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Healthy Ways to Save on Your Monthly Groceries Besides using coupons and
scanning your community advertisements for the grocery and sundry
products that are on sale, here are several other tips and tricks for
saving on your groceries and staying healthy at the same time.
When
your favorite imperishable food and sundry products come on sale,
don’t just buy one or two, buy ten, fifteen or twenty. For an example
in our family of five, we only use extra virgin olive oil and that tends
to get expensive. Occasionally it comes on sale and when it does,
depending on how many gallons we buy, we usually save two dollars per
gallon. This amounts to anywhere between $20 and $40 dollar saving just
on olive oil! Olive oil
lasts indefinitely in a tinted jar or can away from light.
If
you can limit the buying of boxed and processed foods you can save a
tremendous amount of money each month and eat better too. For instance
take a box of instant potatoes vs. a ten pound bag of potatoes. Which
do you think is more food in the long run? Fresh potatoes are also
healthier for you than the dried version.
Boxed
sugary cereals are good, no doubt about it, but they also don’t last
long when you have three children. Cereal tends to get expensive when
the average box of cereal cost $3.50 and only last for two days. For one
month buying boxed cereal for just two children will cost around $52.50
just for breakfast! Boxed cereals are a waste of money and they aren’t
good for you.
Wondering
what you’re going to eat for breakfast if you don’t have boxes of
cereal in your cupboard? Make homemade granola, add milk and enjoy. Your
kids will love it. Granola tastes good and is healthier than the other
boxed sugary cereals. You can add nuts, seeds, raisins, figs, sesame
seeds, blueberries, pumpkin seeds, coconut flakes to your granola to
prepare it the way you like, and it’s healthier. The possibilities are
endless. Oatmeal
too, is a tasty hot cereal. Prepare the oatmeal as directed and add
apple, raisins, cinnamon, and a little real butter, yummy.
Hot foods keep your children satisfied longer than those sugary
cold cereals. You can also make oatmeal cookies using half the amount of
sugar it calls for and you would be getting less sugar than the boxed
cereals. Crumble the cookie up, add milk and enjoy! Make oatmeal honey
bars. Freeze them and take out what you need the night before.
I
know that schedules and time constraints has a lot to do with how we eat
and what we eat. But did you know that healthy eating makes us more
productive and happier in the long run. No one wants to feel run down
and bloated because of not eating right.
Get that crock pot out from under your cupboard, get a crock pot
cook book, throw the ingredients in and let the pot do the cooking. Ironically,
by cooking your own beef, chicken, lamb, pork, etc in your crock pot you
will be saving money. Why? Because fresh food makes way more food than
those frozen dinners ever could. By putting a roast and some potatoes in
your crock pot before you leave for work, you will not only be saving
money but you will also be eating healthier. Your family may eat two or
three times on your crock pot pot-roast. Crock pots make better stews and soups because it cooks the food very slow and gives the food a chance to come out with all its flavors. Crock pots are very safe and can be left on while you are at work. Go ahead, let the pot do the cooking.
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