Simple, Healthy Budget Recipes
By energy_linguist, June 28, 2010, Food & Dining Out
A new topic I will be tackling in the coming weeks is healthy budget recipes, primarily practical and simple in nature, for both single peeps as well as families looking to cook healthy on a limited budget.
First things first … where to look for budget recipes that a) won’t expand the waist line and clog the blood pipelines and b) uses ingredients that are affordable and easy to combine into a satisfying meal?
I’ve compiled a few recipe resources from the interwebs that you should keep an eye on:
- Cooking on a Budget – Allrecipes.com
- Healthy Budget-Friendly Recipes – Eating Well
- Whole Foods – Budget recipes
- Food Network - Quick and Easy and Healthy Eating
Keep in mind that not every resource online will exclusively feature low fat or healthy recipes, so you will need to pay close attention to the ingredients if nutritional information isn’t provided. Also, the opposite can be true, as the sites featuring healthy or quick/easy recipes may or may not be budget friendly.
A quick tip: Concentrate on simple meals using overlapping ingredients (meats for example) so you can cut costs at the grocery store. We often cook multiple nights using the same meat by cutting in half and splitting over two meals instead of one.
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