Chapter 4. Ways to save money and shop for healthy foods

 

Think of your health as the driving force behind your earnings. If you are in good health, you can work and earn an income.  This income is yours to spend on your needs and wants in life. Once you decide on a food budget, immediately add the word "healthy" to "food" on your budget item to remind you to make healthy choices as you shop for food and balance your budget.

 

How to

Yes, you can eat healthily and stay within your budget. You can find hundreds of articles on how to buy in bulk, stock up on deals, and use coupons to save money, but does that immediately translate into eating healthy to save money? The answer is simply no, unless you are buying the healthiest foods in bulk and on sale. Here is a list of what you can do:

 

In addition to adopting healthy eating habits and saving money on shopping, you need to question items that you might have been held in the high standard only to find out they were not as healthy as you might have thought them to be. These items include, but are not limited to, sugary drinks, heavily processed deli meats, hydrogenated fats, etc. As a rule, your goal is to honor your physical being, take care of your health, and refuse to pollute it with unhealthy choices. It can. e easy to indulge every now and then, but once you develop a clean taste pallet for healthy foods, you may soon discover that unhealthy food choices have lost their appeal as a source of enjoyment.

 

Practice

Now that you know how to swap unhealthy eating into a healthy food shopping adventure, think of paying it forward and discuss your food shopping process with a friend or a family member.

 

Congratulations! You can move on to Chapter 5. What can nutrition teach you about money?

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