1 meal)

Anyway, like I said, cost wise, it’s not hard to do.  Planning and preparation however is slightly different story… slightly.

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