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Eating healthy for cheap Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 05:48:47 478153 No.29

In this day in age where it's cheaper to buy processed garbage, what do you do to stay healthy for cheap?

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 08:24:56 908901 No.30

One thing eating healthy costs besides money is time. Food prep requires time in the kitchen. In this day and age with modern convenience it's easy to cast that food prep time to the wind for more mindless entertainment. But I find cooking to be relaxing and therapeutic. The process, from start to finish makes you feel like you've accomplished something and built upon your skill. It's so much more satisfying than eating frozen garbage or boxed crap.
… just had to get that out there. I'll make it more related to the OP: you can invest in staple ingredients and make more things from scratch. For instance, mayonnaise can be made at home with higher quality ingredients than any premade mayo. All it takes are eggs, olive oil, vinegar and salt.

Another thing that saves a lot of money is eating less food, which I found was much easier after I started meeting my nutritional needs properly (led to less idle eating and fewer cravings).

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 18:12:11 478153 No.31

>>30
>cooking
Yeah, I've always thought of getting into cooking, but it appears to be more expensive than just buying shit. I'll probably have to wait until I get a job to do some proper cooking.

Guess it's 100% whole wheat ham sandwiches and cereal for a while. Cheap.

>less cravings
Can agree with that, when I started to eat healthy I wouldn't have to eat as much. Under 2,000 calories a day was easily obtainable.

What about vegetables? I don't even know how much they cost compared to fruits. I can't really bring myself to eat them unless they're in the food. I hate vegetables but I love fruits, however I know the health benefits of vegetables. They're just not palatable to me, and even as I've started eating healthy, I've ignored them entirely, which is fairly counter-intuitive.

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 18:58:14 559d98 No.32

>>31
Butter is very healthy believe it or not. Maybe you can cook vegetables and then load them up with butter and herbs to make them more interesting? Herbs and salt are very healthy.

You could also do something like smother vegetables in tomato sauce or lemon juice to take away the taste even more.

There are lots of different ways of cooking vegetables. Some people who hate vegetables find out that they actually love them when they're baked to a crisp with butter and salt and maybe some balsamic vinegar, for instance brussells sprouts are delicious like this. You can also add some parmesan cheese towards the end of the baking for more flavor.

You can look around at salad dressing recipes until you find one that makes salad irresistible. There are lots! basic oil and vinegar, vinaigrette, caesar, tahini-based, fruity vinaigrette, parmesan creamy dressing, and more.

I think sweet potatoes are a great entry level veggie for you to experiment with. You can cook them in different ways and they are pretty gosh darn delicious.

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 19:06:50 478153 No.33

>>32
Not a bad idea. Supermarket near me actually sells some type of dried green beans which I actually like quite a bit. They're rather expensive though (would probably be cheap if I did it myself with something like a 'dehumidifier' or whatever.)

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 19:16:32 559d98 No.34

>>33
You can even dehydrate veg in the oven at a low temperature. It's a process though; for greenbeans you must blanch them in water first or the texture would be all wrong.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8389194_dehydrate-green-beans-snack.html

And, if you like that, you might even like these which are less labor intensive and much quicker

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/oven-roasted-green-beans-recipe.html

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 22:48:41 7ed05a No.36

Milk and orange juice are pretty cheap
Popcorn is cheap as fuck
Eggs are pretty cheap
You don't need to eat that much meat, so it isn't really that expensive

Really, if you're going to be frugal the only things you should avoid are like uh, seafoods and some luxury items like greek yogurt.

>>31
>I hate vegetables
You don't need to eat vegetables for a healthy diet, you don't even have to touch a single vegetable. Some good tasting vegetables, even for a vegetable hater like me, are potatoes, carrots and spinach. For spicing things up I like to use garlic, onions, capsicum, tomatoes and shallots.

Spinach is extremely nutritious, as are potatoes.
>>30
Cooking is fun but you don't even need to cook to eat healthy, the only cooked foods in my diet are a few meats, vegetables and seafoods. Common misconception that fatties have (or really, an excuse) is that WELL UH. I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIMMMMME TO COOK. Yea, right, fuck off. It takes a few minutes to cook a piece of steak and once you into the habit, putting together a stew or a stirfry is extremely easy+fast.

Anonymous 04/09/15 (Thu) 18:55:35 d28c6a No.48

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This might help.

Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 10:12:30 a87c8a No.50

>>48
>multivitamin
Most are trash and don't do anything
>fish oil
Placebo or even harmful

Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 20:18:26 478153 No.52

>>50
Care to back this up?

Anonymous 05/12/15 (Tue) 00:45:55 157bff No.85

>>29

I go to wholefoods or some other place, mostly opportunistic.

things like:

>oats

>beans

>seeds

>peas

>carrots

>lentils

all organic are cheapest. if it costs too much, don't support it.

Anonymous 05/12/15 (Tue) 00:47:02 157bff No.86

>>52

not them but I will show you…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iMaNqAyljs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_fish

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/genetically-engineered-foods/stop-frankenfish/

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/309/ge-fish

http://www.salmonnation.com/fish/gefish.html

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/25/canada-genetically-modified-salmon-commercial

http://www.livescience.com/25799-frankenfish-salmon-gmo.html

The obesogen (chemicals that signal cells to turn into fat cells) organotin has been found in large amounts in fish.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16690801

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16807202

High levels of PCB (industrial toxin) in fish oil, fish, and eggs (94% of eggs tested).

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/de/scdocs/doc/1701.pdf

Even when meat consumption is reduced to only fish and eggs, insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) remained relatively the same.

Notes: IGF-1 has been shown to promote cancer growth.

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/11/11/1441.full.pdf+html

Fire retardant chemicals (PBDE) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) found heavily in meats.

Notes: For PBDEs, fish was the worst offender.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626425/pdf/ehp0114-001515.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21491934

Perfluorochemicals (linked to thyroid disease) exposure comes from meat, fish, and eggs.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20377175

Xenoestrogens (human made chemicals with estrogenic effects) have been found the most in fish.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12477510

Methionine (an amino acid) is required for many cancers and tumors to stay alive and grow. Methionine is found virtually only in animal products (with eggs, fish, and chicken being the worst).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4524624

Mercury in fish shown to outweigh benefits of omega-3s when it comes to brain development (specifically IQ).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22079313

Some chemicals (dioxins, PCB, and DDE) found in fish have half lives as high as 10 years.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600453/

Anonymous 05/12/15 (Tue) 00:49:22 157bff No.87

>>36

as for meat, milk, eggs, cheese, butter, etc:

the conditions the animals live in and what they are fed, injected with means bad in and bad out.

also orange juice and juices in general have most of their fiber removed from them, then they are pasteurized and sit in containers.

you end up with some vitamin C, and a huge dose of sugar. just eat oranges.

I stick to raw nuts and seeds, raw cold pressed organic extra virgin olive and coconut oils for fats.

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Anonymous 05/13/15 (Wed) 11:17:05 cdd024 No.95

>>86

>>87

Why not just link to nutritionfacts channel directly instead of posting 100 of his videos?

He just cherrypicks studies to support his vegan agenda…