Caz
Repeat Offender
I posted this somewhere else but thought I'd post it here too, just if anyone is interested.
You hear it so many times, people saying that they can't afford to eat healthy, it's too expensive. I've even heard it on a dieting site, someone saying that healthy eating is too expensive because a bag of apples is 3/4 times the price of a bag of chips/crisps. Nevermind the fact that the $1 bag of chips she talked about is gone in one sitting whereas that $3.50 bag of apples lasts maybe 5 or 6 snacks.
Usually I buy all my shopping in bits and pieces throughout the week but today I sat down and planned out my meals for the entire week - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then I wrote a shopping list so that I'd make sure I got absolutely everything I needed for the week. I partly did this as I'm a trainee teacher and I start my school placement again this week which means I'm pretty busy so don't want to have to keep popping in the shop but also, I wanted to see what it costs me for an entire week. To give you an idea of what I bought, here's my meal plan for the week.
Breakfast is cereal or fruit smoothies, weekend poached eggs.
Lunch is cous cous salad with tinned tuna or sliced up chicken, humus and veg or soup.
Dinners are chickpea curry, chicken fajitas, sausages and roasted vegetables, battered fish with sweet potato chips twice this week, chicken stir fry and burgers with sweet potato chips/fries. Plus veg like peas, carrots etc.
Snacks are yoghurts and fruit. I've also got some nut bits already. I didn't have to buy the cous cous as I've got a pack but that's £1-2 and lasts me about a month.
So I went shopping and bought everything that I needed for all of that, plus there'll still be some left over (like a pack of 8 sausages when I only need 4, or 4 bits of chicken when I only need 2, 4 tins of tuna when I only need 3, 8 sweet potatoes when I only need 3 etc) that I can freeze or keep for next week. I spent a grand total of £23.50, that's £3.36 a day. I can't even go to McDonalds and buy ONE meal for that. I think this shows just how wrong those people are, how wrong I used to be! Healthy eating is not only far better for you but with planning, it's even cheaper.
You hear it so many times, people saying that they can't afford to eat healthy, it's too expensive. I've even heard it on a dieting site, someone saying that healthy eating is too expensive because a bag of apples is 3/4 times the price of a bag of chips/crisps. Nevermind the fact that the $1 bag of chips she talked about is gone in one sitting whereas that $3.50 bag of apples lasts maybe 5 or 6 snacks.
Usually I buy all my shopping in bits and pieces throughout the week but today I sat down and planned out my meals for the entire week - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then I wrote a shopping list so that I'd make sure I got absolutely everything I needed for the week. I partly did this as I'm a trainee teacher and I start my school placement again this week which means I'm pretty busy so don't want to have to keep popping in the shop but also, I wanted to see what it costs me for an entire week. To give you an idea of what I bought, here's my meal plan for the week.
Breakfast is cereal or fruit smoothies, weekend poached eggs.
Lunch is cous cous salad with tinned tuna or sliced up chicken, humus and veg or soup.
Dinners are chickpea curry, chicken fajitas, sausages and roasted vegetables, battered fish with sweet potato chips twice this week, chicken stir fry and burgers with sweet potato chips/fries. Plus veg like peas, carrots etc.
Snacks are yoghurts and fruit. I've also got some nut bits already. I didn't have to buy the cous cous as I've got a pack but that's £1-2 and lasts me about a month.
So I went shopping and bought everything that I needed for all of that, plus there'll still be some left over (like a pack of 8 sausages when I only need 4, or 4 bits of chicken when I only need 2, 4 tins of tuna when I only need 3, 8 sweet potatoes when I only need 3 etc) that I can freeze or keep for next week. I spent a grand total of £23.50, that's £3.36 a day. I can't even go to McDonalds and buy ONE meal for that. I think this shows just how wrong those people are, how wrong I used to be! Healthy eating is not only far better for you but with planning, it's even cheaper.
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