Where can you find inexpensive healthy recipes?
Written by Guest on January 31st, 2011
Question by Elena H: Where can you find inexpensive healthy recipes?
I keep finding these great websites for recipes, but I can’t afford to make them on a regular basis. I need a website that has recipes for families on a budget! ANY advice appreciated.
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Answer by northern2347bf
salads are always cheap but other then that not sure
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January 31st, 2011 at 2:02 pm
The weight watcher’s website has recipes and most have calorie or “point” value included. Each point is about 50 calories if that helps.
Good Luck!
January 31st, 2011 at 2:12 pm
you just have to get creative. i have been buying things when on sale. i don’t really plan my meals i will just buy what i can afford and spend a couple of hours on the internet to find what i can make with those ingredients.
Allrecipes.com and recipezaar.com are good sites
January 31st, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy without Going to Extremes
January 31st, 2011 at 2:38 pm
maybe this will help you…
http://www.miserlymoms.com/MOMfrecipes2.htm
January 31st, 2011 at 3:01 pm
The trick to eating healthy food without spending a lot, is to buy everything fresh, and learn how to cook it from scratch. You can’t learn to cook overnight, but you can aquire the knowledge on the internet. Reject recipes that call for anything processed. Learn about substitutions. Learn sauces from scratch. Grow herbs in pots even if you only have a balcony. Then you will learn real “peasant” cooking, which takes advantage of things in season (and therefore at their cheapest). It’s worth investing in a large freezer so you can buy things when they’re cheap and freeze them for later. You don’t have to eat “poor” on a working-class income. Last Saturday my local supermarket had Lake Trout for $1.29 a pound. I bought two fish, it cost me $6, and it fed 9 people. If you bought the usual fillets of fish in portions with a sauce frozen in a box, you’d pay more than that per head. My advice is to spend some time researching these basics and you won’t even need recipes. You can take advantage of items on sale and invent dishes. I have always fed my family like this and now my adult children are cooking gourmet food on tradesmens incomes:)
January 31st, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Chovani, did you mean fish heads? Jus’ kidding, you have good ideas,
Food is expensive, but cauliflower is always a better buy than potato chips.
Buy on sale, reuse part of a meal for another day (different recipe) limit meat since it is the most expensive, Make simple salad dressing, without the fillers in them. a base of oil, vinegar and whatever.. then bake croutons out of day old bread without the extra fat and salt. I think of healthy as BASIC food, less preparation, fresh as possible. and I always heard, get food from a variety of sources. This likely means do not eat boxed pizza everyday.
Don’t do like I do and forget to cook the “fresh” fish the same day UGH!
My mom, however, saved all the leftover bits of veggies in a small freezer bag and added them to bolster soups and casseroles.
January 31st, 2011 at 3:36 pm
http://www.cooks.com
really great recipes tons of them
totally FREE
just type in what you want in the search thing