May 3, 2019

Opting for the products of the time, preferring water to soft drinks and bringing food to work are just a few of the suggestions.

It is possible to eat well and cheap. Nutritionists, the General Directorate of Health and even the Consumer Protection Association – have already presented several studies and examples of how it is possible to make a healthy diet without spending a lot of money. In fact, processed foods with high levels of sugar, such as cakes, biscuits, soft drinks, etc., tend to be more expensive.

We leave you with 10 tips on how you can save money and still have a healthy diet.

1. Healthy breakfast:

This is the most important meal of the day and should avoid starting the day soon with sugars. Choosing to have breakfast at home allows you to not only save as much as you can to eat better. For example, if you choose a glass of milk, toast with butter and an apple, this breakfast will have an approximate cost (depending on the products chosen) of 0.30 euros. Compared with, for example, having breakfast outside the house that can be around 2 euros, means that at the end of a month managed to save more than 50 euros, which in one year could represent a saving of 620 euros.

2. Choose fruits and vegetables of the time:

Fruits and vegetables are essential in a healthy diet. In addition to being rich in nutrients are low in calories, and can be easily cooked in many ways. Choose the vegetables of the time and feel that you do not need to use the whole frozen food and then you can use, for example, to prepare soups. Whenever you make a large amount of soup can also put in boxes and freeze. If you have children you can substitute fruit jars for boiled fruit. For example, 1 kg of apples, depending on the quality, may even cost less than 1 euro and gives the equivalent of six or 8 fruit jars that cost more than 10 euros.

3. Opt for Water:

Our body is made up mostly of water and this is an essential good. Ideally you should drink at least 1.5l of water per day. Whether at or outside meals, you should seek to focus on water instead of soft drinks. Besides being more expensive they have too much sugar, which is not very recommendable for those who intend to have a healthy diet. Depending on the amount of soft drinks you drink you can save more than 20 euros per month, which, at the end of a year, represents more than 200 euros.

4. Bringing Food to Work:

More and more people bring food from home to their workplace. In addition to eating better, and knowing what to eat, guarantees the majority, saves enough money. As an example, if you spend about 7 euros a day for a lunch with soup, main course and dessert, at the end of a five-day week were 35 euros …