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Posted by zonked on June 23, 2011, at 18:19:10
I'm finally well enough to start taking my health a bit more seriously -
Being on a fixed income (at least for now), I've found it difficult to eat healthy on the funds I have reserved for food....
I know this problem is not uncommon. If anyone could recommend some cookbooks or something I would appreciate it.
Hopefully, my recent remission will continue, I'll get a decent paying job again and will be able to buy what I please, but there are no guarantees...
Any ideas? Inexpensive supplements? (They have to be Nardil-friendly, so no DLPA or tyrosine or tryptophan or anything like that.)
This is one challenge I'm embracing :-)
I've been subsisting on bargain-basement frozen foods at the local Grocery Outlet, but I don't know if that's very healthy long term...
-z
Posted by torrid on June 23, 2011, at 18:50:17
In reply to Eating healthy on the cheap, posted by zonked on June 23, 2011, at 18:19:10
> I'm finally well enough to start taking my health a bit more seriously -
>
> Being on a fixed income (at least for now), I've found it difficult to eat healthy on the funds I have reserved for food....
>
> I know this problem is not uncommon. If anyone could recommend some cookbooks or something I would appreciate it.
>
> Hopefully, my recent remission will continue, I'll get a decent paying job again and will be able to buy what I please, but there are no guarantees...
>
> Any ideas? Inexpensive supplements? (They have to be Nardil-friendly, so no DLPA or tyrosine or tryptophan or anything like that.)
>
> This is one challenge I'm embracing :-)
>
> I've been subsisting on bargain-basement frozen foods at the local Grocery Outlet, but I don't know if that's very healthy long term...
>
> -zI'm on fixed income too and take expensive suppliments, swanson is where I buy from. Gosh the cost of eating healthy, I nicknamed my fridge the mohobi deseart because it's barren. I eat everything from scratch, it's cheaper. I make choices, if I get produce then can't afford meat, if I get dairy can't afford produce. I save a lot of money buying things on sale with a coupon. I never get suckered into buying things I don't normally get. frozen is good, vegi's are frozen in the feild, locks vitimins in. I don't use a cookbook
Posted by emmanuel98 on June 23, 2011, at 20:10:19
In reply to Re: Eating healthy on the cheap » zonked, posted by torrid on June 23, 2011, at 18:50:17
My daughter is on a limited budget and eats a lot of beans/legumes. Makes lentil soup, stuff like that. Rarely eats meat unless we take her our for dinner
Posted by floatingbridge on June 25, 2011, at 1:57:07
In reply to Re: Eating healthy on the cheap, posted by emmanuel98 on June 23, 2011, at 20:10:19
Lentil soup. Soup. Once one get's their soup routine together, that's great. Isn't there something about
avoiding old food and maoi's? So not too big of a batch. Or freeze. Lentils, water, an onion, a carrot and salt are actually interesting and it takes about an hour.Brown rice. Yeah. No brainer.
Crockpots.
Now this might sound gross to some, but a good bone broth is deeply nourishing. I rarely do beef. Take an entire chicken, skin and all, simmer stove top or crockpot with a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar (maoi restricted?). Remove the chicken before overcooked, reserve the meat, and return everything (bones, yucky skin) and the vinegar leeches the minerals into your the broth.
Strain and discard the creepy bones/vegetable junk. Unless there is a lucky dog in your house. Then they get that (the
bones should crumble in your hands). Freeze the stock you don't use. Trace minerals.Yeah. Rule of thumb, the less processed and fresher better. I don't like my food stepped on. How about that book The Omnivore's Dilemma for interest, not recipes. Polan. Michael, I believe.
Oatmeal. A trick: after cooking decently fresh rolled oats, remove from heat. Quickly stir in one beaten egg. It disappears into the oats, and that will stick much longer than oats alone. Eggs are cheap protein.
Mom 101.
Posted by Tabitha on June 25, 2011, at 22:24:42
In reply to Eating healthy on the cheap, posted by zonked on June 23, 2011, at 18:19:10
Here's one approach http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10519
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