3 Ways to Eat Healthy, Lose Weight and Save Money

There are many different ways to help your budget out when it comes to buying groceries from the supermarket, such as clipping and using coupons, or searching weekend advertisements for sale items. But did you know that simply by eating healthy, you can save yourself a lot of money at the supermarket -- and help yourself to lose weight in the process?

Here are three ways you can lose weight without losing money:

Limit the Purchase of Processed, Frozen or Boxed Food

You can save a great deal of money every month simply by limiting how many boxed or processed foods that you buy, and you will be eating a lot more healthily in the process!

For example, buying ten pounds of fresh potatoes is actually a lot cheaper than purchasing a box of instant mashed potatoes. The ten pounds of fresh potatoes will go a lot further for a cheaper price, and you are saving calories simply by going with the fresh, natural version of the good. Fresh potatoes are much healthier than processed, dried potato flakes.

Frozen meals, processed meats, pasta, breads -- just about anything not in its natural form -- while convenient, just don't have the same impact as "clean" (unprocessed) food.

You'll also save money on medical bills by eating healthy, non-processed foods.  You'll feel better, lose weight -- and, in turn, this could help with high blood pressure, Type II diabetes, and more.

See:  Top 10 Ways to Eath Healthy on a Budget

Limit the Purchase of Boxed Cereals

Most boxed cereals are sugary, which makes them terrible for you, and they do not even tend to last long, despite being fairly expensive. You'll be saving a lot of money by eliminating this wasteful purchase from your shopping list.

Very few boxed cereal brands are actually healthy for you, so avoid them all together and try fruit and oatmeal for breakfast instead (steel cut or large flake oatmeal, not instant!).

You may even try combining homemade granola with fresh milk, which tends to taste a great deal better, and does wonders for your health. Add other healthy elements, like nuts, raisins, seeds and fresh fruit for a different experience every day.

Quinoa and millet are two other grains you can use instead of boxed cereal.  (Okay, quinoa isn't quite a grain, but you get the idea.)

There, now aren’t you glad you gave up the sugary stuff?

See: Signs That You May Be Addicted to Sugar

Use a Crock Pot for Cooking

Our eating habits are a direct result of our personal schedules and our various time constraints. But healthy eating actually will help us to become more productive, and much happier when it comes to the long run, so why waste time making yourself feel sick and run down simply by eating poorly?

If you don't already have a crock pot consider purchasing one. Crock pot cookbooks are gaining popularity, and there are hundreds of recipes out there which will allow you to throw some ingredients into the pot and let all the work happen without you

By doing all of the cooking yourself when it comes to meat and vegetables, you will actually be saving a great deal of money, because buying fresh food is always going to produce more output than if you buy the food frozen or pre-packaged.

You can easily throw some vegetables and chicken in the crock pot before work, and you will come home to a completely cooked meal which is healthy and inexpensive to create.

A single crock pot meal can feed a family several times before the food is gone.

Crock pots are also stellar for soups and stews, because crock pots cook the food very slowly, which allows all of the flavors to come out of the food, making deliciously flavored concoctions with little effort.

Crock pots are designed to be easy to use, and most importantly, safe, which means that you can leave one on while you go to work. Save time and money and eat healthfully by letting your crock pot do all of the cooking.

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Bonus Tip

Buy Local Fruits and Veggies in Season

Buying local produce is not only less expensive but you're supporting your local farmers.  In the summertime, find an outdoors farmer's market near you and visit it once a week to get the freshest, least expensive fruits and veggies.

I also shop at my local fruit and vegetable market and avoid buying produce at big chain stores.  Not only does the local market have a wider selection -- I can't get dragon fruit at my big chain store -- the owner usually personally goes out to buy the best selection he/she can find.  That's what the owner of my local store does. He's quite proud of his selections -- and that means fresher fruits and veggies for customers.

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