Eating healthy for cheap

moneyistooshorttomention

Huh???????

That sounds like a personal comment - of the negative variety.

Objective fact being = our knowledge of nutrition (as a society) has moved on a lot over the last few decades.:)

elsien

May I just say I have no problem at all with white flour, cakes or custard powder.
A bacon butty on brown bread just isn't the same.

PasturesNew

In my day a healthy diet meant you had food to eat that day

cbrown372

elsien wrote: »

May I just say I have no problem at all with white flour, cakes or custard powder.
A bacon butty on brown bread just isn't the same.

Certainly not done Mary Berry and her family any harm

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Four Lidl pieces of cheese on toast at £10 is half my weekly shop this week for two!

Buy some bread flour. Some mild cheese, some tomatos. Some onion, pineapple. Will coat about £5.

Get the bread maker out and make pizza doug.

Spread out the dough, put in hot oven, 230C. Till light done. Take out.

Add tomato base, from tomato pur!e.

Top with grated cheese. Add other topping. Out in oven. Cook.

Take out, slice and enjoy. You will never buy prepared cheese on toast again!

NewShadow

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Huh???????

That sounds like a personal comment - of the negative variety.

Objective fact being = our knowledge of nutrition (as a society) has moved on a lot over the last few decades.:)

Yes, our knowledge has - as has our capacity for ignorance - neither excuses belittling the efforts of those that came before us to do the best they could with what they had:

Within my own family - my mother tells me at intervals she brought us up on a healthy diet. That is at odds of my memory of cakes and more cakes (sugar and white flour ones too), overcooked vegetables, not enough fresh fruit, readymade custard powder, ready made fish fingers. I'm genuinely puzzled as to why she tells me she fed us healthily.

You may say I come across as negative, you come across as ungrateful - and if your mother were able to read this I would suggest she would be deeply hurt - as might anyone else reading this thread who's doing the best they can to raise their family to their view of 'healthy' within a budget and time constraints.

You might not be inclined to trust me, but I can assure you - if you were to open your mind to the perspectives of others, your brain honestly wouldn't fall out.

Slowly57

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't become too overwhelmed by "lifestyle choices"....
e.g. A jacket potato is a meal. You can buy a spud and bake it.
An organically grown, GM free, Heritage potato, rubbed with extra virgin oil and freshly-harvested sea salt, cooked using a Le Creuset ovenware dish lined with recycling-friendly parchment, then served with fresh organic chives, hand churned butter and a dollop of cream .... is a lifestyle choice
First: instantly achievable
Second: overwhelming, complex, hard to source ... and offputting.
Start with the easy way ... and, over time, develop your own "way of doing it that suits you".

Thank you. Just eat food - not additives or anything you cannot pronounce lol Also - ignore newspaper headlines where they extrapolate that some food is 'bad' or 'good' depending on how many lab rats die as a consequence of being force-fed it.

NewShadow

This I liked (especially the hot chocolate for later):

Food researchers pored over some 4,000 health claims used by manufacturers and supermarkets to tempt shoppers into buying their products.

These were whittled down to only 222 that were judged to have basis in scientific fact – and from those they have concocted a menu that is being hailed as the healthiest ever.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2160831/Healthiest-meal-After-editing-thousands-claims-scientists-serve-superdish.html

‘We have also shown that healthy foods do not have to be dull,’ he said. ‘We carry out thousands of consumer taste tests a year and one thing is clear. No matter how healthy, if foods do not taste good they will not sell.’

How cheap do we think we can do it?

PasturesNew

NewShadow wrote: »

How cheap do we think we can do it?

Looked at that, it all sounds minging. I'd not eat it. If I were out somewhere and that food were offered I'd go without!

NewShadow

PasturesNew wrote: »

Looked at that, it all sounds minging. I'd not eat it. If I were out somewhere and that food were offered I'd go without!

You don't like chicken casserole?

or hot chocolate? - Can I have yours please?