Healthy Eating On a Budget

Healthy Eating On a Budget

You don't have to sacrifice good taste and healthy options, even on a very tight budget. Here are a variety of resources to explore to help you master healthy eating even in today's challenging financial times. Check out:

DELICIOUS DINNER RECIPES and 4 Weeks Simple Menus PDF for many ideas: 4 WEEKS SIMPLE MENUS.pdf

Oregon State University Extension Service is an excellent resource:

http://healthyrecipes.oregonstate.edu/stretching-food-dollars-0; a Stretching Your Food Dollars PDF
Need help getting food? http://healthyrecipes.oregonstate.edu/need-help-getting-food
Many healthy eating links: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/nep/nutrition-links/

Hy-Vee has a series of weekly menus for:

Special diets (regular, heart healthy, diabetic, weight control: http://www.hy-vee.com/meal-solutions/weekly-menus/weekly-menu.aspx#3
30 meals for $3: http://www.hy-vee.com/meal-solutions/30for3/default.aspx
Budget menus: http://www.hy-vee.com/meal-solutions/weekly-menus/budget-menu.aspx
Recipe planner: http://hy-vee.gsnrecipes.com/Recipes/RecipeCenter.aspx
Special Diets (low sodium, gluten-free): http://www.hy-vee.com/meal-solutions/special-diets/default.aspx

Meals Matter.ORG:

Meal planning tools: http://www.mealsmatter.org/MealPlanning/
Nutrition and healthy living: http://www.mealsmatter.org/Nutrition-Healthy-Living/
Recipes and meal ideas: http://www.mealsmatter.org/RecipesAndMeals/

California Olive Committee

Eating well in tight economic times (includes many recipe and food ideas): http://blackripeolives.com/health/general-nutrition/healthy-eating-in-tight-economic-times.aspx

For Diabetes Meal Planning:

Meal Planning & Lifestyle Principles for People with Diabetes and What to do About Weight Gain!

Diabetes Meals On $7 A Day--Or Less!: How to Plan Healthy Menus without Breaking the Bank (Paperback)
by Patti Geil (At Amazon).

To search the Internet:

Explore Healthy Eating on a Budget: Do a Google search and you'll find many great articles on the Internet

OR search: Eating healthy tight budget

; Eat healthy low budget

; Healthy meals budget; F rugal healthy meals

Food Reflections Electronic Newsletter: focusing on food, nutrition and food safety from the University of Nebraska, http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/food-reflections.shtml Can subscribe and review past issues. The COOK IT QUICK and Volumetrics Weight Control sections are superb. This newsletter is exceptional.

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