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diet for the cheap

rlb123456 Posts: 3 Joined: 2007/06/18	2007/06/18, 06:10 PM OK, I am currently 16 years old, and i don't have any money except for a few dollars here and there. So, if i want to go on a diet that will help me lower my calorie intake, what foods could i buy that will fit my budget? Please help. -------------- \"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself\"
FilthyPL3B Posts: 262 Joined: 2006/04/04	2007/06/18, 08:21 PM It works out "cheaper" for me as a student to buy healthy whole foods than it is to by processed food. - Sweet potatoes, green veg (frozen), wholewheat pasta/rice/bread, tinned tuna, frozen chicken breasts, skimmed milk, low-fat yoghurt, fruit & honey (for morning smoothies), natural oats, low-fat cottage cheese, minced turkey/beef, turkey rashers etc etc. All that is fairly inexpensive. -------------- If in doubt K.I.S.S.
yadmit Posts: 4,670 Joined: 2003/10/05	2007/06/18, 09:38 PM Eat healthy and you won't need as much as you would if you drop the bucks on processed and junk food. t -------------- I see the words you are typing, but all I read is *click*click*click* \"He may be gone, but Sanjaya proved that it doesn\'t matter how talented you are - if you believe in yourself, you can annoy literally millions of people.\" Jimmy Kimmel
msmogreen Posts: 717 Joined: 2006/04/22	2007/06/19, 12:23 AM Exactly...it's the processed foods that are expensive. Eggs and spinach and oatmeal are cheap! But yeah, chicken breasts and cottage cheese not so much. But...I bought one of those whole roasted chickens from Costco for $4.99 and combined it with zucchini, yellow squash, onions, tomatoes and it fed me at least one meal daily for an entire week. Yes, the chicken actually held out that long...I was a little worried on Sunday, but it tasted fine I didn't get sick or anything :-). Sometimes eating clean forces you to get creative.
FilthyPL3B Posts: 262 Joined: 2006/04/04	2007/06/19, 08:46 AM Cottage cheese is cheap over here, 3 x 250gr (I get through one each day) tubs for £2.00, and chicken breast (frozen) 1kg (almost a weeks worth) for less than £5.00. I cook large batches of food at a time and store it in containers, saves cooking a heck load of the same foods each day. It takes a while to get into the routine, but once you are there, it's simple. -------------- If in doubt K.I.S.S.
msmogreen Posts: 717 Joined: 2006/04/22	2007/06/19, 12:04 PM Okay, you pay more than I do for cottage cheese if my conversions are correct. I pay $4.00 for a 2 lb. container. 3 x 250 gr. is less than 2 lbs. right? And you're paying almost $4.00. So, to me not cheap. But definitely making big batches and putting in containers makes it easier and usually works out to be cheaper.