Where you shop for groceries (assuming you have shopping choices where you live) can make a huge difference in how budget-friendly your food is.
My two fave grocery choices in the small town where I live are Aldi and Walmart. And shockingly (!!!) the produce (both organic and not) and organic milk at Aldi are 30-50% less expensive than at Walmart. So I shop first at Aldi, then go to Walmart and get the rest.
Most days I have a big salad for lunch, usually something like a couple of black bean spicy veggie burgers and Skinny Girl balsamic vinaigrette (from Walmart) and (from Aldi) spinach/baby arugula mix (pre-washed), mini-avocado, various colors of small tomatoes, and a mini cucumber. It's delicious, very filling, and 425 (plus or minus 25 calories, depending on the size of the avocado).
I'm also a big fan of chicken canned in water. It goes into so many things. Likewise, I bake a lot of chicken breasts and put 2-3 ounces in some chicken dishes to ramp up the protein.
When berries are in season, I eat TONS of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. I also love higher-calorie mangoes and honeycrisp apples. I buy almost all my fruit at Aldi. I eat it with Fage non-fat Greek yogurt, sweetened with Torani sugar-free vanilla syrup (yogurt and syrup from Walmart).
Confession time: I don't cook a lot at home. Truth is, I'm not the world's best cook. But I do rinse, slice and peel a lot of foods. I finally figured out that the more I'm working with a knife in the kitchen, the healthier I'm eating.
That's all I got.
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