Comments on: How to Eat for Fat Loss on a Budget

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:30:19 +0000

Thanks for sharing Holly. These are great tips. Costco is a great place to buy groceries, it’s my favorite.

By: Julie Mouangkhoth

Julie Mouangkhoth — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:14:38 +0000

Heres another tip for saving money while eating healthy:
When I make egg whites for myself, instead of throwing away the yolks, I put them in a seperate bowl and mix them with a couple of whole eggs and some milk and scramble them for my kids/husband. I can’t stand to waste so this makes me feel better all the way around.

By: Anita

Anita — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:29:51 +0000

Yeah I also wish we had a Costo or Kliens in South Africa. Though, we have a franchised chain food market called “Fruit and Veg City” – the products are very very cheap.
I usually buy mushrooms, a variety of peppers, pineapple etc – chop/julienne slice it all up and stick them into Ziplock bags in the freezer. When its’ time for a quick stir-fry, voilla!
Time is a real big problem for me, I have a full-time job, get home very late, kids activities at home, washing, cooking etc… so that only leaves enough time for my morning workouts – which I do not particularly want to trade for anything else!

By: Bj

Bj — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:25:12 +0000

hi, i wish we had a costco or kliens? in Australia, however we do have aldi and they can b cheaper if you look past your nose,lol. sometimes i would like to cook ahead and freeze but as we only have a small freezer i cannot. i am going to take some of the advise of these great ladies and try out a few options, thanx so much for sharing your secrets.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:19:22 +0000

I also make sure that I cook enough to feed one extra person each night. It goes into my lunch dish before I serve anyone else and my lunch is ready for me before I even eat supper the night before.

By: Susanne Seymore

Susanne Seymore — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:23:17 +0000

Great tips. The best advice I ever had concerning food is to buy “one ingredient” meals, that is, carrots, tomatoes, beef, etc. Not al the mixtures and sauces. which contains all the hidden fats and sugars and preservatives. You really can’t go wrong with that, unless you add all the junk yourself! It does call for careful planning and longer preparation time, but it is worth it.

By: Annette

Annette — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:16:49 +0000

I stop by our local supermarket, Sweet bay in the early a.m. when I am in town. They usually take management markdowns on a bunch of angus meat and chicken. I buy and freeze. I am 35 miles from a Sams, no Costco here either.

Also, I spray the inside of the slow cooker with pam before adding anything to it, this is a great help when cleaning the thing up.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:55:10 +0000

I sit down every Sunday night and clip coupons from the Sunday paper. Lots of times the grocery stores will have specials linked to those coupons, so I can get an extra dollar off two boxes of cereal that are on special for, say, $4. I plan my weekly meals around what is on special at the store that week, and whenever there is a BOGO on chicken breasts, or vegetables, I buy and put in the freezer.

On occasion my local grocery store will sell 10 cans of beans for $10, or some other item I use frequently and generally costs a little more – I snatch them up and make room in my pantry. I make sure to check out all the grocery store flyers each week to see who has what – Whole Foods will occasionally have BOGO offers on things I ordinarily wouldn’t buy (healthy, organic) just because they are a little pricier. But when they’re BOGO, oh yeah, I’m stockin’ up!

By: HeidiB

HeidiB — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:52:10 +0000

Great suggestions. It really is cheaper to eat healthy. When my husband(who buys all sorts of processed foods) comes grocery shopping we always spend more for what seems like the same amount of food. We never eat out and get pizza maybe once a month and that really cuts down on money spent(and bad food). I just really wish we had a Costco nearby, the nearest one is at least 2 hours away and in another country, lol!

By: Mairi C, Netherlands

Mairi C, Netherlands — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:50:03 +0000

My supermarket does load of prechopped stir-fry vegetables and prepared stuff which of course is more expensive becuase of the preparation time.

As products get close to the date of expiry, they slap a 35% off sticker on things and basically, I go shopping 3 times a week and scour the shelves for the 35% off stuff. I can get LOADS of chicken breasts, and different cuts of meat that I take hope and stick straight in the freezer. I get the prechopped and mized vegetables for no more than I would pay for the basic unpreapred stuff.

I know people who have a real hang up about eating anything that has gone even 1 day past the best before date and so they throw out huge amounts of perfectly good food.

If it looks OK, smells OK and tastes OK, and you cook it properly, then it IS OK.

Oh and one more thing – make sure your refridgerator is not set too cold. Frozen salad leaves are horrible!! You can inadvertently end up throwing out a lot of fresh stuff if you store it for too long or in the wrong conditions. THis is what makes fresh purchases the most ‘expensive’ for me and I am now much more careful – I rotate my stuff, I design my dinner plans around the contents of the fridge, not the other way around and I keep the ingredients in appropriate sections of the fridge to avoid ruining the fragile stuff.