7 ways to eat good while on a hood budget

[kia027]

http://plantbasedonabudget.com/7-ways-to-eat-good-while-on-a-hood-budget-by-stic-of-dead-prez/

1. Choose Produce not Packages: People think eating healthy is about buying a lot of expensive boxes and packages of processed foods, but that isn’t the case at all.

2. Cook Big and Save Some for Later: Cooking meals in large batches and freezing the leftovers for later in the week or month can save you a lot of time and money.

3. Soup Up your Options: Large vegetable soups over brown rice or whole grain noodles pack in vitamins and nutrients, fill you up and are easy to make and delicious.

4.Make A Plan and See Where Ya Values Are:. In the hood, in all honesty, We spend a gang of money on cable, hair dos, sneakers, weed, parties expensive bottles of alcohol,video games, big screen tvs, rims, jewelry, strip club tricking, trendy name brand clothes, car accessories, headphones, cigarettes all kinds of overpriced things. But when it comes to our health, we often skimp and look for the cheapest food we can find.

5. Season your Food: Eat fruits and vegetables that are in season, that is! Otherwise you’ll be paying a much higher price.

6. Join a Co-op or Local Community Garden: You get discounts on your groceries by being a member of grocery store co-ops.

7. Drink more water. Many times we think we are hungry, it may be actually a sign of thirst.

[Gen]

have you tried any of the recipes on the site Kia ?

[kia027]

no.. i came across the video today.. recipes look interesting

check out stic from dead prez recipes

http://www.rbgfitclub.com/category/stic-man-recipes/

[Suesumba]

buy in bulk if you have a big family. i still buy 16 lb bags of rice but i usually end up doling it out to my kids.

[kia027]

buy in bulk if you have a big family. i still buy 16 lb bags of rice but i usually end up doling it out to my kids.

excellent point - buy dry goods in bulk

[Suesumba]

back in the day, i used to buy a 40 lb box of chicken at o nosso tahlo (butcher shop) they had a cut rate if you bought in bulk, i'd spend a whole saturday afternoon seasoning it in different ways and put them in the freezer bags for freezing - label them, and just whip them out when i was ready to cook them. it was great.

although, i'm not sure how readily available a lot of amenities are in the hood. most time i notice when i go for my walks in *ahem* neighbourhoods, just about the only places open are cheque cashing operations and one chain supermarkets. two likkle chicken breasts can run about $11. if you're on the poor and have more than yourself to feed i really can't figure out how those people survive.

where i live is pretty middling and about 5lbs of chicken will run you $3 - even chicken wings are cheap.

turkey is also a cheaper alternative and is high in protein.

[SandiF]

I buy what I plan to consume at the moment. I'm tend to waste food... and it's not a good idea for me to buy in bulk since only half will end up not being used and the rest spoil and getting thrown out. It's part of my aversion of seeing quantities of anything around me and this include food. I don't want to see no more than half a dozen eggs in the fridge, because this week I'll eat eggs but come next week and weeks after my palate will not tolerate eggs. Same with box cereal... just one box to last for 2 weeks. After that I'm done eating cereal for a month. My husband likes to buy in bulk thinking I'll be using it all.... but I don't. So mi stick to shopping for the very basic minimum each week.