DealDash Cooks: Great Food for Cheap
Everyone wants to eat fresh and healthy foods, but sometimes that can be difficult to do on a tight budget. Here are some tips and tricks to stretch your food budget while staying healthy.
Cooking fresh and healthy foods can be very expensive. However, most people, especially those with small kids to feed want to cook as healthily as possible. Sometimes cuts of lean meat and buying fresh fruits and veggies instead of canned ones can almost double your grocery bill. Luckily, there are ways to stretch that budget and make great healthy choices as well.
One great way to save money and boost your health as well is to use less meat in your cooking. Meat is usually the most expensive item on the menu, so if you are able to cut the portions of meat in your cooking by half then you will be able to save quite a bit of money.
Depending on what you are cooking it’s easy to substitute half of the meat that is called for in a recipe with beans, such as when you are making chili, stews, or even skillet dinners. If you like to make stir fry, take out half of the chicken that you would normally use and put in a block of tofu instead. Tofu has no taste, it takes on the flavors of what it’s cooked with. If you are making a stir fry and using seasonings such as garlic and soy sauce, that’s exactly what your tofu will taste like.
Another great way to save money, be healthy, and have some fun as well is to have breakfast for dinner! Breakfast foods such as eggs, wheat toast, unsweetened cereals (such as Cheerios), orange juice, and milk are all healthy and relatively inexpensive. Last year when there was a shortage of eggs this wouldn’t have been a good idea, but now my local supermarket always has a dozen eggs for .99! Kids always love to have breakfast for dinner. For added fun, let them change into their PJs for dinner!
My last suggestion to you today is instead of buying fresh seafood at the seafood counter go ahead and buy frozen seafood. Frozen seafood is put on ice and frozen immediately after being caught, so it tastes just as fresh as “fresh” seafood from the fish counter, and it’s almost always significantly cheaper.
I hope that these tips were helpful for you in thinking about how to cook and eat healthy foods on a budget. If you’re in need of anything for the kitchen or the home be sure to check out DealDash. They have everything you can possibly need, from kitchen implements to massage chairs! Good luck and happy bidding everyone!
