can you eat healthily and cheaply??

twinkle_star_2

I'm vegan so loads of my diet is fruit and veg and I also try to keep it relatively cheap. Eating seasonal veg is a great tip but also buy frozen stuff! It's usually way cheaper per kilogram so I buy lots of veg like this e.g. green beans, broccoli, spinach, peas, sweetcorn. For fruit I buy apples and bananas fresh but get frozen berries as they're way cheaper than fresh e.g. £5/kg frozen versus £9.97/kg fresh for blueberries.

Try to find meals that are veggie or based around vegetables and pulses rather than meat that way you will often save money as meat is expensive and get more fruit and veg in you diet. For example try doing a vegetable chilli with just beans and vegetables, a delicious tagine made with chickpeas, some homemade beanburgers full of chopped vegetables, etc.

minxtress

I was spending a fortune in shopping up untilo october last year, when I decided to lose weight. I cut out buying all the sugary carby junk and now buy a lot healthier foods. 99% of it is whoopsies from Asda. I go after I drop kids in morning and get my fruit for the day and often at about 6ish too and get cooked meats, reduced veg, milk etc, I baswically buy whats healthy and cheap and use it. I have also managed to lose 6 stone since october by doing this!

Doom_and_Gloom

I believe that to eat healthy is to eat cheaply overall really.

Like twinkle_star I'm also vegan. I spend at most £15 a week on foods and eat more than the 5 a day you are 'told' to eat. I do buy A LOT of fruit and vegetables reduced - recently got 800g of strawberries for 80p (10), 12 kiwis for 74p (6), pack of 3 organic courgettes for 70p (4), 500g of tomatoes for 50p (6), 450g of raspberries for £1.50 (5), bunch of spring onions for 25p(1 maybe 2), cucumbers for 35p each (4 or 5) etc. :beer:. (what's in brackets is how many days you can get a portion out of the fruit or vegetable). If you buy it reduced fresh you can freeze the fruit and vegetables if it's cheaper than already frozen. 400g of frozen raspberries for example is £2.00 so 50p/100g (£5.00 for 1.2kg so around 41p/100g) yet buying the fresh reduced was only around 33p/100g so saved me a lot of money .

I personally believe that fruit and vegetables are cheaper than most of the junk you can buy over all as you get hungry a lot quicker on junk than you do with fruit and vegetables. That means you would end up eating more and therefore spending more money when you eat junk. It's also cheaper than meat so it's easy to cut down or get shot of meat completely to save money or re-work it onto fruit and vegetables instead. I eat very healthy and very well.

So as you can see Mrs Baggins eating more fruit and veg would most likely be cheaper to you over all. Half a tin of beans (15p), an orange (15p), an apple (10p), 80g of carrot (10p) and 20g of mixed dried fruit (3p) = 53p as 5 fruit and vegetables so not what I'd say is loads of money.