Sometimes life throws you curve balls. For whatever reason, some things just really don't manage to work out the way we long for them too. Frequently, these curveballs cause us to strike out when it comes to sticking to our health and wellbeing goals. We start to interrupt the good dietary and workout habits which we worked so faithfully to build, extra weight returns, pain creeps back and depression starts to smother initiative and ambition.
It's happened to the very best of and we all know what this feels like. Luckily, there is always a remedy. While it may not possibly be the solution we really wish for, we should open ourselves to trying new things or adjust our perspective to allow for just a little creativity to spark a whole new and effective strategy.
Before I get into the meat in the post (pun intended) I need to produce a quick frame of reference. Not long ago i discovered the personal situation of somebody who has been thrown a couple of major curveballs by life. Everything was going smoothly, fat reduction and great energy were the outcome of a proper diet and workout program until an undesirable surgery and exhausted insurance funds left a group of four in the lurch.
My challenge would be to check if it is easy to provide four adults a well balanced, real food diet on a budget of $400 a month. It had been reported the family eats out twice each month. I am going to have the recommendation of cutting that back to once a month as a way to improve the overall monthly budget up to $448.Having a daily food budget of $17.04, I started to see exactly what was possible. To get a quick philosophical aside. The prioritization of choosing things to eat flows within this order: Might it be real? Will it be inside the proper nutrient proportions? Would it be properly prepared? Could it be from the proper source? At the food market, its pretty easy to find real foods that may be combined within the right proportions to develop and sustain a high level of health (ie. healthy weight, good energy, positive mood, etc). It is actually harder to discover pre-made real foods which were properly prepared and also harder to seek out real food which comes from the right sources (fewer choices that are usually far more expensive).
Ok, it's finally here, the cheap food ideas i promised. It's true that this is a super simple one day plan, but it really works, both from a nutritional and a budgetary point of view. Breakfast - $2.80 3 eggs, scrambled or fried in 2 tbsp of butter, 8 oz of whole milk. Lunch - $5.44 Tuna Fish Sandwich, tuna blended with Two tablespoons of olive oil based mayo and 1 teaspoon of mustard on sprouted grain bread, carrot sticks, celery with cream cheese. Dinner - $7.54 Taco Salad, shredded green leaf lettuce, hamburger with taco seasoning (follow directions on package), Shredded cheddar cheese, chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, canned pinto beans. Snack - $0.71 dry roasted peanuts. The grand total for a day (keep this in mind is designed for four adult servings for each and every meal and snack) equates to $16.49. That's $0.55 under budget! And you thought it couldn't be achieved, tsk tsk. Like I said before it's an incredibly basic plan and certainly not gourmet but it really requires almost no actual cooking, it is all real food and contains an abundance of protein whilst keeping carbs low.
OK, inform me of what you think. Is it possible to survive on a simple diet plan such as this? Lets hope so because what you are currently probably eating right now could be killing you ever so slowly, even though it's more gourmet. Please remember, when life throws you curve balls, keep swinging to the fence and you may eventually hit your home run.
It's happened to the very best of and we all know what this feels like. Luckily, there is always a remedy. While it may not possibly be the solution we really wish for, we should open ourselves to trying new things or adjust our perspective to allow for just a little creativity to spark a whole new and effective strategy.
Before I get into the meat in the post (pun intended) I need to produce a quick frame of reference. Not long ago i discovered the personal situation of somebody who has been thrown a couple of major curveballs by life. Everything was going smoothly, fat reduction and great energy were the outcome of a proper diet and workout program until an undesirable surgery and exhausted insurance funds left a group of four in the lurch.
My challenge would be to check if it is easy to provide four adults a well balanced, real food diet on a budget of $400 a month. It had been reported the family eats out twice each month. I am going to have the recommendation of cutting that back to once a month as a way to improve the overall monthly budget up to $448.Having a daily food budget of $17.04, I started to see exactly what was possible. To get a quick philosophical aside. The prioritization of choosing things to eat flows within this order: Might it be real? Will it be inside the proper nutrient proportions? Would it be properly prepared? Could it be from the proper source? At the food market, its pretty easy to find real foods that may be combined within the right proportions to develop and sustain a high level of health (ie. healthy weight, good energy, positive mood, etc). It is actually harder to discover pre-made real foods which were properly prepared and also harder to seek out real food which comes from the right sources (fewer choices that are usually far more expensive).
Ok, it's finally here, the cheap food ideas i promised. It's true that this is a super simple one day plan, but it really works, both from a nutritional and a budgetary point of view. Breakfast - $2.80 3 eggs, scrambled or fried in 2 tbsp of butter, 8 oz of whole milk. Lunch - $5.44 Tuna Fish Sandwich, tuna blended with Two tablespoons of olive oil based mayo and 1 teaspoon of mustard on sprouted grain bread, carrot sticks, celery with cream cheese. Dinner - $7.54 Taco Salad, shredded green leaf lettuce, hamburger with taco seasoning (follow directions on package), Shredded cheddar cheese, chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, canned pinto beans. Snack - $0.71 dry roasted peanuts. The grand total for a day (keep this in mind is designed for four adult servings for each and every meal and snack) equates to $16.49. That's $0.55 under budget! And you thought it couldn't be achieved, tsk tsk. Like I said before it's an incredibly basic plan and certainly not gourmet but it really requires almost no actual cooking, it is all real food and contains an abundance of protein whilst keeping carbs low.
OK, inform me of what you think. Is it possible to survive on a simple diet plan such as this? Lets hope so because what you are currently probably eating right now could be killing you ever so slowly, even though it's more gourmet. Please remember, when life throws you curve balls, keep swinging to the fence and you may eventually hit your home run.
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