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Don't add bacon or sausage (not healthy for you anyway).
Don't add potatoes - they are not healthy for you and have little nutritional value anyway.
Don't add OJ - it is not healthy for you as it is mostly sugar.
Toast is cheap - about 20 cents per slice. Just don't make it white toast, as that is not healthy for you.
Coffee is cheap - It's about 35 cents for a mug of brewed coffee. I roast my own. Friends don't let friends drink Charbucks.
I believe Starbucks still gives out coffee for free but you can check. These are huge bags of coffee grounds already used but since their coffee is so strong, it basically made a medium cup of coffee for free.
All bread is really bad for you. If you must, buy Sourdough. We only buy sourdough and only for the occasional tuna fish sandwich
Organic potatoes are healthy, but there are so many carbs you just cannot eat them very often.
What? Carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram. Proteins have 4 calories per gram. Fats have 9 calories per gram. Potatoes were a main staple during the Great Depression. They, were, in fact, life sustaining. Unless one has a particular need to avoid high glycemic foods, potatoes are fine.
I think for diabetic-corn,potato and rice are all bad news.
During the Great Depression,saw dust is mixed with ground meat .
used coffee grind is spread on a sheet of newspaper and let dry to be used again
What? Carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram. Proteins have 4 calories per gram. Fats have 9 calories per gram. Potatoes were a main staple during the Great Depression. They, were, in fact, life sustaining. Unless one has a particular need to avoid high glycemic foods, potatoes are fine.
What? Carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram. Proteins have 4 calories per gram. Fats have 9 calories per gram. Potatoes were a main staple during the Great Depression. They, were, in fact, life sustaining. Unless one has a particular need to avoid high glycemic foods, potatoes are fine.
Yes Potatoes were life sustaining meaning they kept people alive in the Depression whose bodies needed a TON of Carbs. Calories I do not count them nor did I mention them and sure, when you are starving to death, you need them. As I said, they are fine once in a while. I appreciate potatoes have a good amount of potassium which many of us, in the general public, are lacking. But again, they are full of CARBS.
High glycemic foods do not apply to us nor to most people so I cannot comment. I have no knowledge of that subject.
I am just talking generally here. Potatoes are okay for once in a while.
I believe Starbucks still gives out coffee for free but you can check. These are huge bags of coffee grounds already used but since their coffee is so strong, it basically made a medium cup of coffee for free.
All bread is really bad for you. If you must, buy Sourdough. We only buy sourdough and only for the occasional tuna fish sandwich
Potatoes cooked with the skin on have a high level of fibre, which is important in many ways. Bread, again if high in fibre, is very good for you. I do think American bread may contain more sugar than ours but best read the labels properly. Increasing the fibre in your diet tends to lower cholesterol, certainly has for me.
A lot depends on how much time you have. Fast preparation foods tend to cost more and are less healthy. On the other end of the spectrum, if you have all the time in the world, raise your own foods. Productive animals can be a replacement for expensive pets. Get some chickens instead of a cat, a pig instead of a dog (unless you eat dogs). Raise edible fish in your pond. You can also eat many kinds of bugs. Bugs can be high in nutrients and are easy and cheap to raise. Crickets are a good example.
We bake potatoes or sweet potatoes. I make cornbread from scratch and we have a can of Heinz baked beans over it along with a vegetable. No more ice cream because it's now an expensive luxury. Oatmeal (the regular kind) made in a pan or the slow cooker. I buy Amy's frozen products only when they're on sale--love their burritoes.
Using coupons a lot on things I'd be buying anyway. Get a lot of ground beef on sale and freeze it to make meatloaf, hamburgers, put on top of a frozen pizza or in tomato sauce. I don't buy much now unless it's on sale or from the outlet grocery store. Bananas went from 49 cents to 69 cents and as high as 89 cents but in the outlet grocery store it's $1.00/bunch of Chiquita bananas!
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