Budget Stretching Meals and Recipes:Healthy Meals And Snacks

Healthy Meals And Snacks From The Cool Aisles Of The Store are Budget Friendly

More than milk: Convenient, tasty and healthy foods can be found in the refrigerated dairy.

Recipes can still be budget friendly.
The refrigerated dairy aisles of the grocery store are full of convenient, tasty, healthy foods--whether you're looking for thirst-quenching drinks, terrific meals and accompaniments or nutritious snacks.


The refrigerated dairy aisles of the grocery store are full of convenient, tasty, healthy foods-whether you're looking for thirst-quenching drinks, terrific meals and accompaniments or nutritious snacks.
Here are some ideas for nutritious anytime snacks:
Cheese Kabob-Alternate slices of apples and cheddar cheese on skewers.
Tropical Smoothie-Blend orange juice, frozen strawberries and vanilla yogurt.
Morning Wake-up-Mix cup of skim milk with teaspoon of instant coffee and sweetened cocoa.

Granola Delight-Layer granola and fresh fruit with favorite yogurt flavor.

Ultimate Easy Snack-Keep the fridge full of individually packaged yogurts, jello, cheese sticks, vegetable dips and more for anytime, anywhere snacking.

While any time of year can be a great time to visit the Cool Aisles of the store, June is officially Dairy Month, sponsored by the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA). That means you can find special prices and promotions on many tasty cool favorites.Secret Recipes from your Favorite Restaurants

Here is a breakfast, lunch or dinner entrée that's easy to make, with key ingredients from the dairy aisle:

Vegetable Cheddar Quiche

1 cup chopped red, green or yellow bell peppers

3/4 cup sliced mushrooms

1/4 cup chopped onion

1 cup refrigerated egg substitute

1 cup refrigerated non-dairy creamer

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp pepper

1 oz shredded Cheddar Cheese

Heat 10" skillet; spray generously with nonstick cooking spray; sauté peppers, mushrooms and onions until tender-crisp. Combine egg substitute, creamer, salt and pepper; pour into skillet, cover and cook over medium-low heat until set, approx. 8-10 minutes. Sprinkle quiche with cheese and replace cover until cheese is melted. Remove from heat and let set for two minutes. Serves 4.
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Budget Meal Plan: How to Eat For Less Than 20 Dollars Per Week

by Doug Smith

When people ask me how I save so much money, they never believe how
simple the answer is. Simply cooking your meals at home has such a
profound impact on your budget, it has got to be the number one way to
cut costs without sacrificing anything. By simply cooking more meals
you will absolutely save hundreds of dollars per month. Depending on
your habit, you may even save more than hundreds of dollars per week.
You don't even realize that on an average day, where all you get is a
fast food meal and starbucks in the morning, you've already dropped 10
dollars on horrible food. That's already 300 dollars per month - Do you
get where I'm going with this?

Here are some things you NEED to
pick up and start working with in your kitchen. These are basic staples
that can be used to create thousands of different recipe ideas, and
help you learn how to be a better cook:

Eggs
Bread
Oil (sunflower, vegetable)
Rice
Pasta
Canned Beans
Various spices (salt, pepper, a few others)
Tomato/Pasta sauce
Meat that's ON SALE
Vegetables that's ON SALE

For
breakfast (god forbid you wake up 5-10 minutes earlier) you can make
dozens of things with eggs. Overeasies, scrambled eggs, poached eggs,
500 different omelletes, on bread, by themselves, etc.

For lunch you can make pasta, rice, chicken/turkey sandwiches, anything - And you can bring it with you to work.

For
dinner, pasta and rice combined with various meats, vegetables, and
spices can be combined into thousands of dinner ideas. For specific
recipes simply google "chicken dish", or "cooking with rice". It isn't
complicated - there are hundreds of recipes that are nearly impossible
to screw up, even for virgin cooks.

Some of these meals will
only cost you 50 cents when you look at the ingredients. Rice is dirty
cheap and a staple around the world, yet neglected in the west. The
possibilities are endless - Believe it or not you can eat well for less
than 3 dollars per day. If you get a drink from starbucks in the
morning, eat lunch out somewhere, then pick something up for dinner (or
make a frozen meal), you're spending close to 15-20 dollars without
realizing it. That's 600 dollars a month. How much can you save?

You do
the math. I just recently got a good friend and my sister on this plan,
and they're paying their rent with the difference.
For a more in depth look at this as well as sample recipes and other amazing secrets on saving money at the grocery store, visit Budget Living

Originally published on SearchWarp.com for Doug Smith Friday, April 03, 2009

Article Source: Budget Meal Plan: How to Eat For Less Than 20 Dollars Per Week

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